Maggie Craig
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
Scottish writer and historian. Loves writing, reading, cats and drinking tea.
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Maggie Craig
@maggiecraig.bsky.social
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Jacobite Festival online talk with Author Maggie Craig
The story of Isabel Haldane of Ardsheal and the Cruel Captain Caroline Frederick Scott Told by Maggie Craig as part of the Jacobite Festival 2025 “I do think your husband wa...
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What a man he was.
Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today.
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What a man he was.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
12th November 2025 06.52
For Rembrance Day - The Green Fields of France by the Corries. Resolution of the wee video is not great but the song is so poignant and sung so beautifully.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyiL...
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The Corries - Green Fields Of France
YouTube video by iMdReSSediNdEcAy
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November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For Rembrance Day - The Green Fields of France by the Corries. Resolution of the wee video is not great but the song is so poignant and sung so beautifully.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyiL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyiL...
Heartbreaking.
Past life, past tears, far past the grave,
The tryst is set for me,
Since, for our all, your all you gave
On the slopes of Picardy…
—Violet Jacob, “To A.H.J.”
Violet Jacob’s only son, Harry, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, aged 20
#RemembranceSunday #poem
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The tryst is set for me,
Since, for our all, your all you gave
On the slopes of Picardy…
—Violet Jacob, “To A.H.J.”
Violet Jacob’s only son, Harry, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, aged 20
#RemembranceSunday #poem
www.cwgc.org/find-records...
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Heartbreaking.
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Couldn't find this book yesterday.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling.
Whoa That Loving Feeling.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling now it's back back back whoa oh-oh-oh.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling.
Whoa That Loving Feeling.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling now it's back back back whoa oh-oh-oh.
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Couldn't find this book yesterday.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling.
Whoa That Loving Feeling.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling now it's back back back whoa oh-oh-oh.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling.
Whoa That Loving Feeling.
We'd lost That Loving Feeling now it's back back back whoa oh-oh-oh.
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We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
The Newsreader is wonderful.
Have you watched The Newsreader?
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Newsreader is wonderful.
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Have you watched The Newsreader?
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Have you watched The Newsreader?
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“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
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The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ, c.7th/8th century CE. St Columba sends it packing
📷: Rodney’s Stone, Moray
#BookWormSat
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columb...
Reminds me of being taken in to Glasgow to window shop before Christmas when I was wee!
Neon nights...
Two beautiful glimpses of Watt Brothers' window, taken #OTD in 1953, by Haywood Magee, for Picture Post.
Two beautiful glimpses of Watt Brothers' window, taken #OTD in 1953, by Haywood Magee, for Picture Post.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reminds me of being taken in to Glasgow to window shop before Christmas when I was wee!
I'm all for Outwith Day! It's a wonderful word.
Happy Outwith Day to all who celebrate, both inwith and outwith Scotland
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I'm all for Outwith Day! It's a wonderful word.
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Ruff of the day: Lady Christina of Lorraine (1565-1637), wife of Ferdinando I de' Medici (1549-1609).
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ruff of the day: Lady Christina of Lorraine (1565-1637), wife of Ferdinando I de' Medici (1549-1609).
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#31daysofgraves Day 12 notable women. A famous face in an unmarked grave. Portraits of Elizabeth Johnston(e) Hall (1822-1901) hang in every major photographic collection in the world, but she is buried in a common grave in Warriston. #Edinburgh #PhotoHistory #HillAndAdamson #NewhavenFishwives 1/2
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#31daysofgraves Day 12 notable women. A famous face in an unmarked grave. Portraits of Elizabeth Johnston(e) Hall (1822-1901) hang in every major photographic collection in the world, but she is buried in a common grave in Warriston. #Edinburgh #PhotoHistory #HillAndAdamson #NewhavenFishwives 1/2
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Time for a post from Malcolm Root's "Pageant of Transport", this time another wintery scene with 'Royal Scot' in LMS livery climbing to Ais Gill Summit, Cumbria. Reminds us of times when loco crews really needed a good fire to hand! ⛄🔥⛄
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Time for a post from Malcolm Root's "Pageant of Transport", this time another wintery scene with 'Royal Scot' in LMS livery climbing to Ais Gill Summit, Cumbria. Reminds us of times when loco crews really needed a good fire to hand! ⛄🔥⛄
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art
#Steamtrains #Steamgeek #Trains #Transport #Art
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On the subject of young people don’t read blah blah, our middle son charged into our house unexpectedly the other day demanding “the classics.” “Bring me your Brontes,” he said. Now he’s sent a pic of him reading The Handmaid’s Tale on a train with the message: “Performative maling.”
October 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On the subject of young people don’t read blah blah, our middle son charged into our house unexpectedly the other day demanding “the classics.” “Bring me your Brontes,” he said. Now he’s sent a pic of him reading The Handmaid’s Tale on a train with the message: “Performative maling.”
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Wonderful!
I can't let the day go by without posting a bit of Malcolm Root steam. It's the early 1950s and 'Duchess of Sutherland' attacks the gradient at Greenholme, Cumbria on the way to the Shap summit. Just captures the winter bleakness perfectly.
#Steamtrains #Transport #Art #Steamgeek #Trains
#Steamtrains #Transport #Art #Steamgeek #Trains
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wonderful!
Always loved her books.
RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️
Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Always loved her books.
This is brilliant. You had to be there.
At some point in 2017 I made this. The world just wasn’t ready…
October 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is brilliant. You had to be there.
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Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour!
October 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour!
John Rattray, here on #LeithLinks, helped draw up the first rules of #golf and was the winner of the first Open in 1744. Also a doctor and a #Jacobite, he very likely escaped execution after the #JacobiteRising of 1745-6 due to the intervention of his golfing buddy, Duncan Forbes of #Culloden.
October 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
John Rattray, here on #LeithLinks, helped draw up the first rules of #golf and was the winner of the first Open in 1744. Also a doctor and a #Jacobite, he very likely escaped execution after the #JacobiteRising of 1745-6 due to the intervention of his golfing buddy, Duncan Forbes of #Culloden.
I remember this well, it was very inspiring.
Waverley is Edinburgh’s main railway station, & it’s named after Walter Scott’s bestselling 1814 novel WAVERLEY; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In 2014 the @edincityoflit.bsky.social celebrated the novel’s 200th anniversary in Waverley station
#BookWormSat #C19th 💙📚 🚂
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#BookWormSat #C19th 💙📚 🚂
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Great Scott! Responses to Sir Walter Scott's quotes in Edinburgh's Waverley station
YouTube video by Edinburgh CityofLiterature
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September 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I remember this well, it was very inspiring.
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@shonamaclean.bsky.social Mrs M has (again!) deserted me for some dude named Damien Seeker. Apparently he's a tall, good-looking, intelligent Yorkshireman. The fact that I don't measure up to someone who's been dead for over 300 years is hurtful. 😭 Shame on you Shona!
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@shonamaclean.bsky.social Mrs M has (again!) deserted me for some dude named Damien Seeker. Apparently he's a tall, good-looking, intelligent Yorkshireman. The fact that I don't measure up to someone who's been dead for over 300 years is hurtful. 😭 Shame on you Shona!
Thrilled to see these!
Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thrilled to see these!