Lovely write up about our project volunteer StirlingHistHeritPol student Hayley who was nominated as a The National Lottery Heritage Fund Game Changer see 👉stir.ac.uk/news/2025/may-… Any University of Stirling students around for the summer and fancy volunteering follow the thread….. #MiningLandscapes

Finally made it to the walk the Bowline at #Bowling Harbour West #Dunbartonshire that links the Forth and Clyde canal to the wider National Cycle Network via a disused railway viaduct #towpathtrails #railwaywalking

A Conference on the Legacies of Nepal's Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA), 29-30 Jan 2026 in Kathmandu, abstract deadline: 25 Sept 2025. kusoa.edu.np/ku_nccs-cpa_ca…

Congratulations to today’s graduates! We’re celebrating with you as you cross this exciting milestone. Don’t forget to check out our Library and IT Essentials Checklist to help you transition smoothly from student to graduate: stir.ac.uk/aa5. #StirGrad

🏗️ Last chance! Traditional building skills survey closes Monday 30 June. Help the Buckhaven Heritage project in Fife assess current skills availability + support the construction/heritage sectors. Open to all across Scotland 👇 ow.ly/s0NE50WgAq5

The weather held dry if not a tad gloomy for Aileen, Mark and Catherine who were out with Matt BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland scoping the #Barony colliery site, #Auchinleck ready for the #ecology treasure hunt part of next Wednesday’s family #Coalscapes event #miningheritage #mininglandscapes

1/2 It’s damp and dreich but the good news The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland University of Stirling #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum have added a new blog to the collection from emerging visual artist Edward Cawood exploring themes of site, value and industrial history - Dreaming of #Prestongrange follow thread…

A group of third year students from #UofStirling's Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences led by Dr Daniel Chapman and Becky Boulton enjoyed a rewarding week at Merops Field Centre on a Mediterranean field course last week.

Our Dr Andy Clark was interviewed about his 2021 book Fighting Deindustrialization. "How Scottish women led the fight to save their factories in the 1980s" | The National. thenational.scot/news/25278646.…

Catherine was out with former #Dysart #Fife resident working on a new route ‘A Tale of Two Earldoms’- the Frances Colliery Memorial to West Wemyss. Easy to while away hours at the beach where material is washed in from the bing together with ballast dumped at the harbour.

Out route mapping and exploring the landscape legacies of coal with local #Wallyford residents ready for our first #MiningLandscapes walking route in #EastLothian great hospitality and glorious sunshine #MiningHeritage

Another sunny day out at Fulshie Bing and the site of the former Foulshiels Colliery #Stoneyburn #WestLothian with landowners the Woodland Trust planning our next Coalscapes family event for early August (paperwork permitting) will keep you posted #Coal #MiningLandscapes

Meet Mark The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland University of Stirling #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s new project assistant. Mark joins the team from July to September to support our summer events before heading off to do a Masters in history. To meet Mark see 👉mining-landscapes.org/news #Coal #MiningHeritage

📅 #OnThisDay 19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey is deposed & Mary I becomes Queen 👑 Dr Johanna Strong rages it’s time to ditch the ‘Bloody Mary’ myth & see England’s first Queen Regnant for who she was — less brutal than her sister! 🔥⚔️ Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/299de6 #onthisdate

One for #AllMetalMonday and For the Love of Gates the entrance to Thoresby Vale Country Park, #Edwinstowe, #Nottinghamshire site of the former Thoresby Colliery 1925 to 2015 (Catherine is holidaying down in the English Midlands) #MiningLandscape #MiningHeritage

… and through those gates: the pit wheel memorial, the landscape and the surviving engineering workshop (in the distance) #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Excited to say that the contents for Scotland’s #Environmental Histories: Mapping a Way Forward is here🌲🌿🌳 It has been a privilege to work alongside such AMAZING contributors as guest co-editor on this SI with the Scottish Historical Review🤩🫶🏻

#Iron today nipped over the border into Northants to see the surviving Wakerley calcining kilns built by Italian POWs in 1915 only two were completed and probably never used. Grade II listed. #industrialheritage