Samantha Walker

Mummy. Manager/Curator @StAheritage. Views my own.

[Billy Kay @billykayscot]

Gin ye’re in ony airt near St Aundraes in the neist puckle months, mak siccar tae veisit the Hamewith exhibeition @StAPresTrust museum. Braw wark duin by @sam_bannerman, Ken Fraser an the team. It wis affie guid tae see the Scots text an the owersettins in English.

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@billykayscot @StAPresTrust We are all really looking forward to this 😊 Have loved learning about the Scots leid this year and keen to learn mair!

[Billy Kay @billykayscot]

For folk living in St Andrews, I hope you can join me for a talk on Scots that will tie in with the exhibition Hamewith at the Museum. Look forward to working with @StAPresTrust on this. I will explore the history of the language and celebrate its brilliant literature.

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@billykayscot and yet they didn’t anglicise Butts Wynd which is strange. I’m working on a map of St Andrews for a Scots language exhibition to show street names before they were anglicised. What’s interesting too is Scots street names are making a comeback with the latest being ‘Bell Brae’.

[Steve Colmer @steve_colmer]

Super productive day with @StAHeritage We powered through scanning 266 objects and artefacts today including this amazing cart from Aikman + Terras grocers. @Scaniverse FTW #digitalheritage #3D #GaussianSplatting

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@steve_colmer @StAHeritage @Scaniverse @lateralnorth Must be a record for a days work- thanks so much!

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@_Nic_LN Haha aw she’s so good most other dogs would just be getting up and sitting on the pair of you 😂

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@_Nic_LN Ahh noooo 💔 but what a great age to reach, and a life full of love

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@_jonbrady So sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself x

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Slavery was rooted in violence and intimacy. The children of enslavers and the enslaved sometimes grew up in the same households with minimal social distance. Affective bonds developed alongside the constant threat of violence and separation from kith and kin. Last weekend, I went to the @MFAH for a talk and, while there, a curator shared this miniature with me, which reiterates the above point. Considering the dress of the sitters, it can be inferred that it dates back to the early 1800s. The fact that this type of miniature was most common in France and the French Caribbean indicates that it may have been produced for or in a slave-holding region of the French Empire. Though the black girl might have been free or freed, but her life was certainly circumscribed by slavery. The intimate embrace between these two girls does not erase the power differential that also separated them.

[Gender Pay Gap Bot @PayGapApp]

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 40.9% lower than men's. The pay gap is the same as the previous year.

[The R&A World Golf Museum @WorldGolfMuseum]

We're looking forward to working with our friends @StAHeritage again on another #StAndrewsMemories meeting.

We will be celebrating the achievements of women in the town (not just in golf!) for #WomensHistoryMonth

Book here:
https://t.co/ZwB4Rysv4M
#standrews #memories

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

Absolutely heartbreaking. Must be the most horrific crime committed in Dundee in a generation.

Rest in Peace lovely Bennylyn & Jellica. Thinking of the family who have been through so much.

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

GUILTY: Andrew Innes, 52, has been found guilty of the murders of Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her daughter Jellica, two, at his home in Dundee. He was also found guilty of sexually assaulting Jellica and of raping another girl

[St Andrews Preservation Trust @StAPresTrust]

This Saturday, we'll be exhibiting recollections from past students of #MadrasCollege. It's an opportunity to see a range of documents, photographs and objects that display the history of Madras College since 1833. Come along and have a look! #history #heritage #StAndrews

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@Glencoe_Museum @HeritageFundUK @HeritageFundSCO @highlandmuseums Congratulations! 🥳

[Gregory Schnakenberg @GSchnakenberg]

While working in our archives, I found an old metal box. Inside was a long-forgotten roll of silent 8mm film marked "The Philippines 1942"

Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization.

Yesterday, it came back. On it was:

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@_Nic_LN My hairdresser said to me today that not only do I have grey coming through, but it’s the type of grey that’s all wirey and ‘sticky-up’ 😭😭😭

[Samantha Walker @sam_bannerman]

@_Nic_LN Gross.

[nia @nia_endingVAWG]

Are you able to buy a Christmas gift for a woman living in one of nia’s 3 specialist refuges? They’ve put together their wish list and it would really mean a lot https://t.co/urcSWnJKdb