Margaret Brown
@magstheobscure.bsky.social
Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.
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The Tyrant of the Bar: The 1902 Glasgow Licensing Courts and the Barmaid Question
In 1902 Glasgow tried to prohibit barmaids. Read about the panic behind it, the legal realities and the working class women affected.
oro.open.ac.uk/100192/
The Tyrant of the Bar: The 1902 Glasgow Licensing Courts and the Barmaid Question
In 1902 Glasgow tried to prohibit barmaids. Read about the panic behind it, the legal realities and the working class women affected.
oro.open.ac.uk/100192/
Little Shop of Horrors
Brazil
Return To Oz
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory is in there as what mum would rent when there was nothing else worthwhile. I've seen it so many times
Brazil
Return To Oz
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory is in there as what mum would rent when there was nothing else worthwhile. I've seen it so many times
The Shining
Popeye
Time Bandits
Roxanne
(Not actually the precise list, but very close to it and I couldn't help but just list Shelley Duvall's entire 80s filmography for this prompt because honestly who made a better four films that decade?)
Popeye
Time Bandits
Roxanne
(Not actually the precise list, but very close to it and I couldn't help but just list Shelley Duvall's entire 80s filmography for this prompt because honestly who made a better four films that decade?)
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Little Shop of Horrors
Brazil
Return To Oz
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory is in there as what mum would rent when there was nothing else worthwhile. I've seen it so many times
Brazil
Return To Oz
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory is in there as what mum would rent when there was nothing else worthwhile. I've seen it so many times
You poor sad bastards having to hear my lonely stories at night.
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
You poor sad bastards having to hear my lonely stories at night.
This bruise came from a heavy-ish bag that was crushed between me and the side of a bus.
I think I should see a doctor about my bruising.
I think I should see a doctor about my bruising.
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This bruise came from a heavy-ish bag that was crushed between me and the side of a bus.
I think I should see a doctor about my bruising.
I think I should see a doctor about my bruising.
Watching the first episode of Mannix, I mean I get it, it's Thrilling Adventures For Boys but for men who have to commute.
But my god then need to tighten that pacing.
But my god then need to tighten that pacing.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Watching the first episode of Mannix, I mean I get it, it's Thrilling Adventures For Boys but for men who have to commute.
But my god then need to tighten that pacing.
But my god then need to tighten that pacing.
PlutoTV USA has all the shows you only ever heard referenced on The Simpsons
Hogan's Heros
Mama's Family
Gomer Pyle
and Mannix
Hogan's Heros
Mama's Family
Gomer Pyle
and Mannix
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
PlutoTV USA has all the shows you only ever heard referenced on The Simpsons
Hogan's Heros
Mama's Family
Gomer Pyle
and Mannix
Hogan's Heros
Mama's Family
Gomer Pyle
and Mannix
You know how PlutoTV is a bit meh... well not if you switch your VPN to the USA. It's pretty bloody good for old TV to put on during the day. Columbo, Matlock, Lucy, Dynasty, Rawhide, Star Trek, Classic Who, Mythbusters and load of quality old movies
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
You know how PlutoTV is a bit meh... well not if you switch your VPN to the USA. It's pretty bloody good for old TV to put on during the day. Columbo, Matlock, Lucy, Dynasty, Rawhide, Star Trek, Classic Who, Mythbusters and load of quality old movies
Well all those bastards who fought to get on the bus first and take up all the downstairs got a full view of me sliding down the upper deck stairs as the bus stopped.
Hope some of them have a good think on that.
Hope some of them have a good think on that.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Well all those bastards who fought to get on the bus first and take up all the downstairs got a full view of me sliding down the upper deck stairs as the bus stopped.
Hope some of them have a good think on that.
Hope some of them have a good think on that.
Watching this has made me more determined to succeed in applying for that PhD. We need to start tying up the joins to explain how *that* was allowed to happen.
Sitting in the cinema to watch this for 2 hours. Only one here at the moment
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Testimony (2025) ⭐ 8.6 | Documentary
1h 45m
www.imdb.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Watching this has made me more determined to succeed in applying for that PhD. We need to start tying up the joins to explain how *that* was allowed to happen.
And moving costs a fucking fortune. Even the most basic move.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
And moving costs a fucking fortune. Even the most basic move.
