Corinne Roughley

@pottedhistory.bsky.social you have to make these

High Court throws out Moorland Association’s legal challenge against new burning regulations Some good news! This morning, the Moorland Association’s legal challenge against Defra’s new burning regulations (which restrict burning on deep peat) has been thrown out by the High Co…

Good news!

High Court throws out Moorland Association's legal challenge against new burning regulations in England ⚖️🌍

New blog ⬇️

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Remember folks - if you've been entertained do consider bunging a few quid to Centrepoint. ❤️

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
#Christmas

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂

Booking available here:
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This artefact is a familiar favourite but we've just found out his name is William! The nickname was first recorded in 1931 and has stuck around since then. How could we not choose him for #FindsFriday?!🏺🦛

William is on view now at The Met.

We’ve had a watchful presence in the workshop today... 👀
He’s part of a new commission, and while he looks alert, he failed to protect another piece from cracking 😅 Blame has been firmly assigned.
Got a historical replica idea? 👉 potted-history.co.uk/pages/commis...

And I sent a link to your blog #18 in reply to my colleague's post on this

Griffon Vultures crossing The #Straits yesterday- pure migratory magic! ….or youth dispersal magic 😉 1,687 Griffon Vultures crossed over our heads!

Great course, I did it last year and highly recommend

Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences (for the second time) after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry The Scottish Government has, for the second time, delayed the implementation of muirburn licensing after caving in to pressure from aggressive lobbying by the grouse shooting industry. A quick re-c…

Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences for the second time after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry.

Climate emergency, anyone?

Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.

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We've just started including it in our Induction Week!

We need your help again.

Coul Links is an extraordinary coastal dune habitat, home to rare and remarkable wildlife.

But it is now threatened for a second time by plans for an 18-hole golf course that would cause irreparable damage.

Your voice could help save it. 👇

A first for Scotland! I love these degrees, and the graduates they have produced elsewhere in the UK. Very excited to be able to support this option for our students at UHI moving forward. If you're interested in hosting a placement student, get in touch!

Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute.

The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well.

www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

🤩 Had one in our garden this morning but sadly too flighty for a photo. The ragwort and knapweed are doing a great job with ringlets gatekeepers and our first ever Essex slippers along with small and large.

Great article, carefully and cogently written. Looking forward to including it on my reading list next year 🤩

Love the way the details on the face on my @pottedhistory.bsky.social lamp are revealed when it is lit

Future archaeologists will dig up this photo and describe it as evidence for ritual activities...

Sandcastles so structurally sound a Little Egret can sit on them!

A guide to how light shielding can help moths, by Butterfly Conservation. No cut-off means light can travel in all directions, attracting nocturnal insects and contributing to sky glow. Semi cut-off means that some light is shielded but some can still spill upwards. Cut-off means that light is prevented from travelling directly up or spilling upwards. Fully cut-off is best, directing light downwards.

Unshielded outdoor fixtures allow light to be emitted in multiple directions, contributing to light pollution 💡🦋

Choosing cut-off or fully cut-off shielding can help to redirect artificial light away from our night skies.

#DarkSkyWeek #MothsMatter

Ian Parsons asks ‘What is the environmental & carbon cost of large-scale tree-planting schemes?’ markavery.info/2025/03/31/g...

#tree #planting #carbon

Congratulations!!! Really pleased to hear you are recovering, as you say, so many others are still struggling

Re-post this until you drop. Talk to your MP too. We're being swept under the carpet, zero help. Into my #LongCovid YEAR FIVE, after 2020 infection wave 1, 2022 hospital review & scans (damaged lungs+), I'm only now offered Talking Therapy (& Occupational despite being self-employed & bed-bound).

Looking forward to it!

I love #science

I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now

We all have days where we feel like this cup. Embrace it. Embrace the grump.

📍Pompeii, House of Julius Polybius
🕰️ 1st century AD
📷 mine

#AncientBlueSky 🏺

Glad it's not just me thinking this!

Love the kingfisher photo 🤩

Stonehenge may have been built to unify the people of ancient Britain The recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones originated in Scotland supports a theory that the stone circle was built as a monument to unite Britain’s early farmers nearly 5,000 years ago, acc...

I've been trying for several weeks to read Mike's latest as trailed www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de... but am not getting the link to the actual paper to work. Is it just me?