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…
Tag: Books
Heritage Hits – Things to do in Autumn
Hello all! We are very sorry for the radio silence over the last few weeks but due to the recent events in Glasgow (namely a second fire at a very well-known building) and our PhD’s, we have been a bit snowed under with work. We have however, managed to compile a list of ‘heritage hits’…
5 New(ish) Historical Novels with Female Protagonists
I love reading. It’s a cliche but a novel really does let you escape somewhere else, even if it’s just for half an hour. Reading gives me a place to just focus on one thing, and I find that this has become especially important as I spend most of my time thinking and writing and trying…
Period Chats : Jenny Landreth
Last year we were lucky enough to talk to the wonderful Jenny Landreth at Arlington Swimming Baths as part of Book Week Scotland. And drum roll please……..we can now share the recording from that night. Jenny, who is the author of Swell – A Waterbiography and The Guardian swimming blog, took us through the story…
Making Faces – Anna Coleman Ladd
For the last few months I have been researching Scottish war memorial design. It’s not exactly what I had in mind when I started researching women and design. Yet here we are and I must say it is a fascinating topic. The first World War has many heartbreaking stories associated with it; loved-ones bodies not…
Book Review:WI Cookbook The First 100 years by Mary Gwynn
The WI gives you an opportunity to learn something you didn’t know or couldn’t do yesterday – Marchwood WI member I have a confession. I’m in my 30’s and I can’t cook. Tragic, I know.What makes this situation worse is that my mum is actually a Home Economics (also known as ‘Home eccies’ in Glaswegian)…
History. Heritage. Hilarity. 