Dr Laura Harrison

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It is vital that we hear your views on skills needs & gaps, on training provision, to help monitor the health of the sector & feed into planning for programmes of support

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I am biased, of course, but it is a great team with some really interesting work coming up!

An exciting opportunity to join our team as a Heritage Policy Officer at HES. This full time, permanent post supports the development & delivery of national policy & guidance that supports good decision making in the historic environment.

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Chair with Water of Leith Conservation Trust – Goodmoves Could you be our new Chair? We are seeking a Chair for the Water of Leith Conservation Trust (WOLCT) Board of Trustees. The WOLCT works to protect and improve the Water of Leith as a haven for wildlif...

Could this be the volunteer role you've been looking for? Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social are seeking a new Chair I've been a trustee for just over a year, and it's been a blast!
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How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.

I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here:

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Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +

Given everything happening on the other apps, thinking I might try to merge my heritage/history and knitting selves over here?

Anyways, here are some of my favourite things I knit last year!

You’re first in line to borrow it

Exciting mail 🎉 Big thanks to our editors @scottmanning.com & Kevin Harty, & my co-author Andrew Elliott! I’ve been wanting to write this for a long time & getting to with one of my favourite writers/people to talk medievalism with still feels like a fever dream. Congrats to all involved!

But by far my favourite part were these two. The first was made by a Japanese woman imprisoned in an internment camp in Canada, from cigarette packs and fabric scraps from kimonos. The second made by Canadian women for civilian relief and sent to the Netherlands.

Very War Through Other Stuff 💛

A few weeks ago I was in Canada visiting family and I got to go to the Quilts: Made in Canada exhibition @romtoronto.bsky.social with my Grandma Eileen, a quilter herself.

Here is my grandma refusing to be sat in her wheelchair because she wanted to be closer to the quilts, and some of my favs.

First time on Bluesky in several months and it was a lovely surprise to find so many of you over here!

Here is Preston Market Cross, visited during a team development day last week to see the exciting work happening at Preston Tower. This brought my number of Historic Scotland sites visited to 50%!

One of my brilliant PhD students, Frankie Aird, has just published his first article 'Workers, Wives and Radicals: Women and Abolitionism in the North-East of England, 1792–1865' is available now fully Open Access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Snowy Properties in Care are the best kind

My WFH view this week. No notes.

As ever, I haven’t been able to engage with @museumsassociation.bsky.social conference this week as much as I’d hoped. But very pleased to be here for ‘Whose past is it anyway? Nostalgia, belonging and inclusion’

And obviously taking time for some meeting-knitting too

And Edinburgh put on a real show in the sunshine from the Esplanade

Great to finally visit Nzira Yeparuware - A Path Upon A Rock today! This immersive sound walk was developed by artist Tanatsei Gambura and explores Scotland’s involvement in Zimbabwe’s history using recordings from Harare’s Scottish-named sites. On until the end of the month at Edinburgh Castle.

I have been such a terrible user I only just saw this!