A brilliant thread on just a handful of Scottish #WomenWriters 💙📚

Now mirk December’s dowie face Glowrs owr the rigs wi’ sour grimace, While, thro’ his minimum of space, The bleer-ee’d sun, Wi blinkin’ light, and stealing pace, His race doth run… —Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “The Daft-Days” – the period between Christmas & New Year #BookWormSat #C18 #poetry

"More than 700 blankets gifted to vulnerable people in Glasgow" Volunteers from churches across Glasgow took part in a project to knit blankets for distribution across the city. Well done to all of the talented knitters and crocheters! 🧶 Full story here 👇 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

#AdventAngels By #DouglasStrachan in Holy Trinity Church of Scotland, St Andrews.

The Society offers following 3 funding calls with closing dates in January: bit.ly/4p6jcea > Workshop Grants, supporting project work by historians > PhD Fellowships, to support completion of a doctorate > Applied History Fellowships, for post-doc historians with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson

Some lovely colourful #decorations on display here on the High Street in 1987 Ref: GD/X1384 Dundee City Centre Tray 2 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Archives #Dundee

👻🤝😱 #Fife #heritage

Call for Contributions – Expressing Scotland: Holding the Intangible – Archives, Culture & Connection This event will provide a forum to discuss what intangible cultural heritage means for our sector. Learn more: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

'Mary tells her brother-in-law, King Henri III of France, that she is "to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning". The manuscript will be on show at Perth Museum for three months.' On loan from @natlibscot.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️ 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #herstory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still… —Sir Walter Scott, “Old Christmastide” from the Introduction to Canto Sixth of MARMION: a Tale of Flodden Field (1808) #FolkloreThursday #poem www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/old-chr...

Tin sheds for #AllMetalMonday and old goods carriages abandoned on the former mineral line that served the #Kingseat Colliery #Fife

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️ #Scotland #Christmas

Join us tomorrow afternoon for wreath making, homebaking & Christmas cheer!✨🎄🎁 #Fife #Christmas

#AdventAngels By Phoebe Anna Traquair in St Mary’s Song School, Edinburgh.

St Andrew, St Cuthbert, St Kentigern and St Ninian, by Douglas Strachan, 1931, in the WWI memorial chapel at the University of Glasgow.

Join us this Saturday for wreath-making!✨ Saline Community Centre 1pm—4:30pm Delicious home-baking available🍰

Before you do any online Christmas shopping this year, please do sign up to support us on charity fundraising website easyfundraising. Over 8000 retailers will donate a small percentage of your spend to us at NO cost to you. Click below to get started 👇 join.easyfundraising.org.uk/scotlands-ch...

Join us tomorrow for Prof Munro's talk on Kinnesswood poet Michael Bruce (1746-1767) 7pm, Saline Church Hall☕🍰

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December #BookHistory news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...

Although only November, it's never too early to book a wreath-making session! Saturday 6th December Saline Community Centre 1pm—4:30pm Refreshments available☕🍰

Ancient meets modern. The Huly Hill Cairn and what is left of its stone circle are cut by the interchange at which the M8 and M9 motorways meet and are under the final approach to Edinburgh Airport. The cairn dates back to about 2500BC. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland

KIDNAPPED, by Robert Louis Stevenson For @lrb.co.uk’s NOVEL APPROACHES, Clare Bucknell, Andrew O’Hagan & Tom Crewe explore Stevenson’s startlingly modern handling of perspective & pacing, his approach to the art of fiction, & the value of being ‘betwixt & between’ 💙📚 www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Thank you @tafacarchaeology.bsky.social for a brilliant conference yesterday in Rothes Halls. Talks were interesting & great to meet other societies🙂 #Fife #heritage

At our TAFAC conference on 1 Nov 2025, we'll be showcasing 'Tayside Treasures', objects curated by members of Tayside Museums Forum. 'A Cornucopia of Objects from across Tayside’s Museums' is presented by Lara Haggerty, Dorothy Jones, Angus MacIntyre, Jamie Kunka, Christina Donald and Mark Hall.

