#OtD 19 Apr 1882 hundreds of women, men and children fought police on the mountainous Isle of Skye in northwest Scotland. It was the start of what would become a widespread land revolt that required a military invasion to restore order stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9059...
As this plaque commemorates, in December 1745, following his retreat from England, Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) arrived in Glasgow with his Jacobite army.
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#glasgow #culloden #scotland #scottishhistory
Photograph of the book cover of “Rhynie: A Powerful Place of Pictland” edited by Gordon Noble
Very exciting delivery this morning! @northernpicts.bsky.social @socantscot.bsky.social! #Rhynie #Scotland #earlymedieval #IronAge #Picts
✨I enjoyed this well-researched video, plus great to see Witches of Scotland mentioned:
youtu.be/41xsfut3mIM?... 🖤
#WomensHistoryMonth #witch #witchcraft #witchtrials #history #scotland #europe #womennotwitches #feminism
🗓️ Wee seasonal reshare: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/%... ⬇️
#scotland #scottishfolklore #scottishgaelic #gàidhlig #gachlatha #history #thecailleach #gaelic #celtic
In the Scottish sense too lol 😅
🌳 Does Gaelic really have a “Tree Alphabet”? 🌲
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#SeachdainNaGàidhlig
#Gàidhlig #scottishgaelic #GaelicWeek #GaelicCulture
#SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026
#WorldGaelicWeek2026 #cleachdi
#Gaelic #bòrdnagàidhlig #scotland #history #archaeology #linguistics
Love #Wikipedia editors 🥰 We created Ellen's page this morning and already another editor has improved it by adding a photo. This is Ellen Moxley and her partner Helen Steven receiving the Gandhi International Peace Prize in 2004
📷Gandhi Foundation on Wikimedia Commons
“…Languages are not afraid of the water, and the role of the North Channel in particular as a uniter rather than a divider of culture is well known from the early Middle Ages at least.” 🌊
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“The migrationist paradigm has come under attack in archaeological circles in general. In the case of Dál Rita, there is no archaeological evidence for any migration at all; and there is no reason linguistically why Gaelic could not have developed concurrently on both sides of Sruth na Maoile…”
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📑 It’s World Gaelic week, so why not read about the history of Gaelic in Scotland: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/20...
#worldgaelicweek #SeachdainnaGàidhlig
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Kate Forbes is being lauded for creating Gàidhlig preservation funding, but she's also a raging queerphobe, so do forgive me if I'm struggling to join in with her enthusiasm.
I now understand how the idea of a kelpie arose conceptually
Happy pancake day to all who shrive
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#scotland #history #folklore #scottishfolklore #banshee #folkhorror #horror #massacre #betrayal #death #harbinger 🗃️
A threshold mosaic at the entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.
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#glasgow #crossmyloof #scottishhistory #architecture #maryqueenofscots
#OtD 6 Feb 1974 with the prospect of a UK-wide coalminers strike Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called a snap election under the slogan "Who governs Britain?" - meaning the government, or the unions? He lost, and miners won 35% pay increase workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...
Two standing stones forming entrance to chambered cairn. Ante-chamber and chamber comprising lower stone slab boxes in foreground. Distant sky is orange and dark with Mmorning sunrise, green pastures and woodlands below.
And at some places, we can feel closer to the rhythms of the world...
Cairn Holy 1 chambered cairn is a remarkable monument which has been visibly revisted and reused for nearly six thousand years.
#prehistory #TombTuesday @archscot.bsky.social @the.stone.club @megalithic.bsky.social
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Painting “Saint Bride” by Scottish artist John Duncan depicting Brigid being carried over the sea by 2 angles in order to become Mary’s midwife and Jesus’ foster mother, according to Gaelic legend. They are flanked by seagulls and a seal swims along below them.
🌱 Happy St Bride’s Day/Là Fhèill Brighde or Imbolc/Imbolg to those celebrating 🔥
There are so many Gaelic folk traditions associated with this day. For example, the tradition of reciting St Bride’s genealogy 3 times in a row. Read more here:
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🪨♥️ Well worth a look at the article, images & 3D models 👀⬇️
Article: insitu.org.uk/2025/10/30/a...
Example 3D model: skfb.ly/pFTpY
#scotland #aberdeenshire #archaeology #history #stonecircle #religion #christianity #prechristian #pagan #3Dmodel 🏺🗃️🏴
Our brand new podcast, Folklore Matters, launches today.
David Clarke, Sophie Parkes-Nield, and Diane Rodgers speak to people working with or researching folklore to find out more about their work, how they discovered folklore, and to get their thoughts on the findings of the Survey.
Watch yourself out there folks! There’s a lot of bammery about!
#BylinesScotlandAdvice
“Of all the beings with which fear or fancy peopled the supernatural, the Fairies were the most intimately associated with men’s daily life.”
- Campbell, 'The Gaelic Otherworld' 1900
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#scotland #shetland #norse #scots #folklore #history #yule #christmas #folkmagic
Nice to see a Corn Bunting in my garden today. The first time since the Winter of 1982/83 when I had 100+ regularly sitting in the trees here. The farmer had planted the field in front of the house with neeps and they were feeding in there. The same has happened this year. #birdingscotland
#OtD 10 Jan 1979 during the Winter of Discontent the number of lorry drivers across Scotland and northern England on wildcat strike against government-union pay restraint reached 50,000. Drivers picketed ports and warehouses to stop trucks moving goods stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8197...
