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18d

Absolutely gorgeous evening this evening. The long hot summer has pretty much passed us by, so it's lovely to finally see a bit of sunshine

#Scotland
#InnerHebrides
#ArgyllAndBute

Still water reflecting puffy clouds in a blue sky. The warm colours in a ribbon of wild rough land on the horizon contrast with the sky and water.

There's a small wooden row boat in the foreground

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CFP: Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland & Beyond
6–9 July, Sorbonne, Paris

Exploring the roles, agency, representations, constraints, & historical memory of women in Scottish society, culture, politics, religion, & everyday life, c.1660 to c.1830

@litstudies

https://ecsss.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PARIS-2027-CFP-DEF.pdf

#Scottish #Scotland #literature #history #culture #politics #religion #18thcentury #long18thcentury #callforpapers #litstudies #culturalstudies #womensstudies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond
41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
6–9 July 2027
Sorbonne University – Paris
Hosted by the Centre Roland Mousnier – UMR 8596 CNRS

Illustration: detail from “Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray” a 1778 portrait painting by the British artist David Martin. On the left, Dido Elizabeth Belle, a Black woman wearing a gown and a turban, both of white silk, leans to the left. She is smiling and touching one finger to her face, and carries an array of fruit in her arms. On hte right, her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, a white woman in a pink-and-white gown with flowers in her hair, is more conventionally posed. She is also smiling.

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9d

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween

Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film

—via the National Trust for Scotland

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween

#Scottish #Scotland #culture #Halloween #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Hebrides #20thcentury #SouthUist #ethnology

A black and white image of two children dressed for Halloween, standing on a flat patch of scrubby ground with a rocky hillside rising behind them. The children are wearing multiple layers of outsized clothes, bundled and knotted around them. Their hands are hidden within their sleeves, and they have huge adult work-boots on their feet. The figure on the left is wearing a crude mask with tiny eyeholes and a mouth hole; tufts of dried grass have been added to create a beard and moustache. The figure on the right doesn't seem to have a mask – just a large clump of heather for a head, protruding from a jacket collar swathed in scarves.

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34d

#scotland #seascape #meermittwoch #seawednesday

Das Bild zeigt eine malerische Küstenlandschaft mit klarem, türkisfarbenem Wasser, das bis zu den Felsen reicht. Im Vordergrund sind die transparenten Gewässer zu sehen, die die Unterwasserstruktur sichtbar machen. Im Hintergrund erstreckt sich ein Strand mit weißem Sand, auf dem einige Menschen spazieren gehen. An der Küste befinden sich mehrere Häuser und Gebäude, darunter ein Kirchturm, die eine kleine Stadt oder Siedlung bilden. Einige Boote sind auf dem Wasser zu sehen, und der Himmel ist blau mit einigen weißen Wolken. Die Szene vermittelt ein Gefühl von Ruhe und natürlicher Schönheit.

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39d

Women of the Saltire Society
20 October, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Join the Saltire Society for a special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society & Scotland’s cultural life

The event will also offer a unique opportunity to view archival material especially on display for the day, & to visit the Saltire Society’s 90th anniversary exhibition

https://events.humanitix.com/women-of-the-saltire-society

#Scottish #Scotland #literature #culture #20thcentury

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40d

Interested in the planning application for the world's largest proposed Data Centre campus in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland?
Here it is, and it includes links to make comments. I haven't done that yet, but will after work.

https://eaccess.dumgal.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=TLPCUJGBKSH00

#ai #datacentre #ButlerianJihad #Scotland #annandale #planningapplication

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2d

“It is one thing to make sacrifices; it is quite another thing to become the victim of a kind of national amnesia”

—Jackie Kay on Arthur Roberts (1897–1982), of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers & Royal Scots Fusiliers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/11/jackie-kay-makar-poem-black-scottish-first-world-war-soldier-arthur-roberts

#Scottish #Scotland #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #history #BlackHistory #ArthurRoberts #RemembranceSunday

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2d

Eilean Donan

#EileanDonan #Scotland #highlands

Eine mittelalterliche Burg aus grauem Stein auf einer kleinen, bewachsenen Halbinsel im Wasser, unter bewölktem Himmel mit Bergen.

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28d

WRITERS!

New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on poetry. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue.

Please share! 👇

https://asls.org.uk/new-writing-scotland-seeks-co-editor/

#Scottish #Scotland #literature #poetry #poet #poets #writingcommunity