Katherine Mackinnon
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
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The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 AM
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
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Dick Gaughan with 'Now Westlin Winds' or 'Song Composed on August' by Robert Burns.
Dick Gaughan - Now Westlin Winds
YouTube video by 76AMD
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January 25, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Dick Gaughan with 'Now Westlin Winds' or 'Song Composed on August' by Robert Burns.
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This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology
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With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
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CRER published an article on this day in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Glasgow race riots.
Seven years on, the comparison to today's hostile anti-migration environment feels even more relevant.
www.crer.org.uk/blog/lessons...
Seven years on, the comparison to today's hostile anti-migration environment feels even more relevant.
www.crer.org.uk/blog/lessons...
www.crer.org.uk
January 23, 2026 at 1:15 PM
CRER published an article on this day in 2019 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Glasgow race riots.
Seven years on, the comparison to today's hostile anti-migration environment feels even more relevant.
www.crer.org.uk/blog/lessons...
Seven years on, the comparison to today's hostile anti-migration environment feels even more relevant.
www.crer.org.uk/blog/lessons...
Love this brilliant walking tour zine on land agitators and protest in 1880s Portree by @graceq22.bsky.social! archive.org/details/plot...
Plotting the Protest: Portree : Grace Wright : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A walking tour zine of Portree in the Isle of Skye, exploring the political and social networks involved in the organisation and policing of land agitation...
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January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Love this brilliant walking tour zine on land agitators and protest in 1880s Portree by @graceq22.bsky.social! archive.org/details/plot...
Give the people (me), what they want, a large mural in Glasgow City Cente of Coatbridge-born Margaret Skinnider - maths teacher in Lambhill, fighter in the Easter Rising, lesbian feminist icon.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Give the people (me), what they want, a large mural in Glasgow City Cente of Coatbridge-born Margaret Skinnider - maths teacher in Lambhill, fighter in the Easter Rising, lesbian feminist icon.
Glasgow stop painting atrocious murals challenge
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Glasgow stop painting atrocious murals challenge
Great to see this!
It's the centenary of the wonderful Agnes Owens' birth this year. Her books are being reissued & a satellite archive has officially opened within the Alasdair Gray archive. I spoke to her son, John, & wrote about this "most unfairly neglected of Scottish authors" in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social.
Finally, recognition for 'unfairly neglected' Scottish author Agnes Owens
Writer Agnes Owens was once seen as “part of a golden age of Scottish literature,” and influenced younger writers, including Janice Galloway,…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Great to see this!
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Even when frost hasn’t left the hard ground rutted by the wheels of tractors
Even though tail lights clog the motorway
Even though the moon still stands blind and cold in the morning sky…
—William Letford, “Waking for Work in the Winter”
from BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
Even though tail lights clog the motorway
Even though the moon still stands blind and cold in the morning sky…
—William Letford, “Waking for Work in the Winter”
from BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
January 19, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Even when frost hasn’t left the hard ground rutted by the wheels of tractors
Even though tail lights clog the motorway
Even though the moon still stands blind and cold in the morning sky…
—William Letford, “Waking for Work in the Winter”
from BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
Even though tail lights clog the motorway
Even though the moon still stands blind and cold in the morning sky…
—William Letford, “Waking for Work in the Winter”
from BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
Buzzing to see Felipe Bustos Sierra's new film Everybody to Kenmure Street - the opening film at @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social! www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/openin...
Glasgow Film | Website
ScotlandTEMPLATE_SITE_DESCRIPTION#39;s original independent cinema and the home of film in Glasgow.
www.glasgowfilm.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Buzzing to see Felipe Bustos Sierra's new film Everybody to Kenmure Street - the opening film at @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social! www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/openin...
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Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
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Look what happened at the exhibition!! I'm delighted to see this wee piece of magic happen. You never know what might come from putting yourself, your ideas, or your work out there! ✨️🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Glasgow
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Look what happened at the exhibition!! I'm delighted to see this wee piece of magic happen. You never know what might come from putting yourself, your ideas, or your work out there! ✨️🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Glasgow
I like a wee project - see last year's 3m long data visualisation of every book I read in the form of a knitted snake. This year I've a few on the go, one is to watch a Sammo Hung film every Sunday night. Finest of the three dragons by a mile!
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I like a wee project - see last year's 3m long data visualisation of every book I read in the form of a knitted snake. This year I've a few on the go, one is to watch a Sammo Hung film every Sunday night. Finest of the three dragons by a mile!
