Call for Papers! Our autumn conference will celebrate Scotland’s #Railway200 We are taking a broad approach to the subject &, as ever welcome proposals for short talks from anyone with an interest in Scotland’s transport & industrial history. Email [email protected]

Happy 200th bday @royalscottishacad.bsky.social 🎉 My wee John Houston party hat 🥹

The bestest Bradford boy

Easter spread so far 🐣 Three loaves including easter bunny bread, hot cross buns sans cross, and homemade butter with kefir! Lamb in the oven, and wild garlic mayo potato salad in the fridge 😋

Trinketssss

More Waters of Leith wanderings! Loads of wild garlic in the fridge ready for pesto!

Very fun visit to Almond Valley Heritage Trust yesterday! "Not all slush is the same" - couldn't agree more!

GuMo

Letztens

Waters of Leith-ing, Slateford Aqueduct-ing and Wild Garlic-ing!

Green Man spotting 💚

Conker hat.

Hello Bluesky, looking to be a little more active on here again! Where are all my museum folks??

We are pleased to announce the latest cohort of SHAPE Involve and Engage awardees, who will be working with various partner organisations in the GLAM sector to help bring the humanities and social sciences closer to the public. Read more about the projects here: https://bit.ly/4suMO75

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!

Delighted my collaboration with Industrial Museums Scotland @shacklington.bsky.social ‘Sniffers in Residence: Using Smell to Engage Intergenerational Audiences with Industrial Heritage' is one of the projects to be funded under this scheme! Look out for industrial smelly things from April onwards!

Went awol from here...but I curated an exhibition! Its about music in North Lanarkshire and its open at Summerlee until October! 💃🎸🕺

Thanks, Justin! Loved doing these interviews and potentially more to come!

Enjoyed last night’s preview of ‘Everything Flows’ at Summerlee Museum #Coatbridge. It’s an exhibition about North Lanarkshire’s music scenes & opens today The brilliant interviews by @shacklington.bsky.social will be added to our oral history collection @nlheritage.bsky.social

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience? We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE) Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Does anyone know what these are? They were at my local Turkish supermarket. I assumed for butter (very Amish of me) or biscuits? Anyway I bought one so things shaped like this coming soon!

The Cottingley Fairies are one of the most famous hoaxes in British folklore. In 1917, two young girls from Cottingley, West Yorkshire—Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths—claimed to have photographed fairies near their home. The five photographs they produced captured the

So last night I randomly met Barbara Dickson and Richard Demarco Just a normal evening in Edinburgh really

Join the Art UK team 📣 We're looking for a Learning and Engagement Officer to work on our Murals Digitisation and Engagement programme. Find out more and apply 👉 artuk.org/about/jobs #ArtJobs #LearningJobs

Leithhhhhh

A good art day. The new Colourist's exhibition at Dovecot Studios and the new show at Talbot Rice. Some cracking stuff!

Wee pint and two pickled eggs Alright alright alright

Dougal and a little Dougal-Doppelgänger 🥺

The second time I've posted art on here that shows the female form and it's been labelled as 'adult content' (the first one was ironically a sketch by Louise Bourgeois...) In case it needed repeating; a woman's body is not inherently sexual. I doubt it would be labelled the same for a male torso...

The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

Oysters, market Kombucha, art: a little solo treat day in Leith

Eating pancakes in bed ahhhh bring on the weekend!

Me, mum and my grandma Margaret at the Bradford Industrial Museum, probably being pulled by a Shire Horse called Norman

Why didn't I buy the £7 Lidl clogs at the time whyyyyy

There's a cafe a few mins from the museum and it's a real experience. Crispy or soft rolls, tartan sauce (red and brown), you can buy lasagne and fish and chips if you so desire, but also vapes, water guns and celtic themed bar mats. It also has a massive photo of Amsterdam on the back wall. Vibes

On this International Women's Day I make *him* carry the compost

@handhyorkshire.bsky.social I need your help. I have found a few murky pics of the Yorkshire Ladies Motor Club*, founded 1926, but wonder if anyone you know has anything better, perhaps even a badge, a relative who was a member? *AKA Yorkshire Ladies Motoring Club or Yorkshire Women's Motor Club

Absolute score in the charity shop today. Obviously the Bradford one is key, but was very chuffed to find a Glasgow Garden Festival badge! @glasgowgardenfestival.org !

Castle Garden http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78806

My latest art-scot article is now live! I interviewed the amazing Faye Eleanor Woods about all things Glasgow, Guinness and even Alasdair Gray. You can read the piece here: www.art-scot.com/faye-eleanor... 🖼 It Starts and Ends with Anniesland, Raw pigment, acrylic ink and oil on canvas.

How's your second to last shift at your job going??

Not me checking LinkIn at the pub

Put out the first outdoor wash of the year and its just started hailing 😵‍💫

Met a dog today and I misheard his name and thought it was Bacchus and couldn't believe this dug was called Bacchus but Jack just told me it was Haggis. Like still good but Bacchus was elite

Creel cat!

Three men, pints perfectly synchronised, photographed in the Seaforth bar on the corner of Gorbals St and Rutherglen Rd in 1966 by actor Steven Berkoff. 📷 Steven Berkoff #glasgow

Am I amongst the wrong crowd??? Just tried to play the Maid of Orleans and and no one knew it 🤨🤨🤨🤨

In Dun-Bear

Last week's surprise encounter with the Wolf of Badenoch

Look at this lovely thing on the outside of Dunkeld and Birnam train station