Nina Baker

Where was The Industrial Museum of Scotland?

Another annoying American habit imported here.

I did my A-levels in 1972 and never got my one certificate as you had to go to the school to get them and I was away working at sea by then. English comprehensive.

Compulsory jumping into the air also not required. Lazy photo cliche.

Grrr indeed. Guerilla allotmenteering then?
Try some sneaky tatties next spring?

Babes in arms policy: Babies do not require a ticket

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Metropolitan Science Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…

I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️

One for the Christmas 26 list then!

Our Storm Floris refugee has now left to try to find her way south from Scotland, and I have gathered a bucket of windfalls from our more exposed apple trees. Not enough to get the juice press out and far too much to accommodate in freezer.

Appalling if accurate. I suppose that if a site has for some unlikely reason been unused for some years and the council has no allotment waiting list (also pretty unlikely) then this might be justifiable.
Otherwise not.

Bertha Benz c. 1870, hair in ringlets, lace fichu. B&W oval photo

Bertha Benz drove 66 miles in 1st long distance car journey #OTD 5 Aug 1888, driving w' 2 sons from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Had tired of husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road without him, fixed technical issues en route & raised lots of publicity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_...

Our bush tomatoes produce loads of little toms outdoors, even in Glasgow.

I love being on the May in a storm.

We are lucky to have a big garden but if I was reduced to a balcony I think I would grow berries and salads.

Congratulations!

Two new (and very different) publications coming soon. Including my first research article in an academic journal focused on "resistance and resilience" in Edinburgh council housing and the usable histories of housing in Scotland.

Due to health issues, I am going to be attempting brassicas over the winter, sprouting broc and spinach.
Weird thing is that beans do just fine, it's just the peas letting me down.

Sibyl Rock, control engineering 1955

Sibyl Rock US mass spectrometry & computing pioneer. 1940s key part of CEC's team as mass specs commercialised 4 researchers/scientists use. Developed maths techniques for analyzing results, an analog computer & early digital computer Datatron #WomenInSTEM b Aug 1909 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl_M...

YouTube video by 24KgoldMUSICshow MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC! (Put Another Nickel In) - 24K Gold Music - Teresa Brewer COVER Artist 40's HIT!

I thought it was an early mechanical musical machine operated by a coin. An early jukebox if you like, as in the Music, Music, Music song lyric " put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon".
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Nominations for the 2025 WES Awards are officially open, including our Men As Allies Award.

Nominate yourself or a deserving individual by September 22nd: buff.ly/RNunO4c

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Sudden and unexplained deaths of all sorts are done through this system:

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The most recent Construction Historian magazine is now in the hands of our members, so the editors are looking for articles of 500-2,000 words for the Winter 2025 issue.
Conact us via messaging here or www.constructionhistory.co.uk/publications...

My pal is making a living writing TVfilm screenplays for a company that sets that structure rigidly. It has been a real eye-opener for me to learn this.

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction.
All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

See Galaxy Quest for what this looks like from their side!!!!!

It is so satisfying isnt it? On the other hand, even with a big garden I have utterly failed to raise peas for 2 years running now and no idea why. The plants are just failing to thrive. 2 beds-worth of miserable wee plants produced a handful of peas, eaten last night in a muttar paneer.

Josephine Cochrane depicted on 2013 Romania stamp

Josephine Cochrane, US inventor of 1st commercially successful automatic dishwasher, designed in home shed. 1893 showed new machine at World's Columbian Exposition in #Chicago won 🏆 business took off. In 2013 #Romania issued a stamp in her honour. d. #OTD 3 Aug 1913 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi...

A middle class woman only really had 4 options: convent, support by male relatives, governessing or needlework. Anything else was considered unrespectable.

Significant enough for families which could afford it to send their young women out to India, on what was known as the 'Fishing fleet' to try to catch a husband. There was anxiety in the press about single middle class women who were so badly educated that they couldnt even get work as governesses.

Goosebumps