Another chance for Glaswegians to see the brilliant political and musical posters of Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll, at the Concert Hall for the duration of Celtic Connections: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/Glaswe...
Glaswegians: Posterworks & Campaigns 1983 to 1993 - Street Level Photoworks
Street Level provides inspiring encounters in art photography locally and internationally; a creative setting to exhibit, produce, participate, and buy photography.
www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Another chance for Glaswegians to see the brilliant political and musical posters of Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll, at the Concert Hall for the duration of Celtic Connections: www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/Glaswe...
Incredibly craven response today from my MP who I contacted about the hunger strikers in mid-Dec. The second they're off hunger strike this coward's emailing me a load of meaningless shit about how prisoners should eat, there’s policies in place for dealing w people who refuse food. Truly pathetic
January 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Incredibly craven response today from my MP who I contacted about the hunger strikers in mid-Dec. The second they're off hunger strike this coward's emailing me a load of meaningless shit about how prisoners should eat, there’s policies in place for dealing w people who refuse food. Truly pathetic
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Saints Kentigern (left) and Columba (right) giving it their all in a famous no-holds-barred saint-off by the Molendinar.
[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]
[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]
January 13, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Saints Kentigern (left) and Columba (right) giving it their all in a famous no-holds-barred saint-off by the Molendinar.
[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]
[Stained glass by Lorraine Lamond in St Alphonsus at the Barras.]
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✨ Agnes Owens Centenary ✨
2026 marks Agnes Owens’ centenary, with AGA’s first satellite archive and Birlinn reissuing all her books with new introductions. New editions publish May & Sept 2026. Follow @aowensarchive.bsky.social to find out more!
2026 marks Agnes Owens’ centenary, with AGA’s first satellite archive and Birlinn reissuing all her books with new introductions. New editions publish May & Sept 2026. Follow @aowensarchive.bsky.social to find out more!
January 10, 2026 at 8:07 AM
✨ Agnes Owens Centenary ✨
2026 marks Agnes Owens’ centenary, with AGA’s first satellite archive and Birlinn reissuing all her books with new introductions. New editions publish May & Sept 2026. Follow @aowensarchive.bsky.social to find out more!
2026 marks Agnes Owens’ centenary, with AGA’s first satellite archive and Birlinn reissuing all her books with new introductions. New editions publish May & Sept 2026. Follow @aowensarchive.bsky.social to find out more!
Academic pals: do any of YOU want $150 of (print only) SAGE books? Or know of useful ways these daft credits can be spent? My uni library couldn't take them and I'm keen to use up my ""pay""
Academic pals: have any of you read anything really good published by Sage? I've got a $150 credit for their books and would love a steer on what's worth getting
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Academic pals: do any of YOU want $150 of (print only) SAGE books? Or know of useful ways these daft credits can be spent? My uni library couldn't take them and I'm keen to use up my ""pay""
Great sky in Glasgow today
January 7, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Great sky in Glasgow today
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#OtD 7 Jan 1920 British print worker and anarcho-syndicalist, Albert Meltzer (pictured, left), was born. During his life, he took part in the Battle of Cable Street and provided support for imprisoned members of the postwar anti-Franco resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...
January 7, 2026 at 8:25 AM
#OtD 7 Jan 1920 British print worker and anarcho-syndicalist, Albert Meltzer (pictured, left), was born. During his life, he took part in the Battle of Cable Street and provided support for imprisoned members of the postwar anti-Franco resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...
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If you don’t get the print version, my Tribune article on the Merseyside WLM is now available to read for free online:
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...
January 7, 2026 at 8:56 AM
If you don’t get the print version, my Tribune article on the Merseyside WLM is now available to read for free online:
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/the-...
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This is my song.
"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen."
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
January 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is my song.
@nigella.bsky.social Nigella thanks for your outstanding chocolate pistachio fudge recipe - I made loads of it this year and handed it out to all my pals, colleagues, the guys in the paper shop etc. Universally enjoyed. Thanks for all you do and hope you have a smashing Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@nigella.bsky.social Nigella thanks for your outstanding chocolate pistachio fudge recipe - I made loads of it this year and handed it out to all my pals, colleagues, the guys in the paper shop etc. Universally enjoyed. Thanks for all you do and hope you have a smashing Christmas 🎄