Katherine Mackinnon
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
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RGT tour voucher - winter fundraiser
Support our winter fundraiser, raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Glasgow City Mission. Perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for comrades! Each...
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Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
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Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
RGT tour voucher - winter fundraiser
Support our winter fundraiser, raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Glasgow City Mission. Perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for comrades! Each...
radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
RGT tour voucher - winter fundraiser
Support our winter fundraiser, raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Glasgow City Mission. Perfect gift for those hard-to-buy-for comrades! Each...
radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Vouchers now on sale for @radicalglasgowtour.bsky.social walking tours next year - raising funds for Glasgow City Mission and Gaza Soup Kitchen. Vouchers are £20 and are redeemable on all of our standard tours which'll run weekly Apr-Oct in 2026 radicalglasgowtours.bigcartel.com/product/rgt-...
If you're interested in radical history, walking tours, political folk songs and questionable patter (mine) then tune in to Sunny Govan Community Radio, 103.5FM tonight from 8-10pm where I'm a guest of top cat Fran Lopez on his show Totally Wired www.sunnyg.org
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November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're interested in radical history, walking tours, political folk songs and questionable patter (mine) then tune in to Sunny Govan Community Radio, 103.5FM tonight from 8-10pm where I'm a guest of top cat Fran Lopez on his show Totally Wired www.sunnyg.org
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
This is one of my favourite poems of all time
Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an
it’s November. Christmas is close…
—William Letford, “This is it”
Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016
#poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is one of my favourite poems of all time
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On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On 30th November audio of 141 women (inclusive) first heard in 2021 in Galloway Forest, Scotland will play in the Jardín Botánico, Trujillo, Perú, building dialogue and community beyond borders and language with new audio from those living in Perú as part of the Munanqui Festival de Mujeres Artistas
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Posting the carpet because it’s the law;)
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Posting the carpet because it’s the law;)
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First exhibition in 5 years - the boards are back!! Updated with loads of recent contributions. A selection of the crowd-sourced archive pics - including this cracker of Govanhill Baths from @druidic.org - getting shown at a Southside venue for the 1st time 😁🐦🌳🔔🐟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-co...
Glasgow Coat of Arms Exhibition Launch
Join us in Glasgow for the Coat of Arms Exhibition Launch and dive into the city's rich heritage!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
First exhibition in 5 years - the boards are back!! Updated with loads of recent contributions. A selection of the crowd-sourced archive pics - including this cracker of Govanhill Baths from @druidic.org - getting shown at a Southside venue for the 1st time 😁🐦🌳🔔🐟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-co...
Just learned that there was actual seismic activity recorded in Scotland on Tuesday, at the 4th goal and the final whistle. How good is that
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Just learned that there was actual seismic activity recorded in Scotland on Tuesday, at the 4th goal and the final whistle. How good is that
Black Friday an absolute load of pish EXCEPT for The Waverley's Red White and Black Friday sale. Superior tat which funds the continuing existence of the best day out in the West of Scotland waverleyexcursions.co.uk/product-cate...
Red, White and Black Friday – Waverley Excursions
waverleyexcursions.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Black Friday an absolute load of pish EXCEPT for The Waverley's Red White and Black Friday sale. Superior tat which funds the continuing existence of the best day out in the West of Scotland waverleyexcursions.co.uk/product-cate...
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I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Look now, look quick – a shooting star!
Make your wish! It’s very far
From here to where the active light
Set out and streaked across a night
In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…
—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”
in the @lrb.co.uk, June 2000
#poem #astronomy #leonids #meteors 🌠
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Make your wish! It’s very far
From here to where the active light
Set out and streaked across a night
In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…
—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”
in the @lrb.co.uk, June 2000
#poem #astronomy #leonids #meteors 🌠
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Look now, look quick – a shooting star!
Make your wish! It’s very far
From here to where the active light
Set out and streaked across a night
In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…
—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”
in the @lrb.co.uk, June 2000
#poem #astronomy #leonids #meteors 🌠
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
Make your wish! It’s very far
From here to where the active light
Set out and streaked across a night
In Glasgow’s greatly dark November…
—Edwin Morgan, “Leonids”
in the @lrb.co.uk, June 2000
#poem #astronomy #leonids #meteors 🌠
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
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🔊 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025! 🔊
📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place
⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm
Please share!
📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place
⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm
Please share!
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🔊 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025! 🔊
📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place
⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm
Please share!
📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place
⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm
Please share!
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A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A wee wander round the Green today + spotted this banner someone has put at the front of the People's Palace - Elseth King RIP 🐦🌳🔔🐟
Bit of heroic bloodshed on a Saturday night, what a treat. I love Chow Yun Fat in 80s Hong Kong films - unbelievable levels of charm plus he always wears tremendous outfits
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Bit of heroic bloodshed on a Saturday night, what a treat. I love Chow Yun Fat in 80s Hong Kong films - unbelievable levels of charm plus he always wears tremendous outfits
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This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cycling along the Clyde this morning, was admiring the Waverley in its winter berth when 3 swans flew right beside me coming down to land on the river. What a noise their big wings make up close! An otherworldly sound
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Cycling along the Clyde this morning, was admiring the Waverley in its winter berth when 3 swans flew right beside me coming down to land on the river. What a noise their big wings make up close! An otherworldly sound
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🧵 For two years, photographer Rayna Carruthers has been documenting pro-Palestine protests in Scotland for The Ferret.
Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.
Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🧵 For two years, photographer Rayna Carruthers has been documenting pro-Palestine protests in Scotland for The Ferret.
Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.
Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.
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Agitprop Cabaret!
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book launch: Thomas Muntzer: dramatic depiction of the German Peasants’ War
As part of Joey Simons' solo exhibition 'Their Theatre and Ours' at Market Gallery
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Agitprop Cabaret!
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sat 22 Nov, 2-4pm Market Gallery, Glasgow
performances, readings, resurrections and insurrections to celebrate the launch of Berta Lask's 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 𝕸𝖚̈𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖗: 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖊𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘’ 𝖂𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝟏𝟓𝟐𝟓 (1925)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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“The most unfortunate of all cards, as far as one tradition goes”
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
Nine of diamonds, or the curse of Scotland: an etymological drama in two acts: Act 1
The origin of this mysterious phrase, "nine of diamonds," has been discussed for over two hundred years. Nor are surveys wanting. I cannot say anything on this subject the world does not know, and I h...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“The most unfortunate of all cards, as far as one tradition goes”
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
The ♦️9 is known as “the Curse of Scotland” – supposedly because “Butcher” Cumberland scribbled the order “No quarter” on the playing card the night before Culloden. But…
#FolkloreThursday #C18
1/3
blog.oup.com/2017/11/nine...
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free
Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean (1879–1923), followed by an open archive & poetry reading
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Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Very excited that my book has been translated into Spanish!! 🤯
I'm writing about dawn raids on asylum seekers of the early 2000s, and how the communities who organised against them were part of a longstanding Glasgow tradition of grassroots housing struggle. The housing activism histories are often missing from work on asylum and vice versa
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm writing about dawn raids on asylum seekers of the early 2000s, and how the communities who organised against them were part of a longstanding Glasgow tradition of grassroots housing struggle. The housing activism histories are often missing from work on asylum and vice versa
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Citation is how we knit the world.
Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Citation is how we knit the world.
Research assistant
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Research assistant