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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

@landscapeian.bsky.social
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Landscape historian | Linguistics | Italophile | Italian at C2 level | AI experimenter | Vegan | Death/Black metal | European | My views only

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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quick throwback to another social media platform where we used to post about #tinylions in churches. I felt I should post this one for @horatioforever.bsky.social and others after finding it in Rochester Cathedral this weekend! 🦁
A tiny figure of a lion on a floor tile in Rochester Cathedral, England
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Final call for this weekend's conference...
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only a few days to go now. A few places left to be booked. Please share
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Only a few days to go now. Are you planning to join us for this weekend of #landscape #history?
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Still time to sign up for our 2026 conference in Hartington, Derbyshire. We and @tudorfarming.bsky.social have arranged a day of talks and a field visit focused on Peak District landscapes. Details and bookings at the link. We hope to see you there! Pls share www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...
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Society for Landscape Studies conference 2026 Hartington - The Society for Landscape Studies
Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I've signed up for this weekend. Any of my Bluesky friends planning on going?
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An amazing discovery... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert
Well-preserved fourth-century quarters reveal details of daily life, urban development and economic activities
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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sunshine and shadow - golden evening light picks out the folds and contours of the Redlake Valley. I was standing on Shropshire’s ‘other’ Caradoc for this shot, taken a few days ago while I was out with my drone. This is the view looking across the landscape towards the Clun Valley. #Shropshire
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The latest issue of our journal, Landscape History, arrived with society members recently. It's full of fascinating research and articles, as you can see from the contents list. Why not join us and start receiving a copy? www.landscapestudies.com/membership/ #landscape #history #archaeology
The front cover of the latest issue of the journal Landscape History.The contents list for the latest issue of Landscape History.
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I despair. What was the point of this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sycamore Gap tree sapling stolen from castle grounds months after planting
Cumbria police and National Trust appeal for information after young tree taken from Wray parkland and castle
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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Death climbs out of a tomb ready to strike a slumbering young lady with a dart of death at St Mary's, Car Colston. 'Reader, behold thy fate!' #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentsMonday
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Join us and @tudorfarming.bsky.social in the Peak District. Our 2026 conference (19–20 Sept, Hartington) explores the upland landscapes of the River Dove — OSL dating, medieval farmsteads & more. Talks & a field visit. Book now! www.landscapestudies.com/society-even... #Landscape #Archaeology
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Society for Landscape Studies conference 2026 Hartington - The Society for Landscape Studies
Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What a remarkable find, which could change our view of the Romano-British period in Wales... > www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Newly discovered ‘Port Talbot Pompeii’ may have been Roman centre for agriculture
Academics say the villa, found in Welsh deer park, shows the area was not on fringes of Roman empire
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 Fascinating thread alert! 🚨 What an absolute treasure trove of information, especially for fans of church ruins like me (and their subsequent repair/rebuilding of course)!
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A wintery view of the remains of the Roman fort at Barr Hill on the Antonine Wall, near Twechar in East Dunbartonshire. The fort is the highest of the 16 known forts along the Antonine Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
As ever, some fascinating choices on this year's Historic England list > www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Dragon’s teeth and elf garden among 2025 additions to English heritage list
Wartime defences in Surrey and model boat club boathouse in Birmingham among this year’s unusual listings
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A fascinating discovery from ancient Alexandria > www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If you're interested in #landscape #history and have a few hours tomorrow, do check out this free online conference run by the Society for Landscape Studies 👍
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Have you booked a free place yet at our 2025 online AGM and Conference on 6 December? Only eight days to go. Please share widely!
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Norwich Cathedral for #SteepleSaturday.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I think it's a single line, clockwise, spiralling out from the centre (dominant right hand?). But I'm going to have to have a go at drawing it later... 🤣 Whatever, it's confident, flowing.. one of those wonderful, very brief, moments in time that we rarely see... #Archaeology 🏺
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Walking in a woodland dell in Autumn. #SurreyHills #ForestFrday #Trees #Scape #Treescape #Landscape #Photography
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Was feeling a little hard done by with the 5am start & the close to 2 hours of driving in the complete darkness 😫 ...but wow did the Devon landscape come through 😳 I mean - absolutely incredible day to be out, despite the rather absurd round trip #Autumn
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you're interested in landscapes and landscape history, this online conference should be right up your street...