Sitting in the cinema to watch this for 2 hours. Only one here at the moment
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Testimony (2025) ⭐ 8.6 | Documentary
1h 45m
www.imdb.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sitting in the cinema to watch this for 2 hours. Only one here at the moment
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Let's see if anyone else turns up
www.imdb.com/title/tt3562...
Name your favourite US Comedian of the late 80s/ early 90s, they are actually friggin Canadian
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Name your favourite US Comedian of the late 80s/ early 90s, they are actually friggin Canadian
That last sentence was designed to cause a secondary flare up isn't, Agatha didn't use untraceable exotic poisons or when she did it was to hide the fact that an everyday poison was being used
“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
Autistic woman experiencing flare up of chronic special interest
An autistic woman is experiencing a severe episode of a debilitating long-term special interest, sources have revealed. Megan Aldrich, 47, has lived with a life-altering obsession with the detective…
thedailytism.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
That last sentence was designed to cause a secondary flare up isn't, Agatha didn't use untraceable exotic poisons or when she did it was to hide the fact that an everyday poison was being used
Reposted by Margaret Brown
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
Had it been heated though...
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Had it been heated though...
I have three words to counteract this argument
"American Tan Tights"
"American Tan Tights"
Fashion was only right once and that once was 1963.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I have three words to counteract this argument
"American Tan Tights"
"American Tan Tights"
I spent all last night watching Who Do You Think You Are on YouTube. I ain't getting found for well over 100 years
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I'm going to be fine
I'm going to be fine
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I spent all last night watching Who Do You Think You Are on YouTube. I ain't getting found for well over 100 years
Is this what I want to do with my life?
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Is this what I want to do with my life?
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
Squinting at the British Newspaper Archive, making interesting discoveries while sitting in a Wetherspoons and drinking Hugo Spritz.
Breaking: Enoch Burke returned to Mountjoy Prison by gardaí
Well that makes up for this morning.
Well that makes up for this morning.
Enoch Burke returned to Mountjoy Prison by gardaí
Enoch Burke has been returned to prison one week after a judge ordered his imprisonment.
www.independent.ie
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Breaking: Enoch Burke returned to Mountjoy Prison by gardaí
Well that makes up for this morning.
Well that makes up for this morning.
Got a response from yesterday and it's all encouraging. So now it's time to strap on digital wellies and start deep diving. To archive.org!
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Got a response from yesterday and it's all encouraging. So now it's time to strap on digital wellies and start deep diving. To archive.org!
Why doesn't Eventbrite like me? I've never been able to order off it properly. I just want to hear Tara Erraught
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midwinter-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midwinter-...
Midwinter Gala Concert
Get ready to be blown away by the magical performances at the Midwinter Gala Concert, where music and joy will fill the air!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Why doesn't Eventbrite like me? I've never been able to order off it properly. I just want to hear Tara Erraught
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midwinter-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midwinter-...
Made the initial contact for a PhD I want to do. I mainly waffled.
I'm off to throw up in a bucket.
I'm off to throw up in a bucket.
Trainspotting - Ewan McGreagor - Spud's Job Interview
YouTube video by philip loyd
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Made the initial contact for a PhD I want to do. I mainly waffled.
I'm off to throw up in a bucket.
I'm off to throw up in a bucket.
Currently thinking about Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
What crime gets you 3 years (although it's likely 5 years with time off for Good Behaviour)?
What crime gets you 3 years (although it's likely 5 years with time off for Good Behaviour)?
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Currently thinking about Tie A Yellow Ribbon.
What crime gets you 3 years (although it's likely 5 years with time off for Good Behaviour)?
What crime gets you 3 years (although it's likely 5 years with time off for Good Behaviour)?
This turned up on my YouTube. All my historian/history lover followers will probably love it.
youtu.be/P0_U1mvZbBU?...
youtu.be/P0_U1mvZbBU?...
Christmas in early times | Christmas | Edwardian Christmas | Days gone by | Good Afternoon | 1973
YouTube video by ThamesTv
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This turned up on my YouTube. All my historian/history lover followers will probably love it.
youtu.be/P0_U1mvZbBU?...
youtu.be/P0_U1mvZbBU?...