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-...
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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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.
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💥 Govan Book Festival 💥
📚 Treasures of the Vikings book launch, 4:30pm, Sat 13th June
🗣 Interview-style chat with Dr Tom Horne, followed by a Q&A and signing!
🎼 Clamour of Rooks will luteing leading up to the chat
⛏️ Govan Heritage Trust will be digging in our 1,500-year-old kirkyard beforehand
Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the gate…
—Edwin Morgan, “Love”
published in A BOOK OF LIVES, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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💥 Govan Book Festival 💥
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.
📍 Govan Old
⏰️ 4:30pm
📆 Sat 13th June
🎟 FREE, unticketed - Just turn up!
Tom Snarsky
Association for Scottish Literature
The Govan Stones
Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today.
Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998.
So long, David.
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.
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 👇
Bryan
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.
www.ispotnature.org
Simon
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
Wikimedia UK
🚨Upcoming Suffragette Stall alert – 17 June!
Right now, we just can’t get enough of our Suffragette Stall- so we’re taking it over to WestFest
On Wednesday 17th June, 10am-3pm, we’ll be at Cottier’s Theatre for A Celebration of Glasgow: History, Heritage & Traditional Skills.
