Claire Boardman

These are beautiful, Michelle. I think the wild carrot is my favourite too! Will you be making cards from them?

ICOMOS SDGWG Newsletter Issue 01 - ICOMOS SDGWG is proud to share the first issues of its newsletter with you. The ICOMOS SDG WG newsletter will be published quarterly a year. This is our first

🏛️ Moving from Advocacy to Action: A New Chapter for Heritage

I am thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural newsletter for the ICOMOS Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (ICOMOS-SDGWG)!

To access the newsletter, click on the link below:

icomossdgwg.com/icomos-sdgwg...

A little normality in the chaos. I'd really like a flake now!

States & NGOs are weaponizing conservation, trampling cultural rights, Special Rapporteur Alex Xanthaki tells the UN Human Rights Council today at #HRC61.

Repeatedly “communities complain they have not taken part in decision-making on…projects impacting their cultural life.”

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and people solutions ... win, win, win.

The 2026 Viking Society for Northern Research student conference takes place at the University of Liverpool on 11 April. Includes student lectures, launch of the paperback 'Embers of the Hands' by Dr Eleanor Barraclough & plenary lecture by Prof Howard Williams @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social

Sounds suspiciously like doing upfront analysis and evaluating the 'fit for purpose'! ☺️

this might fix me 😻

This archaeological research really captures the enchantment of trying to understand human life across the barriers of time and evidence. A warm July day, grief and sadness, colour, scent and precious things.

ARP - Saturday 23 May. See you there?

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We're doing it again!! ☺️
As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework.

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Data Coordinator (Post-Ex) - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Salary: £35,457.99-£37,778.88 (depending on experience) + generous benefits packageClosing Date: 27/03/26Location: Based in Headland Midlands & West (Hereford), South & East (Silsoe), Scotland (Edinbu...

Data Coordinator (Post-Ex)
Headland Archaeology
Salary: £35,457.99-£37,778.88 (depending on experience) + generous benefits package
Date: March 27, 2026
Based in Midlands & West (Hereford), South & East (Silsoe), Scotland (Edinburgh) or Yorkshire & North (Cleckheaton).
www.bajr.org/job-ad/data-...

Excellent point by @morphss.bsky.social 's @jenniad.bsky.social at #OxFos26 yesterday: how can we uplift the epistemic status and institutional support for a whole hemisphere of openness? Which open research practices are actively promoted in actions, not only in discourse, and which are not?

Aerial view of circular stone alignment on the foreshore with two people in the image

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: At the Far End of Everything: A Likely Ahrensburgian Presence on Skye

Travel back to the Late Upper Palaeolithic period to learn about Scotland's pioneer human populations with Prof Karen Hardy FSAScot at our free hybrid event on 12 March: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-the-far...

Our wonderful visiting lecturer on Interactive Digital Narrative @starkholborn.bsky.social wrote a piece for this!
Great looking collection, can't wait to add it to our library!

-The Lioness of Gobedra. Aksum, Ethiopia
- stelae from Tiya
-Grave of a Konso hero, with his wooden statues (wakas). ca. 1931.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/megalithic...

Megalithic Landscapes of Ethiopia from Prehistory to the Modern Era Ethiopia is home to one of the largest concentrations of megalithic architecture globally.

The megalithic culture in Ethiopia encompasses a wide range of forms, including standing stones (stelae), dolmens, and tumuli. These monuments are widely distributed across the landscape, with hundreds of sites across the country.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/megalithic...

Last day of term!

A little treat.

Sidestone Press have added TONS of new books to their Full Open Access list.
You can download all these for free without limitations!!!!

Check out the library at sidestone.com/books/

A north arrow. This one is drawn as an actual arrow with fletchings and everything. The shaft is tapered down to the barbed point. At the tip is written "Nord" in nice cursive script.

#NorthArrow Frants Frederik Jonathan Møller 1811.

Good dynamism. Like the detail on the fletching. 8/10

A man in a hat uses a camera on a tripod by the sea, with a large ship in the background.

🌟 If you're a #CulturalHeritage professional looking to deepen your understanding of #Copyright, we have some exciting spring events planned for you! Register now to gain valuable insights, access practical guidance and support your work with #Digital collections. More info and registration ⬇️

A windmill from an old map. Around it a palimpsest of numbers and lines

Windmills are the best false positive barrows.

Frants Frederik Jonathan Møller 1811. Ørby By, Tranebjerg

The development of a Future Framework for Scotland’s universities is underway Scotland’s Future Framework will set out the options for the next 20 years of higher education. Co-convenor Andrea Nolan presents the work taking place Scotland’s Future Framework will set out a visio...

'We’re working to deliver options by late autumn, so that it’s one of the first things in the in-tray for the new Scottish Government and Parliament to pick up.'

Great environmental outcomes but it's a shame that a 'just transition' has been abandoned.

A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes and Hunters in the Bāburnāma Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans...

New Arcadia article by Smarika Nawani on how the autobiography of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), the first Mughal emperor, anticipates an ecological and multispecies understanding of the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.

#EnvHist

and LinkedIn

Culture and Leisure at Risk, Glasgow 2026

I am concerned about the recent closures to many arts organisations in Glasgow and have tried to detail them in this post. If you have any more relevant information please let me know!

Words Without Consequence What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?

"When fluent speech without responsibility becomes normal...it changes what it means to be human," Deb Roy writes, weighing how AI might be training us to “accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens: Living Maps for Environmental Justice Join us for our Livingmaps Network Conference 2026 to share knowledge and ideas on mapping for environmental justice (hybrid event)

Booked!

Shared Earth, Unequal Burdens:
Living Maps for Environmental Justice

Thurs Jun 25 - Fri Jun 26, London, UK & Online.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-ear... @livingmaps.bsky.social #envhumanities