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
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
Oh hi new friend!
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Oh hi new friend!
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?
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!
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.
Guess it’s time to delete your account!
August 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Guess it’s time to delete your account!
Reviewer 1 | Reviewer 2
August 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reviewer 1 | Reviewer 2
Sooooo many!
July 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Sooooo many!
Yes - hundreds of them!
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Yes - hundreds of them!
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
I loved St Cuthbert’s Chapel on Inner Farne, begun 1369. Furnishings nicked from Durham Cathedral, dream-soaked light, and a beaded curtain to keep out the violent arctic terns (exterior photo taken quickly because I was at risk of getting my ears severely pecked).
July 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I loved St Cuthbert’s Chapel on Inner Farne, begun 1369. Furnishings nicked from Durham Cathedral, dream-soaked light, and a beaded curtain to keep out the violent arctic terns (exterior photo taken quickly because I was at risk of getting my ears severely pecked).
Just this evening finally submitted an absolute unit of a chapter about the art and architecture of wonderful Trinity college, Edinburgh. Brewing since my PhD (graduated in 2017), it’s been a long gestation!
June 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just this evening finally submitted an absolute unit of a chapter about the art and architecture of wonderful Trinity college, Edinburgh. Brewing since my PhD (graduated in 2017), it’s been a long gestation!
Of COURSE our National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland committee meetings take place in a building with a loo that’s a 16th century bread oven.
June 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Of COURSE our National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland committee meetings take place in a building with a loo that’s a 16th century bread oven.
Forbidden ketchup
June 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Forbidden ketchup
I’ve devoted the past 12+ years to understanding Scotland in the Middle Ages but I’ve never watched Braveheart. Tonight, it’s finally happening.
June 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’ve devoted the past 12+ years to understanding Scotland in the Middle Ages but I’ve never watched Braveheart. Tonight, it’s finally happening.
First day of mystery new job tomorrow (a mystery until the project launch later this week, that is). Wish me luck please!
June 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
First day of mystery new job tomorrow (a mystery until the project launch later this week, that is). Wish me luck please!
On holiday and appreciating the use of ‘pillaged’ in this wall text from a local exhibition on Homeric Ithaca.
Sure, the Elgin marbles get the attention, but I’d love to see the British Museum give back the 33 items they nicked to this small and lovely community. I wonder if they’re even on show?
Sure, the Elgin marbles get the attention, but I’d love to see the British Museum give back the 33 items they nicked to this small and lovely community. I wonder if they’re even on show?
May 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
On holiday and appreciating the use of ‘pillaged’ in this wall text from a local exhibition on Homeric Ithaca.
Sure, the Elgin marbles get the attention, but I’d love to see the British Museum give back the 33 items they nicked to this small and lovely community. I wonder if they’re even on show?
Sure, the Elgin marbles get the attention, but I’d love to see the British Museum give back the 33 items they nicked to this small and lovely community. I wonder if they’re even on show?
Back in my favourite place (Kioni, Ithaca) - with bonus sheep on the beach!
May 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Back in my favourite place (Kioni, Ithaca) - with bonus sheep on the beach!
Now my contract with Edinburgh is officially over (got my P45 in the post today) I’d particularly love it if you’d like to invite me to speak for your research seminar series, event, etc.
I love giving talks and I’d like to keep those fires lit in the next part of my career.
I love giving talks and I’d like to keep those fires lit in the next part of my career.
May 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Now my contract with Edinburgh is officially over (got my P45 in the post today) I’d particularly love it if you’d like to invite me to speak for your research seminar series, event, etc.
I love giving talks and I’d like to keep those fires lit in the next part of my career.
I love giving talks and I’d like to keep those fires lit in the next part of my career.
E.g. the sound of Iona looking towards Mull and Ardnamurchan or skerries at the Bay at the Back of the Ocean. Probs not suitable but I’ll let you judge that.
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
E.g. the sound of Iona looking towards Mull and Ardnamurchan or skerries at the Bay at the Back of the Ocean. Probs not suitable but I’ll let you judge that.
In my spare time I manage a wee Derek Jarman inspired garden on the coast in Dunbar and it’s looking especially beautiful right now.
May 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In my spare time I manage a wee Derek Jarman inspired garden on the coast in Dunbar and it’s looking especially beautiful right now.
Such a pleasure to spend last weekend with the @profaliceroberts.bsky.social talking about all things Rosslyn, Temple, pseudo-history, and grail lore.
May 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Such a pleasure to spend last weekend with the @profaliceroberts.bsky.social talking about all things Rosslyn, Temple, pseudo-history, and grail lore.
So, that’s it, I’ve packed up my office and had my last proper working day as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh. It’s been a wild ride!
I’m not going far though… details to follow.
I’m not going far though… details to follow.
April 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
So, that’s it, I’ve packed up my office and had my last proper working day as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh. It’s been a wild ride!
I’m not going far though… details to follow.
I’m not going far though… details to follow.
Morning at work / afternoon off.
April 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Morning at work / afternoon off.