#Sarahs60 Blog posts 6 This, from 2016, looks at the destruction of heritage in conflict. So much excellent work has been written on this topic, but I still think this post has some useful thoughts heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/c...
Cultural Heritage, Destruction and Palmyra
Just over a week ago Cornelius Holtorf published a guest post here arguing that cultural heritage is not at risk in Syria because heritage is an ongoing process. Today’s installation in Trafalgar S…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 6 This, from 2016, looks at the destruction of heritage in conflict. So much excellent work has been written on this topic, but I still think this post has some useful thoughts heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/c...
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 5 I began my career as an archaeologist and still enjoy archaeology. This is one of my most archaeological posts heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/d...
Dented Pavement and Community
When I tell people I’m an archaeologist they always ask me about my most exciting finds. Excitement, the extraordinary and the beautiful are really important aspects of what people look to arch…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 5 I began my career as an archaeologist and still enjoy archaeology. This is one of my most archaeological posts heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/d...
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 4 A lot of my work, and my posts, are about dark heritage and toxic heritage. I decided this was the best one for this list heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/a...
Another kind of Dark Heritage
Apethorpe Hall (Photo By Brookie – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, The Country House. For my international readers, not just a house in the country. The Country House is the centre of an estat…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 4 A lot of my work, and my posts, are about dark heritage and toxic heritage. I decided this was the best one for this list heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/a...
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 3 This is my take on a perennial topic for heritage folks on social media heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/w...
Why do we care about Stonehenge?
Stonehenge in the mists England is a very densely inhabited country. It has been for many thousands of years. While the last century has seen a concentration of population in urban centres, the den…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 3 This is my take on a perennial topic for heritage folks on social media heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/w...
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 2 This was written in response to a Historic England LGBTQ Heritage initiative and is one of the many posts that draw on my own life heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/h...
Heritage, Diversity, the Personal and the Political
Historic England’s Pride of Place initiative has led me to go back over the value of diversity in heritage and the relations between the personal and the political. In 1980, when I was 14, my older…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 2 This was written in response to a Historic England LGBTQ Heritage initiative and is one of the many posts that draw on my own life heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/h...
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 1 This is an early post more than 10 years old that responds to change and persistence and sand castles heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/t...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#Sarahs60 Blog posts 1 This is an early post more than 10 years old that responds to change and persistence and sand castles heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/t...
Today for #Sarahs60 I'm moving to sharing some things I've done. Specifically my Blog heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/thoughts-spa... Its a bit dormant, quite eclectic, but heritage focused. Posts aren't properly cited, which I sometimes regret, but they do have links. So, 6 blog posts
Heritage for Transformation
News on the best uses of Heritage for social and organisational change
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December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today for #Sarahs60 I'm moving to sharing some things I've done. Specifically my Blog heritagefortransformation.wordpress.com/thoughts-spa... Its a bit dormant, quite eclectic, but heritage focused. Posts aren't properly cited, which I sometimes regret, but they do have links. So, 6 blog posts
#Sarahs60 Authors 6 Juliet E McKenna. @julietemckenna.bsky.social Another person who happily has written a huge number of books. All interesting and fun. Her Green Man series is ongoing & does fabulous mixing of English Folklore & landscape with mystery www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-gr...
The Green Man Series
When Cheryl and I decided to publish The Green Man’s Heir in 2018, we had no way to know if the book would find a readership. We had every confidence in the story, but the project had been tu…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 6 Juliet E McKenna. @julietemckenna.bsky.social Another person who happily has written a huge number of books. All interesting and fun. Her Green Man series is ongoing & does fabulous mixing of English Folklore & landscape with mystery www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-gr...
#Sarahs60 Authors 5 Nicola Griffith. @nicolaz.bsky.social She just keeps writing more beautiful books! Queer Historical fiction wth amazing texture. Some scifi and fantasy as well. How could I not suggest her Hild books? nicolagriffith.com/2014/02/26/h...
Hild
Novel set in 7th-century Britain. Winner of the Washington State Book Award. “In its ambition and intelligence, Hild might best be compared to Hilary Mantel’s novels about Thomas Cromwe…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 5 Nicola Griffith. @nicolaz.bsky.social She just keeps writing more beautiful books! Queer Historical fiction wth amazing texture. Some scifi and fantasy as well. How could I not suggest her Hild books? nicolagriffith.com/2014/02/26/h...
