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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – should be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the #C19th
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Faded 19th-century sepia photograph of Hugh Miller. He is standing, dressed in workman's overalls, his shirt-sleeves rolled up. He has bushy hair and large sideburns, and his left elbow is propped up on a carved gravestone. His right hand rests on a large stonemason's maul, and he holds a chisel in his left hand.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 10 - Urn

A lovely urn with a ribbon on the grave of Susan Brown and her 4 children. The grave even has a footstone with their initials.

Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia

A large gravestone in the Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The top of the grave features an urn with a ribbon tied in a bow at the top of the urn. Below that the inscription reads:

Sacred
To the Memory of
Susan Mary
Wife of
Robert M. Brown
Who departed this life 8th July 1841
Aged 37 Years
Also their Children
Thomas W Brown died 7th Dec 1826
Aged 2 Years 1 Month & 21 Days
Joanna Maria Brown died 20th March 1828
Aged 1 Year 8 Months & 23 Days
Elizabeth Mary Brown died 1st Novbr 1831
Aged 1 Year 7 Months

(This part is cut off from this picture but the rest of the inscription reads:
Charles Brown died 28th Sept 1840
Aged 21 Days)

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10: Urn #31daysofgraves One of my favourite graveside accoutrements, the urn, which comes in many guises, from the classical urn carrier, as shown below in Kirkmichael Burial Ground, Resolis, to the 'plonky on top' additions (a technical term 😉)

#cemetery #grave #death #archaeology #history

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 10 urn. The Learmonth family grave at Osmondwall (Ousna), South Walls #Orkney. They were from the Lyness area in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims but there was no kirkyard there until the later 1910s. (Top cut off due to focus on inscription.🤦🏻)

White painted gravestone with a draped urn on top in a grassy kirkyard with wooden gate and stone wall in the background. Inscription on gravestone reads: Erected in loving memory of Margaret Robertson wife of Henry Learmonth who died 26th March 1914 aged 68 years. Also their children William Henry who died 18th May 1878 aged 7 years, Margaret Jane who died 14th June aged 18 years, and the above Henry Learmonth who died 7th March 1921 aged 78 years.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves day 10 - urn. Here’s an urn (or two?) in the background at Kinbrace, #Sutherland I took the photo for the row of Post Office worker photos in the foreground.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Was wondering how things were going at Kilmarnock. Shame that a could-be-well-used place seems to have so many issues.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think it’s any advance at all, confusing picture.

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Charles Barr @charlesbarr.bsky.social · 2d

How bad is so called journalism?
Was it as bad back in the day? Or do we only now have the ways of showing up their agenda.

This took me two mins to find out the WM approval rates.

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 7: Angel
An unmissable opportunity to share the stunningly beautiful angel who watches over the grave of suffragette Henria Helen Leech Williams in #CathcartCemetery. A place of pilgrimage, adorned with the purple, green & white ribbons of the #WSPU. May she rest in peace.

A stone angel, seated atop the grave monument of the Williams family, in the beautiful woodland surrounds of the overgrown Cathcart Cemetery on the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.

A wider view of the imposing grave monument of the Williams family - three large inscribed stone panels with plinths and pediments, above which is a seated angel perhaps three metres tall, the whole structure being perhaps six metres or more in height - surrounded by the lush vegetation of the overgrown Cathcart Cemetery on the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.
A daughter of the family, Henria Helen Leech WIlliams, was a suffragette and an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She died on 2 January 1911, two months after the 'Black Friday' demonstration. The grave is adorned with purple, green and white ribbons, the colours of WSPU, and remains a place of pilgrimage and inspiration.

At the foot of the grave monument of suffragette Henria Helen Leech WIlliams, a sign bearing a quotation:
"She knowingly and willingly shortened her days in rendering services to the womanhood of the nation."
There are also ribbons in purple, green and white, the colours of the Women's Social & Politial Union (WSPU).

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves day 9 - hand. Knight’s hands holding a sword, grave slab Kildalton, Islay.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysofGraves: Day9: Hand. Clasped hands can symbolise unity or reconnection between two people after death. We don't have many types of these at Warriston, but this celtic knot work stone is a nice example. #Edinburgh #celticknot #Warriston #taphophile

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LizD @bibby4.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9 Hand: At Lempitlaw in the Scottish Borders a hand holds a set of scales presumably for the weighing of souls on the day of judgment.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

Holm in #Orkney Scotland. Pronounced Ham if it’s the parish and Home if it’s a small island eg Holm of Houton ( pronounced Home of Howton).

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social · 3d

Today is Day 8 of #31DaysofGraves and the prompt is 'glass'. This is a 1911 postcard by Tom Kent, showing the grave of RN rating Arthur Sartin covered in glass 'immortelles' - domes filled with ceramic flowers. The other image is the same spot today.

A wooden cross surrounded by stone grave markers and green grass.

A sepia photo of a grave covered in glass domes that are filled with ceramic flowers.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately no Lochcarron Kirk Session minutes appear to have survived for the likely period so no obvious way to check.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 5d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 5d

It is indeed. Once I saw the grave, several years ago, I had to get the back story. Could have been a forgotten woman. Guessing the wooden marker is still maintained. The minister Lachlan Mackenzie seems to have written a booklet about her archive.org/details/fast...

Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation : Scott, Hew : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes indexes

archive.org

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 5d

Reposted today as the Scotsman headlines 'Child poverty target set to be missed by 'large margin' and ignores this:

Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 6d

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/05/c...

Child poverty in ‘UK’ soars to almost 50% higher than in Scotland with gap only likely to widen and a resulting increase of dying young

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this: Published in Nursing Practice of 29 September 2025, One-third of UK children grow up in poverty with higher risk of dying youn…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6 - Gender. Ceit Mhor (Big Kate) a simple wooden two-word memorial at Lochcarron Old Kirkyard, Ross & Cromarty, #Scotland. Died sometime 1780s-1819. More about her: www.wicketgate.co.uk/issue64/e64_...

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Anne Kramer @annekramer.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysOfGraves
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Zentralfriedhof Berlin-Friedrichsfelde
Irmtraud Morgner (1933 – 1990) was a magnificent writer who consistently fought against gender hierarchies, was not well-regarded in the GDR, struggled with censorship, but did not want to leave East Berlin. May her books be immortal!

Black gravestone: "IRMTRAUD MORGNER *22.8.1933 - 6.5.1990". Lots of Lilly of the Vally flowers in front of the grav.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 5d

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · Mar 14

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 6d

We still carve turnips (neeps) in Scotland though pumpkins are in the majority. Another transatlantic import.

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