Perth Women on Wikipedia
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Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
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Perth, Scotland
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
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#OTD 28 Nov 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered existence of pulsars, detecting a "bit of scruff" on chart-recorder papers that tracked across sky with the stars. Had taken 3 months to check papers by hand. Her supervisor was awarded Nobel prize for the discovery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#OTD 28 Nov 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered existence of pulsars, detecting a "bit of scruff" on chart-recorder papers that tracked across sky with the stars. Had taken 3 months to check papers by hand. Her supervisor was awarded Nobel prize for the discovery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Such as, for example, a very readable biography which will introduce you to a fascinating woman you should know more about - and it literally has Christmas in the opening sentence! Also @bookshop.org has free delivery all weekend…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Such as, for example, a very readable biography which will introduce you to a fascinating woman you should know more about - and it literally has Christmas in the opening sentence! Also @bookshop.org has free delivery all weekend…
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/red-...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/red-...
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🧵About the historical sex trade in Edinburgh. Goodmorning. The go to starting place is Ranger's Impartial List of Ladies of Pleasure published 1775. It contains 66 entries of 'hoors' around town. Here's Lady Agnew's listing👇For sure there were more than 66 but it's a start /1
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🧵About the historical sex trade in Edinburgh. Goodmorning. The go to starting place is Ranger's Impartial List of Ladies of Pleasure published 1775. It contains 66 entries of 'hoors' around town. Here's Lady Agnew's listing👇For sure there were more than 66 but it's a start /1
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#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
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Bright's team spotted Maxwell's name and alerted the National Society for Women’s Suffrage - which had only been founded eleven months earlier. A member of the society, Lydia Becker, accompanied her to the polling station.
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‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the casting of a parliamentary vote by Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, more than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. On 2…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Bright's team spotted Maxwell's name and alerted the National Society for Women’s Suffrage - which had only been founded eleven months earlier. A member of the society, Lydia Becker, accompanied her to the polling station.
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#Museum30 theme 27 is #achievement. It’s been remarkable achievement for Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library to have undertaken major restoration of 17th century building. Help us achieve next phase to redevelop Undercroft to create accessible welcome, interpretation, engagement and exhibition…/👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#Museum30 theme 27 is #achievement. It’s been remarkable achievement for Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library to have undertaken major restoration of 17th century building. Help us achieve next phase to redevelop Undercroft to create accessible welcome, interpretation, engagement and exhibition…/👇
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The suffragettes could have faced a ban as a terror group if current laws were in place at the start of the 20th century, the High Court has heard in a challenge against the ban on Palestine Action
Suffragettes could have been banned under terror laws, High Court told
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November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The suffragettes could have faced a ban as a terror group if current laws were in place at the start of the 20th century, the High Court has heard in a challenge against the ban on Palestine Action
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Normally I would be anti-pirating, but given that Simon and Schuster and my publisher, Rising Action, are willfully infringing my copyright of my ebook (S&S refuses to even acknowledge my emails about this), I'll happily provide a free copy to anyone who asks.
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Normally I would be anti-pirating, but given that Simon and Schuster and my publisher, Rising Action, are willfully infringing my copyright of my ebook (S&S refuses to even acknowledge my emails about this), I'll happily provide a free copy to anyone who asks.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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In 1932 Jane Haining took on the role of matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, which had about 400 pupils, a mixture of Jews and Christians. She helped keep the children safe until she was betrayed and arrested by German officers in April 1944. #Edinburgh
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Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh
The Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In 1932 Jane Haining took on the role of matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, which had about 400 pupils, a mixture of Jews and Christians. She helped keep the children safe until she was betrayed and arrested by German officers in April 1944. #Edinburgh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
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Joan Eardley “ Winter Sun no 1” 1961-2 oil on canvas #BMAG #Paintings #Art Joan’s life was cut short by breast cancer. Painting depicts the rugged coastline of Catterline NE Scotland
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Joan Eardley “ Winter Sun no 1” 1961-2 oil on canvas #BMAG #Paintings #Art Joan’s life was cut short by breast cancer. Painting depicts the rugged coastline of Catterline NE Scotland
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#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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This TDoR, like so many days before, we mourn those we have lost and recognise those who are still with us.
It's our sincerest hope that, someday soon, the fight for the right to exist will cease and that there will be enough of us around to appreciate it.
Take care of yourselves.
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It's our sincerest hope that, someday soon, the fight for the right to exist will cease and that there will be enough of us around to appreciate it.
Take care of yourselves.
💙💖🤍💖💙
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This TDoR, like so many days before, we mourn those we have lost and recognise those who are still with us.
It's our sincerest hope that, someday soon, the fight for the right to exist will cease and that there will be enough of us around to appreciate it.
Take care of yourselves.
💙💖🤍💖💙
It's our sincerest hope that, someday soon, the fight for the right to exist will cease and that there will be enough of us around to appreciate it.
Take care of yourselves.
💙💖🤍💖💙
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If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
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If you are an Ancestry user, keep an eye on the Search menu options. Some users have Full Text Search, in time hopefully that will roll out to all. Could be very useful not just for #FamilyHistory but also for #OnePlaceStudies!
#Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
#Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
18 Nov 2025 Go look at your account and report back! #genealogy #ancestry
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you are an Ancestry user, keep an eye on the Search menu options. Some users have Full Text Search, in time hopefully that will roll out to all. Could be very useful not just for #FamilyHistory but also for #OnePlaceStudies!
#Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
#Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
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ABERDEEN (TDOR)
6pm Thu 20th Nov
Sir Duncan Rice Library
6pm Thu 20th Nov
Sir Duncan Rice Library
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
ABERDEEN (TDOR)
6pm Thu 20th Nov
Sir Duncan Rice Library
6pm Thu 20th Nov
Sir Duncan Rice Library
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/…done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to try to make him confess to witchcraft, so Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead later tried & hanged!
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Dunblane traditions by John Monteath | Open Library
Dunblane traditions by John Monteath, 1887, Reprinted by J. Miller edition, in English
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November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
/…done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to try to make him confess to witchcraft, so Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead later tried & hanged!
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openlibrary.org/books/OL7098...
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For #InternationalMensDay - a thread of amazing Allies. First, Sir Walter Scott who supported several female writers including Susan Ferrier who found the 'burden of authorship' heavy. Scott called her his 'sister shadow' & said she was a better writer than him. (she was!)/1
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
For #InternationalMensDay - a thread of amazing Allies. First, Sir Walter Scott who supported several female writers including Susan Ferrier who found the 'burden of authorship' heavy. Scott called her his 'sister shadow' & said she was a better writer than him. (she was!)/1
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Other talented Stevenson women include Flora & Louisa (pictured) Flora organised 'ragged schools' for poor kids & Louisa was a suffrage campaigner. supporter of university education for women, 1 of the founders of Queen Margaret Uni & a nursing pioneer. #RobertLouisStevensonDay
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Other talented Stevenson women include Flora & Louisa (pictured) Flora organised 'ragged schools' for poor kids & Louisa was a suffrage campaigner. supporter of university education for women, 1 of the founders of Queen Margaret Uni & a nursing pioneer. #RobertLouisStevensonDay
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For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?
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Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
Leonie Jungen | Tales of a Grandmother
Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
25 Nov, Glasgow. Free
@leoniejungen.bsky.social investigates CLAN-ALBIN, a novel by Walter Scott’s contemporary, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jun...
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Scottish GENES Webinar - The Godly Commonwealth: Discover Scottish Church Records
Sat 29 Nov 2025, at 7pm (UK)
The Kirk's history, and how to find the records.
Registration £10, via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (Recording available for a week after, and a handout will be supplied)
#genealogy
Sat 29 Nov 2025, at 7pm (UK)
The Kirk's history, and how to find the records.
Registration £10, via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (Recording available for a week after, and a handout will be supplied)
#genealogy
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Scottish GENES Webinar - The Godly Commonwealth: Discover Scottish Church Records
Sat 29 Nov 2025, at 7pm (UK)
The Kirk's history, and how to find the records.
Registration £10, via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (Recording available for a week after, and a handout will be supplied)
#genealogy
Sat 29 Nov 2025, at 7pm (UK)
The Kirk's history, and how to find the records.
Registration £10, via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (Recording available for a week after, and a handout will be supplied)
#genealogy