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CFP: Heights, Depths, & Extremes 17th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference 14–16 July, Birmingham, UK Examining the limits, boundaries, & expanses of Victorian popular fiction – submit proposals by 1 March victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

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Today is Tuesday 18 February It is 🔋 Battery Day (birthdate of Alessandro Volta) 🍷 Drink Wine Day 🌌 Pluto Day 🇺🇸 Presidents Day (USA) ⛪ Feast day of St Colman of Lindisfarne In the French Republican Calendar: SLEIGH Have a great day

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Saved this for #MapMonday - a series of beautifully illustrated gardens from the revised Ordnance Survey map of 1859 (Lurgan, Co Armagh).

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A tree in Queen's Park in Glasgow planted in 1970 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations on the 24th of October 1945. #glasgow #unitednations #queenspark #glasgowhistory #tree

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First lecture of the year for Old Glasgow Club, ‘Strange Affray at Crosshill’ - story of my house, first family who lived in it, and architect Robert Duncan. A lovely time, great audience, first time in Renfield St Stephen’s Parish Church! #heritage #househistory #glasgow850 #glasgowhistory

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Good to see that 2 letters projects I was in involved in are still online - WH Fox Talbot and JM Whistler, but this list shows what a fragile thing online can be - but what a wonderful resource when active! 💌

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DCMS seeks 4 British Museum Trustees: 'This campaign is to appoint four new trustees to the Board of the British Museum. We are seeking three Generalist trustees and one trustee with the expertise in Historic Buildings Conservation.' Deadline 27 February 2025.

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A 🧵explaining the situation with historic church buildings #heritage #retrofirst fail likely

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BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

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Happening this Thursday!

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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

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Woah, this database of art auction sales catalogues (from the 17th century to 1945!) is really something! digitalprojects.wpi.art/auctions

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My first public lecture this year is ‘‘Strange Affray at Crosshill’: architecture and social mobility in late 19th-century Glasgow’, with some new research. The Old Glasgow Club Thurs 13 Feb 2025, 7pm, Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, G2 4JP www.oldglasgowclub.org.uk #Glasgow850 #GlasgowHeritage

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THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK The Bottle Imp special issue Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918 “With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…” A 🎂 🧵… 1/9 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...

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I noticed the Pendolino named after Asquith Xavier sitting at Central Station this morning. Seems like a relevant history lesson. www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/sect...

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If you think today's news headlines are horrific, check out this one from 1906. Chilling.

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Is this some hope for the regeneration of Thomson’s Egyptian Halls and Union St as a whole? 🤞🏻 #glasgowheritage www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

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Just to let you know, I’ve got several public talks coming up this spring, online and in-person, for #Glasgow850 including #HouseHistory #LocalHistory #Victorian #Glasgow #Census Full list on ailsaboyd.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/t...

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At this point I’m politically dead inside. However. Watching Liz Truss banging on about how we need “a Trump revolution” in Britain has tipped me over the edge. I started a petition on change.org to have the massive state funded pension she gets stopped. Enjoy. chng.it/HGhdn8g4Lk

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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-f... Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.

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An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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On Tom Baker day, the annual posting of that interview with Jeffrey Bernard.

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And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho

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This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

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2025 in a nutshell…

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How very useful!

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Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.

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Another #Mackintosh building sadly vacant, partly demolished and suffering from buddleia. Former QM College Anatomical Dept, 1895. Adjoining former BBC now Scotsman Group HQ. Lovely stone details in the sun. #GlasgowHeritage

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13th January, feast day of Saint Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow. Bird - a Robin in Kelvingrove park; Tree - Hazel in a new restaurant on John St, £6 for a pint of St Mungo lager; Bell - from HMS Glasgow 1936, in Glasgow Cathedral; Fish - up the Kelvin via the Clyde.

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The first edition of Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV was originally broadcast on this day in 1985.

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