Becky @becky@sunbeam.city

Thanks for all the boosts re looking for good books on The Picts.

For those interested, here are the ones either recommended to me or which I've since come across and look good. I've just listed 3 more recent books, since it will have the latest research and theories.

1. The Picts: a history, by Tim Clarkson. This was recommended to me and I'm halfway through it and it's pretty good. It has a really interesting alternative theory on the Dal Riadian Scots (that I want to see what other historians say!). Mostly easy to read. Go for 2012 or 2016 editions, as includes updates that come out after the 2008 edition.

2. The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, by Gordon Noble & Nicholas Evans (2019) https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Gordon-Noble/The-King-in-the-North--The-Pictish-Realms-of-Fortriu-and-Ce/23592381 which is a series of essays of the most recent research, including archaeological. Not recommended, just one I found that interested me.

3. The Picts Re-Imagined by Julianna Grigg (2018). Only a short book (120 pages), but apparently brings together recent research https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1641890916/? (not available on Hive except as an eBook). Also one that just interested me.

#History #Picts #Scotland

@CornishRepublicanArmy no I'm not going full anprim I'll just be stopping technological advancement somewhere arbitrarily medieval

one of these days "the Luddites were right" will be found written in blood on my garage door and I will have vanished without a trace

Map of current Africa over if each people was independent http://dlvr.it/RdZh6z

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Today is Earth Overshoot Day.

Today, we used up all the resources which Earth can produce this year. The resources of Earth, used after this day, are unsustainable.

Today is only 64% of the way through the year.

We need to fix this.

#theskytoday featuring the moon again 💜

white men stop assuming your zero knowledge opinion matters even slightly or that anyone even wants to hear it challenge 2020

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Welsh planners turn down cycle cafe for lack of car parking spaces

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/21/welsh-planners-turn-down-cycle-cafe-for-lack-of-car-parking-spaces

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Feminism-
Appropriating
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or, "FART."

I think about this a lot.