Grace Wright

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@Barbara_Gblr One of the modules I'm teaching on has their essays due at 5 today 💀 Happy Halloween I guess?

The spookiest thing this spooky season is the amount of marking I have to do. 💀

A dreich but very interesting day in Skye last week: lots of fascinating stories about land resistance and engaging talks about how past land struggles can inform our present thinking of justice in relation land, language, and culture. @LandworkersUK @HIClimateHub

SKYE AND LOCHALSH - We are currently looking for folk to take part in the School of Plural Futures 2024/25! If you are 35 and under, you care about the climate and social justice and live in the area, please get in touch! Spread the word! @skyeatlas atlasarts.org.uk/opportunities/…

#Gaelic should be visible in Scottish academia. In this week’s @sgsah blog post, Ceit Langhorne from @SabhalMorOstaig invites us to the world of her thesis, entirely written in Gaelic, and Scotland’s heroic tales: sgsahblog.com/2024/09/09/tra…

Librarian job in the isle of Lewis! "This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible difference to the development of Gaelic language and culture in the Outer Hebrides." myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/comha…

Cash sales💵of homes🏠: Mainland Scotland - 37% Island Scotland - 57% (Skye 58%, Uist 63%) Economic #clearance of (#Gaelic) communities. There will be nothing left except retirees (without social or medical care), empty 2nd homes & short-term lets. ros.gov.uk/data-and-stati…

Event: Join us on 29 August for a free #archives talk as Dr Martin MacGregor explores the pre-1700 Gaelic treasures in our collections. There are only a few places left, so be quick and book your place now 👇 bit.ly/GaelicTreasures

An image I can't get out of my head: this medal Sheriff William Ivory awarded a policeman involved in arresting a crofter - Norman Stewart, "Parnell" - during 1880s land agitation in Skye. A clear message to those living on the land.

@Barbara_Gblr So did I at first glance 😂 the irony would be beautiful though

My entire family thought this was a pregnancy announcement (??) so it's been quite the morning. 😅

When the doctors are concerned about your low resting heart rate (45bpm) but it turns out you're just a runner. 😂 Pretty cool to see! 🫀

@glasgow_sugar Thank you! Excellent to hear some of your work too

Lovely to get to share some of what I've been working on around Dugald MacLachlan and land agitator networks in the 1880s @19thCPolAction

GLASGOW - Come join us for the opening of We All Love The Same Boy, an exhibition of new work by me and @matthewarthurw 18th July 2024 5-8pm at Govan Project Space! Open 19-28th July. :-)

Check out this week’s @sgsahblog to hear all about my current research! 📺 👀

@Am_bru_dhearg Faodail iongantach a tha sin!

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Imagine CHOOSING to lock the doors of a hospital capable of providing 24/7 urgent care that is a one minute walk away from a music festival with thousands of people attending. Portree is one of the busiest places in summer with Scottish tourism and urgent care is what should be expected of anyone visiting here or living here. Skye is not some small wee island where everything is a stones throw away or a 5 minute drive. Anyone with a medical emergency in the most northerly point of Skye is 1 hour 30 mins away from the closest “functioning” hospital. Factor in a return time if they would require an ambulance. 6 years now this has been going on. OPEN PORTREE HOSPITAL FOR 24/7 URGENT CARE The community of Skye and visitors to this island deserve better! @NHSuk @NHSHighland @VisitScotland @jhalcrojohnston @_KateForbes

15th May at the Glad Cafe, Glasgow. Join our guests from Brazil to share film, songs & stories of resistance. I'll be sharing a wee poem from Skye. eventbrite.co.uk/e/reweaving-th…

Today marks the anniversary of the bloody clash that ensued on the 19th of April 1882 which became known as The Battle of The Braes and played a vital role in land reform in Scotland in the following decades. Check out our online exhibition for more: highlifehighland.com/archives-servi…

@CatherineMacP12 Wish I'd been around for this one!

Last night David Alston gave a facinating talk on 'Skye, Slavery & plantations of the Caribbean.' Lots of archive links swimming in my head afterwards. Lyndale house once home to John Maclennan, sugar planter at the plantation of Hope & Experiment, Berbice, British Guiana.

@CatherineMacP12 Haha, especially those parts!

@graceq_22 "My Darling Duncan...."

The Duncan MacPherson collection is always a joy