Sara Sheridan

I last saw her in November. We had an hour long conversation about inspiration & I got to tell her how much she's inspired me, esp in finding my political voice. I'll miss her. Everyone who knew her will. But she's a loss to our culture & our country. ❤️ to Susan & her family. X

YouTube video by shawmhor Jeane Freeman Wipes The Floor With Andrew Neil

Touching, personal gorgeous memorial service at Glasgow University today in memory of Jeane Freeman, taken too soon. Walked home feeling sober. Here's my favourite clip from the entire Referendum campaign. Jean taking down Andrew Neil She was glorious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDy...

Tracing Light Film Screening • Words • Kings Place Award-winning director Thomas Riedelsheimer works with light. It is his medium. Mysterious and beguiling. In this film, in remote island settings and hi-tech laboratories, he brings together art and s...

Our latest Film Tracing Light at Kings Place; Kings Cross. I'll be there for a Q&A with Dr James Fox and Julie Brook. London friends, do come. Thursday 19th March.
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Glasgow I love you. My only regret is that I haven't got a driveway for Big Elvis to refurbish. 😂

#Grayday 2026

Signed copies anyone? Have teamed up with
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Thank you. S

She's the pretty sister. ❤️ a bit of Edinburgh.

Long read on FB this afternoon about location, location, location in fiction.
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Stained glass artwork featuring a landscape with fields and flowers under a blue.sky

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #womensart

Love this. Sx

Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland A Guide to an Imagined Scotland

Please feel free to add more women to this thread - we're definitely not short of this kind of heritage... and yes, I wrote a book but I'm off to lie down now. Google Where are the Women by Sara Sheridan if you want to learn more about our incredible female heritage. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wher...

I wanted to say this. We come from amazing. All these women were extraordinary. They did not arse about with petty nonsense. There's a lot of catty partisan shit going round and we're in a polycrisis right now. So Just Don't. Let's make our grannies proud of us for a change.

Glaswegian Surgeon, Katherine MacPhail not only ran hospitals in Serbia during WWI but stayed on to found the country's first children's hospital in 1921. And with Katherine I'm going to stop cos this was off the top of my head but /10

From Aberdeen, Muriel Thomson, ambulance driver, evacuated wounded Belgian soldiers *under fire*. Just. Wow. She received many medals, one for helping the injured during a bombing raid. Our brave NHS workers today come from a long line of Scottish medical foremothers. Legends. /9

On the home front, Augusta Crichton Stuart opened her family home at Mount Stuart as a military hospital, which she helped run. How Downton Abbey. But Scottish obvs. Every one of these lasses would whip the asses of the ppl objecting to calling the new hospital after Louisa. /8

Another Uni of Glasgow alumni, Irishwoman, Dr Anne McIlroy always wore a thistle badge on her cap and ran hospitals in Troyes, Salonika and Servia. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre. In 1921 she became the Uk's first woman professor of medicine. I mean - What. A. Quine. /7

Many of the medical women who volunteered had been suffragettes. Flora Murray was Emmeline Pankhurst's Dr. Once the Scottish Women's Hospitals were founded, she was Dr in Charge in Paris, Boulogne and London. Amazing. Also, Louisa's partner so part of LGBTQ history too ... /6

These hospitals btw were founded from Edinburgh. The UK military wanted nothing to do with them. The French funded the 1st. 2 women key to the setting up: Dr Elsie Inglis & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson were both dogged about making their contribution. They saved 1000s of lives. /5

Glasgow graduate, surgeon Honoria Keer, was a Dr with the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She received the French Croix de Guerre & the Serbian order of St Saba - serving on both fronts. Sheroquine. I've never found a picture of her - in that sense she is MIA in our history. /4

Norah Neilson Grey served as a nurse during WWI but she was an alumni of the Glasgow School of Art & also painted and sketched life in military hospitals. She endowed us with an invaluable record as well as undertaking her medical duties. These women are legends. So. Brave /3

From Arran, Mary Lee Milne was head cook at the Scottish Women's Hospitals and worked closely with Dr Elsie Inglis, who was key to setting them up. Milne received a medal in 1916 cos she had been under fire. She later said 'I cannot bear to think of the things I saw.' /2

Good morning. Today a thread of brilliant Scottish medical women who contributed during WWI. Here are some of my favies 👇Flora Masson was awarded a Royal Red Cross 1st class & became a sister at Rosewell Hospital. She also wrote several biographies. /1

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Wee bit obsessed. 😂 Preorder discount still
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Presenting the cover of The Jewel Keepers. Woo hoo!
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What the Royal Family’s Links to Slavery Mean in the Age of Epstein Just as the former Prince Andrew will always be royal, so will the trafficking of African people.

I’m honored that The New Yorker has published a feature on my book by @samknightwrites.bsky.social examining the monarchy’s historical entanglement with slavery — and how patterns of exploitation and institutional silence echo into the present.
Read here: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Long-posting on FB today about (the dreaded) edits:
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Misspent youth came in handy today.

One of our faves as well. We worked on her Wikipedia article. She was a woman of many names!
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