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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 9d

It's a terrible thing to hope to find a body, but in this case it's the only thing left for the family to hope for, as time has taken the chance of justice.

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Moira Anderson: Police urged to search new site in 1957 murder probe

Campaigner Sandra Brown said

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 9d

The Earl of Glencarne is clearly lying.

Extract of a Scots text that says the Earl of Glencarne pretended that there was no quarrel between him and the Earl of Eglintoun, despite the Earl of Glencarne allegedly killing the current Earl of Eglintoun's father.

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 10d

Scotland's Crofting Commission is the latest public sector website to be hijacked by spammers www.google.com/search?q=sit... #govtech #spamspamspam

Screenshot of recent Google search results from the Crofting Commission website, showing a list of spam links

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 10d

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England

Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 15d

So, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away for real then, eh? Watch out for Rank Badjin!

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Cruachan Power Station evacuated after smoke detected

An investigation has been launched after emergency services were called to the power station near Dalmally.

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Stair Society @stairsociety.bsky.social · 15d

SAVE THE DATE! The Stair Society AGM and Annual Lecture will be taking place on Saturday 15 November 2025 in Edinburgh. More details to follow, but we are pleased to announce that Professor Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh, will be delivering a talk on ‘Witchcraft and Scots Law’.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · 15d

The Solicitor's Legal Information Centre (SLIC) team at the Scottish Government are recruiting for an Assistant Librarian for an initial 5 month contract, salary is £17.79 p/h.

itproservices.venesky-brown.co.uk/job/assistan...

An absolutely lovely team, and varied work!

Assistant Librarian in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland - Venesky Brown

Great new job opportunity! Search and apply for Assistant Librarian in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland Contract position on the Venesky Brown website.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 17d

Amazing opportunity for a specialist librarian at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. The Crawford Collection really is outstanding #histSTM 📜🔭 fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Librarian

Salary: £36,650 per annum | Open Ended | Full Time/Part time | Closing Date: 28th September 2025

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 28d

19th century insults:

‘He said that the pursuer was “a damned puppy and a low blackguard, a degraded, impertinent, base, vile, scurrilous, vicious, ill-conducted fellow, and utterly incapable of holding the honourable office of the Procurator Fiscal of Auchtermuchty.”

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Rita Meade @screwydecimal.bsky.social · Sep 5

Normal text between library colleagues.

Text that reads Did you leave a tambourine on my deak

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Daryl Baxter @darylbaxter.com · Sep 4

I am shocked.
Shocked.
www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

Related: my colleague gave me this (now somewhat battered) sticker for my work pass...

Circular sticker on the back of an ID holder. It's worn away at the edges but it says "Contains 100% pure nonsense"

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nope, it's just 100% Full Nonsense.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yup, checked all those too, plus legislation citators hard copy etc. I think it's a definite nonsense, I just wonder who nonsensed it up in the first place.

a woman sitting in front of a computer with the words get that nonsense outta here

ALT: a woman sitting in front of a computer with the words get that nonsense outta here

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nothing in the hard copy collection of Acts either, so I'm 99% sure it's nonsense. I had wanted to see it to check its extent and see if it covered Scotland, which had a separate prison system/regulation, I believe.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

It seems to start here and spread from there: oldtownjail.co.uk/history/

So maybe more "tourist venue doesn't know how to check law"?

History | Stirling Old Town Jail

Discover the Jail's vibrant history, from Separate System to sweetie store, and its effect on life in the Old Town. Click here for more.

oldtownjail.co.uk

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Sep 3

Found this reference online: "In 1886 the Children In Prisons Act was passed by Parliament – ending the centuries-old practice of imprisoning children as young as six years of age in the nation’s Jails alongside adults."

However I can find absolutely zero evidence of such an Act ever existing.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oooh, this might help me solve a small mystery! Perhaps some of these odd items are medlars!

A triangular stone pediment with the year 1636 and carved collections of various fruits on either side

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 28

I suspect he encountered a lot of traumatically bad handwriting and resolved never to inflict the same pain on others 😂

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 28

Some books you just feel... strangely drawn to, right? 😂

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David Brewster - Treatise on Magnetism, published. Edinburgh, 1837 first edition, together with F

Bid Live on Lot 1710 in the Specialist Collectors' Auction from Reeman Dansie.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wanna buy a letter written by famous librarian Casanova, while he was employed as librarian for Count Waldstein in his court in Bavaria?

Wel, this is your lucky day!

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CASANOVA GIACOMO: (1725-1798) Italian Author and Adventurer. An excellent and lengthy A.L.S., `Ca

Bid Live on Lot 628 in the AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION Auction from International Autograph Auctions Europe S.L..

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 26

Aaaaand none of the basement ghosts got us while we were retrieving them, yay!!

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 26

You BETTER all appreciate how snazzy the books behind look, cos that was hours of work from my colleague and I to fit appropriate materials into historic shelves that all vary in height just enough to have made it a nightmare 😂

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First livestream to come from Scottish criminal court

An appeal in a trial that has been delayed three times will be the first livestream under a new service from the Scottish courts.

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Jennifer Findlay @jenniferfindlay.bsky.social · Aug 20

I leave no trace, you'll never prove it was me

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Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · Aug 20

We asked our members what they thought about the Club, and here are the headlines. The full survey report is on our website. oldedinburghclub.org.uk/about/steeri... Thinking about joining in - our membership year starts on the 1st September. #edinburghhistoryclub #oldedinburgh #edinhistorylectures

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