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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for listening.

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 24d

Had a fantastic time presenting and attending the @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Congratulations to all the speakers and particularly @vawright10.bsky.social for her in depth history of women’s housing activism in Scotland. Thanks to @ymcfadden.bsky.social and the team

A group of people attending the plenary lecture at the 2025 Women’s History Scotland conference at Kinning Park Complex. Historian Valerie Wright is delivering the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture on the long history of women-led housing activism in Scotland.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 25d

This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · Sep 5

And you can hopefully read all about it in the National newspaper next Tuesday. 📰

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Sep 5

You can find out more about 'Building Modern Scotland' here (and download for free) (2/2) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-...

Building Modern Scotland

Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland's new towns.One of the most significan…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really enjoyed recording this episode of Artful Inquiry with @alistairfair.bsky.social - thanks to James, Miranda and the team at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social 🗃️ (1/2)

Edinburgh College of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔉 Listen in! Dr @alistairfair.bsky.social & Dr @vawright10.bsky.social: Building Modern Scotland - The Social Histories of New Towns. Ep3, s2 of Artful Inquiry, the ECA research podcast.

Listen in on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qDQ...

More about the series: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/eca-research...

Spotify – Web Player

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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · Sep 3

Recently @vawright10.bsky.social and I were interviewed for a podcast about the Scottish new towns book which we recently co-wrote (and which is available Open Access for free download via bloomsburycollections, though you can also buy a copy in print if you wish!)

Edinburgh College of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔉 Listen in! Dr @alistairfair.bsky.social & Dr @vawright10.bsky.social: Building Modern Scotland - The Social Histories of New Towns. Ep3, s2 of Artful Inquiry, the ECA research podcast.

Listen in on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qDQ...

More about the series: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/eca-research...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · Sep 1

⏰ Don’t miss out! Registration for the Women’s History Scotland Conference closes Friday 5 September!

Join us for a fascinating day! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

Buy tickets – Women’s History Scotland Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland – Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow

Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...

www.tickettailor.com

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Aug 24

I've just submitted An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class to my publisher, Verso.

My book explores how a British working class which was powerfully grounded in politics, the economy and culture has been unmade since the 1960s. An Injury to All is due for publication next year!

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Aug 20

Definitely - wind up very important transition for the new towns. Planning in the new towns always flexible and adaptable to respond to economic change. But arguably less of a holistic vision for the towns when they came under the control of larger local authorities. (End of Strathclyde Region too)

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Aug 20

There's definitely a story to be told! We've argued that some people actively chose to 'remake themselves' in the new towns (many people interviewed at the time said they'd 'bettered themselves'). May explain changing voting behaviour too.

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Aug 20

Also plenty of anecdotal evidence of early support for independence in Cumbernauld especially - we didn't focus on this but that story is waiting to be told!

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Aug 20

We consider some of these issues (though not from an energy perspective) in our book on the new towns in Scotland. (An early leader in motorway suburbia despite the original intentions? Early adoption of car dependent large scale private housing?) Had to plug - it's free to download

Building Modern Scotland

Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland's new towns.One of the most significan…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Liam @parcelorogues.bsky.social · Jun 8

Delighted to have an extract from Glasgow 1975 up on @glasgowbell.bsky.social this weekend - you can read it here www.glasgowbell.co.uk/racist-killi...

Paramilitaries, King Billy tattoos and a racist murder in Woodlands

What can a senseless killing from 1975 tell us about the fight against fascism today?

www.glasgowbell.co.uk

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Prof Fiona Skillen @fionaskillen.bsky.social · Jun 6

Women's Sport and Art panel with Olympic Gold Winner Rhona Howie, Imogen Gibbon Chief Curator of Portraiture and myself.

Where: The National Galleries of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
When: Tuesday 24 June 2025, 12.45–1.30pm (in person & online)

www.nationalgalleries.org/event/women-...

Women in Sport | Rhona Howie (in person) | National Galleries of Scotland

Rhona Howie, skip of the Great Britain curling team that won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and deliverer of the final stone − the ‘stone of destiny’ − that sealed that famous triu...

www.nationalgalleries.org

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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · May 28

Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 27

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social · May 24

My book is out on 28 October with
@versobooks.bsky.social 💥 It’s available for pre-order at £20: www.waterstones.com/book/up-in-t...

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Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · May 19

NEW: How do lived experience perspectives impact decisions in the Scottish Parliamentary process?💡🗣️

@clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social writes about her research which aims to better understand how this evidence is used and how it influences policy decision making.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

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How do lived experience perspectives impact decisions in the Scottish Parliamentary process? Dr Clementine Hill O'Connor. Image is of the Scottish Parliament and features the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos, and a photo of author Clementine Hill O'Connor.

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · May 19

Last couple of days to submit an expression of interest to our Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History in Edinburgh on 22 July ⬇️ 🗃️

Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Apr 29

Are you interested in Scottish History? Are you interested in Emotions History? Well, you are in luck - John McCallum and I are organising a Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History in Edinburgh on 22 July. Deadline for expressions of interest 21 May. 🗃️

All welcome and please spread the word. ⬇️

Cfp: Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History

This Workshop aims to bring together scholars with interests in or around the intersections of emotions history and Scottish History to share ideas across periods and approaches, to reflect on common ...

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · May 12

The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Apr 29

Are you interested in Scottish History? Are you interested in Emotions History? Well, you are in luck - John McCallum and I are organising a Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History in Edinburgh on 22 July. Deadline for expressions of interest 21 May. 🗃️

All welcome and please spread the word. ⬇️

Cfp: Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History

This Workshop aims to bring together scholars with interests in or around the intersections of emotions history and Scottish History to share ideas across periods and approaches, to reflect on common ...

hca.ed.ac.uk

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Apr 16

94% of the people raped in the UK are women, and 98% of the people arrested for rape or sexual assault are men. And — to repeat — around 3% of *reported* rapes result in a conviction. If you are looking for a feminist campaign, put down the LARGE GAMETES placard and start screaming at the CPS.

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Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social · Apr 2

Had the privilege of attending a symposium on the launch of ‘Building Modern Scotland’ today, by @alistairfair.bsky.social @vawright10.bsky.social, Miles Glendinning and others.

Was impressed by the project’s engagement with planning, and the social and political context of of the Clyde region.

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Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thanks for coming Andrew and lovely to catch up.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hello everyone going to the British History Today conference at @qmcbs.bsky.social at the start of May! I'm giving a paper on young people, politics & age in late 1980s Britain at the @ihr.bsky.social
the night before! See details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/fancy... #skystorians #histchild 🗃️

‘Fancy calling an election on the day of my History "O" Level’: teenagers write about age and adulthood in late 1980s Britain

www.history.ac.uk

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