PREPARE FOR BATTLE!! A couple of months ago we were lucky enough to visit Bannockburn for a wee day oot. Although I loved the thought of visiting the newly refurbished Bannockburn experience, I was a little skeptical about the new fangled technology added to jazz up the overall experience of visiting, what really is a…
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Exhibition Review: A Century of Style
WARNING: if you do not like fashion history or textiles look away now. This is a long overdue post, The History Girls and friends FINALLY got around to seeing ‘A Century of Style’ in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum this weekend, and we very much enjoyed ourselves. There was a lot of this type of thing: ‘Oh my gooood,…
Let’s Get Our Documentary On
It’s cold, it has been raining for what feels like the past hundred years and I don’t want to leave my central heating, pyjamas or bed. What to do with all this extra time indoors? Why watch documentaries on iplayer of course! Here’s a look at what I have been enjoying, hope you find some juicy…
The Weird & Wonderful: 5 Cultural & Historical Sites to visit
As many of our followers are aware, Rachael and myself are international jet-setters and we like nothing more than visiting the weird and wonderful culture sites in different countries. If you like odd and gross things found in museums, this countdown is right up your street! A bit like Top of the Pops (if you remember it), I’ll…
Photography: A Victorian Sensation Exhibiton Review
Last weekend I went off to Edinburgh to FINALLY visit the Victorian Photography exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. It’s one of their big yins, and it is held upstairs in their temporary exhibition space. I do adore the Victorians, they are totally insane and so I was very much looking forward to what these…
The History Girls go to the Cinema: Suffragette
Well, Carey Mulligan is divine for starters. You really feel an incredible amount of sympathy for her character Maude Watts, a reluctant suffragette. Her hopes for the future and the sacrifices she makes in the process of her empowerment were felt by everyone in the audience, with the force feeding scene being particularly hard to watch, really…
The October Lowdown: Top 5 things to do this month
October is my favourite month of the year, not just because it’s my birthday, but because it’s Halloween, it’s winter coat buying time, it’s Strictly and Downton and Oscar-bait-movie watching time! There’s also some exhibitions on and that. So, here is the History Girl Lowdown for the month, and as we say here in Scotland, have…
Agent Carter: Feminist Bad-Ass and Style Icon
I love Agent Carter. Love. It. In case you haven’t heard, Agent Carter is a brand new American TV series which forms part of the ever-expanding Marvel universe. The 8 episode series centres on Peggy Carter, played fantastically by English actress Hayley Atwell. Peggy was Captain America’s love-interest and all round war-hero spy in the (frankly mediocre)…
Its all about Alf – Stories & newsapers
As many of our followers know, Rachael and myself have been working hard on the next Gilded Age event entitled Alf Webster: Glasgow’s Lost Genius. We will be celebrating the life and works of the magnificent stained glass artist and master-craftsman, Alfred Alexander Webster (1883-1915), in a one day conference held in the at Websters…
Cast Iron: Cherubs Everywhere!
I recently spent a blissful few days on the Isle of Mull, purely for holidaying purposes. We climbed hills, we ate freshly caught crabs and oysters, and we drank Tobermory whisky. Separate posts on Mull and on Iona, which we also visited, will follow over the next few weeks. The whole island is outrageously beautiful,…
Celebrating Scotland’s urban heritage
We were lucky enough to attend a bloody fantastic double lecture by the Scotland’s Urban Past and The Discovering the Clyde teams last week. Both projects are awe-inspiring RCHAMS (Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland) projects. Scotland’s Urban Past is a five-year nationwide project aimed at all communities within Scotland’s towns and cities,…
Head to Head at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
I recently spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, a deliciously fun visit if, like me, you are interested in dress and textiles. But on this particular visit I tore myself away from the brocades and tartans for a while, and wandered around the temporary sculpture exhibition in the contemporary gallery on…
History. Heritage. Hilarity. 