Dr Ailsa Boyd
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Dr Ailsa Boyd
@ailsaboyd.bsky.social
Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
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
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
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
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
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
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)
January 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
November 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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