Did the Picts have it all figured out? Where did Hadrian learn to build walls? When will Nat reference another Doctor Who episode? We're exploring all this and more (mostly more) on this week's episode about The Picts with special guest, award-winning Screenwriter, Jillian Mannion.
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Jillian Mannion is a screenwriter with over 20 hours of broadcast television for BBC. She studied English and History at university before winning a Donald Dewar Arts Award for Creative Writing and going on to Vancouver Film School where she studied Writing for Film and TV, receiving awards in Academics, Professionalism and Script Analysis. She is currently a mentee on Women in Film and Television UK's 4 Nations Mentoring programm where she is being mentored by British screenwriter Sally Wainwright. Since her time at university she has continued to study and have a major interest in Scottish history.
Link to Jillian’s short film, Young Offender, on YouTube
Rhynie - Archaeological Investigation (video)
Tribes of Scotland c. 150 per Ptolemy’s map
Artist’s depiction of St. Columba converting the Picts
Pictish bull carving
Pictish stone
Pictish warrior with drinking horn carving
Pictish depiction of battle of Dun Nechtain
Kin Kenneth MacAlpin (Kenneth I)
Hadrian’s Wall
Still from “Eaters Of Light” - Doctor Who episode Nat references
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“BBC - Scotland’s History - The Kingdom of the Picts.” BBC, 11 Dec. 2009, www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/articles/kingdom_of_the_picts.
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---. Pagan Symbols of the Picts. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
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Melisende. “Pictish Women.” Women of History, 4 Aug. 2021, womenofhistory.blogspot.com/2008/10/pictish-women.html.
“The Northern Picts Project | School of Geosciences | The University of Aberdeen.” The University of Aberdeen, 2020, www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/archaeology/the-northern-picts-project-259.php.
Ross, Shân. “One in Ten Scots Men Descended from Picts.” The Scotsman, 25 Mar. 2013, www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/one-ten-scots-men-descended-picts-1583551.
Sutherland, Elizabeth. In Search Of The Picts: A Celtic Dark Age People (Celtic Interest). Trade Paperback Later Printing, Constable, 1995.
University of Bradford. “Coastal Picts Did Not Eat Fish, Research Shows.” University of Bradford, 6 May 2020, www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2020/coastal-picts-did-not-eat-fish-research-shows.php.
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