And that’s it! Thank you so much to everyone who made #nemnconference such an incredible experience, it’s been a pleasure hearing so many wonderful papers over the past two days. For anyone in Edinburgh wanting to celebrate, we’re now in Edinburgh’s Student Union at Potterrow! 🍻

Missed our Rhind Lectures 2024 with Professor Richard Oram? Explore historic climate change and its effects on medieval and early modern Scotland free online, by catching up with all six sessions on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=OOLuBy…

What a beautiful day for a game of cricket in St Lucia! ☀️😍🇱🇨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 v 🇦🇺 begins at 0130 BST… ⏰ #FollowScotland #t20worldcup

If you missed the mesmerising sight of RRS Discovery's rudder being lifted last week, fear not; we have just uploaded a full video to our YouTube channel 📺 youtu.be/7fRrhM8fx1U?fe…

General Assembly (CH1/1) and Commission of the General Assembly (CH1/3) registers digitised 🙌

Good news! Access to Buildings At Risk Register is fully restored, as well as most functions on Canmore & Scotland’s Places website. The mapping function on both sites & Pastmap remain offline for further GIS work, but more soon. Read the full update 👇 historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/…

‘Walter Benjamin once remarked that the memory of oppressed ancestors is more catalytic of rebellion than any dream of liberated descendants; Käthe Kollwitz seems to agree.’ Hal Foster on the Kollwitz retrospective at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88 theguardian.com/books/article/…

The Paris Review mourns the loss of Ismail Kadare (1936-2024). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/110…

As new information is shared with us, we've updated our map showing the known status of Church of Scotland churches 🔎704 secure (for now) 🔎518 with uncertain futures 🔎103 churches closed, sold or put on market & 2 demolished since 2020 View it here 👇 scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/scotlands…

Delays on Southbound. We are trying to rescue a rabbit which managed to get half way down the bridge. Please bear with us while we carry out the rabbits rescue.

My favourite Reilly family relic 🇫🇷 #materialculture #memorystudies

From the current issue: “Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health” by Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College @oxfordhistory) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

🚨🚨 Just over a month to get your proposals in!! 🚨🚨