Grace Wright

🤞🤞 sounds cracking!

I'll be shouting about my research in Portree next week!

Plotting the Protest: Zine-Making as Research and Resistance at Cove Park In the next post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Grace Wright reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland, and the place of zines in archives, academic research, and…

Zines as research, archive & resistance 📚

In our latest blog, @graceq22.bsky.social reflects on a SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park and how zine-making can surface marginalised histories of land agitation in the Isle of Skye.

👉 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/20/p...

Excellent resource to share a name with

Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...

A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn.

llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social in paperback and with a 30% discount with the code PAPER30. Coming in December! 🎁

Meal do naidheachd! Tha seo a' coimhead cho inntinneach

Call for Papers.... UHI Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland Conference 9-10 February 2026 at UHI Perth

@thinkuhi.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social

See institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/10/21/c...

It's me! I'll be taking folk on a (virtual) tour of Portree of the 1880s, talking about land agitation and the social networks which made it possible

I can't see a cas-chrom without thinking of police reports from the 1880s saying they were being used to deforce the police (and imagining how buff you'd need to be for that)

Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig/Gaelic Development Manager – Obraichean Gàidhlig University of Glasgow

Tha Oilthigh Ghlaschu a' sireadh Manaidsear Leasachaidh Gàidhlig

One day to go!

Online tickets here 👉

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And online 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1434522127...

Interrogating the Napier Commission (In Person) A two-day conference exploring the 1883 Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands.

Tickets now available for Interrogating the Napier Commission, with papers spanning everything from modern legacies to specific localities.

To join us in person 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1434560461...

It's been in the works for a while as these things so often are 🥴 such a gift to get some space and time to focus on it!

Beautiful week on residency at Cove Park working on a zine re-mapping Portree with histories of land agitation - ending with a morning too rainy even for the ducks to be out but perfect for a last bit of writing

Audio tour: Tastes of Govanhill by Sithara Koramparambil from the WordPress Photo Directory. Take yourself on a sound walk around Govanhill, exploring refugee histories,food cultures and the built environment. At each stop, …

New tour! Take a multimedia trip round the streets of Govanhill exploring histories of migration, food cultures and the build environment. Listen to refugee historians from Milk Community Glasgow talk through some of the stops and sights: radicalglasgowtours.com/self-led-aud...

Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!

Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2