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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30m

Brief glimmer of sunshine on dark overcast day

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 5h

Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 5h

And now on website: www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...

Thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre

ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants

www.thenational.scot

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 6h

Thirty Years of the Scottish Oral History Centre 📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...

Thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre

ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants

www.thenational.scot

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 7h

In remote chance than anyone cares even slightly, it’s going to be a great deal more of this stuff: notchesblog.com/2021/11/23/d...

David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland

In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’

notchesblog.com

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 7h

I’m feeling an unfamiliar feeling. I am briefly re-enthused about my monograph project.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 7h

I guess in terms of Ireland, Scotland might be imagined as an alternative, Protestant timeline… notchesblog.com/2021/11/23/d...

David Levison and the Heterosexual Revolution in Scotland

In a diatribe delivered to the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly in 1974, Leon David Levision preached that sex without love was ‘mutual exploitation and despoliation.’

notchesblog.com

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 8h

Yes. Confusingly in Scotland, the Kirk had previously declared that contraception was a ‘gift from God.’ On the other hand, many clearly hated it. Meanwhile, the Kirk embarked on a campaign against premarital sex, including their hilarious 1975 booklet, ‘Today’s Questions about Marriage.’

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 8h

Re the Porterhouse Blue floating condoms - in UK terms they’re very much of the early 1970s. Contraception for students was seen by ‘moral guardians’ as completely scandalous. Condom machines were newsworthy. The prospect of the Pill, meanwhile, drove Malcolm Muggeridge types into a frenzy.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 20h

I do enjoy the peaceful and restful atmosphere of a nice pub on an early weekday night.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 23h

As a sound bite this is up there with “the money was just resting in the account”

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

“Buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind”.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said "very comprehensive due diligence" was done on presidential candidate Jim Gavin, but that an issue with a former tenant was "probably buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind".

Gavin was 'repeatedly asked' about tenant issue - Martin

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said "very comprehensive due diligence" was done on presidential candidate Jim Gavin, but that an issue with a former tenant was "probably buried somewhere in the rec...

www.rte.ie

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

In today’s National (Scotland), you can find a feature article celebrating thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre. And about their recent ‘Lost Villages’ project, recording memories of community and deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire. 🎤📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

What possible purpose does forced praying in school serve? And in a country where over half the population say they have no religion it is completely absurd. Anyone who wishes to can pray all they want in their own time.

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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 1d

After almost 50 years, the Scottish Government is finally revisiting the rights of children and parents to opt out of religious observance in schools. But somehow, ministers have managed to bungle what ought to be a basic question of children's rights. www.thenational.scot/news/2551810...

Andrew Tickell: Scotland’s schools still force children to pray. That needs to change

MY wee sister will never forgive me. In the early 2000s, you apparently couldn’t have a school assembly without involving God, prayers and Bible…

www.thenational.scot

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

I’m enjoying this hefty popular history treating with the … complex sexuality of James VI. Some of the descriptions of the Jacobean court are starting to make Blackadder II look like a documentary.

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 3d

Belated find - but useful for a talk on Wednesday: 'GULIELMO SHARHOMO CRAWFOOT, the celebrated posture master, athlete, and juggler' to perform in the 'GRAND ENTERTAINMENT' of the 1852 Co Down election, alongside various circusified Presbyterians [NLI]

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 3d

To clarify, I understand why some people have two homes, which include the need to be near elderly relatives, and to access healthcare. I also don’t think most second home owners likely to fall into this category.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 3d

PSNI refuse to act on genuine proscribed terror in N. Ireland. They turn on and off the tap of paramilitarism, extracted funds from a struggling NI Assembly under the threat of more violence and yet here they are…

Disgracing the Good Friday Agreement.

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about the process of becoming middle aged.

Last week I received a message from Ms X, who used to write her high-scoring undergrad essays in bed while drinking beer, and with whom I enjoyed many refreshing and celebratory evenings:

“Can you give me a lift to the garden centre.”

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in Scotland, it’s far from perfect, but actual social democratic policy making takes place. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Maggie Chapman: We’ve put landlord lobby on notice with new law

Twelve years of Margaret Thatcher left a long-lasting political hangover that we are still trying to ease to this day ...

www.thenational.scot

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

Glories of Empire. uchri.org/awards/now-i...

“Now I am Going to Tell You about Sir Hector Macdonald”: A Cultural Biography of Memorialization and Child Sexual Abuse in the British Empire

This project challenges academic and popular understandings of Hector Macdonald, a celebrity soldier of the British empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon previously unstudied corre...

uchri.org

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

Well at least the toilets no longer flush directly onto the track. I’m almost surprised the far right aren’t advocating bringing that back. ‘Cut out the red tape, do it the traditional way - true to our values.’

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

Job hunt hellscape. To reiterate, I’m available for ad-hoc work, have me to do your research…

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, at last a proper socialist political leader in England, who acts and sounds like a human being and not a shifty estate agent.

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