Register now for our next CPD webinar, all about Archiving and Preservation. We'll be talking about keeping content save and accessible for the long term.
June 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Eastern
Free to attend
Everyone welcome
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I worked in Bradford as an archaeologist in the 1990 & I remember seeing a huge Hockney art work at Salts Mill that he had faxed to the city one A4 page at a time. It seemed so revolutionary then & in a way it still does www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
š„ Govan Book Festival š„
š Treasures of the Vikings book launch, 4:30pm, Sat 13th June
š£ Interview-style chat with Dr Tom Horne, followed by a Q&A and signing!
š¼ Clamour of Rooks will luteing leading up to the chat
āļø Govan Heritage Trust will be digging in our 1,500-year-old kirkyard beforehand
Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today.
Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998.
So long, David.
Lorna M. Campbell
Hockney Faxes Artwork: David Hockney's fax art has gone international.
A few of the placards seen today as the fash got chased off Buchanan Street.
Never forget: the far right are indeed dangerous and wicked; and they are also weird and pathetic, and we should say so.
With UK universities slashing budgets and doing redundancies left and right, I am really worried about the survival of many of the digital projects that were funded in the past decade or so, many of which were already a miracle that they were being maintained after all this time.
š„ Govan Book Festival š„
Our next event is with Dr Tom Horne about his new book, Treasures of the Vikings!
Expect a relaxed and illustrated interview-style chat, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
š Govan Old
ā°ļø 4:30pm
š Sat 13th June
š FREE, unticketed - Just turn up!
We've teamed up with First News, the UK's award-winning children's news brand (and 20 this year!), on a new lesson exploring how Wikipedia works and how to evaluate online information.
Part of our free Wiki in Schools toolkit. Thanks to our Education Lead Dr Sally Latham š
Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gateā¦
āEdwin Morgan, āLoveā
published in A BOOK OF LIVES, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry #PrideMonth š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754918...
Bryan
RIP David Hockney š
šØUpcoming Suffragette Stall alert ā 17 June!
Right now, we just canāt get enough of our Suffragette Stall- so weāre taking it over to WestFest
On Wednesday 17th June, 10am-3pm, weāll be at Cottierās Theatre for A Celebration of Glasgow: History, Heritage & Traditional Skills.
The Govan Stones
Wikimedia UK
Tom Snarsky
New-Cleckit Dominie
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
Association for Scottish Literature
Protests and Suffragettes
iSpot is a citizen science project for identifying biodiversity in the UK (similar to the US-based iNaturalist). It was closed down yesterday with just over a week's notice because The Open University can no longer support it. Just another UK university infrastructure slowly falling apart.