#Sarahs60 Authors 4 Wole Talabi. @wtalabi.bsky.social He's mostly written short stories, but I hope he writes another novel soon because he's just so compelling. Maybe another Shigidi novel, please? nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-wo...
» Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
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November 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 4 Wole Talabi. @wtalabi.bsky.social He's mostly written short stories, but I hope he writes another novel soon because he's just so compelling. Maybe another Shigidi novel, please? nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-wo...
#Sarahs60 Authors 3 John Crowley. Like LeGuin, a formative author for me. I love everything he's written. He's best known for 'Little, Big' which is classed as fantasy. Why not try 'Engine Summer' the most beautiful post apocalyptic novel I know www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/john-...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 3 John Crowley. Like LeGuin, a formative author for me. I love everything he's written. He's best known for 'Little, Big' which is classed as fantasy. Why not try 'Engine Summer' the most beautiful post apocalyptic novel I know www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/john-...
#Sarahs60 Authors 2 @marthawells.com Murderbot is her most famous series, esp now with the TV adaptation, and I couldn't stop reading it. But she has many other worlds as well which I've happily lost myself in. Why not try her Raksura novels www.marthawells.com/compendium/
Books of the Raksura Compendium
Bibliography, excerpts, reviews, and other information on the works of science fiction/fantasy author Martha Wells.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 2 @marthawells.com Murderbot is her most famous series, esp now with the TV adaptation, and I couldn't stop reading it. But she has many other worlds as well which I've happily lost myself in. Why not try her Raksura novels www.marthawells.com/compendium/
#Sarahs60 Authors 1 Ursula K Le Guin. She has a special place in my soul. If you haven't read any of her work, why not start with The Left Hand of Darkness, which has a gender fluid planet, cold war politics & moves me to tears every time I read it www.ursulakleguin.com/left-hand-da...
Ursula K. Le Guin — The Left Hand of Darkness
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual scien...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#Sarahs60 Authors 1 Ursula K Le Guin. She has a special place in my soul. If you haven't read any of her work, why not start with The Left Hand of Darkness, which has a gender fluid planet, cold war politics & moves me to tears every time I read it www.ursulakleguin.com/left-hand-da...
Today's #Sarahs60 is 6 authors. I love Bluesky for authors, find lots of new favourites. I also follow @runalongwomble.bsky.social who asks 'what are you reading?' every Sunday. Great way to hear what other people enjoy. 6 is a tiny # so think of it as a snapshot & apologies all those I leave out
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today's #Sarahs60 is 6 authors. I love Bluesky for authors, find lots of new favourites. I also follow @runalongwomble.bsky.social who asks 'what are you reading?' every Sunday. Great way to hear what other people enjoy. 6 is a tiny # so think of it as a snapshot & apologies all those I leave out
#Sarahs60 charities 6 Surfers Against Sewage. Working to educate and organise regarding the awful condition of the UK privatised water system.
www.sas.org.uk
www.sas.org.uk
Surfers Against Sewage
Surfers Against Sewage is a grassroots environmental charity that campaigns to protect the ocean and all it makes possible.
www.sas.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Sarahs60 charities 6 Surfers Against Sewage. Working to educate and organise regarding the awful condition of the UK privatised water system.
www.sas.org.uk
www.sas.org.uk
#Sarahs60 charities 5 RNIB (Royal National institute of Blind people ) they do excellent work supporting blind people and educating sighted people www.rnib.org.uk
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November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#Sarahs60 charities 5 RNIB (Royal National institute of Blind people ) they do excellent work supporting blind people and educating sighted people www.rnib.org.uk
#Sarahs60 charities 4 Medical Aid for Palestinians. Again, fairly self evident, and their work is still absolutely crucial. Donate here www.map.org.uk
Delivering medical care to Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees in the Palestinian Territories and in Lebanon.
Help us get urgent medical supplies into the hands of Palestinians in need.
www.map.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#Sarahs60 charities 4 Medical Aid for Palestinians. Again, fairly self evident, and their work is still absolutely crucial. Donate here www.map.org.uk
#Sarahs60 charities 3 Arts Emergency. They support young people from marginalised backgrounds make a career in the Arts. Ever more important as the arts is being positioned as a luxury. Lots of ways to support here www.arts-emergency.org
Arts Emergency
We help young people get a fair start in the arts and humanities
www.arts-emergency.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#Sarahs60 charities 3 Arts Emergency. They support young people from marginalised backgrounds make a career in the Arts. Ever more important as the arts is being positioned as a luxury. Lots of ways to support here www.arts-emergency.org