👩‍🦽🚴🚶🏻‍♀️ Active Travel Election Hustings - join the debate on the future of walking, wheeling and cycling in Strathclyde! 📆 Tuesday 28 April 2026, 6.30-9pm 📍 The Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JP 🤝 Glasgow Eco Trust, Cycling UK Scotland and #AyeCycleGlasgow www.gobike.org/active-trave...

#OnThisDay in 1796 William Baird was born into a Lanarkshrie farming family. By the age of 20 he had become a coalmaster. He & his brothers established Scotland's biggest pig iron producer, William Baird & Co www.northlanmuseums.co.uk/story/the-ba...

There is still time to apply to be our new Tramway & Historic Engineering Technician, based at Summerlee Museum Closing date is this Tuesday, 28 April myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...

Calling all wet-plate photography practitioners and enthusiasts ... Don't miss our online talk 'Creating a Wet-Plate Manifesto' with Paul Elter on Tuesday 5th May 2026 (1900 BST). Register via the link in our bio for full details.

One of the most inclusive, accessible & affordable events of its kind, @archscot.bsky.social has released the programme for Scotland's 'Archaeological Research in Progress' conference & it's another excellent group of projects/speakers! 👍 23 May 2026 Dumfries & Online Details: tinyurl.com/mr3npe53

We’re seeking stories that capture the career of a woman engineer across the decades—what were your wins? Tell us at Women in Engineering: forms.gle/dnYc1zPex8Gf...

Still time to book a place on our free webinar if you want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun. For link and more info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news

Want to know how to use #geology to turn post-industrial landscapes into places of family fun? Why not book a place on our next free webinar. For link and info nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

One month left to apply for grants in Scottish History from the Strathmartine Trust #history #scotland

Another former mill fire, this time in Middleton, Greater Manchester. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love these paintings in Kingswood Heritage Museum showing women at work in GB Britton & Sons’ Bristol shoe & boot factory Sadly no info on the artist or when they were painted @artukdotorg.bsky.social @workingclasshistory.com

Another new route added to #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum the 3rd in the #Crossford #Lanarkshire series by local resident Margaret and National Mining Museum Scotland volunteer Bill focusing on the coal and brick industries in and around #Braidwood See www.mining-landscapes.org/route/172

Tell shitty City Property to sling their hook. Viva Trongate103! www.change.org/p/save-trong...

It's public now: Glasgow City Council, who some years ago announced a plan for 270km of cycle lanes by 2030, now intend to build 54km by 2032. They blame Transport Scotland. I don't care who's fault it is - you're all the SNP. Sort it out.

Took a detour to see the devastation on Union/Gordon St on the way to a Q&A with Edgar Wright at the GFT. He talked about Glasgow’s strength as a film location being its diversity of architecture. Let’s not lose that

Excellent stuff from The Bell. Glad to have curious and invested journalists working hard in and for the city - a rarity these days, and worth treasuring.

An exciting, unique and smelly project coming to industrial museums near you! More to come, but so delighted to be working with Will, our Sniffer in Residence extraordinaire!

On #WorldBookDay you can find out more about #Scotland's #printers on our website

First the CCA, now Trongate 103. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...

Still time to register via link in bio ...

Interesting piece, published by @glasgowbell.bsky.social, on "Glasgow's Secret Geometry" and Harry Bell's leyline theory. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-sacr...

Look I know there's a lot of *waves hand* going on right now, but it's come to my attention that William "Worst Poet Ever" McGonagall composed in 1899 an elegy to "The Ancient Town of Leith" in his own, inimitable style. So if you care to gather round, I shall now retell it for the whole class 🧵🗣️🪑

We are enjoying the #WinterOlympics #curling but can't help feeling the players could work on their attire after seeing this painting by John Levack It shows a curling match near #Airdrie in 1857. Spot the coal mines that partly funded the players' wealth www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Deta...

