iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's nothing quite like an early saint, full of Christian charity ... or a vengeful king.

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I lived in Edinburgh during the years the author describes. The city and university seemed so generous in those days, even to people like me, who weren't officially part of it, but who loved its intellectual, cultural, and "ethnological" life. I had many friends at the School of Scottish Studies.

020

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's some deeper teaching and a devotional meditation. youtu.be/wD_Zpr9lYPs

youtu.be

Mabon ap Modron

YouTube video by Kris Hughes

010

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/09/2026

“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry” —Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-lite...

thecoldmagazine.co.uk

Step aside, Sappho! Meet the Scottish lesbian poet hiding in a 500-year-old manuscript

Explore the life of Marie Maitland, a pioneering Scottish poet of the 1500s who defied societal norms and embraced her identity.

02310

Reposted by Kris Hughes

CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(1/2) I’m sorry to announce CODECS will be unavailable while server problems continue. We may be in a spot of bother with the (new?) limitations of our hosting plan. Some essential maintenance scripts require a generous amount of time to complete, but ...

1105

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my favourite novels of all time. I often want to tell people to read it, but not sure how it would land with a lot of younger people, or those far removed from the culture, as there are so many things that might not make sense to them. But if you're not frightened off by that, then read it!

281

Reposted by Kris Hughes

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)

Four white plates with angular images of black birds all against a wood backdrop

111512259

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Registration is open for this year's run of my Celtic Horse Goddesses class. We'll be learning about Epona, Rhiannon, Macha, sovereignty, the horse-human relationship through history and other good things. "We'll" because I always learn from my students, too. #pakansky

tickettailor.com

See ticket prices – The Celtic Horse Goddesses – Zoom

The Celtic Horse Goddesses – Zoom, Sat Oct 17, 2026 - Sat Dec 5, 2026 - This class is offered on a tiered, PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN basis Su...

010

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A bit of one of Lugh's battle poems from the Cath Maige Tuired, translated by Isolde Carmody.

031

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the largest coastal promontory forts in Cymru/Wales for #HillfortsWednesday 🤩🌊 The epic Deer Park fort at Martin's Haven, south-west Pembrokeshire - a centuries-old embarkation point for the islands, Ireland & beyond Did Pytheas the Greek ever stop here? 🤔🛶 📷 My own, yesterday

A huge coastal headland seen from a boat across the sea, with wide blue skies above

310720

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Rebecca Sharp @rebeccasharp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Less than a month to go! The final, homecoming performance - Sat 3 Oct - St Mary's Kirk, Haddington (East Lothian). tinyurl.com/MMMHaddington ...where you'll also find the 2nd edition of the book (Matecznik Press), updated & with a new preface by Prof. Katherine Forsyth (Celtic & Gaelic, UoG).

tinyurl.com

Maiden Mother Mage

A poetic reimagining of 6th century Lothian princess Thaney (St Teneu), daughter of Loth of Traprain Law. Written by Rebecca Sharp

011

Reposted by Kris Hughes

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dee Nickerson, contemporary UK painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #September

Painting featuring two women walking in a golden field with two dogs and a cat surrounded by flying birds

2950141

Reposted by Kris Hughes

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

521190855429

Reposted by Kris Hughes

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape of a field with treeline in the distance under a dramtic sky

122188321

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.

7604146

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The second of two talks I did last weekend. You can download the notes and references PDF and the discussion at the end is great, too! I love it when smart, open-minded people come to my events. (No paywall) #MythologyMonday #Celticpolytheism #pagansky

patreon.com

Celtic mythology: The Irish Sea connection | Kris Hughes

Celtic mythology: The Irish Sea connection by Kris Hughes on Patreon. Join Kris Hughes's community for exclusive content and updates.

051

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Satisfying how the Protestant urge to religious self-criticism gets you an eighteenth century Welsh Methodist writing things like "and are we not also rather like the Hindus ourselves, because we only marry people who go to the right kind of chapel and are extremely attached to our cows?"

35310

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This six-week class starts on Sunday. It's PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN, with very affordable prices, if you need them. We start with Maponos and Matrona in Gaul and North Britain. All welcome! #pagansky #CelticPolytheism

tickettailor.com

Buy tickets – Mabon, Modron, and Maponos – Zoom

Mabon, Modron, and Maponos – Zoom, Sun Aug 30, 2026 - Sun Oct 11, 2026 - Come be in the class!

011

Reposted by Kris Hughes

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

'Reeds all about it' machine embroidery by UK textile artist Rachel Wright #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a windmill to the right in a field with tall grasses and under a swirling sky

2806142

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm doing a couple of online talks this weekend. All welcome! You can get the link, and a bit more information at: www.patreon.com/KrisHughes/p... It would be great to see some new faces.

010

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The hill I'm willing to die on, in case you wondered.

