Stobohope is a 1000 ha valley in the Peeblesshire hills, lying in a National Scenic Area. Rich in wildlife including black grouse and golden eagle. Scottish Forestry have awarded a £2m grant for 500 ha (5 km2) sitka spruce here without asking for an EIA. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-stobo-h…

Long wanted to visit Hexham Abbey. It didn’t disappoint. Remarkable survival of so many late medieval panel paintings and carved wooden fittings. Here are just a few of them. #WoodenWednesday #Hexham #medieval

Bursaries are available for the Vernacular Architecture Group's conference in Ulster on 11-15 June and we're still accepting applications but do be quick if you're interested - info at vag.org.uk/conferences.htm. Ulster Architectural Heritage Ulster Folk Museum Architecture at Ulster Traditional Building Skills NI Heritage Houses Of Ireland

Join our team! As part of 100 Years of Community Ownership, we are recruiting an Archive Assistant who will gather material from communities and ensure these digital materials remain authentic, accessible, and understandable in the future. buff.ly/3vGvcxi The National Lottery Heritage Fund

I created a cool web app using Ordnance Survey data - British Placename Mapper (placenames.rtwilson.com). It allows you to search for place names that match various criteria (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and plot them on an interactive map. #gis #geospatial

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

📢 Can you help us influence public policy so that *everyone* in Scotland benefits from walking?

We're recruiting a new Policy & Advocacy Manager to join our friendly staff team! 🥾

Apply now: theramblers-1651591500.teamtailor.com/jobs/3745274-p…

Deadline = 21 Apr.

sportscotland Scottish Environment LINK Active Scotland

Fully-funded three-year PhD fellowship in medieval environmental history!
All topics welcome. We particularly invite candidates with an interest in histories of water, animals, saints, or environmental storytelling. Deadline 18 April. #envhist
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

No way would a golf course at Coul Links be a necessity for the Highlands. It would be a major loss of nature at a UK level. Losses of nature are losses for humans too. Unfortunately, many people just don’t see our obvious connection with and dependency on the rest of nature.

Must Farm, with all its wonderful wood, published - and free open access. Brilliant. The specialist reports are in Volume 2 - see their second tweet under the one below for that link. Congratulations to the team at Cambridge Archaeological Unit

You've met the people of Borders Forest Trust, and now its only right that you meet the places! Our land includes an incredible mosaic of habitats and histories. We thought we would take you through some of our most special spots!

**We are recruiting! Could you be our 'Woodland ACTION Officer'?**

'We need someone who can do everything from getting their hands dirty planting trees, through to navigating the sometimes complex woodland creation grant options. If you have a boundless...

In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1

While I'm here, a CfP, for Anglo-Scottish medievalists.

Please circulate!

A wonderful Adam Weymouth report on indigenous strains of “bere” barley in the Scottish isles:

“This is a hard place to live…. [But] locked away in bere is a genetic richness that provides some answers about how we might live in balance with the world.” inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-ancient-cr…

Attending a dendro-isotope workshop at Swansea Uni, led by Prof Neil Loader, with dendro participants from N Europe and UK. I presented on Scottish dendro challenges that dendro-isotopes could potentially assist with. Excellent workshop, impressive technique. #dendrochronology

BBC podcast by May Robson: 'The Isle of Ulva has... suffered more than most... Academic and land reform campaigner, Alastair McIntosh, shows us the links between Scotland’s violent history of dispossession and ... concentrated land ownership in Europe today.' bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Remarkable discovery, an oak funerary bed from Roman London.

The amazing Alder 🌳 (Alnus Glutinosa) will grow almost anywhere. They can appear growing from the ground in old industrial sites where they work to turn the damaged Earth into more fertile soil where other trees can follow but they are most happy growing in swampy woods with…