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Silverwhistle

Silverwhistle

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Middle-aged, female, got formal diagnosis only last year but have suspected for some time before. Glad to have found 'my tribe'.
I'm basically an academic (historian/art historian), with a strong interest in literature and leading a hand-to-mouth existence on temporary contracts in academic admin in Scotland.
 
Thanks! I identify as a European first and foremost.
My life, like my family, has been spread pretty evenly between Scotland and Yorkshire. I've been fixated on history, archaeology. art and literature from childhood. I was brought up on Greek, Norse, Persian and Arthurian mythology, studied Latin, Greek, French and some Italian at school, later some Spanish and Russian, and sing a bit in Occitan. I was bullied a lot at school because my interests weren't the kind of thing that went down well on Hull council estates, but flourished at university and realise that, essentially, my 'home' is old university towns anywhere. I know how they work, and how to slot into life. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a foot in the door for a permanent academic job, so I subsist on the fringes: research project here. admin there. I've written and published on a range of subjects and, at 51, am trying to get a bit more of my old enthusiasm back, post-diagnosis.
 
Welcome here, Silverwhistle! :) I'm happy you've joined us. I hope you feel very much at home here.
 
Hi & Welcome,
Fascinating subjects. I hope some reliable employment comes your way .

I am lifelong history hobbiest, which has turned more towards archeology in recent decades. I faithfully follow all the digs I can.

Are you familar with the excavations at Fin Cop?
 
I've heard of it. I love human archaeology/palaeopathology. Dead and fictional people are easier to get on with than live ones.
 
Well yes, I suppose that's true. Napoleon was an arrogant liar but I don't have to put up with it when studying him. Palae... the second one I had to look up. :D

I read a historical fiction about a woman archeologist who was sent back in time to study the the black plague. But she an a co-worker or someone similar had been exposed to to a another medieval plague just prior when they opened a very sealed crypt. They both got deathly ill, and while the one started a full blown plague in the modern time, she became ill immediately upon arrival in the middle ages. But the medieval people where familar with the 'Blue Plague' and knew how to treat it.
 
Welcome aboard :)
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Silverwhistle said:
Middle-aged, female, got formal diagnosis only last year but have suspected for some time before. Glad to have found 'my tribe'.
I'm basically an academic (historian/art historian), with a strong interest in literature and leading a hand-to-mouth existence on temporary contracts in academic admin in Scotland.
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hello I love art history, and Literature as well. I am an artist my self
 
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