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Mainly history, but a large dose of whatever takes my interest at that moment. She/her.
Publicity was a massive part of the campaign - everything from posters and stickers to bookmarks in library books, pavement stencils and milk bottle tops.
Note: only incomers to Glasgow like me find the placename "Dykebar" funny. (6/?)
Note: only incomers to Glasgow like me find the placename "Dykebar" funny. (6/?)
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Publicity was a massive part of the campaign - everything from posters and stickers to bookmarks in library books, pavement stencils and milk bottle tops.
Note: only incomers to Glasgow like me find the placename "Dykebar" funny. (6/?)
Note: only incomers to Glasgow like me find the placename "Dykebar" funny. (6/?)
And this table compares incidence rates in Glasgow to other cities in the UK - higher than places which you'd think would have similar rates like Dundee and Liverpool. The "Glasgow Effect" is a later term for this sort of health disparity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow... (3/?)
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
And this table compares incidence rates in Glasgow to other cities in the UK - higher than places which you'd think would have similar rates like Dundee and Liverpool. The "Glasgow Effect" is a later term for this sort of health disparity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow... (3/?)
This graph shows the worse TB rates were in Glasgow compared to the rest of Scotland. Look at that uptick during the Second World War - more overcrowding perhaps?
This is scanned from a copy in the London Schl of Hygiene & Tropical Med, for who corrected the numbers! (2/?)
This is scanned from a copy in the London Schl of Hygiene & Tropical Med, for who corrected the numbers! (2/?)
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This graph shows the worse TB rates were in Glasgow compared to the rest of Scotland. Look at that uptick during the Second World War - more overcrowding perhaps?
This is scanned from a copy in the London Schl of Hygiene & Tropical Med, for who corrected the numbers! (2/?)
This is scanned from a copy in the London Schl of Hygiene & Tropical Med, for who corrected the numbers! (2/?)
I thought that photo might be from the Glasgow Medical Officer for Health's annual report - it isn't, but this glorious photo of the temporary X-Ray centre in George Square is. The rest doesn't have such pretty pictures but some fascinating information (1/?)
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I thought that photo might be from the Glasgow Medical Officer for Health's annual report - it isn't, but this glorious photo of the temporary X-Ray centre in George Square is. The rest doesn't have such pretty pictures but some fascinating information (1/?)
Call that a mass X-Ray campaign? THIS is a mass X-Ray campaign!
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Call that a mass X-Ray campaign? THIS is a mass X-Ray campaign!
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Donate to make the Govan Stones even more awesome!
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October 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Donate to make the Govan Stones even more awesome!
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*shakes fist at the sky*
September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
*shakes fist at the sky*
"What font shall we use for the annual report title page?"
"Dunno. How about all of them?"
"Dunno. How about all of them?"
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"What font shall we use for the annual report title page?"
"Dunno. How about all of them?"
"Dunno. How about all of them?"
I am back and everything of course remains terrible so I am not going to add to this by watching "King and Conqueror" but FFS if you don't care enough to avoid a century early gothic arch, just don't make a historical drama, ok?
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I am back and everything of course remains terrible so I am not going to add to this by watching "King and Conqueror" but FFS if you don't care enough to avoid a century early gothic arch, just don't make a historical drama, ok?
Thinking more on this in the morning, because this is Equalities legislation this applies to all protected characteristics, right? So it's now illegal to have a 26 member group for black disabled women? A Catholic Men's group for over 65s is now illegal?
April 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Thinking more on this in the morning, because this is Equalities legislation this applies to all protected characteristics, right? So it's now illegal to have a 26 member group for black disabled women? A Catholic Men's group for over 65s is now illegal?
And obviously no Tay Bridge, which I also have a deep affection for, here in a rather more placid painting "The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window". artuk.org/discover/art...
April 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
And obviously no Tay Bridge, which I also have a deep affection for, here in a rather more placid painting "The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window". artuk.org/discover/art...
Right, who did it. Who approved a picking list of paintings for "Choose the nation’s best-loved railway art" that does not include a single picture of the Forth Bridge. They have five Terence Cueno's on the list, but not this glorious and unusual view of the bridge.
railway200.artuk.org
railway200.artuk.org
April 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Right, who did it. Who approved a picking list of paintings for "Choose the nation’s best-loved railway art" that does not include a single picture of the Forth Bridge. They have five Terence Cueno's on the list, but not this glorious and unusual view of the bridge.
railway200.artuk.org
railway200.artuk.org
Honestly it was nice that it was today that this arrived in the post.
