Resistance by Steve McQueen is an impressive and extensive exhibition exploring a century of British popular protest from suffragettes and hunger marchers to the demonstrations against the Iraq War.

It’s on at the National Gallery’s Modern Two in Edinburgh til after Christmas!

The legendary Anthony Bourdain, born on this day in 1956, visited Glasgow 10 years ago for an episode of Parts Unknown.

We sampled the Bourdain Special at Glasgow's University Cafe - battered fish, battered haggis, chips and melted cheese with curry sauce, washed down with a can of Irn-Bru.

For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother and midwife. Only later did the term take on a derogatory meaning.

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I don't know whether they've always been there, and I've only just started noticing them, but there seem to be a lot of weird signs around Glasgow at the moment. I spotted this one today in a window in the Hidden Lane.

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A letter written by a passenger on the Titanic days before the ship sank was sold on Saturday at an auction for $399,000. “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey’s end before I pass judgment on her,” Col. Archibald Gracie, a high-profile survivor of the disaster, wrote in the letter.

He is risen.

David Olusoga and I discuss the historical denialism on Empire with which Black Lives Matter was met.

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The bloodied gloves belonging to Abraham Lincoln, which he kept in his left breast pocket the night he was assassinated. After he was shot, blood ran down his sleeve and pooled in the pocket. His wife kept the gloves all her life. #skystorians

Take a trip through Glasgow at Christmas time, 1968. There was a time when the city's festive illuminations were renowned across the UK.

Here we see Sauchiehall St, Renfield St, and George Square.

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SCANDAL as senior member of Downing Street administration caught breaking the rules...
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