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#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

The Old Toll House on the Southside of Glasgow, with Pollokshaws Road in the distance.

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#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowhistory #pollokshaws

A metal sculpture of a tree in a district all too lacking in trees, with a tall and moderately ugly office building behind. A traffic cone is perching in the branches, because of course it is.

The "Tree That Never Grew" on Bothwell Street, bearing the four emblems of the city: the bird, the bell, the fish, and the cone.

He went on to say there may be more than one skull amongst the divvied up bones in the 3 places, so maybe its best they all stay where they are 🤔

I was at a talk by Neil Baxter who sort of tried this when he organised the first Glasgow 'City of Love' festival in 2002/3. Apparently three places hold St Valentine's bones: Glasgow, Dublin and Terni in Italy.
Dublin didn't want to send their remains to Glasgow for a temp exhibition...

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

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It's sad to hear reports that this mural of St Enoch and a young St Mungo on a tenement on High Street in Glasgow has been removed during work currently being carried out on the building. The mural was painted in 2018 by the street artist Smug.

#glasgow #mural #streetart #glasgowstreetart

BW photos of Heath Ledger and Michael Hutchence

#OtD 21 Jan 1974 postal workers began four-day strike at the Jersey City, NJ, bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as "The Outlaws" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9379...

Poster for the Alexander Thomson Society Glasgow 850 lectures starting January 24th, 2026

For anyone in and around #Glasgow here are the next four Saturday afternoon talks at 1pm in the Mitchell Library Moir Dyer room for #Glasgow850 by The Alexander Thomson Society.
All events are free, just sign up at Eventbrite below.
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Happy St Kentigern's Day all Glaswegians 💚 ~ spotted from a far distance here on @govanhillbaths.bsky.social #Glasgow Coat Of Arms window etching... snapped at @glasgowcoa.bsky.social free & community-sourced photo exhib @ Deep End on Nithsdale St which runs until 6th Feb 🙌 bsky.app/profile/csbu...

A nice snag this morning from my local Hospice shop; an original AP Thomson etching of Glasgow Cross. Better still, it's in the original frame, with its original label, telling me that it is only one of 75 signed artist's proofs. A suitable gift to myself on today, the Feast of St Mungo.

Colloquy in Glaschu by Edwin Morgan God but le son du cor, Columba sighed to Kentigern, est triste au fond silvarum! Frater, said Kentigern, I see no harm. J'aime le son du cor, when day has died, deep in the bois, and oystercatchers rise before the fowler as he trudges home and sermo lupi loosens the grey loam. À I’horizon lointain is paradise, abest silentium, le cor éclate – – et meurt, Columba mused, but Kentigern replied, renaît et se prolonge. The cell is filled with song. Outside, puer cantat. Veni venator sings the gallus kern. The saints dip startled cups in Mungo’s well.

Today, 13 January, is the Feast Day of St Mungo (AKA St Kentigern), patron saint of Glasgow. Edwin Morgan’s “Colloquy in Glaschu” imagines a conversation between St Mungo & St Columba.

From CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry
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Happy Birthday David Bowie, born this day in 1947.

His 26th and final album "Blackstar" (★) was released on this day in 2016.

David Bowie would pass away just a couple of days later. Rest in Peace.

Happy Heavenly Birthday David Bowie. You will forever be a Starman and will shine on for eternity.

