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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃

@sarahdunnigan.bsky.social
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hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her

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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Delighred this is out in the world today! 🌱The fruits of a long collaboration with wonderful colleagues on women's poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400-1800 #scottishliterature www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology
Cambridge Core - Literary Texts - Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
PLEASE SHARE | GRAY DAY 2026: Reimagined Glasgow—45 Years of Lanark. 25 Feb 2026, 7–10pm, Òran Mór, Glasgow. Hosted by Josie Long. New writing by Rachelle Atalla & Alan Bissett + new animations. In partnership with @canongate.co.uk Tickets: link in bio.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 07/01/2026
Once upon a time, there was an ogress who lived on the North Berwickshire coast, & she managed to scare even the king of fairies before marrying the devil himself… —Dr Sarah Dunnigan on the supernatural feminine in early Scottish literature #WyrdWednesday www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/11/from...
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From Fairy Queens to Ogresses: Female Enchanters in Early Scottish Literature - The Bottle Imp
Once upon a time, according to an anonymous sixteenth-century Scots poem, there was an ogress who lived on the North Berwickshire coast, and she managed to scare even the king of fairies before marryi...
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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Alasdair Gray Archive is a living archive: kept warm through engagement. Meaning grows through access, research, creativity, education and collaboration—inviting new readings and artworks while honouring the past.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thank you!
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SELCIE @selcie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We're so looking forward to this!🧡 Please RT & share widely!
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
After the rain the garden feels so replenished 💚
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Rose ruffles 💜
Deep crimson layers of rose petals on a single stem.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Softness 🌿
Single stem soft pink rose bud in the garden.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Brightness 💛
Ox-eye daisy in the foreground of a large green field.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Lilac hues 💜
Different lilac flower hues against a green fence with a single teasel in the foreground.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 12/05/2025
Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff. We are *already* short of over 150k carers. Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS. It's madness.
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Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A wee blog about early modern dogs which I wrote for @edinburghup.bsky.social 🐕🐾 euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/12/m...
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Man’s best friend? Dogs in the records of early modern Scotland - Edinburgh University Press Blog
From royal gifts to diabolic manifestations, Nicole Maceira Cumming explores the varied ways dogs appear in the historical record...
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
That comforting tap-tap at the window 💜🐦
Close-up of a little blue tit at a window bird feeder with a background of trees and a window hanger of stained-glass style poppies.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Rest 🧡
Image shows a narrow brown/orange dragonfly resting on a pink watering can with some green seedlings in leaf in the foreground.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The moon is lovely tonight 🤍
Little moon in a mauve blue sky high above two dark silhouetted trees.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Horse chestnut flowers for the first Sunday of May. This beautiful old tree is laden far and wide with these bright candles 🌿💛
A close-up of horse chestnut flowers in waxy cream, pink and yellow.Long distance shot of horse chestnut tree, branches spread to the ground with flowers.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
So glad you all enjoyed it! Can't quite believe this is actually open now! 💚🌿 #naturenurture
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Grass and greenworld all together' - Hopkins, 'The May Magnificat' 💚🌿
Image shows a little bridge over a river with reflections of overhanging leaves and branches.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A sprig of garden lilac for precious #MayDay 💜🌿
Image of a lilacsprig, with some flowers opened, some in bud, against a green leaf background.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Rain and birdsong in the wee garden 🌿
Image shows a small garden, with geum, lilac and eryssium in the forefront; a bird table and a pink/green garden shed in the background.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Iris 💙
A glass vase of blue/purple iris against a blue painting of a dog and a green wall. A heart shaped ornament hangs above.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
'the peace of wild things' - Wendell Berry 💚
Wee sparrow looking at crumbs by a wooden table.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The lilac is coming into flower now 💜
Image shows a stem of lilac buds.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This grief is making the greening and the beauty of the woods even more vivid 💚
Image shows a fallen tree amidst greenery and tall overhanging blossom.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Matthew G. Dunnigan. 14.7.31 - 18.4.25. My dearest, loveliest Dad, and a wonderful doctor all his life.
My Dad, Matthew, smiling, and sitting on a beach in sunshine in South Uist in 2003.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Wildflowers on Holy Island 🤍🌿
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Ainsley McIntosh @ainsley76.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
You can now sign up to attend the excellent Nature Nurture symposium organised by @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social. Details below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur...
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Nature Nurture: SELCIE Symposium
Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Little gold stars of the woods 💛
Image shows a cluster of bright yellow primroses in woodland.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So looking forward to this, tying in with @selcie.bsky.social new exhibition at Museum of Edinburgh opening May 1 💚
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Falling sunlight on our evening walk by a field near Duns 🤍🌿
Image of evening sunlight pouring through the clouds on a field in Allanton, near Duns.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The sugar pink cherry blossom is flowering in the wee garden 💗
Image shows a stem of two pink cherry blossoms in Sarah's garden.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Little white stars of the wood 🤍 First sight of anemones this spring, Flass Vale nature reserve, Durham.
Image shows a clump of white wood anemones in sunshine.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/04/2025
Scottish & Irish Gothic 11 April @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Papers from Christina Morin, @dalegothic96.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, & @claireconnolly.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scot...
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SWINC Scottish and Irish Gothic
Join us for a research event exploring Scottish and Irish Gothic literature.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New life 💚 #spring #budding #naturetherapy
Image of green shoots of new growth on a lilac tree in the spring sunshine.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Magnolia tree, Edinburgh Princes St Gardens, heavy with blooms 🤍
Image of flowering magnolia tree on Edinburgh's Princes Street.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In other news, all the peace lilies are starting to flower - simultaneously for the first time 🤍
Image of a peace lily flower stamen.
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Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is one to bookmark because it is comprehensive, updated regularly and helps us see the overall picture in UK university attrition.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is so moving - about dialect, culture, memory 💜https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cg5dn7101nlo
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The young musician aiming to preserve a Black Isle dialect
Musician Grace Stewart-Skinner is creating a music album to celebrate the fishing heritage of a Black Isle village
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George MacDonald - Reflections @gmd-reflections.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"I walked listlessly and almost hopelessly along, till I arrived one day at a small spring; which, bursting cool from the heart of a sun-heated rock, flowed somewhat southwards from the direction I had been taking. I drank of this spring, and found myself wonderfully refreshed..."
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A sky of early blossom 💙🌿
Fine blossom branches against a blue sky in Lauriston Castle Gardens, Edinburgh.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A wee bit blossomy in the garden this morning 💜
Four tiny newly opened cherry blossoms.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Between world book day & international women’s day, I want to say trans women are women, their womanhood is not in doubt or up for debate. Read the incredible books they are writing, buy their work if you can afford to, borrow it from libraries if you can’t. None of us are free until we are all free
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Cold and grey today but signs of new life everywhere in the wee garden 💜🌿 #spring #naturetherapy
Little pink primrose in the back garden.Cherry blossom buds.
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 22/02/2025
“The earth smiles snowdrops and crocuses to let us know that she will dance again as the light returns” The Lightbringers
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
At the edge of the woods, in sunlight 🧡
A clump of snowdrops at the edge of Cammo woods bathed in sunlight.
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Tiny white stars in the garden 🤍🌿
White squill in the corner of the garden.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Worship of Cats, created by Janet Parker, c.1966 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is the only surviving work by her & no biographical information is currently known to us
Painting in an untaught style of a giant black cat with green eyes and pink nose seated on a blue and turquoise podium being worshipped by a white woman with long black hair in a pale blue dress under a yellow sky
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Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The birdsong seems louder and longer now in the late afternoon ❤️
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