These look brilliant 😍

Five of Scotland's most 'groundbreaking' archaeological discoveries in 2023 news.stv.tv/scotland/five-…

Well we got here more quickly than I expected! 👀

This talk from Darroch Bratt will examine the social world of illicit whisky distilling and smuggling 🥃

“Spare a Thought for the Exciseman: Looking at the Social World of Whisky Smuggling” starts at 5:30PM - part of the Highland Archaeology Festival.
uhi.ac.uk/en/research-en…

Whisky and archaeology gang thegither!

New in IA61: A Quick Buck: an Early Licensed Whisky Distillery at Blackmiddens Farm in the Cabrach by Darroch Bratt & Peter Bye-Jensen doi.org/10.11141/ia.61…
Matt Ritchie The Cabrach Trust

time for a long hard look at what we've been excusing - or even celebrating - for far too long. only by correctly and soberly assessing the actual situation can we have any hope of changing it

by any objective measure, scotland is in a deeply bad place: racism and transphobia are rife, poverty and its effects are endemic, the housing crisis is one of the worst in europe, the social forces required to change things simply aren't up to the challenge

reality checks aren't pleasant, but they are necessary to actually improve things. there is a huge extent to which progress is frustrated by this idea that scotland and scottish politics is perfect, that any criticism must come from bad-faith grudges

while almost every aspect of this leadership campaign has been abysmal, the one good thing is hopefully at least that it shatters the illusion of scotland or the SNP as some unique bastions of progressiveness

Featuring the research findings of my UHI Centre for History colleagues, Dr Elizabeth Ritchie and Dr Rachel Meredith Davis. Also involved from #ThinkUHI , more broadly, were Lesley Mickel of UHI Inverness, PhD graduate Darroch Bratt, and some fantastic UHI taught student contributions too #Inverlael

This project has been amazing to work on and we are very excited!
Bòrd na Gàidhlig Historic Environment Scotland
Darroch Bratt Scottish Archaeology Month
#ScotlandsDigs22 #HESSupported #ScotArchStrat #LostInverlael

Dr Darroch Bratt, who passed his UHI
PhD viva in July '22, worked with Ullapool Museum
on 'Lost Inverlael'-project to confirm the discovery of an illicit distilling site. He discussed the site and smuggling on BBC ALBA's Duncan Mackenzie: Dìleab nam Beann. UHI Research

Seriously? Johnson has 100 supporters? He shouldn’t have 100 supporters in the country let alone the parliamentary Tory party. We need a general election now to get rid of this disgraceful government that’s been shafting the country for 12 years! #GeneralElectionNow #ToriesOut

The term ‘pissing in the wind comes to mind’. #ToriesOut

1. Ok, I get this is historic and some people are genuinely sad at the death of the Queen. But at a time when there are multiple very real and distressing pressures on people BBC News (UK) is failing in its public service remit by not running A SINGLE story that isn’t about the Queen.

Her: I wonder what he’s thinking about

My brain at any given moment:

If this is the sort of bullshit we're going to get from her as Prime Minister for the next two years, I'm really not sure that I can take it... #ToryBritain #ToryLeadershipRace #ToriesOut #LizTruss