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Dr Erin Burrows
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Fascinated by the UK's built heritage and the stories it tells. Lover of books, cats, forests, Billy Connolly, and punk rock.
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
We don’t usually have a webinar in November as that’s the month of our AGM and annual conference. This November however we have our AGM and conference *plus* a webinar! @janeroberts.bsky.social Jane Roberts will be giving a presentation on her #OnePlaceStudy of Batley St Mary’s on November 11th.
Society for One-Place Studies webinar. Tuesday 11 November 2025, 8 for 8.30pm UK time. “Batley St Mary’s One-Place Study” with Jane Roberts. Not a member? Join up and join in! One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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nmireland.bsky.social
History, architecture, Halloween & more! 🎃🏛️ Join us at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks this October for sensory-friendly hours, family workshops & themed tours #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents #FamilyFun #BramStokerFestival #OpenHouseDublin
Full lineup at
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
History, architecture, Halloween & more! 🎃🏛️ Join us at Collins Barracks this Oct for sensory-friendly hours, family workshops & themed tours. #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents #FamilyFun #BramStokerFestival #OpenHouseDublin
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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astroroyalscot.bsky.social
The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢

👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
Catherine having a laugh at the Aberdeen science centre with three girls playing with a powerful fan. Catherine chatting to an interested girl in front of an arch they've just built. Catherine and two kids looking earnestly at some marshmallows in a glass jar that is about to become a vacuum. Catherine looking through a giant lens. She has a mask on.
September 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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gedboy58.bsky.social
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball So, (New) Cathkin Park (the Second Hampden) has been registered by Heritage Environment Scotland, as an important historical site. As the person who put the application in, I am pleased. I am not getting carried away, though. Storm clouds gather over the South Side.
Map Overlay of the Second Hampden 1884 - 1903 and New Cathkin Park, showing the difference in position of the two pitches. Of most interest is the site of the Queen's Park Pavilion, where the south-west Third Lanark corner flag is. The site of Third Lanark's Stand is now bare grass.
September 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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glasgowbell.bsky.social
Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...
The tragedy of Best Kebab
TikTok bandits, machete threats and dismal döner meat
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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northernstudies.bsky.social
Join us online tomorrow from 7pm for 'How to Read a Hogback' - delivered by @rebekahbeatnik.bsky.social & Ancrum Heritage Society. Register here: bit.ly/HogbackAugustSeminar
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
How does keeping the public from publically funded archives make sense to any reasonable person?
pastandotherplaces.bsky.social The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · Aug 24
“They have clearly shifted to it being a resource for BBC business priorities. The corporation no longer recognises the value that working with scholars brings, despite the fact this is an archive of how public money was spent over most of a century.” #history 📚🗃️ #BBC
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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oxfordceltic.bsky.social
Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
📣 Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston #Glasgow
📆 Sat 20th Sept at 11am ~ book here 👉
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-his... our new guided walking tour for
#GDODF #Glasgow850 #GlasgowDoorsOpenDays Festival ~ #heritagetrail tickets now released! ✨️
Flyer for Unseen Historical Buildings of Tradeston walking tour showing a large, ornate former industrial building in the area which is one of many that attendees of the event will find out more about on Saturday 20th September!
August 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
If you're around Glasgow this Saturday, I'll have a stall at the Byres Road Market in Hillhead Library (11am until 4pm). I'll have copies of Glasgow Uncovered for sale as well as a range of greetings cards and prints featuring some of my photos of Glasgow's architecture.

#glasgow #architecture
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
🎧 Southside Chronicles Ep 7 ~ Linn Park 👉 glad.radio/sside-chron-... Cameron Winton walks us through its #industrialheritage Snuff Mill Bridge, Millholm, limestone quarries & coal mines, methane-bubbling water wells & clamp kilns. 350m yrs of history & geology underpinning early industry #Glasgow850
Two photo graphs of Linn Park, Glasgow, one showing its waterfall and the other showing remaining evidence of early industrial activity in the park now largely overgrown with vegetation.
July 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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newglasgowsociety.bsky.social
We present this month's #Glasgow850 NGS talk - The Expressway World: Rethinking urban motorways by Richard J. Williams.

