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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello from a newbie 👋
I'm interested in architectural history, fashion history, interiors, the built environment, cemeteries, 16/17th c. West of Scotland witchcraft, and pretty much everything in-between.
I also write a blog archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Feel free to say hi!

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Welcome to the Archivist History Blog I am a professional Archivist interested in documenting the stories of people, events, buildings and places. I am also a Historian, althoug…

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

I think in that case too, Marion was listed first as it is her family lair, not his. Also, I can't remember if her husband Robert is buried there or elsewhere.
Thanks for the replies and discussion 😁

Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

It might also be worth saying that there are differences in name conventions and customs dependent on 'class' too as well as the England/Scotland differences

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I find the legal aspect of this subject really interesting. Coverture was (thankfully) and English thing and customs in Scotland were/are different.
Rebecca Mason wrote a nice post about it
rebecca-mason.com/2022/06/02/w...

What’s In A Surname?

In Britain today, 9 out of 10 women marrying men will change their name on marriage. For History Workshop Online I discussed the history of female name changing after marriage in Britain, arguing t…

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

She didn't officially keep her maiden name in favour of Cochrane, except in relation to her business as she had developed her identity as part of her brand and didn't want to loose that. In private she was known as Mrs Cochrane and her will and death notice says Mrs Catherine Cranston Cochrane

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

@womenslibrary.bsky.social
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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone in the greater #Glasgow / Renfrewshire area, I have a few talks coming up soon. The next one is Tuesday 28 Oct at 6.30 on #witchcraft in the Shire of Renfrew
Booking info here: www.enjoyeastren.org/events/witch...
#WomensHistory
#crimeandpunishment
#earlymodern
#skyhistory
#skyhistorians

Flyers for "Witchcraft in the Shire of Renfrew" flyer for talk on 28 Oct for East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure

Screenshot from my website with information on upcoming talks:
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/history-talks/

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 1d

Jean Payton Reid, architect and town planner (1917-97). Liberton Kirkyard, Edinburgh. Thought to have been Scotland's first female town planner. Family monument - pink granite obelisk.
#31DaysOfGraves day 12 notable women. #herstory
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/a...

Greek-style tall pointed obelisk in polished pink granite standing in a kirkyard. Most of the other gravestones are smaller and grey. The tower of the Kirk is prominent in the background. There are green shrubs and several bare-branched trees in the background.

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

@womenslibrary.bsky.social
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
@womenshistscot.bsky.social
@pastglasgow.co.uk
#twitterstorians
#Glasgow850
#womenshistory
#victorian
#Taphophile

Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves is #NotableWoman
To anyone who knows my areas of interest, it couldn't be anyone other than Miss Cranston of Glasgow tearoom fame. She died in 1934 and is buried with her husband in Barrhead
#twitterstorians
Read my post:
archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/t...

The Cochrane family grave in Neilston Parish Church in Barrhead
Photo (c) Lorraine Murray, 2024

Mrs Catherine Cochrane (Cranston) was widowed in 1917

31 days of graves themes for 2025 but @annaandthedead

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 1d

Well worth reading this #VanishingCulture report from @archive.org which focuses on our fragile cultural records and how the loss of such items impacts cultural memory
#DigiPres #DigitalPreservation #Archives #preservation #CyberAttack #culture #access #memory
ia800701.us.archive.org/31/items/van...

#VanishingCulture report cover from the internet archive

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 3d

1/ Contrasting posts on interwar housing this week. The first looked at the attempt to promote modernist designs to the middle class in the 1934 Modern Homes Exhibition in Gidea Park.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/g...

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Inverclyde History from Cartsburn Publishing @inverclydehistory.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD #LocalHistory #Inverclyde #Greenock

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Inverclyde History from Cartsburn Publishing @inverclydehistory.bsky.social · 2d

#Inverclyde #31daysofgraves #military

Tales from Inverclyde Graveyards #1 The Aurora Disaster

YouTube video by Cartsburn Publishing - Stories of Inverclyde

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 2d

The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis has a fuller bio than I've been able to provide here, researched by Morag Fyfe. The link to their site is here:
www.glasgownecropolis.org/profiles/ken...

Kenneth Ashby Brown - Glasgow Necropolis

www.glasgownecropolis.org

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 2d

The date of the photo could be prior to his war experience as he was commissioned as an officer in the Scottish Rifles in 1908, so before #WW1
He was part of the Junior OTC (Officer Training Corps), which was the predecessor of todays CCF (Combined Cadet Force) & an OTC trainer at Glasgow Uni too

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 3d

Day 11 theme is #military
Captain Kenneth Ashby Brown of the 5th Cameronians was KIA aged 29 on 14th April 1917, during the British Arras Offensive, having survived the Somme. FP of Glasgow Academy & University, he is remembered on the grave of his parents in Glasgow Necropolis
#31DaysOfGraves
#WW1

The family grave in Glasgow Necropolis of of Nicol Paton Brown and his wife Maria Crowley Brown (nee Ashby). They commemorated their only son Captain Kenneth Ashby Brown here, but he is buried at Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemetery, south of Arras in the North of France.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray

Portrait of Captain Kenneth Ashby Brown. He is remembered on the Rolls of Honour of the Royal Technical College of Glasgow, University of Glasgow and The Glasgow Academy where he studied.
Photo credit: The Glasgow Academy Archive

#31DaysOfGraves 2025 daily themes from @annaandthedead

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11:Military. In Restalrig kirkyard. Sebastian was born in London in 1840. His father was a French basket maker. Sebastian died from a fractured skull, caused by falls in South Saint David St, Princes St, Waterloo Place, Regent Road and London Rd. From his horse?

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 3d

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 4d

Day 10 of #31DaysOfGraves
Golders Green was the first crematorium built in London dating from 1902 after the Crematorium Act. The two columbariums house the cremated remains of many individuals, including the #urn of Herbert Samuel Weil, who died in 1937
#MementoMori
#Taphophile
#Skystorians

The funerary urns of several inhabitants of Golders Green in London, including one for Herbert Samuel Weil and Bram Stoker, the famous novelist who wrote the most famous #vampire story #Dracula
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray 2025

A columbarium is a permanent structure designed to hold multiple urns in individual niches as a permanent place of repose. There are two columbariums in Golders Green in London.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray 2025

Golders Green was the first crematorium built in London, dating from 1902 after the Crematorium Act. Find out about the history here: https://www.thelondoncremation.co.uk/company/history-architecture.aspx
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray 2025

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 4d

#31daysofgraves Day 10 - Urn. In The Grange cemetery, Edinburgh, to Rachael.

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 4d

Today's #31DaysOfGraves topic is #hand
This gravestone shows a hand holding a scroll which has recorded info about those interred below. Inverted torches signify life extinguished, but also light the way to salvation in the afterlife for the soul
#Glasgow
#TaphophileThursday
#MementoMori
#cemetery

Barclay family memorial at Glasgow Necropolis.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 6d

Day 6: Gender
#31daysofgraves

Radclyffe Hall, also known as John is buried near by in the circle of Lebanon, in Highgate Cemetery, London.

As always, more information in the alt text.

A quiet, atmospheric path curves through a row of grand, weathered stone mausoleums in the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery, London. The tombs, built into the hillside, feature classical architectural details such as columns, pediments, and carved inscriptions. Moss and ivy cling to the old stone, and a soft green carpet of grass borders the gravel walkway. The air feels still and reverent beneath the shelter of overhanging trees.

This photograph depicts the Circle of Lebanon in Highgate Cemetery (West), one of London’s most historic and architecturally remarkable burial grounds. Opened in 1839, Highgate is known for its elaborate Victorian funerary art, Egyptian- and Greek-inspired architecture, and as the resting place of many notable figures.

Among those interred here is Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943) an English author best known for The Well of Loneliness (1928), a groundbreaking novel in LGBTQ+ history. The book, which depicted the life and struggles of a lesbian protagonist, was the subject of an obscenity trial in Britain, leading to its ban at the time. Despite the controversy, Hall’s work became a cornerstone of queer literary heritage, and they are remembered today as a pioneering figure for visibility and representation.

Hall was buried alongside their partner Una Troubridge, an artist and sculptor, reflecting their lifelong companionship. Their tomb is located in the West Cemetery, not far from the area shown in the image. a serene and deeply symbolic space that continues to draw visitors interested in both literary and LGBTQ+ history.

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 6d

Day 8 of #31daysofgraves is #glass
The #grave of Irish author and poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
From 1914, in "Egyptian style".
Visitors would leave lipstick 💋 so it is now covered by glass to protect the stonework
#Egyptophile
#Taphophile
#skystorians
#darktourism

The grave of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise, Paris.
Designed by sculptor Jacob Epstein in 1914.
The epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him, Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn" taken Wilde's poem "The Sphinx" from 1894.
Egyptomania was a popular cultural phenomenon throughout the 19th century, especially in the Napoleonic era and again in the 1920s after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter.
The glass barrier was put in place in 2014 to protect the stone from damage caused by the lipstick.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray c.2006

Detail showing the glass barrier to protect the stonework which was put in place around a decade ago

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 6d

Seems like a good time to share this starter pack for anyone following or taking part in @annaandthedead.bsky.social #31DaysOfGraves campaign
It was put together a while ago, and I'm sure there are lots of other accounts that could be added! Let me know
#MementoMori
#skystorians
go.bsky.app/KGLpmwp

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Bruderherz @trailchaser.bsky.social · 8d

'Dinge die mit "H" beginnen ...' #FotoVorschlag

Hedy Lamarr, Schauspielerinn, Erfinderin

#31DaysOfGraves 06 Geschlecht / Gender

In Parkähnlicher Anlage eine Skluptur aus Stahlstäben senkrecht mit aufgesetzten Kugeln, die das Gesicht einer Frau darstellen. Davor, direkt auf Rasen, eine helle Steintafel. Diese weiderholt das Punktmuster der Skulptur, darunter Text "Films have a certain place in an certain time period. Technology is forever. / Hedy Lamarr / Actress. Inventor / 1914 Vienna / 2000 USA".

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