Our next guest post is by Morag Cross. Morag is an independent archive researcher and archaeologist, specialising in building histories and land ownership. The social history of any site uncovers previously unknown figures, especially women, whose records are often unrecognised. She worked previously on the Mackintosh Architecture and Glasgow’s official WW1 websites, researched the Cowgate…
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‘Aff Tae Bonnie Scotland’: Irish female holiday makers in 20th Century Scotland.
Today’s Guest Post ‘Aff to Bonnie Scotland: Irish female holiday makers in 20th Century Scotland’ is by Rachel Sayers. Rachel (with an e) is an early career dress historian, blogger and curator who is currently awaiting to start a job at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. She has worked for several museums in…
Guest Blog Post: The Importance of Celebrating Women’s History in Media
Today’s Guest Blog Post is written by Alan Forbes, Producer and all round nice guy from Up Next Studios. (Side note: I did ask for Alan’s professional title, only to be informed that it was ‘Magician’.) We’ve been lucky enough to work with both Alan and his brother, Graham, over the past few years creating…
We need YOU – 2019 edition!
We need your help! As many of our readers know, we have become very, very busy recently and cannot always update the blog as frequently as we would like. We would, therefore, like to open our digital doors so to speak and invite contributions. So, if you have a piece of research, an opinion, book/exhibition…
Angélique Lucille Pringle: Florence Nightingale’s favourite disciple
Alastair is an Edinburgh-born Hawick author who lives in Glasgow with his partner Jaime-Lynn and son Alexander. He has extensive first-hand experience of Scotland’s care services, having been fostered from an early age through local authority and later Barnardo’s placements, and sits on the Discovery group of the Scottish Care Review. Educated in Fife and…
Guest Post – Jessie Stephen: Suffrage Pioneer
Anabel Marsh, aka The Glasgow Gallivanter, graduated in History almost 40 years ago, but didn’t give it much further thought until she retired a few years ago. She now volunteers as a women’s history tour guide with both Glasgow Women’s Library and Maryhill Burgh Halls and is enjoying discovering all the wonderful women who weren’t…
Citz Superstar – Mary Sweeney
Mary was born in Derry in 1923, the eldest of three children. At 17, at the outbreak of war, she travelled to Manchester alone where she worked as a nurse for the duration of the war. She was the only woman on a boat full of soldiers on the way over. The boat had to stop…
Guest Post: Violet Mary Craig Roberton (1888-1954)
Hope you’re all having a good January so far, if not never fear, there are eleven more months to make it up. Today we are chuffed to present another lovely Guest Post, this time about a personal history rediscovered by an intrepid researcher, take it away Clare. Clare Thomson is a librarian in Special collections…
Clouds Got In My Way
Guest Contributor: Heather Pearson lives in Edinburgh and writes stories, commentary and poetry, mainly around women’s experiences. She runs and curates the The Grantidote website which centres on women – their lives, their faces and places, their enormous impact on the world and their stories, as seen by those who live with them or remember them. In this…
History. Heritage. Hilarity. 