How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon
What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? @drcleoocy.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world
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You can check out our latest storytelling blog from the Glencoe Archaeology Project here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/the-house-of...
This story explores the 17th century tacksman's house in Achnacon, and the biography of this dwelling, its occupants and finds.
For anyone in Boston this summer, some big hitters from the NMS collections are on loan to Harvard Art Museum for the exhibition Celtic Art Through the Ages
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Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
The Burns Supper at 225 Years
A free online gathering to celebrate 225 years of the Burns Supper & discuss its nomination to the Inventory of Living Heritage in the UK
To facilitate international participation there are 2 DATES: 9 March, 7–8 AM GMT:
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Conference on storage in castles. Niche topic!
To celebrate the launch of our new Glencoe website we have a blog post for you all - which follows some recent fieldwork by @nts-archaeology.bsky.social and myself to visit a mill stone quarry in one of Glencoe's corries. You can find out here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/oh-schist-a-...
The winner of the 2026 CA Award for Research Project of the Year (sponsored by Wessex Insurance Brokers Ltd) is… ‘Fit for an emperor? Excavating a monumental building from Roman Carlisle’ (Uncovering Roman Carlisle/Carlisle Cricket Club/SLR/Cumberland Council) #CALive26
The team have also examined archaeological evidence for legal whisky production - we are talking about the history of The Glenlivet #CALive26
Now looking at Coirre Corrach, a bothy site that features on the cover of CA 432 - not nice digging there in the summer, Derek says, as the photo of archaeologists wearing midge-nets on their heads attests! #CALive26
19th-century excise officer records provide colourful accounts of illicit bothy activity - Derek is reading one to us, highlighting how these activities are romanticised, but there was also a lot of violence when the sites were threatened #CALive26
You can read more about the Pioneering Spirit project and the archaeology of illicit whisky distilling in CAs 416 the-past.com/feature/pion... and 421: the-past.com/feature/dist... #CALive26
Early accounts of illicit whisky production/smuggling are lacking - funnily enough, they didn't write anything down, Derek says! But we have lots of 18th-century romantic narratives/myths about it #CALive26
Scotland is home to over 130 malt and grain distilleries, Derek tells us. The first tax on its sale was introduced in 1644. #CALive26
Please do spread the word on this. We are hoping to reach all those working and researching land use change and nature recovery and would love to hear from people involved in the practical delivery and management of this!
Flyer for the 'Into the Wild: Exploring (re)wilding, nature-based land-use and the Historic Environment' containing key details of and links for the conference and discussion meeting against a background image of a Highland valley undergoing nature restoration. Full details: https://tinyurl.com/bd23653y
March has snuck up!! Reminder that the closing date for presenter/attendee EOIs is this Monday, 2 March.
Full details and submission link: tinyurl.com/bd23653y
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Looking forward to heading down to London to speak on Saturday about our Pioneering Spirit whisky project at #ArchaeologyLive2026 @currentarchaeology.bsky.social
Attended the NTS Rangers Conference at Brodick on Arran today. Did a couple of sessions on archaeological hands on activities for school groups with them. Sand pit dig, rebuilding pots, material sorting. Map work and story telling. Seems to have gone down well.
Had a good day with Issy and Phil from #GlasgowUniversity doing peat depths and taking a peat core on the island of Canna. The core will be sampled as part of Issy's ongoing PhD research. Cold and windy today...
This sounds cool!
Over on to Canna yesterday - sunny and dry. Looking down to the Nunnery site. Island of Rum in the distance
Inspection of peatland work in Glencoe on Monday. snowy and wet!
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded a record £44,500 to eight castle research projects from all parts of the UK and one from Ireland. To find out what we funded please go here: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/02...
Yes part worked but looks like a natural fault in the stone and then not finished.
Wow… so presumably quarried somewhere close by but never recovered?
Attended, yesterday, the commemoration ceremony for the Glencoe Massacre which took place on 13th February 1692. Short walk from the bridge over the River Coe up to the monument at Carnock. In bright sunshine and blue sky, with snow on the mountain tops.
The upper end of Glen Coe. The image shows a white cottage with a tin roof in the left foreground, in a partly snowy landscape and with the roof partly covered by snow. Snow covered mountains rise in the background under a largely blue sky.
On this day in history. This is the upper end of Glen Coe, a glen infamous for the massacre of the Glen Coe MacDonalds carried out by government troops who were billeting with them 334 years ago today on 13 February 1692. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #GlenCoe #OnThisDay
Large round stone with hole in upland landscape with red and white 1m scale pole and person with rucksack looking on
Beautiful day yesterday to go up Meall Mor, beside the NTS visitor centre in Glencoe, to inspect this millstone rough out up at 400m OD in Coire nan Cuilc. Thanks to @eddiecstewart.bsky.social for coming along.
Really enjoyable meeting down at Robert Burns Ellisland Farm Museum yesterday. Where he wrote Auld Lang Syne!
