@hannahmclean.bsky.social
PhDing at Uni of Glasgow on materiality and memory in British-colonial detention camps in Kenya
Returning to Bluesky for my obligatory βpassed my vivaβ post πΌ Thank you to my wonderful examiners @lauramca.bsky.social @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social and chair! (I am pictured here after some celebratory pints)
13.06.2025 13:16 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1
Fab turnout for the UCU and Unison picket at Uni of Glasgow today - great to see some of our students turn up to show support as well! β
27.09.2023 13:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
If youβre interested in presenting, see more info below, and please get in touch with us on our emails (can be found at the bottom of the poster).
20.09.2023 14:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We invite you to dig around in your own department/office/museum basements for our upcoming TAG session. Who knows what you might find - a probe room, perhaps? (Which belongs to the geologists; none of us know what goes on in there).
20.09.2023 14:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If you need to report a broken sanitary towel machine, thereβs a handy payphone just next to the loo. We were all out of change, so yet to investigate whether itβs still connected. An ancient past seeps through the eye of Horus, Clearview Fobs and The Payphone Advertising Company.
20.09.2023 14:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
After a hunt in our purses, we found a thinner 2008 5p, providing our TAQ for the machine. Unfortunately, it was also out of order, the drawer jammed. Our 5p was lost to the machine, and we could only look through the glass at the βfeminine towelsβ that were now lost to us.
20.09.2023 14:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Next, to the most functional toilet in the building (currently out of order), we have another relic from a long forgotten past - when period pads cost 5p! We tried to buy one, but the coin we used was from 2009, and slightly too thick.
20.09.2023 14:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Where have these tree stumps come from? Why are they here? Weβve wondered if they come from Fossil Grove in Victoria Park; from deep time to door stops. Or are they instead replicas of an ancient past?
20.09.2023 14:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Our first point of interest is in the entanglement between the two subjects that reside within our building - Archaeology and Earth Sciences. Two fossilised tree stumps (or casts?) sit in a corridor often filled with students waiting to get into the basement lecture theatre.
20.09.2023 14:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Come take a journey into the basement of the Uni of Glasgow Archaeology department with me and Lizzie Robertson for our 2023 TAG session βInvestigating our Archaeological spaces"...
20.09.2023 14:20 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