📆 Tuesday 27 May 2025
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 NGS Community Space, 1307 Argyle St, Glasgow, G3 8TL
🎟️ By donation

#ngstalk #theexpresswayworld #glasgow850 @replacethem8.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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alexwhitewrites.bsky.social
A must read for content designers: Considerate Content: How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions by Rebekah Barry @contentdesign.london #disability #books #BookSky
Considerate Content: How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions by Rebekah Barry
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
📆 New event: Southside History Run ~ Sat 24 May at midday ~ Join our qualified jog leader for a gentle 5.5 km around Strathbungo, Crossmyloof, Queen's Park & Govanhill... with people, past events & more shared at key location stops en route [18+ only].

Tickets ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southside-...
Photo of a group of three runners jogging along Moray Place in Strathbungo, south Glasgow.
May 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
Sounds wicked cool!
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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pastandotherplaces.bsky.social
#Archive30 theme #ArchiveNightmares
pastandotherplaces.bsky.social The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · Apr 29
Edinburgh city archives are closing the public access search room on Fri 27 June for the rest of 2025. They will be open between Tues 20 May and Thu 26 June. Researchers are asked to book visits during these 5 weeks.
#archives #🗃️ #📚 #FamilyHistory #history
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/managing-inf...
April 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
Great Scottish photographer! Highly recommend!
pixbypedro.bsky.social PixByPedro @pixbypedro.bsky.social · Apr 23
Ferry good ferry nice
April 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
Aw...now I feel fancy! 😄
sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · Apr 23
🎧 Our Southside Chronicles #heritage & #environment #podcast show is produced by Erin Burrows of SGHET, and hosted on Glad Radio, the community podcasting station for #Glasgow Southside ... browse all our episodes so far here 👉 glad.radio/category/sou...
Screenshot of our first 6 Southside Chronicles episodes on Glad Radio website, the community podcasting station for the south side of Glasgow.
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
🎧 The pod is back 🎉 in Southside Chronicles Ep 6 our Vice Chair Lauren Henning, Learning & Museum Manager @ the Tall Ship Glenlee #Glasgow, shines a light on the ship's story as icon of Clydeside maritime history + its ongoing transformation as a visitor experience 👉 glad.radio/sside-chron-...
Screenshot of Southside Chronicles podcast Episode 6 on Glad Radio showing the Tall Ship Glenlee on the Clyde in its now permanently stationed spot directly in front of the dramatic outline of the Riverside Museum, designed by architect Zaha Hadid, on the north bank of the river.
April 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
Curious to see how this might work and if the Council would use the funds as intended. Though, perhaps ending the council tax exemption on purpose-built luxury student accommodations is also in order.

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How can Glasgow save its world-class architectural legacy?
YouTube video by STV News
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April 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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riasbookshop.bsky.social
⭐️ BOOK OF THE WEEK ⭐️

‘Concrete Dreams’ by Alison Irvine, Chris Leslie and Mitch Miller

Explore the complex legacy of Cumbernauld’s iconic, but divisive, brutalist town centre through the stories of its residents in this lavishly illustrated volume.
April 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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sghetorg.bsky.social
📅 Announcing our new Magnificent 11 Heritage & Environment Walk on Sun 4th May ~ this new 11-mile walk travels around green spaces, Sites of Special Scientific Interest & heritage landmarks #Glasgow850 [due to duration & terrain age 16+ only] 🌳🏛️🦆🐟🌸👣🌤️ Book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magnificen...
A photo of the Ha'penny Bridge, Linn Park, on the southern fringes of Glasgow, built circa 1835. A cast-iron arched structure, over the River Cart, with for identical ribs, each apparently a one-piece casting, and simple wrought-iron railings, it is the oldest surviving complete iron bridge in the greater city of Glasgow area
April 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Still not a fan of this. We need a council and planning department who are capable of considering factors other than a one-time quick profit.

news.stv.tv/west-central...
City centre student flats on site earmarked for hotel recommended for approval
It would include a residents’ lounge, games and karaoke rooms, cinema, yoga area, study lounge and terrace.
news.stv.tv
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
erinburrows13.bsky.social
This is so reminiscent of the mid-nineteenth century brawl over who was to sculpt the Wellington monument...lots of inflated egos amongst the commissioners. Perhaps the CRM Society needs to find trustees that aren't so wrapped up in their own self-importance?
glasgowbell.bsky.social The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social · Apr 16
One of Glasgow's most prestigious art societies is locked in a civil war.

The spark that lit the match? A pair of two pews, said to be designed by Mackintosh, sold for scrap and sawn in half.
@robbiejourno.bsky.social is on the story today.
Pews it or lose it: the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is at war
A debate about church furniture has sparked a bitter conflict about who gets to protect the legacy of Glasgow’s greatest architect
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM