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Vivienne Dunstan
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Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
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Bat Friday
drawings of lots of bats, bats as desirable citizens
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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My JRCPE article about Dr Archibald Hewan and Glasgow's medical libraries is out! You can read it for FREE via the link. Hewan was the first black physician to serve as a missionary in Africa. #histstm #histsci #hps #BookHistory #churchhistory #AfricanHistory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dr Archibald Hewan (1832–1883) and the University of Glasgow’s medical libraries - Matthew Daniel Eddy, Robert MacLean, Emma Yan, 2025
Background: We provide historical context for the recently discovered University of Glasgow Library records of Archibald Hewan (1832– 1883), the first Black med...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Masquerade treasure hunt golden hare sold for £82k at auction www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Masquerade treasure hunt golden hare sold for £82k at auction
People from around the world tried to solve riddles to find the hare through the early 1980s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Delighted to manage some accordion practice - too rare a thing now, with my progressive neurological illness. Played ABBA's "Thank You For the Music", a "My Fair Lady" medley, Disney's "Speechless" from Aladdin, and in the recording here the best-known tune from "The Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Edinburgh University Press's annual half price sale is now live, running through to Sunday. I might just be buying me a Jacobite cultural history book! edinburghuniversitypress.com
Edinburgh University Press Books
Edinburgh University Press - the premier Scottish publisher of academic books, ebooks and journals
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Wilton Lodge Park in Hawick voted one of the top ten Green Flag parks in UK following national public vote - one of my most favourite places in the world, from childhood www.scotborders.gov.uk/news/article...
Wilton Lodge Park voted one of the top ten Green Flag parks in UK following national public vote – Scottish Borders Council
Wilton Lodge Park in Hawick has been voted as one of the top ten green spaces in the whole of the UK following a national public vote.
www.scotborders.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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‘Bramble’ a beautiful Barn #Owl at #SuffolkOwls
So as with previous posts, just put your favourite if any, in the comments TL, TR, BL, BR… that applies to ‘Stanley’ Striated Caracara post earlier as well.. thank you ☺️ 📷🦉🪶
#Owls #Birds #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Delighted to get to a favourite local restaurant for the first time since pre pandemic. We still take precautions, given how severely immunosuppressed I am. But very happy there tonight, eating great food in cosy surroundings with fab service. The Milton Inn in Monifieth, Angus. Highly recommended.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Got my hair cut tonight for the first time in 8 months to the day. Eek! Looking forward to easier to manage hair for the forthcoming months. Though it will probably be a really long time before it gets cut again. Joys of the chronic illness / progressive neurological disease life. But still happy.
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The Roseisle goose is the greatest of all the Pictish symbols. I don't even have a second favourite: it's Roseisle goose or nothing.
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obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
stone carving of a goose looking back over its shoulder, above a fish Line drawing of the goose with a weird goofy smile
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
The stone bridge with numerous bends is shown in a soft autumn light
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Photo by my husband @martin-dunstan.bsky.social in Perth Road, Dundee, Scotland today 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
Photo of a building chimney top topped by 8 feral pigeons against a blue sky background
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Cryptology boffins’ association to re-run election after losing encryption key needed to count votes www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/c...
Cryptology association lost key needed to run its election
: The shoemaker’s children have new friends
www.theregister.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Watching ep 2 of “The Box of Delights” (1984) in our latest rewatch. It’s taken me 41 years to wonder what ‘nighted is short for in the episode title “Where Shall the 'Nighted Showman Go?” Then to learn the meaning of benighted. Big bonus of this episode is loads of magnificently deep Scottish snow.
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Doctor Who Series 10 original television soundtrack releases on 12th December www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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National Anthem of Ukraine near the White House youtu.be/DsmtiS_Zpnk?...
National Anthem of Ukraine near the White House 🇺🇦🎶
YouTube video by B&B Project
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November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Goldfinch. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A brown and white bird with bright red and orange face, a pointed beak and flash of gold on its black wings.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Female kingfisher at Panmurefield weir in Broughty Ferry. Always surprised how small they are. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A bright blue, white and orange bird with a jet black eye and a long sharp beak perched on a dead dark brown giant hogweed stem. Their head and wings are dark blue with pale blue speckles; their back is a luminous pale blue stripe. They have patches of white and orange on their checks and chin. Their breast is orange. The bottom of their beak is slightly red indicating a female.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
A robin seen from behind, perched on a thin branch, with its red tinged face turned to tye right. Behind is clear blue sky. Seen from behind the bird’s under area is a light colour, well lit by the sun. Its back is darker, and it has a touch of red on its tail. A great tit perched on a branch facing towards us with head slightly turned to the left as we look. The bird’s front plumage is mostly yellow with a rather wavy black band up the middle. Its head is black with a white area on the side below its eye. A dipper bird perched facing left on a small grey rock in a river. The bird has a dark brown body and white chin, neck and chest area. It is looking very alertly. A male blackbird perched facing left on a thin branch with red berries around and an out of focus blue and orange background.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Scotland fans shook the earth in win over Denmark www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotland fans shook the earth in win over Denmark
Seismic activity was recorded as the Tartan Army celebrated Scotland reaching their first World Cup since 1998.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
A robin seen from behind, perched on a thin branch, with its red tinged face turned to tye right. Behind is clear blue sky. Seen from behind the bird’s under area is a light colour, well lit by the sun. Its back is darker, and it has a touch of red on its tail. A great tit perched on a branch facing towards us with head slightly turned to the left as we look. The bird’s front plumage is mostly yellow with a rather wavy black band up the middle. Its head is black with a white area on the side below its eye. A dipper bird perched facing left on a small grey rock in a river. The bird has a dark brown body and white chin, neck and chest area. It is looking very alertly. A male blackbird perched facing left on a thin branch with red berries around and an out of focus blue and orange background.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Learning Courtisans card game for the first time, playing solo, using an unofficial set of solo rules from BoardGameGeek. Which are featured in this play through video. Much for me to learn but having fun and getting better scores as I played through my first 3 times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWmZ...
Courtisans: What royal families will fall from grace or become esteemed? (solo play through)
YouTube video by Ruel Gaviola
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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On this day 22nd November 1859 Cecil Sharp, founder of the English folk-song revival was born. (Here he’s pictured overhearing a gardener singing)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
The gardener is pictured with a seedling box, singing his heart out in the greenhouse while Sharp approaches from the garden path
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
Frontispiece of a book with a portrait of James I of England and opposit, a sleepy looking cat
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM