Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸
@lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social
Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Finding Futures for Scotland’s Churches Project @socantscot.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
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florence pew: thread
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
florence pew: thread
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November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thou art moss and unto moss thou shalt return
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Thou art moss and unto moss thou shalt return
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Okay, but are you ‘general feeling of guilt’ lapsed Catholic or ‘will anoint yourself in any handy holy well’ lapsed Catholic?
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay, but are you ‘general feeling of guilt’ lapsed Catholic or ‘will anoint yourself in any handy holy well’ lapsed Catholic?
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Looking forward to talking to East Lothian Embroiders and Textile Artists about Women's clothing in late medieval Scotland on Saturday 22nd at the Bleaching Field Centre, Dunbar at 2pm.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking forward to talking to East Lothian Embroiders and Textile Artists about Women's clothing in late medieval Scotland on Saturday 22nd at the Bleaching Field Centre, Dunbar at 2pm.
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Bat dog, bat dog, alone in the world is a little bat dog!
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Bat dog, bat dog, alone in the world is a little bat dog!
Free Palestine.
Migrants are great.
Trans people are wonderful.
If you don’t believe in these things then go ahead and unfollow.
Migrants are great.
Trans people are wonderful.
If you don’t believe in these things then go ahead and unfollow.
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Free Palestine.
Migrants are great.
Trans people are wonderful.
If you don’t believe in these things then go ahead and unfollow.
Migrants are great.
Trans people are wonderful.
If you don’t believe in these things then go ahead and unfollow.
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I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
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Keyholes in the ancient cellar door of Neidpath #Castle near #Peebles, #Scottish #Borders 🏴
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Keyholes in the ancient cellar door of Neidpath #Castle near #Peebles, #Scottish #Borders 🏴
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland
#Woodensday #Heritage #Buildings #Scotland
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Giving a lecture on settlement archaeology this week so you KNOW I had to include my favorite archaeological book cover of all time 😂🏺
October 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Giving a lecture on settlement archaeology this week so you KNOW I had to include my favorite archaeological book cover of all time 😂🏺
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The Govan Stones is one of the most important historical sites in Scotland.
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future
🎉 We've hit 10,000 Facebook followers!
💲 Please help us raise £10,000 of crucial funding - Just £1 per follower would get us to our goal.
Thank you all so much for following, and for any donation you can make!
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💲 Please help us raise £10,000 of crucial funding - Just £1 per follower would get us to our goal.
Thank you all so much for following, and for any donation you can make!
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage
Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc
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September 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Govan Stones is one of the most important historical sites in Scotland.
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future
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I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage
Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc
tghts.enthuse.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...
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Great to see the latest issue of Scottish Archives in print! I've written a wee something about James VI's Scottish menagerie 🐆 🐪 👑
Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!
Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great to see the latest issue of Scottish Archives in print! I've written a wee something about James VI's Scottish menagerie 🐆 🐪 👑
Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!
Looking forward to reading all the other fantastic contributions when my copy arrives!
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
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Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
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New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
It’s been a BUSY few weeks getting @churchheritage.bsky.social up and running but right now I’m up in the Cairngorms with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and I got to see a WILDCAT KITTEN at @highlandwpark.bsky.social. It’s so fierce and silly. I’m not a cat person but I do love this little one.
September 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s been a BUSY few weeks getting @churchheritage.bsky.social up and running but right now I’m up in the Cairngorms with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and I got to see a WILDCAT KITTEN at @highlandwpark.bsky.social. It’s so fierce and silly. I’m not a cat person but I do love this little one.
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What a fantastic launch event yesterday for @churchheritage.bsky.social, our collaborative project with @socantscot.bsky.social supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Pilgrim Trust.
Chaired by @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, we heard from 20 wonderful speakers followed by a panel discussion.
Chaired by @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, we heard from 20 wonderful speakers followed by a panel discussion.
September 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
What a fantastic launch event yesterday for @churchheritage.bsky.social, our collaborative project with @socantscot.bsky.social supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Pilgrim Trust.
Chaired by @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, we heard from 20 wonderful speakers followed by a panel discussion.
Chaired by @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social, we heard from 20 wonderful speakers followed by a panel discussion.
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🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!
⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard!
THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!
📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs
THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!
📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs
September 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎟⛏️ The hottest ticket in Scotland this weekend is at the @govanstones.bsky.social!
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Retired Physicists Explain the Humanities to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
by Rebecca Solnit
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Retired Physicists Explain the Humanities to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
by Rebecca Solnit
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In the wild!! (i.e. on my mum's sofa)
August 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In the wild!! (i.e. on my mum's sofa)
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One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
![A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].
The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mzhk55756kcluyutorbqyex/bafkreicxukeks37aqp6tgtzj2hlbvjgtxc5syw4ptr6nnojxhazlrfwflq@jpeg)
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
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Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London?
He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
You know what to do! ⬇️
plasticineaction.com
He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
You know what to do! ⬇️
plasticineaction.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London?
He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
You know what to do! ⬇️
plasticineaction.com
He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
You know what to do! ⬇️
plasticineaction.com
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I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.
Look at that solidarity gets the goods
August 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.