Orkney's story started with hunter-gatherers some 10,000 years ago. This discovery of a long-lost past is due in particular to Caroline-Wickham Jones. Prof. Richard Bates and Prof. Martin Bates from the Rising Tides project team describe her work, including investigations in the Bay of Firth and the Stenness and Harray Lochs.
Are current global crises taking us into the territory where science fiction turns into reality? Back in the 1990s when historians looked to a peacful and prosperous future, Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod was forecasting a much grittier world ahead. What does he think of the present day, and how does he now see the future?
Ecological gardener Elizabeth Woodcock describes how we can help our garden soil restore a healthy microbiome. Ethnobotanical researcher Anna Canning outlines some of the linkages between soil, plants and human health, and simple steps we can all take to sustain them.
