A (climate change accelerated?) downpour in Manchester is to blame.

Psyched for my new tome.

Then, From the Bog to the Cloud. Patrick Brodie and @pbresnihan.bsky.social arguing the Irish landscape is a site of extraction for global tech monopolies - from Marconi and radio waves fuelled by peat, to the data centres using more htan 20% of Irish electricity now

OK cool, have signed on that basis. I certainly have used the NLS's collections and am grateful for their work.

Can we sign if we are outside Scotland?

My new litmus test for collaborators: would I spend four days in a holiday home with these people? AKA the Hanna-Doyle test

By which I mean, obviously, June. As I tell my students, I'm a historian. You can't expect me to be good with the future.

Not yet - the 2026 entry is campus only. Maybe in future though!

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