Lots of #GeneralStrike100 stuff around at the moment as we approach its centenary. Fifty years ago, Leeds Other Paper looked back at events of 50 years earlier with a series on how the 1926 General Strike unfolded in and around Leeds.

www.helion.co.uk/military-his... 20% off the eBook today.

Dunsapie Loch, earlier this morning. Edinburgh

📣Your attention please! 🚪🩷The Pink Door House is up for sale. 🚨This is not a drill, I repeat, the Pink Door House is up for sale! cc : @spurtle.bsky.social www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

The Archives is hosting an open day on Saturday 23rd May, with tours at 11:00, 12:00, 13:30 and 14:30, each lasting 1 hour. To book email: archives@dundeecity.... or phone: 01382 434494. Numbers are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027 It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏

🗳️ Election hustings – Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith Hear from local candidates + ask your questions. 🗓 Thu 16 April, 7.15pm (tomorrow) 📍 Broughton St Mary’s, Bellevue Crescent Free (donations welcome) Questions: [email protected] Hosted by @spurtle.bsky.social

We’ve an extra beginners’ #FamilyHistory session coming soon! Come along to Newington Library on Thursday 14 May at 2pm to find out about the library's free online resources that can help you with your research. Please book your place by contacting Newington Library - zurl.co/Lyv3Y

Funding goal reached to buy one of Scotland's oldest churches, 12th-century Linton Kirk in the Borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A year ago, I cried when govt agreed to consult on Council Tax debt collection. I’m reposting it today as IT'S DONE. It WILL change the rules Currently miss a monthly payment & within 3wks, you can be told pay the whole year. From Apr 27, they must wait 63 days plus the max admin cost will be £100

I don't think ANY of them have heard of the Nolan Principles. I think they should have to go on a course in order to apply for candidacy. DBS check, one day course on law/principles/remit. There'd be nobody left by the end.

"The Seven Principles of Public Life (also known as the Nolan Principles) apply to anyone who works as a public office-holder." #elections www.gov.uk/government/p...

Perhaps our most familiar and charismatic auks, these bright-billed burrow nesters certainly catch the eye! Find out more about Puffins in the graphic below and by visiting their BTO BirdFacts page: www.bto.org/learn/about-... #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

When it closed its doors in 2022 the Victoria School in Newhaven was by far the oldest in the city still in public use. But this wasn't an end, it… https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/04/15/educating-newhaven-the-thread-about-the-victoria-and-other-schools/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Best time of year. Spring is springing. It might still be a bit chill and damp but the plants are blossoming and buds are bursting. Ferns, woodland, hawthorn, flowers, primrose.

slightly related-- discovered www.edinburghminute.com through a friend last week and it's been great. one guy that rounds up local stories/community events, without AI, and it means I don't miss hearing when a local shop might be closing. i did see the one-shot club on there, so mb you're familiar?

Social History Curator's Group Conference Friday 10th July at The People's History Museum, Manchester @phm.org.uk ‘The Long March – Strikes, Protests and Riots Through History’. Tickets will be on sale soon at the link below, with Early Bird Tickets available until the 12th May:

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

Paperback of Máel Coluim III book is now available to pre-order from publisher: birlinn.co.uk/product/mael...

Out today!

See for example Economic History Review guidelines: "To submit an article whose review of the literature, analysis of findings, or conclusions were generated by AI is unacceptable.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

A public service announcement for writers: please be wary of scams. Canongate editors use @canongate.co.uk email addresses and will not email you from other accounts. We’ve recently heard several accounts of people who have been contacted by malicious actors claiming to be real Canongate editors.

14th April 2026 06.07

National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of building ‘The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection … is “at full capacity” and not at the standard required to safely preserve the items, the museum board’s chair has said.’

#OnThisDay in 1966 my parents were married. Today they celebrate their 60th (diamond) wedding anniversary. 🥰

'Homes for Heroes': Romborough Way and Gardens, Hither Green - some of the 98 houses built by Lewisham Metropolitan Borough Council under the 1919 Housing Act and completed in 1921.

Scholars specialising in the Middle East, including several Fellows of @britishacademy.bsky.social, have raised a warning about the damage that priceless heritage sites might face from bombing in Iran www.thetimes.com/article/957f...

Today!

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Pipers’ Path, with the morning sun on the city on the horizon. Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

My latest Scottish GENES Newsletter has an Irish theme this week! eomail6.com/web-version?... #genealogy

Scots pine silhouette in the Caledonian forest. The patches of melting snow on the hill behind made for an interesting and unusual backdrop (I think so anyway!). . #nativewoodland #naturephotography

Houses on Castle Chain Pontefract - Built in the 16th or 17th Century they were originally two houses with a later cottage. The buildings were extended in the late 18th century and altered a hundred years later. Public Domain

Gardeners beware! You may want to cover any tender plants you've already planted out because there's a chance of a frost tonight in prone locations in the countryside 📉🌡️

This Thursday we are in Sheffield to co-host this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' (#HAP26) day, with The National Archives, @ihr.bsky.social and @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social. The 2026 theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives'. Full programme now available: bit.ly/4s5UMCS #Skystorians

Lanarkshire firm fined after a major effluent spill into the Bothlin Burn that caused significant environmental damage. SEPA found highly toxic…

Thursday is also publication day of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq Next in the RHS 'New Historical Perspectives' book series. Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Check out our newest foyer display in Archives & Special Collections - "Performing Memory: Students and the Institution in 1951" curated by UofG MLitt History of Art student Yuling Huang!🎓 #UofG575

Wonderland was where the pocket and birthday money of teenage me was exchanged for Airfix 1:72 scale models. A definite end of an era they are moving from Lothian Road but pleased they are relocating as one day I always intend to get back into models. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/iconic-...

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Are you registered to vote? Election 2026 theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/13/a...

A free one-day conference. #coal #mining #LocalHistory

Archives & Special Collections Assistant (Graduate Trainee) @glasgow.ac.uk 🗃️🎓 3 posts full time, expected start date 3rd August 2026. #JobFairy www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives...

13th April 2026 06.08

To fetch the mapped boundaries for any UK electoral area, try MapIt. #MapMonday #elections 1/3 mapit.mysociety.org

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"The report, A degree of regulation: Building a more financially sustainable and resilient higher education sector (HEPI Debate Paper 45), calls on the Government to introduce new measures to curb the most damaging behaviours now evident across the sector." www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-de...

Place-name of the day 147. Because some of these are already in bloom. Hatherleigh (Dev). OE haguþorn + leah. ‘Hawthorn wood/clearing’. #PlaceNames #naturewriting

Evening light over Seahouses harbour. View from our room. Nice.