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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 · 7h

Eva - You're going to need more cucumber than that.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 9h

Why is Liverpool obsessed with this obscure Rogers and Hammerstein show tune?

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 9h

It's cosplay. Pure cosplay. Austen doesn't lend itself to enough cosplay.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 10h

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 11h

This is good news

The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a STAY in hashtag#RobertRoberson’s case, just seven days before his scheduled execution. innocenceproject.org/news/texas-c...

Robert Roberson's Execution is Stayed by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Roberson Was Scheduled to Be Executed on October 16 Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Innocence

innocenceproject.org

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a STAY in hashtag#RobertRoberson’s case, just seven days before his scheduled execution. innocenceproject.org/news/texas-c...

Robert Roberson's Execution is Stayed by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Roberson Was Scheduled to Be Executed on October 16 Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Innocence

innocenceproject.org

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Reposted by Margaret Brown

Trevor McCarthy @mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social · 12h

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

www.theguardian.com

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 13h

They need mini mobility scooters in there. I nearly collapsed trying to get to the Avercamp

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I had a picture of me and @archivedelver.bsky.social when I was in the push wheelchair. My mum bought me a windproof coat in camouflage green. Con was pushing me and I caught a glimpse of ourselves

We looked like a radical mature student and her tweedy Marxist professor in a Ken Loach film

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

My mobility wheelchair has arrived because you *can't* take a mobility scooter on a bus. Now I will be free to ride about town *and* beyond.

The box of a mobility plus electric wheelchair. It's shows a lightweight folding electric wheelchair.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

If I had one when we were in holiday, we would've been able to do far more art galleries and museums. It took my forever to get to the Dutch stuff in the National Gallery.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

This year fundamentally demonstrated that I was hiding a lot of problems with car journeys and not leaving the house.

youtu.be/JgRBkjgXHro?...

Ultra Nate - Free (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by Strictly Rhythm

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 15h

My mobility wheelchair has arrived because you *can't* take a mobility scooter on a bus. Now I will be free to ride about town *and* beyond.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

Alongside the bespectacled white couple who keep banging on about having children and yer waxy 40 something man who's trying not to die

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 16h

So you can spend it on Suede and Saint Etienne t-shirts

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 19h

My brother was banned from the corner shop because he'd feel up the bags, crunching up all the crisps, to find the ones with Tazos in.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 20h

Also, people do gift me things I already bought for the Kindle ages ago. You just have to smile and accept it

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 20h

Usually, you buy it then two weeks later as it remains unread on the night stand and it drops to 99p on the kindle, which is much easier to read on the go

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 23h

And yer first man who's gone for looking like a guy in a murder mystery who's alibi turns out to be that he was dogging at the time.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 23h

Just sitting back with the rest of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social people on here watching you all debate public houses, opening hours and costs.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

On the downside, I'm followed by all you dirty old bollocks.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Don't think so, what about you @archivedelver.bsky.social?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Flashlight, red light, neon light, stop light

Everybody's got a little light under the sun

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 1d

Of course, there is absolutely no such thing as a best lyricist for myriad reasons, not least because what qualifies as a "good lyric" depends very much on the whole song.

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

It's Happy Hour again, I think I might be happy if I wasn't out with them.

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Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

Mainly because writing "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a pleasuredome erect" doesn't have the same impact as its performance

Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social · 1d

You guys don't get splash back on the inside of your labia. Triggering UTI terrors. So... you know.

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