Today in the Scottish public history column: Recording the voices of the last generation of lighthouse keepers and their families with Dr Erin Farley and the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust’s oral history project. www.thenational.scot/culture/2603...
Exhibition - Red Easterhouse: Building a people's archive. Stories of collective struggle in greater Easterhouse. The Easterhouse Living Archive is an ongoing community project to unearth, preserve and engage with the working class histories and struggles of Easterhouse..
The Old Man of Storr, Skye
Pic: Steven Murphy
this sounds brilliant!
Our article “‘Every time we walk, it is a pride march!’ A conversation on the everyday politics of queer walking” is now out in RiDE's special issue on walking. Huge thanks to editors Dee Heddon, Stephanie Springgay, and Harry Wilson! @uofgsociology.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Poster for Glasgow May Day march on 3rd May, assemble 10:30am Barrowland Park, leaving at 11am going to Glasgow University Union for a rally at 12:30. Graphics are of the May Day A-Z. A for Acvitism, B for Better Buses for Strathclyde, C for comrades, F for Free Palestine, R for Roses (and bread too) etc
May Day poster this year is great:
Got lots of @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social tours coming up this month including a new Migrants Made Glasgow tour and some Revolutionary Glasgow tours as part of the Glasgow Trades Council's May Day programme
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Glasgow colleagues affiliated with GLINTS are organising a workshop on 18 June with the title 'Trans studies at a crossroad: decolonisation, anti-gender politics and the future'. It looks like it will be fab! The CFP is here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... and the deadline for abstracts is 3 May.
Stars and Planets by Norman MacCaig Trees are cages for them: water holds its breath To balance them without smudging on its delicate meniscus. Children watch them playing in their heavenly playground; Men use them to lug ships across oceans, through firths. They seem so twinkle-still, but they never cease Inventing new spaces and huge explosions And migrating in mathematical tribes over The steppes of space at their outrageous ease. It’s hard to think that the earth is one – This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters, Attended only by the loveless moon.
Trees are cages for them: water holds its breath
To balance them without smudging on its delicate meniscus…
—Norman MacCaig, “Stars and Planets”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry
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Aw this sounds brilliant and I really look forwards to reading it!
Looking forward to speaking at the Glasgow May Day rally on Sunday 3 May. As we approach the centenary of the 1926 general strike, the struggle for a more just and peaceful world has never been more important or necessary than it is today.
A legend of Glasgow anarchism and radical print history. MacDonald apparently responded to call-up papers for the Women’s National Service in WWII with "Get lost." When they sent more papers she replied "Come and get me".
haha honestly we can't get them back in stock soon enough! I will get one to you 😎
Set of Radical Glasgow Tours badges including several updated versions of city branding campaigns, one logo of the statue of La Pasionaria and yes, one enamel badge of the subway sign saying "break ass for emergency a ss"
Ahem
(you are spot on with this, break ass is the best seller)
Yesterday Living Rent launched our manifesto ahead of the Scottish elections. Created in collaboration with union members and the public, it sets out six key demands toward a Scotland where ordinary people are empowered ahead of the elite. Have a read here:
www.livingrent.org/living_rent_...
I loved these books!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Jessica Mitford playing Boggle
With Maya Angelou
Amazing!
Hot off the press 🥳 "Always forwards, never backwards? The reinvention of the Democratic Women's League of German during German reunification, 1989-1990".
Great theme for a run - I'm surprised that there aren't more (but can't think of any). King Billy's horse was called Sorrel and he died from complications of injury from falling off it. So also a notable statue of a king killer
Really pleased to be part of this issue, chatting about tenant organising & environmental campaigning
Logo with a speech‑bubble frame showing a tenement building and the text ‘Govanhill People’s History.
Over 100 interviews capturing life in Govanhill from the 1940s–2013 are now available through Archives & Special Collections. Discover memories of community, migration and local landmarks in this rich new resource.
Learn more and listen to audio clips - guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/blogs/archiv...
I use sumup to sell radical history tat and have found it to be great. You can take payment via your phone using their app which is extremely convenient, and you can generate payment links to take credit card payments. They take a cut but it's not horrific, 16p for every £10 spent
When a Community Comes Together: People Power and the Lessons of Kenmure Street by Gerry Hassan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/19/w...
A boat went along shortly after this and it all rippled, so satisfying!
that’s hellish - I felt this so strongly moving out of Garnethill, wasn’t even consciously aware of the low level feeling of threat I had all the time, especially at night, until I moved somewhere with no pubs. Truly like a physical weight was lifted
Big crane and it’s Reflection in a glassy smooth river Clyde in the sunshine
What a lovely morning
Thanks Anabel!
Thanks friend!
Amazing to learn about other peoples incredibly cool collections of occult books, fairy tales, history of canals in Scotland. it was truly fun to chat with a lovely panel of library folk about bringing radical literature from the early 20th c to a contemporary audience via waking tours