020

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Dyn Hysbys @dynhysbys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pren cerddin yn erbyn andwyo 🌿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (rowan wood against harm). Folks are more familiar with the rowan cross & red berries charm. In Cymru, there's a tradition of making a ring from rowan wood & placing it as an apotropaic charm in the home. #folklore #witchsky #Welshhistory #folkmagic #Wales

A small hoop made from a rowan twig, fastened with red thread and hanging against the wall.

Written in Cymraeg in a gothic script, in red ink on white paper, 'Pren Cerddin yn erbyn Andwyo'.

095

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is the last in a long series of 'content' I've produced over the past eight months on the topic of swine in Celtic myth. It became a bit of an obsession. Hopefully, all done now!

youtu.be

The Fate of Diarmuid

YouTube video by Kris Hughes

011

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 08/08/2026

A shepherd in Kintail was settling in for the night, when about twenty cats came & sat round the fire, holding up their paws to warm themselves… —from John Gregorson Campbell’s 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 & 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 & 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (1902) #BookWormSat #InternationalCatDay #folklore

A shepherd in Kintail, living alone in a bothy, far from other houses, after kindling in the evening a bright cheerful fire, threw himself on a heather bed on the opposite side of the house. About twenty cats entered and sat round the fire, holding up their paws and warming themselves. One went to the window, put a black cap on its head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and vanished. The other cats, one by one, did the same. The cap of the last fell off, and the shepherd caught it, put it on his own head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and followed. He reached London in a twinkling, and with his companions went to drink wine in a cellar. He got drunk and fell asleep. In the morning he was caught, taken before a judge, and sentenced to be hanged. At the gallows he entreated to be allowed to wear the cap he had on in the cellar; it was a present from his mother, and he would like to die with it on. When it came the rope was round his neck. He clapped the cap on his head, and cried “Hurrah for Kintail!” He disappeared with the gallows about his neck, and his friends in Kintail, having by this time missed him, and being assembled in the bothy prior to searching the hills, were much surprised at his strange appearance.

2266

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/08/2026

The Cheviot, the Stag & the Black, Black Oil Currently on the BBC iPlayer: the 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath’s iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the North Sea oil boom #drama #theatre www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

bbc.co.uk

Play for Today - Series 4: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath's iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.

26836

Reposted by Kris Hughes

irishtextssociety.bsky.social @irishtextssociety.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You can take out annual membership online through the @RIAdawson site for €23. Alternately you can pay by standing order through your bank - for details check out the membership page of irishtextssociety.org.

irishtextssociety.org

Irish Texts Society

This is the website of the Irish Texts Society which contains information about the Society, news, events and publications.

011

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

130

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My new book, An Injury to All, traces the history of The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Thanks very much to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for publicising An Injury to All as it goes out for pre-order. Full details below🔽 www.democratic-left.scot/post/an-inju...

democratic-left.scot

An injury to all - New book on the 'unmaking of the working class'

Ewan Gibbs, the Glasgow-based historian who is author of Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland will be known to many Democratic Left Scotland members. Ewan’s ...

02613

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Grugyn, Fraechán, Fráech ... will I ever get to the bottom of all this? #MythologyMonday #pagansky

youtu.be

Fráech

YouTube video by Kris Hughes

030

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’m dismayed by the way some authors and teachers market themselves primarily by highlighting how awful everything else is. Pay attention. Are they trashing people they should be treating as colleagues, or showing quiet self-confidence? #pagansky #Celticpolytheist

patreon.com

Marketing tactics I won't use | Kris Hughes

Sometimes I’m dismayed that there is still so much bad information circulating about the myths and deities of Celtic-speaking cultures. But,

020

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/07/2026

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles Alone in the gaunt reedbed – Tiny silversmith Working late in the evening… —Norman MacCaig, “July evening” from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) #poem #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/the-...

Norman MacCaig
July evening

A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening.

I sit and listen. The rooftop
With a quill of smoke stuck in it
Wavers against the sky
In the dreamy heat of summer.

Flowers’ closing time: bee lurches
Across the hayfield, singing
And feeling its drunken way
Round the air’s invisible corners.

And grass is grace. And charlock
Is gold of its own bounty.
The broken chair by the wall
Is one with immortal landscapes.

Something has been completed
That everything is part of,
Something that will go on
Being completed forever.

0136

Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Working on a new video, and this collage just got sillier and sillier. Who can explain what's going on?

020

Reposted by Kris Hughes

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/07/2026

Mythological beasts can have a standard form; dragons are broadly similar across much of medieval art. What makes the Pictish Beast stand out is how local it is. It accounts for around 40% of all animal images in Pictish art & yet is unique to Scotland blog.historicenvironment.scot/2025/08/what...

blog.historicenvironment.scot

What's Left of the Picts? Scotland's Pictish Stones - Historic Environment Scotland Blog

Pictish stones can be found all over Scotland, but what are they, who carved them, and why? We take a look at some of the research.

1306