📍November Speaker Event — Kinnesswood poet Michael Bruce (1746-67) #Fife #heritage

Gracious! Might there be any carvings on it & could it be carefully(!) cleaned in order to find out?

Looking forward to meeting up with all our exhibitors at the next TAFAC Conference on Saturday, 1 November in Glenrothes. For friendly archaeological chats and information, bargain books and quirky gifts, our lovely stallholders are getting ready to meet you.

We're looking forward to the speaker events & meeting everyone! #Fife

Enjoy watching a podcast-style video about life & legacy of Robert Leighton - who chose bridge-building over battle lines - & whose bequest led to Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built independent library. ▶️ youtu.be/q0GMwC54eG8 …/👇

Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️ From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years. Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps

SCA invites members, stakeholders, and the wider sector to take part in our upcoming series of online consultations to explore the case for developing a National Archives and Records Strategy for Scotland. Find out more and book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-a...

Heritage Society 🤝 Archaeology Our investigation into Saline's mediaeval kirk continues... Full report coming soon! #Fife #heritage #archaeology

/…you into Dunblane Cathedral & Dunblane Museum, both just few steps away from Leighton Library. Dunblane Museum has knitted mice characters trail, & Dunblane Cathedral has photograph explorer trails. And they are all free!…/

As it’s the school holidays, visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library where young visitors & those young at heart can have a go at very popular LEGO® Minifigure Trail. When completed, have a go at Photo Explorer Trail, & then "Find Robert Leighton Quest" which also takes…/👇

A reminder that we have an extra event tomorrow as part of #BlackHistoryMonth when Matthew Jarron will give a talk entitled "Black Performances on the #Dundee Stage c.1840s-1940s." tinyurl.com/AHSBHM25

Join us tomorrow for our October talk on Alva House & Johnstone Estate, 7pm in Saline Church Hall🕖

Day 11 of #31DaysOfGraves - Military Many churches in Scotland house markers that once marked the graves of fallen soldiers of World War One until they were replaced by the permanent headstones erected by the (now) CWGC. This one in Clackmannan Parish Church once marked Cpt Robert Bruce's grave.

🧥👚ENVIRO-VINTED!👗👖 Sat 8th Nov Saline Community Centre 7pm

At the TAFAC Conference 2025, 1 Nov in Glenrothes, AOC's Steven Watt will be talking about 'More from Recent(ish) Excavations at Upper Victoria, Carnoustie: A Post-excavation Update and a Trifecta of Souterrains' Photo (c) AOC: overhead shot of souterrains www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recent-arc...

🍁OCTOBER SPEAKER EVENT🍁

A Fife community group called the "Future of Falkland Church Building" has launched a campaign to secure the historic church in their village which is facing closure as a place of worship and is expected to be sold within the next two years. Full story here 👇 www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/...

One from our Doors Open Days event last Sunday— a huge thank you to all who visited, we enjoyed speaking to everyone & leading tours of Saline's Old Kirkyard🌞

📚 Explore the artistry of historical pedigrees! Join @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social for The Art of the Pedigree, a 3-week online course (10–24 Oct, 10:30–12:00) and discover how family trees were beautifully and symbolically depicted. 👉 Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...

Museum open for Doors Open Days tomorrow — 11am 'til 3pm🚪🙂 #Fife #heritage #DoorsOpenDays

The superbly preserved Craigmillar Castle, three miles south-east of the centre of Edinburgh. Mary, Queen of Scots came here in December 1566 when the "Craigmillar Bond", a plan to kill her second husband, Lord Darnley, was agreed. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Edinburgh

The 2025 programme looks great!Saline & District Heritage Society are booking our tickets🎟️

🔹We're open this Sunday, 21st September for Doors Open Days 2025 🔹Visit the Session House (below Parish Church) between 11am—3pm #Fife #Heritage

Do you have cherished old photographs of your family? Here's how to preserve and display them: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

We're taking part in Doors Open Days 2025! Saline Museum, (located in the Session House below the Parish Church) will be open on: *Sunday 21st Sept 11am—3pm* www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/west... #Fife #heritage #DoorsOpenDays