Home bird, book worm, nature lover. Early Medieval Wales. Natural history 💚 Archivist (Research Services) @UOYBorthwick.
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BRACE YOURSELF: the @UoYBorthwick crew are arriving en masse to @IMC_Leeds. YES! @LauraY_archives in the chair, and @Lydiolect and I speaking on the subject of the @YorkAdventurers along with Euan Trower, a brilliant @yorkmedieval colleague! 9:00am, 2nd July!
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It's #NationalTreeWeek! An ongoing project here at NEYEDC is our part in the national update of the Ancient Woodland Inventory, now lead by our EDO Josie. You can read more about Ancient Woodland, its importance, and why we're re-mapping it here: neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh… 🌳🌲
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Today it has been wonderful to visit @UoYBorthwick as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations.
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For #WorldOtterDay here are some medieval otters having an otterly lovely swim in a 1430-40 manuscript of Gaston de Foix's Livre de la Chasse, now in @GettyMuseum Ms. 27 (87. MR.34), f. 29v #OttersofTwitter #MedievalAnimals
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A fantastic first day at our #NatSCA2023 conference. Lovely to have the family back together in person (and online!) again!
Really inspiring papers at the morning session of #NatSCA2023 - I was excited to see examples of the value of archival collections in re-examining and reinterpreting collections 💚 looking forward to this afternoon!
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Fascinating to hear @KMGlassman 's research to unravel Hooker's Flora Boreali-Americana and to follow the threads which lead to the undervalued contributions of women botanists #NatSCA2023
ALT PowerPoint slide with heading - Where are the Canadians & the women in Hooker's Flora? There are two photos of bound volumes and an image of the title page
ALT PowerPoint slide showing a 19th century botanical print with notes highlighting details of collectors and places where they found the plants
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ALT View of the newly constructed Goodricke College from across the University lake, with two students in the foreground who are standing on Vanbrugh Piazza and looking towards Goodricke, August 1968 (Borthwick Institute for Archives, UOY/IC/1/7/5).
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So many of our churches occupy the edges. The liminal spaces. Clinging to crumbling coastlines, sinking into saltmarshes, up a mountain hanging, literally, between heaven and earth. Their landscape is ancient and brand new all at once. It’s everchanging and constant.
#thread
ALT A small stone building surrounded by green fields. The sea is in the distance. The church is St Mary’s, Penllech, Gwynedd.
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For many years I have been posting little observations on here. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings, because they should be seen:
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The State Archival Service of Ukraine has announced a charity account to preserve the documentary heritage of Ukraine, rebuild archives and ensure their proper functioning during wartime.
Find out more about the charity account and how to donate to it: archives.gov.ua/en/a-charity…
Fab thread!
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High over the river, the crows are circling, calling and weaving, back & forth, they cannot settle. Something has shifted deep in the land, deep below the snow and the flood and the rocks, and they need to measure it for themselves.
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Don’t forget we will be collecting cakes at the dock tomorrow morning for the scarecrow trail. All donations welcome. We will also be selling ice lollies at the cafe over the weekend. So let’s hope for some ☀️☀️
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All good things come in pairs... It's also History Day today and to mark the occasion we are thrilled to unveil our brand new website telling you all about our amazing Environment and Natural History Collections
#HistDay21 @SenateHouseLib @ihr_history
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/…
Really enjoyed bringing together the #EnvironmentalHistory collections @UoYBorthwick into a new website for History Day 2021! Valuable records documenting small and large-scale changes to the Yorkshire landscape tinyurl.com/ybs94yu3
@SenateHouseLib @ihr_history #HistDay21
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The University of Sheffield Council has decided to endorse the proposal of the University Executive Board to close our Department. This means the unequivocal end of Archaeology in the University of Sheffield. #SaveSheffieldArchaeology
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Idris Mathias was a postman in Cardigan. His work took him along the Teifi River. In 1945 he embarked on project that would take 17yrs, drawing a 58-foot-long map of the area. His map includes drawings of birds, fishermen –and their names, local landmarks and placenames.
#thread
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IT’S WORKING! Colleagues in history and archaeology have just been informed they are no longer at risk of redundancy. This is down to UCU plus an incredible and well supported campaign by @ArchaeologyChe1 and @VoicesChester
Let’s keep fighting, we CAN save every job!
