Highland Objects

Creating #podcasts describing #history & #culture objects in the #Scottish Highlands possible by XpoNorth

[Highland Objects @HighlandObjects]

Ho! Ho! Ho! Bonus Podcast Four - Christmas 2022 https://t.co/HI7Io4swVG thanks to @HighldHistorian @HMuseum and Castle Hill Heritage Centre

[North Ages @NorthAges]

The Hexham Hoard was discovered in the abbey grounds by the sexton and his assistant while digging a grave #OTD in 1832. Some 8,000 Northumbrian coins of the C9th were found preserved in a bronze bucket of the same period. 📸British Museum

[Am Baile - Highland History & Culture @HighlandHistory]

Today marks the anniversary of the death of Thomas Telford in 1834. His impact on the Highlands and Islands was huge, constructing an extensive network of well-engineered roads, over 1,000 masonry bridges, the Caledonian Canal, several harbours and churches, as well as planned towns, including Ullapool.

This portrait by Samuel Lane hangs in Inverness Town House

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

Spectacular pre-WWII footage, over 100 years old. A plane drops a smoke curtain to hide a navy warship in the 1920s. Using liquid titanium tetrachloride, which reacts with the ocean air, forming white titanium dioxide clouds.

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

We're the Caithness Broch Project, and we want to build THIS!

First we need to purchase the land - and you can help.

We've raised over £16,000 in only 4 days.

Can you get us to £20,000?

Hit the link below, and please share!

https://t.co/TUU48w65Bd

#Caithness #Brochs

[North Ages @NorthAges]

The Galloway Hoard was discovered by detectorist Derek McLennan at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, #OTD in 2014. Deposited around AD 900, it is both Scotland’s earliest Viking-Age hoard and the richest ever found in Britain and Ireland. 📸National Museums Scotland

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

Rare, early film of three stylish gentlemen demonstrating the use of a clapper stile gate in the English countryside. Incredibly, this was filmed in 1910.

[North Ages @NorthAges]

Máel Coluim (III) mac Donnchada, king of Alba; William de St Calais, bishop of Durham; and Turgot, its prior, took part in a foundation ceremony for a Norman cathedral befitting the relics of Cuthbert and Bede #OTD in 1093.

[Highland Objects @HighlandObjects]

@jconnollybooks Guilty as charged m'lud

[Am Baile - Highland History & Culture @HighlandHistory]

Two service buses parked outside the Old Jail in #Dornoch, #Sutherland, 1966

[photo: John Sinclair]

[Am Baile - Highland History & Culture @HighlandHistory]

John Mackenzie and his father on the Bealach na Bà (“Pass of the Cattle”) in July 1955, waiting for the engine of their 1935 Jowett to cool down. Built in 1822, the road follows an old drover’s route over the #Applecross Peninsula

[photo: George Maclennan; courtesy of John Mackenzie]

[Stories of Scotland Podcast @StoriesScotland]

Made a wee map of all our episodes so people can use it as a guide for when they are travelling.
Also helps us ensure better geographical coverage of Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖🗺️
https://t.co/SGB3jjsyof

[Podcast Movement @PodcastMovement]

What’s your take: Is podcasting ready for fully AI-generated shows?
⚠️ Hot takes welcome.
#AIPodcasts #CreativeTech

[Goodpods @GoodpodsHQ]

How it started: TIME publishes its “top 100 podcasts” list 😂

How it’s going: Real time, personalized podcast recs on Goodpods based on the suggestions from people you follow and your interests 😎

Welcome to new world!

[Wick Heritage Museum @MuseumWick]

Reminder the Museum will be open on Sundays in July and August. No excuses now for not visiting.
@WickHeritage
@GroatNews
@WickVoices
@WickSociety

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

Yarrows Heritage Trust need YOUR help - and it'll only take a few minutes.

If you've got an interest in the Yarrows area in Caithness, or live nearby, then they'd love to hear your views about how to develop and improve.

https://t.co/IfHab9H6hO

PLEASE RT!

#Caithness #Yarrows

[Tain Museum & Clan Ross Centre @TainMuseum]

23–24 July 1916 | Tain Remembers
Four young men from our area fell during the bitter fighting at High Wood on the Somme:
Cpl Charles Gordon
Sgt Andrew Fraser
Sgt William Fridge
Pte Kenneth Munro
#WWI #TainHistory #BattleoftheSomme #LestWeForget

[Caithness Broch Project @TheBrochProject]

Calling all #Highlands Businesses!

Scratching your head when someone asks what there is to do in #Caithness?

Just foist one of these on 'em, and let our peculiar map do the talking.

If you want some, let us know!

[Highland Objects @HighlandObjects]

@MartinBill300 @bo66ie29 I know what you mean, but I don't think it is as, from my memory, you can't see the cathedral from that side of Claypath, and that view would be down towards the market square and the road - as it was then - on down the hill of Silver Street. Still a wonderfully evocative film

[Highland Objects @HighlandObjects]

If you are interested in #CircularEconomy #innovations and #wickedproblems don't miss this event

https://t.co/dkQR0klp4P