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Robert Longo: hard to take

Little Sparta has sustained devastating destruction in the wake of Storm Eowyn. This January, we are asking for your help and donations to our urgent Storm Eowyn Damage Appeal. Read our January 2025 newsletter here mailchi.mp/01f05f97a978/j…

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Outer Hebrides Heritage Services are looking for photographs of emigrants for an exhibition to be held in June. Do you have photos of ancestors who emigrated from Lewis, Harris, Uist, Benbecula or Barra? Details: outerhebridesheritage.org.uk/discover/call-…

Dear Condé Nast , you certainly would have a long walk to the beach in Lewis from the Isle of Skye . . .

Lovely to see the tartan we commissioned as a living memorial to be shared so widely. Please follow @witchesofscotland for details of the campaign, our podcast, the thinking behind the tartan and how you can get a hold of some very soon. 🖤

This beautiful book was hand-painted by Sophia MacKenzie in the late 18th-century. She is thought to have taken the book to Kew and worked from life! 🌿 Find out more about this remarkable object and its creator at this free talk on 4 March: bit.ly/41fIdtj

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini, Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський! Scotland stands with Ukraine.

The Irish language has been spoken for the first time in the history of Prime Minister's Questions in the British House of Commons rte.ie/news/2025/0312…

“He wondered if insulting each other’s cars was something Irish people still did. Or had it ever been?”

Today I fulfilled a long-held ambition. I visited the wilds of upper Glen Lyon to see the pagan shrine which houses stones used in the only Celtic ritual in Europe that survives in its original form, possibly since the Bronze Age (1200 B.C.). 1/5

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The late 17th century cut paper herbarium of Johann Christoph Ende (Insel, ed. Renate Schipke).

Gaelic might come in very very handy for social media posts these days.

Phone Box of The Day: Finsbay, Isle of Harris. Pic: Judith Davies

I was at a posh art gala tonight and spotted a guy in a kilt, so had to ask him what the tartan was. Answer; Comme des Garçons.

On a personal note, I’ve never had a more entertaining lunch than the one with Marcel Ophuls when he accepted an invitation to Penn. One funny anecdote after the other about all the luminaries - and not so luminary - of the film world.

Deadline July 1! Submissions open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on our website!

I suspect (am not certain) that this lovely Edwardian photograph was by Etheldreda Laing (1872-1960), a gifted amateur photographer, renowned for her images of daily life at the family home, Bury Knowle House, in Oxford. She was particularly fond of photographing hollyhocks.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what AI has to say.