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Society for Landscape Studies @soclandstudies.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Members of the Society for Landscape Studies will have received their latest twice-yearly newsletter this week 📰 To start receiving a copy, why not join the society? Full details can be found at www.landscapestudies.com/membership/. Please share with anyone you think would be interested.
The front page of the latest newsletter of the Society for Landscape Studies
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship #historyofthebook #bookhistory
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I have the first edition and it is fascinating. Will definitely be picking up this updated version www.edp24.co.uk/news/2545714...
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How can it be that we lost so many grand old houses in Norfolk?
The landmark houses are gone but the memories live on in a very special book which has been republished in a revised edition with an additional 25…
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JA_BB @jabb.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
🎨: Daryl V. Storrs, "Italian Landscape"
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
In Woolwich for a couple of days. Here's a piece of local history in the form of the first McDonald's to open in England
The first McDonald's to open in England. This is in WoolwichA descriptive plaque about this branch of McDonald's
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
UK sculptor Barbara Hepworth's garden, St.Ives, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt
Garden with large bronze geometric scultures amongst trees and flowering plants
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
For those of you who know the history of Norfolk villages, Tempsford sounds like it's going to become the 21st-century version of Melton Constable > www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘We have to move’: historic village of Tempsford reels from plan to swell its 600 residents to 350,000
Bedfordshire village endured the Romans and the Danes – but can it survive housebuilders and a plan to turn it into a railway hub?
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Latin and AI. Two of my favorite subjects. What a fascinating article > www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians
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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Scorhill stone circle is now the common name for Gidleigh or Steep Hill stone circle near the village of Gidleigh in the north east of Dartmoor. It dates to the Bronze Age and is 27 metres in diameter.eter. It has 23 standing and 11 recumbent stones. #StandingStoneSunday
The stone circle
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hey #Landscape fans. Do you have the latest copy of Landscape History yet? Mine dropped through the letterbox this morning. Weekend reading coming up!
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
#HillfortsFriday Why can't every day be a Hillforts 🛖 day? 🤔🧐 Glorious Old Oswestry hillfort, #Shropshire, yesterday, seen on a return transit from north-east Wales during Royal Commission aerial survey. Note 'responsive' fields showing geological cropmarks 📷 Mobile phone from the cockpit
A Hillfort from the air in a summer landscape of ripening fields
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Couldn't drive through Northamptonshire without stopping to marvel at the phenomenal Saxon tower of All Saints' church in Earls Barton...
The Saxon tower View of All Saints' church
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sometimes the cover art of a book just makes you want to read it! #classic #sciencefiction
Two classic science fiction novels with aliens on one cover and a robot on the other
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We saw "Ocean" yesterday. A very difficult watch but a very important one all the same. The destruction caused by deep trawling is unimaginable and should make people think twice. Luckily there is still some hope, if we could only agree to change our ways... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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Ocean with David Attenborough review – a passionate case against the ruination of the seas
Released on his 99th birthday and presented in the context of his remarkable career, Sir David’s authority is matched only by nature’s grandeur in this visually stunning film
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Wildflower strips in orchards attract insects that eat pests, reducing crop damage and cutting pesticide use. The savings can be significant, especially in bad aphid years. 🌸
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The flower fix: how nature could slash farm costs
Planting wildflowers between apple trees could save UK farmers up to £3,000 per hectare per year
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Death cuts the thread of life at the Asamkirche in Munich. An absolutely stunning #mementomori
A golden figure of Death cuts the thread of life
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A direct quote from this fascinating article - "...the first commodity to be exported across the entire continent in British history." Well worth a read > www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼 The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.
The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On the left side, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. On the right side, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Want to learn more about #gulls? Have a listen to @nationaltrust.org.uk's podcast featuring BTO's @violars.bsky.social and Youth Rep @myabambrick.bsky.social who delve into the ecology and behaviour of these fascinating #birds!
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Wild Tales nature podcast
Introducing Wild Tales, the new National Trust podcast for nature lovers. These episodes will transport you around our weird, wonderful and utterly wild world.
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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A very interesting 'Long Read' article in today's #Guardian > www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
The narrative of ancient tribes around the world regularly using ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in healing practices is a popular one. Is it true?
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peeweesky.bsky.social @peeweesky.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#trees #photography #spring Ancient oaks in spring showing they're still alive and kicking
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