A photograph courtesy of of Leeds Museums and Galleries of the city's Steel Works in the Hunslet area dating to March 1921 when a strike was taking place. The site opened in 1889 and was at one time Britain's largest producer of steel tram tracks. 1/3

Explore the career of 19th-century engineer George Harrap with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Learn how to reconstruct a Victorian engineer’s life using professional registers, patents & industrial records. 📅 12 Feb 2026 | 13:30–14:30 | Online via Zoom Book your place: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

North Lanarkshire Council Museums are looking for a full-time Site Supervisor The post is based at Summerlee Museum in Coatbridge, closing date is 17 February

New on our museum collections website is a 1st hand account of the operation to rescue 135 miners trapped underground following the 1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery Disaster It was written by James Lillie of the Coatbridge Mines Rescue Brigade www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/rescue...

4 weeks today we will be celebrating #InternationalWomen’sDay with our 2026 online Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours travelling across the world beginning with photography of Antarctica. Registration is open and free. womenofphoto.com

A few days ago in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, the sun was picking out an unexpected piece of Glasgow industrial history at the base of a mortsafe.

We are recruiting for a Site Supervisor for North Lanarkshire Council Museums. Closing date: 17 February 2026 myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/nor...

If you like old trams and trains - and seriously, who doesn’t - then you need to have a wander through Summerlee. #museums #museumfromhome #Scotland mainlymuseums.com/post/916/sum...

Still time to register for our next online talk ... 'Exchanging Stereoscopic Views' on Tuesday 10th February 2026 (1900 GMT) with Rebecca Sharpe (Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy) and Julie Gibb (National Museums of Scotland). Register via the link ... events.rps.org/en/historica...

Some good heritage news - the restoration of Maritime Hull's Scotch Derrick crane. There are many things to go and see in Hull - a rather underrated city well worth a visit. @c20society.bsky.social @simonhickman.bsky.social youtu.be/qQbm7qLyRKY?...

Exciting job opening @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Library and Archives Manager. Details here careers.nms.ac.uk/job/827960 #museumjobs #libraryjobs 📜

Is there a physical reason the British Museum can’t build an underground entrance in the forecourt like the Louvre, Mauritshuis, National Galleries of Scotland, etc? apple.news/AzZCuRRWyQP-...

#History My book is now out. All about the women merchant navy seafarers who died due to enemy action in the two world wars. www.lulu.com/shop/nina-ba... If any museums or other shops are interested in selling this, DM me for wholesale price.

ICYMI: are we going far enough on the Potteries heritage emergency? open.substack.com/pub/thefootb...

Utterly delighted to share our new look Shipbuilding Archive pages - the last of our archives to get the 2026 treatment 🥳 Interactive and intuitive with the full database. I'm so bloody proud of it, and the stepping stone to more features in the future. Link below.

A zine documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship (zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen...)

Absolutely loved the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain. It has a tighter focus than the Edinburgh show 25 years ago & emphasises her collaboration with Man Ray rather than a muse. Here is Miller’s war correspondent’s uniform & Rolleiflex (a c1937 Automat 1) #Photography

It’s a new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for Sunday evening. ‘For the delectation of posterity’ explores some materials from my personal Ludovic Mann collection pertaining to the Druid Temple, Clydebank. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/f...

The new V&A East (which opens later this year) has more than a touch of Libeskind’s Spiral about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Love to see the new illuminated 'Corporation Transport' lettering on 1930s Glasgow tramcar 1245 which is being restored by our amazing volunteers at Summerlee Museum 1245 was the last Glasgow tram to run before the power was turned off. See the Glasgow's Last Tram Group website glasgowslasttram.net

🛠️ Most people today encounter Dunston Staiths as a quiet heritage site. In the 1970s, it was a dangerous place of work. A new film by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Peter Roberts brings that history back into view → sidegallery.co.uk/blog/coal-staiths-of-the-river-tyne Commissioned by Tyne Derwent Way

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

WE ARE RECRUITING: fancy joining the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum team p/t (60 days) for 6 months across the summer supporting delivery of a series of intergenerational events suit a student/recent graduate. For info and application nip to www.mining-landscapes.org/news/fancy-j... #MiningHeritage

Great news about the Keelmen’s Hospital in Newcastle. It’s been empty for too long