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Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan
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Went to visit this memorial cairn today in Edinburgh. Read all about it: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2024/in...

Warner Bros shenanigans filming in #Glasgow today

2025 is the centenary of the appointment of Ebenezer James Macrae as Edinburgh City Architect. Dubbed "the man who shaped modern Edinburgh", his work characterised by a blend of modern form and function with traditional style. A uniquely splendid example is the Edinburgh Police Box 👮📦🧵▶️

Submit 1500 words of your novel to this competition - with a top cash prize and writing courses to win. Looks like a fun one. www.thenovelry.com/prize

Solid proof I spent Sunday in the country.

Look at this lovely sketch an audience member did of us onstage at Dundee Book Festival.

Signed copies in @WstonesDundee ❤️📚👍 Get them while they're hot.

Homophobic old lady at next table: God is raining on Pride today Me (leaning over) : maybe she just wants to see loads of hot folk in wet Tshirts. 😅😅 happy Pride Dundee

It's rainy but what a view. Hi Dundee Book Festival 👋 If you're in Dundee come in out of the wet at 4.30 to hear @florajowriter.bsky.social and I with all the histfic chat. tix: dundeebookfestival.com/product/sara-s…

We're deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Sir Geoff Palmer. A courageous champion of equality, he challenged how we talk about history.

Looking to make your next career move? 💼 We're looking for an experienced Director of Programme to oversee the creative direction and strategic development of all Scottish Book Trust's programmes Apply by 22 June. www.scottishbooktrust.com/about/vacanc...

Dundee here we cone. Tix for my Saturday event here: dundeebookfestival.com/product/sara...

I have reason to be browsing the Wikipedia page for fish names and it is a new-found source of much joy. Orbicular batfish! Pelican gulper! Plownose chimaera! Sarcastic fringehead!

If you think this looks like a mess: it isn‘t. It‘s a treasure trove of information. There is no history writing without archives, and there are no archives without people who appreciate and protect them. History, much like democracy, begins locally. Cherish it.

Born #Onthisday 1862 #IrishAuthor & #Sufragette VIOLET ROSS who wrote under the pseudonym Martin Ross with cousin Edith Somerville. She was VP of the Munster Women's Franchise League @clodaghfinn.bsky.social‬ B&W 📸 with Sommerville in #Cork c1890 www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

Wee sunny seat before @edbookfest programme launch in Edinburgh. ❤️📚

Shush: I'm editing. Eyes down, specs on this week. 💕📚

A rather prescient mural by the art group "Artists for Justice and Peace", displayed outside St John’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, 2014. And look where we are today.

Peony game strong here ❤️

Happy birthday to me 😂❤️

🚨 GWL is hiring a Production Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover) 10 hrs/week • Fixed term to May 2026 • £27.5k pro rata • Glasgow-based Help us deliver powerful events & exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space. Apply by noon, Fri 20 June. 🔗 More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...

Tomorrow - more authors in one day than you can shake a bestseller list at! And obvs I'll be there. Plus, buy any one (or more) of the visiting authors' books and you get free entry into a prize draw. Please pop in to support this brilliant indy bookshop - Book Nook, Stewarton.

Snagged a ticket to Bourne's Swan Lake courtesy of a friend. 11/10. Cried at the end.

Things I liked at the Final Degree show st @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social yesterday.

So rainy today and what we're after is travel = escape. Today a thread of Scottish foremothers out in the world. 1st Isabella Bird who said 'everything suggests a beyond' She wrote 18 books about the places she went & was the 1st female member of the Royal Geographic Soc. Wow, Is. /1

Coffee shop hits

Anyone in need of some ancient art to brighten up your day? In need of some _cute_ ancient art? How about this marvel from (probably) the first century CE Rome, currently held in the Getty museum, of a bronze mouse nibbling away!

Wee pigeon wandering round with an egg coming out. 😳

Snapped last night by a pal before the whiskies and kebabs kicked in. I ❤️ this mural #Glasgow 🍄🍄

Receiving fresh copies of a book you’ve worked on – it never gets tired. Berlin‘s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social