Step into the red-walled Victoria Gallery at The McManus, Dundee 🖼️
This year marks the bicentenary of Royal Scottish Academy, see how you can celebrate at The McManus 👉 www.mcmanus.co.uk/news/leisure-culture-dun...
#RSA200
The Archives is hosting an open day on Saturday 23rd May, with tours at 11:00, 12:00, 13:30 and 14:30, each lasting 1 hour.
To book email: archives@dundeecity.... or phone: 01382 434494.
Numbers are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Join me online this Thursday @strathgenealogy.bsky.social to learn about some creative sources for tracing your emigrant Scots ancestors! Visit buff.ly/JyAZcfx & scroll down for details & registration page #Genealogy #AncestryHour #Scotland
Wonderland was where the pocket and birthday money of teenage me was exchanged for Airfix 1:72 scale models. A definite end of an era they are moving from Lothian Road but pleased they are relocating as one day I always intend to get back into models. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/iconic-...
✨Online Talk - Sailing to Philadelphia: Scottish sources for tracing emigrant ancestors. 16 April 18.00.
Discover family members who have left Scotland, and the destinations where they eventually settled.
Find out more! > www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Two ancient Roman stone altars found near Edinburgh and acquired for the nation are set to go on public display for the first time as part of a new exhibition at the National Museums of Scotland (NMS). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here is a photograph of our #ArchivePast. It is our old searchroom back in the 1970s. We now have much better book supports and much comfier chairs. The whole room is a bit bigger. So a lot of improvements in 50 years.
#Archive30 #Dundee
We were delighted to chat to @charlielynch.bsky.social about the Perth Women on Wikipedia project, collaborative history and the challenges of addressing the Wikipedia gender gap. Read all about it in today's @scotnational.bsky.social
Sad to see Braithwaite's tea and coffee shop has closed in Dundee. We used to buy Viennese Coffee mix from them. More recently we've been getting freshly roasted coffee beans from Empire State Coffee in Dundee (Whitehall Crescent) and Sacred Grounds in Arbroath. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-...
Portrait by William Henry Pickersgill, 1831 Courtesy of St John’s College Cambridge
“Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give,
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 1807, by William Wordsworth, born #OTD 1770.
St John’s College, Cambridge
ALT: Do you live in a Wally close, in the Westend of Glasgow? Tnmnttiles has been contacted by producer Amelia looking for a tiled stairwell for a shoot. They're aiming for the 16th of April, with around two hours access.
For further information, contact: info@ameliaandco.com
This fab little route around Stirling rich in history will be led by a local historian May 17th 11:00. Many local cafés for pit stops. One of myriad opportunities as part of the @festivalofeurope.bsky.social Register here: Stirling EuroWalk - Festival of Europe Scotland share.google/S7coPkTCcxOc...
No jokes here; Carl Sandburg really did once serve as the captain of the Lombard College basketball team, where he apparently gained a reputation for his throwing skills. He is seen in this 1898-1899 team photograph on the far left of the first row. We think it's time to bring back the uniforms!
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was born on this day in 1853 in Zandert, The Netherlands.
A year after he had moved to Paris, Van Gogh painted this view featuring the popular Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières.
Want to create your own mining walk or cycle route? Why not join Aileen and Catherine for the next #MiningLandscapes free Webinar ‘Using Maps to Kick-start your Landscape Journey’. The first in a ‘how to’ series of five. For information and to book a place nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news
University of Aberdeen colleagues have been circulating this open letter to our court members ahead of the 29 April meeting that will decide on controversial restructuring plans.
If anyone is keen to lend their support, please do have a read and add your name/ share if you agree.
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A mother cat sits in the window of a wooden shed, surrounded by four curious kittens crawling across an old blanket. She’s alert, as if she senses our presence, while the kittens tumble around without a care. 🐱
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026215
Young black woman in turquoise silk gown, with lace sleeves, lace cap, and fichu, double strands of pearls around her neck and her wrists. She is holding a white flower. in one hand, and a ribbon in the other. A tropical looking tree is behind her. She looks right at the viewer with an assessing look.
It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.
Buildings from days gone by...
The Former Free Church of Strathbraan at Trochry photographed in the early 1970s before its demolition.
The church was built in 1844. Further information and photographs available via this link - www.trove.scot/place/170747
Mother & Child, 1880, by Mary Cassatt, American artist, exhibited with French Impressionists; known for her intimate paintings & drawings of women & children, her work was admired by Degas.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
#MothersDay
Having just finished up a project, I’d like to let people know that I’m available for clients! I offer historical document transcriptions and genealogy research.
rowenagenealogy.com
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Devon #Palaeography
📢Beyond The Family Tree genealogy conference at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, June 25–26, 2026 (hybrid format).
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI, DNA, Education and Community in Genealogy.
🎟️Delegate tickets and further information 👉
www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
#Genealogy
@scottishindexes.bsky.social have just released another 100,000 prison register entries! This means that there are now more than one million entries in their Scotland's Criminal Database. 🏴 1/2
#FamilyHistory #genealogy #GenHour
www.scottishindexes.com
Workers at the Dundee Post Office. There is no date on this but is probably from the 1880s or 1890s
Ref: GD/X275
#Dundee #Archives
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
Review: Genealogy Methods and Techniques: A Practical Guide to Research, by Dr. Karen Cummings scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi... #genealogy
Are you free this Summer to join a Scottish Archaeological adventure?
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I attended the Introductory Course last year. It was an excellent opportunity to meet other people interested in Scottish family history and learn a few new research techniques. I’m looking forward to the Intermediate course!
If you're going to be in the west of Scotland this May, why not sign up for this Intermediate Course in Scottish Family History Research at Strathclyde University? Featuring the lovely @marplecat.bsky.social and me #FamilyHistory #GenHour #Ancestry #Glasgow
www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
#AvenuestothePast Next up in our Conservation Area stories is Randolph Place Conservation Area.
This Conservation Area was originally two hamlets; Bellfield and Newhouse.
📷 Dean of Guild Court plans for Manse Crescent, reproduced courtesy of Stirling Council Archives.
