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Dr Ailsa Boyd
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Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
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A great turnout and enthusiastic audience yesterday for my lecture on ‘Ancient Inspiration for Modern Living: Alexander Thomson and Owen Jones’ for The Alexander Thomson Society @ Mitchell Library. Thank you everyone for coming and asking great questions!
#Glasgow850
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Here's the link to my lecture with The Alexander Thomson Society with the pretty picture! #Glasgow850
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March 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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First lecture of the year for Old Glasgow Club, ‘Strange Affray at Crosshill’ - story of my house, first family who lived in it, and architect Robert Duncan. A lovely time, great audience, first time in Renfield St Stephen’s Parish Church!
#heritage #househistory #glasgow850 #glasgowhistory
February 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My first public lecture this year is ‘‘Strange Affray at Crosshill’: architecture and social mobility in late 19th-century Glasgow’, with some new research. The Old Glasgow Club Thurs 13 Feb 2025, 7pm, Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, G2 4JP www.oldglasgowclub.org.uk
#Glasgow850 #GlasgowHeritage
On the left an old map with Queens Park in the centre, on the right a house at night overlaid with newspaper headlines Strange Affray at Crosshill and Crimes and Charges.
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Another #Mackintosh building sadly vacant, partly demolished and suffering from buddleia. Former QM College Anatomical Dept, 1895. Adjoining former BBC now Scotsman Group HQ. Lovely stone details in the sun. #GlasgowHeritage
January 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Maud Sulter exhibition @ Glasgow Tramway: bringing together issues of family, colonialism, heritage and cultures in photography, poetry and video, forms both beautiful and visceral. My only sneaky snap relates to my interests in lost communities, intangible heritage. ‘No Oxbridge Spires’ (1998)
Maud Sulter - You are my kindred spirit at Tramway. Exhibition poster is a photograph of a woman with black hair looking at the camera wearing a black top and a long necklace of beads. A still from a video shows a view up the middle of a street of red sandstone tenement flats. Subtitle states ‘no ancient relics carved in stone’.
January 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Good afternoon Bluesky! I've made the switch from the hellscape, started the following admin, now I'd better go and do some work on lovely old buildings - follow me for current interests of #heritage #Glasgow #Victorians and sometimes #cats
Two steps up to a doorway of a Victorian building. No. 499 is in large yellow numbers, above an ornamented white stone arch held up by two huge pink granite pillars.
November 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Good to see work going on at the former Shed in Shawlands. I’ve heard a bar/music venue plus flats above. Built c. 1920 by Whyte and Nicol as Marlborough House, venue for weddings, receptions and dances. C-listed in 1992, and The Shed nightclub 1998-2024. Get that buddleia gone!! #GlasgowHeritage
November 15, 2024 at 2:37 PM