Make Your Mark in Volunteering logo, consisting of pictograms of a castle and a tree, a group of people and a place icon.
Two volunteers at Edinburgh Zoo head down a path. One is walking and one is in a motorised chair. Both are wearing purple vests that say "RZSS volunteer".
A group of refugees and people seeking asylum handle archaeological artefacts.
Two people in high vis vests inspect a wall for masons' marks.
Hi Bluesky! 👋
Make Your Mark supports everyone in Scotland to volunteer with history, culture and nature organisations.
Search our volunteer portal to see what opportunities are available at museums, nature reserves, zoos, archives and historic sites near you: volunteer.makeyourmark.scot
25.03.2025 11:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
(1/3) ☀️We are hiring: Festival Manager
Enthusiastic about events? Ready to make a mark on Glasgow's cultural heritage scene? Glasgow Doors Open Days wants YOU as our new Festival Manager!
14.03.2025 17:37 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
View across Edinburgh rooftops and sunshine
Sunny day in Edinburgh with lovely folks (and nice cakes) @scotsarchives.bsky.social Community Archives - Community Stories event!
27.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New strategy for Scotland’s local civic and heritage groups announced
New year, new goings-on at the Scottish Civic Trust, including a refreshed strategy and new Chair of our Board of Trustees!
scottishcivictrust.org.uk/trust/new-st...
03.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our interview with @simonverdegem.bsky.social might be of interest to @1418research.bsky.social, @tonypollard.bsky.social, @profgsheffield.bsky.social, @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social, @novojen.bsky.social, @ryankmcnutt.bsky.social, @almurray.bsky.social, @thehistoryguy.bsky.social
29.01.2025 16:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My Place
The Scottish Civic Trust's My Place Awards 2025 are officially open for entries!
The Awards celebrate community-led placemaking, and have 2 categories:
1⃣ Community-led Projects
2⃣ Community Champions
View a clip from our launch yesterday and learn more about how to apply: myplacescotland.org.uk
23.01.2025 14:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce the next lot of Community Stories - Community Archives skills sessions. They cover topics including cataloguing, engaging outreach and preservation.
Take a look at all the CS-CA events and book your spaces via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/scottish-c...
22.01.2025 10:14 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Be Our Friend | Glasgow Women's Library
From as little as £2 per month, you can ensure that our work continues now and for future generations, and develops in new directions.
Did you know that GWL is the only Accredited Museum dedicated to women's history in the whole of the UK? We're always in need of support, & one of the best ways is to become one of our valued Friends:
womenslibrary.org.uk/how-to-get-i...
Join us and help to keep us running!
26.11.2024 09:32 — 👍 39 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
Blue sky over pedestrian bridge in Stirling
Beautiful day in Stirling hearing about great community heritage projects at Scotland's Community Heritage Conversations!
21.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Brooch of the Dragon
By Adrián Maldonado The gift and the curse of being a medievalist is that watching fantasy fiction adaptations can feel a bit like taking your job home with you. You’re still able to be a fan, but...
NEW POST: The Brooch of the Dragon by @archaeonado.bsky.social
On the archaeological parallels that seem to have inspired the penannular brooches used in season 2 of House of the Dragon #HotD
17.11.2024 09:45 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 3
📚 If, like all fine people, you like spending your weekend reading about Vikings, trade and silver economies, then do I have a book for you, early medieval Bluesky!
A #Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain is a rollercoaster of a ride from Samarkand to Skye: www.routledge.com/A-Viking-Mar...
15.11.2024 16:08 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
[Just Like] Starting Over (Ultimate Mix)
It's been a good few years since I last microblogged!
youtu.be/dfbAAiL5ec8?...
15.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We support everyone in Scotland to volunteer with history, culture and nature organisations.
Find an opportunity near you: volunteer.makeyourmark.scot.
For inclusive volunteering resources & events for volunteer organisers, see @VolOrganisers.bsky.social
Escapee primary teacher & child safety/lifeskills charity leader, now investigating ideas @reconnection.org.uk. Books, walks, cycling, piano, history, French, places, esp. Dorset & Orkney. Born 327ppm. Exvangelical. Liberal-Green. Be kind, always.
Making Places Better Together: The national charity for the civic movement in England. We make places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. We promote civic pride. Reposts do not mean endorsement. www.civicvoice.org.uk
📍Glasgow, Scotland
🖼️ museums + archives + built heritage
🌿 sustainability
We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
Eight University of Cambridge Museums & the Botanic Garden | Five million marvellous objects to discover | Come on in! museums.cam.ac.uk
🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Proudly queer, neurodivergent, loud, and aggressively friendly/ Radical inclusion advocate/ Mama to an amazing middle-schooler.
Interested in how we know what we know, the arts & humanities, the Earth, taking care of each other, and talking pets. Excited about plants and dismantling hierarchies. Future Master Gardener. Historian, because we have to start somewhere.🏳️🌈
The union for ambition prospect.org.uk
Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
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