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maggiecraig.bsky.social
John Rattray, here on #LeithLinks, helped draw up the first rules of #golf and was the winner of the first Open in 1744. Also a doctor and a #Jacobite, he very likely escaped execution after the #JacobiteRising of 1745-6 due to the intervention of his golfing buddy, Duncan Forbes of #Culloden.
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Sounds amazing! 👂 🎶 😊
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Other expectations: some arts and or craft activities; lashings of cakes and tea / coffee; bus pass outing optional on a sunny day but walking and gardening compulsory. Books optional. But that just might be me glamourising times still to come! 😢
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tourscotland.bsky.social
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran. The village is approximately 3 miles south of the village of Lamlash and is the third largest village on the island tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2012/02/old-...
Old Photographs Whiting Bay Isle Of Arran Scotland
tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com
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seanfjohnston.bsky.social
Freedom Road (instrumental). Words by poet/activist Langston Hughes and music by Emerson Harper (1942). Recorded by Josh White in 1966 and adapted by Indra Rios-Moore in 2022.
on.soundcloud.com/5OiRHNAFUTrf...

#folk #protest #spiritual #cover #instrumental #inspirational #guitar #LangstonHughes
Freedom Road (by Langston Hughes, 1944, after Indra Rios-Moore, 2022)
multi-tracked with Audacity
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byleaveswelive.bsky.social
LIBRARY VANS AND HIDDEN DOORS

"Libraries are, of course, fantastic places to learn, to discover the world. But for me, personally, perhaps they are most exciting as places to hide."

- Peter Mackay, Scotland's Makar, on a lifelong love of libraries

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/libr...
Library Vans and Hidden Doors by Peter Mackay
I have been lucky in the libraries in my life and can - if I were to close my eyes now -imagine many of them in intricate detail, as a smell, type of lighting, sitting and reading experience.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
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womenslibrary.bsky.social
This October at Glasgow Women’s Library: Sara Ahmed book launch, Herland, two new exhibitions, plus the Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar. And much more! womenslibrary.org.uk/events/
Poster with a collage background of colourful feminist and activist badges, presented as a jigsaw puzzle. Text reads: October at Glasgow Women’s Library. Events listed: 01–31 October: Then & Now; Re-membering Scottish BME Works and Lives Thursday 02: Story Café Thursday 02: Tell Her Story: Giving Voice to Silence: Uncovering the Realities of Honour-Based Abuse Tuesday 07: Open Book Wednesday 08: Conversation Café Thursday 09: Sara Ahmed Book Launch: No is Not a Lonely Utterance Thursday 09: Readers of Colour (In-person) Glasgow Women’s Library logo at the bottom, with contact details for booking. Poster with the same collage of colourful feminist and activist badges, shown as a jigsaw puzzle. Text reads: October at Glasgow Women’s Library. Events listed: Friday 10: Women Making It Saturday 11: Readers of Colour (Online) Wednesday 22: Conversation Café Thursday 23: Story Café Special: The mysterious case of the Victorian female detective with Sara Lodge Friday 24: Women Making It Friday 24: Herland: A Celebration of Women in Music Monday 27: Reading Group for Muslim Women Thursday 30: Preview – To Build a Home: Martha Orbach Friday 31: The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar Glasgow Women’s Library logo at the bottom, with contact details for booking.
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writeforwellbeing.bsky.social
‘The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.’
— Jack Zipes
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Jack Zipes
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Hi @clearchanneluk.bsky.social wondering if you ask your drivers to block cycle lanes by parking on them? This is in Stirling right now. I asked if he knew he was on a cycle lane. He shrugged
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lilithepunk.bsky.social
Right then! 🚨 To celebrate publication of my new book Household Lore on 11 November, I'm doing a special Folklore Agony household edition! Are you experiencing a problem in your house that conventional wisdom (and cleaning solutions) have failed to solve? Why not ask the Folklore Agony Aunt? 1/2
This is the cover of Household Lore by Liza Frank. It is a dark midnight sky full of stars. There is a three story purple house with trees growing either side and an owl on a turret. The garden is full of flowers and there is a crooked path to confuse fairies.
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rhiggitt.bsky.social
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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pamelaclemit.bsky.social
Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.
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citiesandmemory.bsky.social
Amazing to meet so many diverse and brilliant artists in person as we kicked off the Century of Sounds project with @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social with an artist meetup. Can't wait to hear the creative results in a few months!
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asls.org.uk
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Lunch in Library: what could be better!
gladlib.bsky.social
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 22d
🎄Book your table for our two- or three-course Christmas Lunches from 1st to 21st December 2025!🎁

Every day from 12pm to 2:30pm (1st-21st December only), tuck in to a delicious menu of starters, mains, desserts and beverages in our Food for Thought restaurant.