#DavidBowie #BowieForever

Happy heavenly birthday! David Bowie (1947–2016) would have turned 79 today. #davidbowie #bowie #thinwhiteduke #stationtostation #changesonebowie #low #heroes #lodger #scarymonsters #blackstar #vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky #vinylsky #vinylcommunity

‘HEROES’ IN THE SERIES FINALE OF NETFLIX’S STRANGER THINGS

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#StrangerThings

Portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh by James Craig Annan c.1901

The three perfumes by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh c.1912

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh died #otd 1933.
She was an artist, illustrator, and created beautiful works of embroidery, gesso panels, leaded glass and repoussé metalwork
#GlasgowGirls
#GlasgowStyle

I think that Canterbury Cathedral epitomises Mies Van de Rohe's words: "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space." The late 14th-century nave at Canterbury Cathedral 🕍 feels more organic than man-made to me 🌿—an utterly remarkable achievement of medieval craftsmanship ✨

Screenshot of blog post about Hogmanay in Scotland from "The Archivist History blog" https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/lang-may-yer-lum-reek/

Happy #Hogmanay from #Scotland.
Have a read of my article about some of our New Year traditions with a pinch of #folklore and #superstition
See you on the other side of the 🔔🔔🔔 and have a lovely Ne'erday tomorrow!
#skystorians
#history
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Women protesting equal rights and equal pay during the Dagenham Ford Strike in 1968. This led to the equal pay act of 1970

Today is an important anniversary for women's rights in the UK.
#otd 50 years ago #women eventually won the fight for workplace #equality
On 29th Dec 1975, the Equal Pay Act (1970)and the Sex Discrimination Act came into force and the Equal Opportunities Commission was set up (now, EHRC)

This is the earliest Scottish-minted coin ever found. It was struck almost 900 years ago during the reign of King David I of Scotland.

The coin has now been saved for the nation 👏

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Victorian Christmas card with subject possibly taken from Italian folklore story of La Befana, who is a friendly witch who delivers gifts to children on 5th January. Or maybe its just two stereotypical witches depictions of women on pointy hats riding broomsticks in the air

Bats and their winged cherub type jockeys to wish a bright new year.

Day 12 of #12DaysOfChristmas #ArchiveChristmasCard with a #GothicYuletide spin.
Hope everyone had a #MerryChristmas and are now safely travelling home, although maybe not flying on a broomstick or a bat!
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas

A Creepy Victorian Christmas The first commercially produced Christmas card is usually credited to an artist by the name of John Callcott Horsley, RA (Royal Academician) who was a British painter and illustrator, known for his…

For anyone who isn't rushing about finishing their last minute Christmas shopping or trying to finish wrapping gifts, have a read of my post about Christmas greeting cards and weird Victorian imagery and symbolism!
Merry Christmas all! 🎄
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A terrifying Christmas pudding upsetting your sleep. This image was not actually a postcard at first, but from a magazine illustration.

Victorian card warning fair girls not to eat unhealthy foods or to excess over the festive season

Day 11 of #12DaysOfChristmas #ArchiveChristmasCard with a #GothicYuletide spin.
Today is #ChristmasPudding so enjoy these warnings about overeating. Victorians knew how to spoil all the fun with some well chosen criticism & body shaming..
#CreepyChristmas
#DarkChristmas
#Christmas2025
#ChristmasEve

An unhappy looking decapitated snowman head on a platter complete with the method of his destruction

I wanted to post this too, although it is an image circulating that pretends to be an original Victorian #ArchiveChristmasCard but is edited. The original shows the children carrying a treat, but in this version, it has been replaced with a decapitated #snowman
#12DaysOfChristmas
#GothicYuletide

A group of scared looking children with a melting snowman, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons

A Robin looking upon a sinister depiction of a snowman holding sprigs of seasonal holly and mistletoe

This weird vintage Christmas postcard features a woman appearing from inside a large snowman as a black bird looks on. No idea what the symbolism is behind this imagery other than to slightly unsettle the viewer..

A sad melting snowman is holding an umbrella in this Victorian christmas postcard

Day 10 of #12DaysOfChristmas posts showing #ArchiveChristmasCard s with a #GothicYuletide twist.
Today's theme is #snowman so enjoy this #CreepyChristmas offering!
#DarkChristmas
#Christmas2025

Very clever! Her hair was more auburn than brown, not sure how easy this would be to do?

I'm not a fan of clowns either tbh!

“Sit still. You’re only here for scale.”
“Throw the stick!”