The Diggers - England's First Labour Movement
This is, in many ways, the story of England’s first ever green labour movement. In April 1649, witch hunts are stirring up around the country. Civil war has caused political upheaval, and poor weather have led to crop failures, and rising food prices. On St George's hill in Surrey, a group of people begin to plant food...
Historical Sites; Fiction; and the Parasocial
Nae Haverin'
Straight talking arts and culture education for everyone.
The North Berwick Witch Trials - Witch Trial Wednesday
A Road Trip of Northumberland History and Churches
A guide to exploring Northumberland's heritage and churches
101 Ideas For A New Town
Witch Trial Wednesday - The Witchcraft Acts
THE WITCHCRAFT ACTS of Scotland and England were very, very different beasts. They came from different places; written by different people with similar but different goals - and whilst they both ended in plenty of innocent blood being shed, they were not identical.
The Poor Clares of Ancroft
How a community of exiled nuns found sanctuary at Haggerston Castle - and how many now rest together in the sleepy hamlet of Ancroft.
Gender Based Violence In Online Spaces
All of these attacks rested more on my appearance as a young woman than on anything I was actually saying. They worked off the patriarchal assumption that my only purpose, the greatest insult you could throw at me, was that I was unattractive and not fulfilling my “role” as a woman.
The Body Electric/Lost Thoughts
THE BODY ELECTRIC//LOST THOUGHTS is an experimental sound piece made in collaboration with Aberdeen based producer drymouth.
Scotland Has A Problem - Our Heritage Is Burning
There seems to be some combination of the following at play - a distant or off-shore owner, a lack of oversight, a Listed Building, planning permission applications, and then a fire.
The question must be, why?
The question must be, why?
After Slaughter Supper 2023
Digital woodcut print from archived National Geographic Magazines - shown in the RSA Summer Show 2024
Kept in Suspense: On Occupying Aerial Space
Humans have an ancient fascination with those who can perform superhuman acts.
We’ve taken the idea of a human who could fly, and worshipped them as gods, named celestial bodies after them, and written odysseys about their achievements,
relationships and mythical lives. As a species, we do not seem satisfied with merely
walking the Earth, we want to occupy the space above our heads too.
We’ve taken the idea of a human who could fly, and worshipped them as gods, named celestial bodies after them, and written odysseys about their achievements,
relationships and mythical lives. As a species, we do not seem satisfied with merely
walking the Earth, we want to occupy the space above our heads too.
The Town Is The Venue
The North East of Scotland has many location-
specific problems, the most pressing of which is the
unusually high suicide rate in that area.
specific problems, the most pressing of which is the
unusually high suicide rate in that area.
Which self are you today?
Modern Renaissance
While in many ways we can say there is very little change between the modern day desire to be perceived in a certain way, and the Renaissance and Neo-Classical desire to be seen in a certain way, there are of course important societal and cultural differences.
Women take more "selfies" than men, and generally post them more for validation from their female friends than
from potential romantic interests.
Women take more "selfies" than men, and generally post them more for validation from their female friends than
from potential romantic interests.
Essays + Other Pieces
Everything is so, so very heavy just now.
It’s been this way for weeks. As if gravity now pulls at my bones, my hair, my flesh, at a greater rate than it used to. As if I am being pulled down, sucked to the face of the Earth with nowhere to go and no means to move.
The increased gravity affects my thoughts.
It’s as if my thoughts pour through my mind like molasses, slow…slow, and then creeping, creeping through my brain cells, electric circuit after electric circuit until suddenly the...
It’s been this way for weeks. As if gravity now pulls at my bones, my hair, my flesh, at a greater rate than it used to. As if I am being pulled down, sucked to the face of the Earth with nowhere to go and no means to move.
The increased gravity affects my thoughts.
It’s as if my thoughts pour through my mind like molasses, slow…slow, and then creeping, creeping through my brain cells, electric circuit after electric circuit until suddenly the...
Witchfinder/ ArtMag
In her first Edinburgh solo exhibition since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, Megan Bellatrix Archibald is showing a series of linoprints inspired by the Edinburgh witchcraft trials of the 16th century
People of Print: Megan Bellatrix Archibald
Megan Bellatrix Archibald is a relief printmaker, primarily working in linocut and woodcut printmaking. She goes back and forth between hand printing her work, and using the facilities at Glasgow Print Studio and Peacock Visual Arts. Megan studied Contemporary Art Practice at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, before going on to postgraduate study at Edinburgh College of Art.
About Me
Writer + researcher of medieval and early modern history. Interested in spaces, and how we interact with them. Georges Perec's biggest fan.