Perth Women on Wikipedia

Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh The Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.

In 1932 Jane Haining took on the role of matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, which had about 400 pupils, a mixture of Jews and Christians. She helped keep the children safe until she was betrayed and arrested by German officers in April 1944. #Edinburgh
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A group of people with laptops editing Wikipedia.

A selection of Christmas cards by Protests and Suffragettes.

#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!

We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

Joan Eardley Winter Sun no 1

Joan Eardley “ Winter Sun no 1” 1961-2 oil on canvas #BMAG #Paintings #Art Joan’s life was cut short by breast cancer. Painting depicts the rugged coastline of Catterline NE Scotland

Millicent Fawcett. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823.


#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️

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Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

This TDoR, like so many days before, we mourn those we have lost and recognise those who are still with us.

It's our sincerest hope that, someday soon, the fight for the right to exist will cease and that there will be enough of us around to appreciate it.

Take care of yourselves.
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If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!

#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory

If you are an Ancestry user, keep an eye on the Search menu options. Some users have Full Text Search, in time hopefully that will roll out to all. Could be very useful not just for #FamilyHistory but also for #OnePlaceStudies!

#Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

ABERDEEN (TDOR)
6pm Thu 20th Nov
Sir Duncan Rice Library

Dunblane traditions by John Monteath | Open Library Dunblane traditions by John Monteath, 1887, Reprinted by J. Miller edition, in English

/…done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to try to make him confess to witchcraft, so Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead later tried & hanged!

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For #InternationalMensDay - a thread of amazing Allies. First, Sir Walter Scott who supported several female writers including Susan Ferrier who found the 'burden of authorship' heavy. Scott called her his 'sister shadow' & said she was a better writer than him. (she was!)/1

Other talented Stevenson women include Flora & Louisa (pictured) Flora organised 'ragged schools' for poor kids & Louisa was a suffrage campaigner. supporter of university education for women, 1 of the founders of Queen Margaret Uni & a nursing pioneer. #RobertLouisStevensonDay

For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?

Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott

Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free

@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
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Scottish GENES Webinar - The Godly Commonwealth: Discover Scottish Church Records
Sat 29 Nov 2025, at 7pm (UK)

The Kirk's history, and how to find the records.

Registration £10, via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (Recording available for a week after, and a handout will be supplied)

#genealogy

#OtD 17 Nov 1915 thousands of housewives and workers of Glasgow marched on the sheriff's court in support of 20,000 rent strikers, leading to the introduction of rent controls throughout the UK stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8925...

Love this junction box mural in the Govan area of Glasgow celebrating the life of the Glaswegian suffragette, rent strike organiser, activist and politician Helen Crawfurd (1877 to 1954).

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#glasgow #mural #suffragettes #glasgowhistory #govan #streetart

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🎄 Suffragette Christmas Cards: The B&W Collection
Five archival photographs featuring pipers, bell-ringers, census resisters, and tartan-clad suffragettes — reimagined for the holidays.

Cards are £2 each, or all 12 for £20

🚨 Pre-orders OPEN NOW 🚨
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#Scotland #SocialEnterprise

Ten days in a mad-house; or, Nellie Bly's experience on Blackwell's island. Feigning insanity in order to reveal asylum horrors. : Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Inte... 120 p. illus. 20cm.Miscellaneous sketches. By Nellie Bly. Trying to be a servant: p. [99]-109; Nellie Bly as a white slave: p. [110]-120.

Ten Days in a Mad-House is available open source in the @archive.org
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On #RemembranceDay, we encourage you to use the Mapping Memorials site to find war memorials dedicated to women like Scottish nurse Margaret Brebner (1885–1942), who became a Matron in Singapore and was killed when her evacuation ship was bombed.

womenofscotland.org.uk/women/margar...

These cards look fabulous 😍

Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.

We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...

Scotland's WASPI Women Fight On!

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

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📷by Gill, Original Sketch for the March of the Women c1910, from Fergus and Meg permanent exhibition at Perth Art Gallery #PerthScotland

Cover art for March of the Women was designed by artist / dancer Margaret Morris (1891-1980) - one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia Though she never lived in Perth, her partner was Perthshire artist JD Fergusson and she donated their archive to @perthmuseum.bsky.social
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Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.

Game designers bring Scotland's mysterious Picts to life.

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Poem by Stella Browne : 'Scrapped: The Women Munition Workers of Britain, Before and After November 1918'
'You have done well: To you we owe our lives
Our soldiers’ glory, and our prosperous days.
Handmaids of Vulcan, sisters, heroes’ wives!
Our thanks shall match our praise.' 1/2

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