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  1. The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

  2. Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

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    What makes life feel worth living, especially when it feels impossible to go on? Recent research into suicide prevention suggests that media reports about...

  3. Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted

    Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted

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    In these complex modern days, we still find ourselves in the urgency of routes that keep battling gender inequality or discrimination, and that contribute to...

  4. Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume Voyage Round Great Britain. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

  5. Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...

  6. Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...