Maggie Craig
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
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Scottish writer and historian. Loves writing, reading, cats and drinking tea.
I think my favourite bit in this is the worthy shepherd and his wife.
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Lost Glasgow
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Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese ambassador to the UK, is in Glasgow, and took time out to take his Paddington Bear to meet our Hyndland Paddington, who has been keeping watch over the West End for 45 years.
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An inspired choice for St Valentine's Day!
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Doric Chas
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Sna draps enjoying the sun Bliddy caul though
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pokarim
2 days ago
#photography
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Association for Scottish Literature
2 days ago
James Leslie Mitchell (1901โ1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG โ & many other titles from historical to science fiction โ he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century. A ๐ ๐งต โฆ ๐๐ 1/10
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The Kimono Gallery
3 days ago
Early-blooming cherry blossoms at Oi Yume-no-sato Park in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Photography by Mitsuki Koyama (koyama4645 on Instagram)
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Tragically, this sums up our rotten weather perfectly. Dreich, dreich and super dreich. Come back sun.
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Lost Glasgow
4 days ago
More power to your pipes, Jack!
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Douglas Skelton
4 days ago
Available for preorder!
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Love this song!
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5 days ago
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The Herald
6 days ago
'Itโs a devastating day for Labour when even Anas Sarwar agrees that the Prime Minister cannot be trusted' Follow LIVE updates following Sarwar's call for Starmer to stand down:
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
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Utterly gorgeous. Here's a health to the King-over-the-Water.
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Association for Scottish Literature
7 days ago
Fower oufant wivies stude, Ane at ilka poster, As the wee May oโ Caledon Said her Pater Nosterโฆ โLewis Spenceโs โThe Wee May oโ Caledonโ imagines Mary Queen of Scots as a child, visited by four fairy crones who cast her doom from A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS
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Just watched this. Very interesting.
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SeaWindowCraster
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The Kimono Gallery
9 days ago
Detail of photo: โTaken in front of Harajuku station, some people asked the girl to pose for a shot while she was returning from the Shichi Go San (Shinto coming-of-age) ceremony at Meiji shrine.โ Text and photographer Laurent T (aka thery_lg) of Flickr
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Bill Grueskin
11 days ago
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Surgeons' Hall Museums
10 days ago
The answer this week is laudanum.
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WeRateDogs
11 days ago
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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Great capture. I tried to get a picture of a hummingbird while visiting North Carolina a few years back but they move so fast!
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The Kimono Gallery
12 days ago
Maiko Mamemaru. Hassaku (ๅ ซๆ) 2010. Photography by tad64 on Flickr
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Lost Glasgow
11 days ago
I'll miss our occasional jousts. I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another. Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.
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Allan Massie obituary: Acclaimed novelist, critic and commentator
The writer lived in the Borders and excelled in historical novels which merged the personal and political.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pp78y3lyo?fbclid=IwY2xjawPwBbFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeqGlYtzCyojjeYckxiw2gdZciiKSEMEh6Zx-_fJmHwjK6hbD6zSPCuxjM0-M_aem_QOcX7h32ixUSdDyhtjkEpQ
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neil guthrie
11 days ago
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Il Canaletto (1697โ1768), Venice, the Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day (c1754), at Christie's, NYC, estimate on request (which is to say, you can't afford it)
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Lost Glasgow
13 days ago
The Bowlers and the bunnets... Taken
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in 1927 - the Shipwrights of John Brown's, at Clydebank. Pic: WDC Arts & Heritage
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Wow!
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12 days ago
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Luisa A Jones Author
12 days ago
#RomFicFeb26
Day 3. Iโve always adored love stories. I find it uplifting to follow a characterโs emotional journey to finding connection and the love they deserve with someone else. I also enjoy exploring the ups and downs of relationships.
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neil guthrie
17 days ago
I just love Chantilly porcelain, especially for the freshness of its imitations of Japanese Kakiemon ware. More in the alt text about this pretty tea bowl I recently acquired
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Ewan Gibbs
18 days ago
An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
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Wonderful cover, very evocative.
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17 days ago
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Ricky Pound
18 days ago
Andrea Palladio (1508-80). Regarded by many as the most influential architect in the history of the Western world.
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Very moving. Such a brave woman.
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neil guthrie
21 days ago
Chinese teabowl decorated c1744 by Christian Friedrich Metzsch in Bayreuth, with E&H Manners, London
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Lost Glasgow
21 days ago
The ploughboy of the western world... Here's a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wish for mair, man? Wha kens, before his life may end, What his share may be o' care, man?
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Great to hear about children writing.
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22 days ago
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Olga Nesterova
23 days ago
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksenโs note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
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The Kimono Gallery
26 days ago
Kosode Early 18th Century Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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SeaWindowCraster
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Horrible name but beautiful flower.
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So beautiful.
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about 1 month ago
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neil guthrie
about 1 month ago
Pincushion with the names of the
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prisoners executed at Tyburn in 1746
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Happy Old New Year
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Happy Old New Year
When Scotland and England were operating in two different time zones.
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about 1 month ago
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Jon Cooper
about 1 month ago
โGod damn them all.โ
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An appropriate poem for snowy Scotland today!
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neil guthrie
about 2 months ago
Born on this day in 1720, Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Prince of Wales and later King Charles III in the
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neil guthrie
about 2 months ago
Large tureen in the form of a cabbage with small artichoke tureens (Strasbourg, 1750), George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
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