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Margaret Brown

@magstheobscure.bsky.social

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Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · Mar 19

Pinned Post about my research.

The Tyrant of the Bar: The 1902 Glasgow Licensing Courts and the Barmaid Question

In 1902 Glasgow tried to prohibit barmaids. Read about the panic behind it, the legal realities and the working class women affected.

oro.open.ac.uk/100192/

A newspaper cartoon of a 1902 barmaid pouring a glass of beer while two men look on with consternation

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 4h

Was the MS war related? Who the fuck knows but she got it and lived with it back in the day, you know before grifters say things like MS even existed.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 5h

I think people forget about the women. But my G-grandma who essentially raised my mum had half her hand blown off in WW2. Then got multiple sclerosis.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 5h

I got a Mobility Wheelchair for my birthday (and Xmas, and next birthday & Xmas).

It allows me greater freedom in terms of being able to get into town, city or to the local shops.

As long as there aren't any stairs.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 5h

I joke, but yeah I was super lucky/unlucky to acquire a condition that Edinburgh Neurologly was the foremost leader in.

You can't cure it, you can only mitigate against it.

And I'm not a Robin Redbreast in a Cage.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, that's as maybe but I got treated by the foremost expert in my condition, so I don't know what journal my experience has been badly manalged in.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 6h

FAO @moviessilently.bsky.social

I don't have a freezer big enough to save all those lovely, lovely squashes.

I also remember the massive crop failure that almost destroyed them all.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 6h

I was in Tesco today and when were going to the till I noticed the "Novelty Pumpkin"

You know what "Novelty Pumpkins" are? They are the rarer squashes. They were being sold as novelty carvers instead of aa food.

These things taste amazing, proper full flavour.

I mourned

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 6h

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 7h

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Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret

YouTube video by HistoryFlicks4u

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 8h

But honestly if you want good quality up to date information on the art world in the UK and a solid discussion then this podcast is brilliant.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 8h

Finally catching up with Waldy and @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social.

And I'm now convinced that the NG should sell those benches and use them to buy some decent practical mobility chairs.

Those terrible folding stools are useless if you walk with a stick. Can't carry it and use the damn stick.