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Over a photo of a table laid for Christmas Lunch is the same text as is written in the caption. Plus www.gladstoneslibrary.org | enquiries@gladlib.org | +44 (0)1244 532350 A menu reading: 2 courses: £28.95 (under 12s: £15), 3 courses: £31.95 (under 12s: £18). It lists starters, mains, desserts and beverages. You can find this information at www.gladstoneslibrary.org/bistro/
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gladlib.bsky.social
🎄Book your table for our two- or three-course Christmas Lunches from 1st to 21st December 2025!🎁

Every day from 12pm to 2:30pm (1st-21st December only), tuck in to a delicious menu of starters, mains, desserts and beverages in our Food for Thought restaurant.

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Over a photo of a table laid for Christmas Lunch is the same text as is written in the caption. Plus www.gladstoneslibrary.org | enquiries@gladlib.org | +44 (0)1244 532350 A menu reading: 2 courses: £28.95 (under 12s: £15), 3 courses: £31.95 (under 12s: £18). It lists starters, mains, desserts and beverages. You can find this information at www.gladstoneslibrary.org/bistro/
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govanstones.bsky.social
Our latest Sarcopha-dug, being Very Good in front of the early medieval Sarcophagus dog! 🐕
Dog in front of the Govan Sarcophagus
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drannaclark.bsky.social
’Complex, intricate and ingenious’: Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, townhouse & collection, legacy of influential English Neoclassical architect of the Regency period, Professor at Royal Academy, Architect to the Bank of England; born #OTD 1753.
@soanemuseum.bsky.social
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Reposted by: Valentina Bold, Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn

bsecs.bsky.social
***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
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ldlapinski.bsky.social
WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER

Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way and check out the alt text below….

Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @slgscotland.bsky.social
WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way…. To get to know my new home better, I am waiving my school visit fee for schools in the Scottish islands during World Book Week 2026 (2nd - 6th March). Organisers must cover transport and accommodation. I am based on the Black Isle, and able to drive to Inverness airport, Ullapool ferry port, Oban, and Aberdeen. I can supply books to sell, if given plenty of notice! Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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cmaclean.bsky.social
A silver penny of King Alexander III of Scotland with beautiful rainbow toning. It was minted sometime between 1250 & c.1280. This specimen is from the Hunterian collection.
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walktalktours.bsky.social
The secular amongst the sacred … Irn Bru formulation the stained glass art in Glasgow Cathedral (by Talia Blatt and the Glasgow Glass Studio)
Multi coloured stained glass representation of side elevation of a church with various text excerpts
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Wonderful time in Dumfries & Galloway: oral history training Scottish Women's Institutes' members; "Mak Merry: friendship, crafting and Scottish Women's Institutes in the Royal Society of Edinburgh's "Curious". Thanks to Sanquhar knitter May MacCormick and to Sarah, Kate & Lesley-Ann of the RSE.
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Perfection!
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How time flies! Excited to say that IIssue 30 of #RoSC is now with our typesetter and out soon so... we're open for submissions to issue 31.

Please share and submit 😊 All you need is at:
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
Colours of the season:
#Stirling
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Reposted by: Valentina Bold, Elizabeth Ewan

cmaclean.bsky.social
This is possibly the only complete set of King James VI & I's 9th Scottish coinage in existence. It was struck from 1605 to 1609 and consisted of 12 denominations that ranged in value from £12 to 6 pence Scots. The coins are from the Lord Stewartby Collection at the Hunterian.
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asls.org.uk
“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”

@profdanielcook.bsky.social examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
#FrankensteinDay #Frankenstein
www.nls.uk/papercut/mar...
Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition | National Library of Scotland
Explore the profound impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' on literature and culture.
www.nls.uk
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robertdaleparker.bsky.social
Sadly, after 42 years, the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for the worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel has closed: www.bulwer-lytton.com

But they're keeping their archive open. Here are last year's winners (or losers): www.bulwer-lytton.com/2024

#Fiction #Writing
Home | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
A whimsical literary competition for the worst possible opening sentences to novels never written.
www.bulwer-lytton.com
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by Valentina Bold

valbold.bsky.social
*puts on cocktail dress*
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