Claire McDade

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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Coming soon…

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Poster for the event "Remembering Rabbie: exploring the poetry and song of the Bard for better brain health"

Details of the event which runs on the 7th October at the College

Are you living with dementia or know someone who is? We're co-hosting a workshop focusing on Robert Burns where there will be the opportunity to share your memories of the Bard. To book or for more information please contact library@rcpsg.ac.uk

📆7th October 2025
🕙10am
🎫Free but booking essential

External view of our College - a Georgian style building set over three floors

Join us on an journey through the College as we celebrate Black History Month. Hear stories of groundbreaking doctors, scientists and scholars and learn about our ongoing research into our history and connections to empire and colonialism
📆 1, 20, 27 October 2025
🎫 heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/events

Speaker at a conference standing in front of a seated audience

Overhead shot of kids looking at an old herbal book

Three hands which have been painted to show the bones underneath the skin

Sign up to our Eventbrite page to keep up to date with our events
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Upcoming:
20th September, Doors Open Day
1st, 20th, 27th October, Black History Month tours
30th October, Daemonologie: A King's obsession with Witches

More info: heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/events

Not going to pretend today wasn't depressing but the far right has been stronger in the UK before. Mosley packed out Earls Court and was backed by several large newspapers. Enoch Powell had the support of 74% of the population.

Musk has a net popularity rating of -52%

External view of the College building on St Vincent Street - A 3 storey Georgian style building with large black doors.

College Hall showing the ornate ceiling

A Lister carbolic spray

We're taking part in Glasgow Doors Open Day!

Come and explore our beautiful building on St Vincent Street and learn about the history of medicine and surgery in Glasgow.

We're open 10am-4pm, Saturday 20th September. We'd love to see you 😀

www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...

A mindful session for our friends from Flourish House, exploring the College and learning about Audubon's Birds of America. Led by illustrator and author, Helen Kellock. With thanks to @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk for the funding.

Presentation by Dr Theeba Krishnamoorthy

Monique Lerpiniere at RCPSG presenting

Presentation from RCPE on stories of medicine and migration

Presentation from RCP London

Super event this evening with @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, @physiciansgallery.bsky.social and our own College here in Glasgow hearing all the amazing stories of medicine and migration from South Asia. Our three Colleges are working towards uncovering more of these histories.
#SouthAsianHeritageMonth

Handwritten notes detailing the virtues of sea water for health

Thinking of taking a dip in the sea to cool down? You'll be delighted to hear that sea water is also good for restoring strength, rheumatic pains, and healing wounds. This 18th century #herbal notebook also recommends that you drink the water - please don't do that!😟

Woodcut illustration of a snake with Latin text beneath

Happy #WorldSnakeDay 🐍

To celebrate here's a very lovely woodcut illustration from De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica (1658) by Willem Piso, showing a super little snake slithering along the page.

The Waverley at Rothesay harbour.

The Boy from Bute postcard

The Holiday Isle display in Bute Museum

Sign and painting of William Macewen in Bute Museum

A bustling Waverley was a fantastic sight at Rothesay harbour yesterday

Boat to Isle of Bute with foamy sea, sky and hills in background

Bute Museum front facade

3 people holding leaflets depicting Sir William Macewen in Bute Museum

Screen showing opening scene of The Boy from Bute documentary

A special day yesterday presenting our documentary 'The Boy from Bute' at Bute Museum. We were made very welcome by the museum team.

And we saw the Waverley! (see next post...)

A handwritten page from a notebook showing herbs for cooling the blood. These include sorrel and endives

Feeling the heat? 🥵

Try these herbal remedies for cooling the blood from our 18th century herbal notebook.

#bsmuseums

Three hands on a table. The hands have been painted to show the bones under the skin.

We had lots of fun this morning with P6 pupils from Anderston Primary School, who joined us for our #GlaSciFest event learning all about anatomy, surgery and what's under the skin

Oil painting of James Vi & I. He is holding a balloon which is absolutely a part of the original artwork and in no way photoshopped.

Happy 459th birthday to King James VI & I, who was born #OnThisDay 1566👑🥳

In 1599 King James granted a Royal Charter for the establishment of our College. The charter brought together physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to improve standards of healthcare in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.

When Joseph Lister began advocating germ theory in the 19th century, his critics ridiculed him. One man would walk into the operating theatre, slam the door, and say: "There, Mr. Lister's germs can't get in!" Never thought when I was writing THE BUTCHERING ART that we'd be backsliding into the past.

I live in Scotland, but fully support your position.

Cropped image from a book showing a colour illustration of a lynx in side profile, standing on a patch of grass. It has four legs, a thick greyish-brown coat (with some lighter patches), and a short stubby tail with a black tip. Its most distinctive feature is its long ears, which are pointed upwards and have tufts of black hair at the tips. Its head is turned towards you, and it is staring at you with startled yellow eyes!

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the lynxes, for today is their special day!

To celebrate International Lynx Day, here is an illustration of a lynx from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.

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#InternationalLynxDay #LynxDay #RareBooks

Yes, it's fantastic. I'm finally able to identify blackbirds and sparrows! 😀 (true, no irony intended, I am that clueless)

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

A gingerbread man. Half of him is dissected and shows the skeleton and guts.

It's #NationalBiscuitDay - so here's a morbid one for you!

Photo: Qimmy Shimmy

An open book showing an illustration of an otter eating a fish

It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

What a positive contribution David Attenborough has made to the world. It's good for the soul to read this.
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Sketch of Gordon Street, looking east. The scene shows a busy street thronged with people, cars and carts. The street is lined with tall buildings and a canopy covering the entrance to central station.

For #WorldArtDay take a look at our latest curation on @artukdotorg.bsky.social featuring the work of Muirhead Bone and how his drawings of Glasgow captured a city in change and on the cusp of development in the early 20th century
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Photo looking inside and along a display case. Photographs of clinicians can be seen in the foreground

Title panel for the exhibition showing the College coat of arms and the motto "Conjurat Amice" which means together in friendship and is the idea of the physicians and surgeons working together

objects in a display case including a wax seal, lancet and medicine bottle

Today we launched our new mini exhibition "Together in Friendship", celebrating 425yrs of RCPSG. Curated by Roxanne, our amazing work placement student from Glasgow Uni, the exhibition is open Monday's 2-5pm. Find out more here: heritageblog.rcpsg.ac.uk/2025/04/25/t...
#SomethingNew #Archive30

Photo of the exterior of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. A Georgian-style building over 4 floors with a cast iron fence running along the front. Stone steps with two lamp posts either side lead up to an open door.

There are just a couple of tickets left for our tour on the 12th May as part of the Blythswood Festival. Come along and see our beautiful building on St Vincent Street and here about Glasgow's amazing role in the history of medicine. Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tour-of-th...

Resistance is NOT futile

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and… An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the …

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Excellent expose of Facebook by an insider. Sheryl Sandberg's rank hypocrisy & self promotion & Zuckerberg's nerd naivety getting fully corrupted. It all gets very dark.