Washing lines of Malta glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/05/18/w...

🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us. It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face. But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are. ✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.

Post boxes of Malta (1) - Ghasri, Gozo. Very familiar to a British traveller! #PostboxSaturday

Moggies of Malta glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/05/11/c...

Partickhill’s postbox acquired a Star Wars themed postbox topper on May the Fourth #PostboxSaturday

🗳️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Remember to VOTE today! Suffrage activists up and down the country, protested, campaigned & put themselves in harms way so that everyone had the right to have their voice heard. Make time to vote today & have your say! #suffragettes #herstory #changemakers #scottishelections #vote

Women's right to vote was fought and won by activists, though Scottish suffragettes are not as well known as their English comrades. In June 1914 suffragettes congregated in #Perth as hunger strikers were being force-fed in Perth Prison 🧵 Honour their legacy today by using your right to vote 💪

Glasgow Gallivanting: April 2026 glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/05/04/g...

Exhibition exploring Glasgow Coat of Arms opens in North Glasgow

We need a voting system that builds trust, not destroys it. I've chipped in to the @makevotesmatter.bsky.social Wake Up Westminster appeal to help replace First Past the Post with a fairer, proportional system. Can you join me? makevotesmatter.org.uk/2026-wake-up-westminster/

This free article considers why Victorian female explorers were often anti-suffrage. Even Scotland's first female MP - Katherine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl - campaigned against women's suffrage as late as 1913! Did the treatment of Mary Wollstonecraft make them wary of being too 'masculine'?

Dumfries and Galloway 2023: Days 5-6 glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/04/27/d...

Honestly, once you start seeing the #Glasgow coat of arms you'll see it everywhere - only clocked this one yesterday. It forms part of the Trades House crest and is inside @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social, the location of our current show 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Dumfries and Galloway 2023: Days 1-4 glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/04/20/d...

We are delighted to welcome Nicola Sturgeon as Chair of our Board of Trustees. Refugee families are facing their greatest threat yet. But we know another way is possible, and that's what we will stand for together. Donate to power this work: www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-su...

Dumfries and Galloway 2023: Bishopcleugh and Lockerbie glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/04/13/b...

Great article about the wonderful project that is @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social

Easby Abbey and the Drummer Boy Walk glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/04/06/e...

#OtD 5 Apr 1913 suffragettes fighting for votes for women in the UK set fire to a grandstand at the Ayr racecourse, destroying other buildings including the stables. Copies of 'Votes for Women' and the 'Suffragette' were found in the debris stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048...

'The Guardian' view on the Women's Library at 100: a cause of celebration but not complacency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Make some noise. Share this post. 🚨 The Israeli government has granted itself another means to dehumanise, suppress, and kill Palestinians. Israel is violating international law.

For Trans Day of Visibility, we have chosen to lift up the work and voices from the trans+ community. First up, the excellent @smartypantsmarty.com Trans History Week runs 4-10th May, and there is an excellent, free workbook packed full of resources to help you www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/

Transgender rights = human rights. In many countries around the world, the rights of trans people are under attack. This International Transgender Day of Visibility, we continue to work for a world where all people can enjoy their rights fully.

And if those women do the same, We’ll have signatures from over one million women Saying: we support trans+ people Sign our letter Then send it to one woman who’ll get it To you, it’s one signature To a trans person, it means everything 🩷 NION Women notinourname.org.uk

Glasgow Gallivanting: March 2026 glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/03/30/g...

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

New on the blog! @kating03.bsky.social explores the life of Scottish suffragist Katherine Walker Lindsay, piecing together her story through extensive archival research, including newspaper and census records #suffrage #votesforwomen #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/scottish-suf...

Exciting book post today! Nice to see so many pals, old and new, writing in it.

Richmond glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/03/23/r...

Shining a light on Orkney's Women Doctors theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/23/s...

Ethel Moorhead is another Perth woman who wasn't from here - but she spent a significant part of her life in Perth Prison! She even has a road named after in Friarton, #Perth We added a photo of it to her #Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_M...

If we're spending millions commemorating a woman in Scotland, I have some ideas. Here's a 🧵of high achievers worthy of statues. 1st Jennie Lee, MP & founder of @OpenUniversity . The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan /1

Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, & the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beverley glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/03/16/b...

Remember: your local library doesn't just contain books! You can also find comics, IT facilities, and hippopotamus skulls.

Christmas in Northumberland: Warkworth glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/03/09/w...

If you don’t want Britain dragged into another war, sign and share: 38d.gs/Iran_SMC_BSK1

Glasgow Gallivanting: February 2026. And, no, that image is not Glasgow! glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/03/02/g...

The number of Scottish libraries shortlisted for the UK Library of the Year award has been hailed as evidence of their importance to society

Monthly Wrap-Up – February 26 As mentioned earlier in February, I'm switching to the Monthly Wrap-up, run by Natalie the Explorer. It's a blog-hop, and Anabel also participates. You can join in too! The Urgent and Important February edition I had three books to read and review for their…

Love the spires on the central pavillion of the 1913 David Stow building at the former Jordanhill Teacher Training College in the west of Glasgow, especially the verdigris. #glasgow #jordanhill #architecture #architecturephotography

Join us for an unforgettable and joyous evening of music, herstories, and inspiring conversations! Celebrate Women's History Month with Protests and Suffragettes at Kinning Park Complex in Glasgow – and help us honour some of the inspiring women who changed our world for the better.

𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. ~Newton Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM

#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9642...

Christmas in Northumberland: Alnmouth glasgowgallivanter.com/2026/02/23/a...

Amazing thread. In particular read the Starting Line article and SEETHE!

A plaque commemorating the life of the Scottish social reform campaigner and political activist Mary Barbour, who was born in Kilbrachan on this day in 1875, on a Hutton Drive tenement in the Linthouse area of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #govan #marybarbour #glasgowhistory #scottishhistory

I'm delighted to announce that the paperback of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain and Ireland will be published on April 23 by @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Just in time, I hope, for better weather that will allow people to visit some of the beautiful old places I write about.

The power of art #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #America

Every year on #PancakeDay we bake a Peter Pancake 🥞