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As if #InternationalWomensDay in Perth wasn't exciting enough! Come to the #Soroptimist event in Civic Hall, go on a guided walk with @seileasdar.bsky.social, take part in our Women on #Wikipedia workshop, then round the day off with @sarasheridan.bsky.social - spoilt! #IWD2025 #Perth (Scotland)

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Have a wee vote, folks! Be assured it's not me, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay in competition with each other - god forbid! It's you choosing a line by each of us to be carved on the Parliament Wall. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...

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Today and tom only Waterstones offering 25% off our book : if u want to study the witchcraft act, read our précis of Book II of Daemonology on witches and read about the witch that didn’t stay dead, and many more stories of women accused of witchcraft ORDER NOW www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-...

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Another treat for #InternationalWomensDay - @seileasdar.bsky.social will be running 3 Women of Perth guided tours over the weekend 🙌 Booking essential! #IWD25 #Perth (Scotland!)

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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New book announcement! Women Artists & Designers at the National Trust by Rachel Conroy with an introduction by Sandi Toksvig shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist... Spanning six centuries, this book looks at some of the many women artists and designers represented in its vast collections.

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If you are in Edinburgh this Sunday you might like to hear the brilliant Andy Arthur ie @cocteautriplets talking about the Legend who was Esta Henry: Queen of the Royal Mile. It's here: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...?

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Helen Steven (1942–2016) and Ellen Moxley (1935-2019) were peace activists, Quakers and civil partners who set up Peace House in Braco #Perthshire. Ellen doesn't have a #Wikipedia article yet but we're working on it! #LGBTQHistoryMonth #PerthWomenOnWikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_S...

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Looking forward to this fabulous #InternationalWomensDay event at Civic Hall #Perth on 8 March. Organised by the #Soroptimists, the line-up includes 'me' speaking about #PerthWomenOnWikipedia 🙌 Book now - your free ticket includes lunch!

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📣Applications to our Public History Prize are open! The Pamela Cox Public History Prize (open to PGRs and ECRs) recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history✨ 👉More info & apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/publi... ⏰Deadline 24 March 2025 🗃️

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Good to see trove.scot finally launched! Although, the press release says it ‘unlocks 5000 years of History’ which seems to sell itself short. Missing at least another 7000 years of the human story in Scotland! www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...

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🚨 Now Accepting Submissions! Women's History Scotland Leah Leneman Essay Prize 🎉 Submit your essay on women's or gender history to win £200. Open to students & independent scholars—focused on any period or place. 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScottishHistory

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We share the library love ❤️ Shout out to the amazing staff of AK Bell Library #Perth who have supported the Perth Women on Wikipedia project 🙌 We have huge gratitude for the local history dept who are so knowledgeable and helpful #LoveLibraries

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Douglass visited Perth three times in that period - in January, March and October - speaking in the newly built City Hall www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

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Looking forward to this fabulous #InternationalWomensDay event at Civic Hall #Perth on 8 March. Organised by the #Soroptimists, the line-up includes 'me' speaking about #PerthWomenOnWikipedia 🙌 Book now - your free ticket includes lunch!

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The March of the Women, Margaret Morris (1891-1980) Graphite on paper c1907 Margaret Morris designed this cover for a music score by Ethel Smyth, composer and #suffragette. The March of the Women became the WSPU anthem 🙌 Part of the Fergus & Meg exhibition at #Perth Art Gallery

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It's time for A Kick Up The Arts! And it’s an Alasdair Gray love-in with Alan Bissett & @agrayarchive.bsky.social for Gray Day at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, Feb 25th starring Alan, @sarasheridan.bsky.social, Ashley Storrie, @macarthurboyd; I’m hosting. Listen on all pod platforms / here! AKickUpTheArts.org

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Don't erase history - preserve it! And we can't do that without archivists, digital preservation specialists, archive assistants, conservators and the all important depositors - so today's post is dedicated to them all Below: our 'Don't Erase History' rubbers - free if you visit!

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Have you explored Your Scottish Archives yet? YSA is a unique project to gather and make available worldwide, through a dynamic online portal, catalogue descriptions from archives across Scotland. Find out more and view the site here:

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Watch award-winning author Jackie Kay as she joins Bryan Burnett on Authors Live to talk about writing, poetry, the Scots language, and her new picture book ‘Coorie Doon’ – now available on demand.

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Geographer Royal Prof Jo Sharp was born in Perth and attended Perth Academy. She doesn't have a Wikipedia entry yet but we can fix that 💪 #PerthWomenOnWikipedia

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Zoe Venditozzi and l, the Witches of Scotland - commissioned this memorial tartan to remember those people, mostly women, killed as witches in Scotland. There is meaning to the colours and pattern :

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For #WomeninScienceDay, here's a listicle of women linked to @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social collections and stories #histstm www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

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Another honourable mention for International #WomenInScience Day - scientist and Wikipedia editor Dr Jess Wade is on a mission to challenge gender and racial bias on Wikipedia and has written 1000s of articles on female scientists 🙌

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For Int'nal #WomenInScience Day, let's take a look at Perth legend Victoria Drummond (1894-1978). First woman marine engineer in the UK and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In WW2 she served at sea and received awards for bravery under fire #PerthWomenOnWikipedia

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🌟Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!🔬 Why not join us next month at AK Bell Library to honour the incredible women of Perth's history, breaking barriers and inspiring the next generation. https://buff.ly/40QMyEt @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM

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Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”

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Enriqueta Rylands was aunt of Camilla Bell (née Bruce) who married whisky heir AK Bell (after whom Perth library is named). Enriqueta may have inspired the couple's philanthropy - they set up Gannochy Trust to improve the lives of people in #PerthAndKinross en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla...

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Perthshire Traveller Jess Smith celebrates Scotland’s ‘weave of cultures’ in new book

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Here’s Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...

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Consider the way she had to go, Think of the hungry snare, The net she herself had woven, Aware or unaware… —Marion Angus, “Alas! Poor Queen” published in THE TURN OF THE DAY (1931) via @natlibscot.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), was killed #OTD, 8 Feb digital.nls.uk/works-by-sel...

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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

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Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive collect and conserve LGBTQ+ books in order to preserve queer history. Their upcoming exhibition Desire Paths: Reading Queer Edinburgh explores the city’s histories through a queer lens. Find out more here:

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Val McDermid on Perthshire library closures, childhood road trips and her ‘hate-love’ relationship with Fife

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So happy to share that we'll be running a Wikipedia workshop in AK Bell library on 8 March - International Women's Day. Free but booking essential as places are limited. No editing experience needed but tablet / laptop will be handy #IWD2025 #PerthScotland www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/wom...

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