April 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Honestly it was nice that it was today that this arrived in the post.
16th May 1803, RCSEd minutes: "Mr Benjamin Bell then moved that as calling frequent meetings upon such trivial and ridiculous causes was attended with great inconvenience to most of the members a Committee should be appointed to review the Laws respecting special meetings"
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
16th May 1803, RCSEd minutes: "Mr Benjamin Bell then moved that as calling frequent meetings upon such trivial and ridiculous causes was attended with great inconvenience to most of the members a Committee should be appointed to review the Laws respecting special meetings"
Maybe not cherub heads, but otherwise you're just not looking in the right shoe shops. www.irregularchoice.com/collections/...
March 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Maybe not cherub heads, but otherwise you're just not looking in the right shoe shops. www.irregularchoice.com/collections/...
For International Women's Day, some early English women who have Had It With Everything.
(The death of Mary from the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, and Saint Æthelthryth from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold. I've just finished Catherine E. Karkov's "The Art of Anglo-Saxon England")
(The death of Mary from the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, and Saint Æthelthryth from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold. I've just finished Catherine E. Karkov's "The Art of Anglo-Saxon England")
March 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For International Women's Day, some early English women who have Had It With Everything.
(The death of Mary from the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, and Saint Æthelthryth from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold. I've just finished Catherine E. Karkov's "The Art of Anglo-Saxon England")
(The death of Mary from the Benedictional of Archbishop Robert, and Saint Æthelthryth from the Benedictional of St Æthelwold. I've just finished Catherine E. Karkov's "The Art of Anglo-Saxon England")
The Tomb of the Eagles is amazing and it would be great to see it re-open.
I've lost most of my photos from that trip to Orkney, but have this (low-res) of a sheepdog puppy relaxing in a shell midden of the settlement next to the Tomb of the Eagles which will have to do for persuading you to donate
I've lost most of my photos from that trip to Orkney, but have this (low-res) of a sheepdog puppy relaxing in a shell midden of the settlement next to the Tomb of the Eagles which will have to do for persuading you to donate
March 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Tomb of the Eagles is amazing and it would be great to see it re-open.
I've lost most of my photos from that trip to Orkney, but have this (low-res) of a sheepdog puppy relaxing in a shell midden of the settlement next to the Tomb of the Eagles which will have to do for persuading you to donate
I've lost most of my photos from that trip to Orkney, but have this (low-res) of a sheepdog puppy relaxing in a shell midden of the settlement next to the Tomb of the Eagles which will have to do for persuading you to donate
Looking for the out-of-print "Braw Concrete" by Halliday et al, I checked google shopping. I wasn't surprised by being offered actual concrete, I was surprised by - concrete with kittens? I looked at the listed suppliers, none of them use the kittens photo. Where did concrete kittens come from?
February 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Looking for the out-of-print "Braw Concrete" by Halliday et al, I checked google shopping. I wasn't surprised by being offered actual concrete, I was surprised by - concrete with kittens? I looked at the listed suppliers, none of them use the kittens photo. Where did concrete kittens come from?
(Not really related but searching for which sea anemones are common around Scotland led me to 'Granny' the 19th century celebrity Scottish sea anemone, "arguably the most famous and celebrated cnidarian of all time". She needs her own biography written. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_... ) (10/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
(Not really related but searching for which sea anemones are common around Scotland led me to 'Granny' the 19th century celebrity Scottish sea anemone, "arguably the most famous and celebrated cnidarian of all time". She needs her own biography written. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_... ) (10/?)
Finally, the sea anemone, the "deil's pap". Well, if you see beadlet anemone out of water you know what this one is going for (pap = breast). (9/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Finally, the sea anemone, the "deil's pap". Well, if you see beadlet anemone out of water you know what this one is going for (pap = breast). (9/?)
Dragonfly - the "deil's dernin needle". Back into understandable territory here, especially if it's a goth dragonfly like this one (the Northern Emerald, found across northern Europe but in the UK only in boggy bits of Scotland) (8/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dragonfly - the "deil's dernin needle". Back into understandable territory here, especially if it's a goth dragonfly like this one (the Northern Emerald, found across northern Europe but in the UK only in boggy bits of Scotland) (8/?)
The "devil's buckie" is a whelk, but buckie just means whelk? The source is from Fife so perhaps beware satanic whelks on the Fife coast only. (7/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The "devil's buckie" is a whelk, but buckie just means whelk? The source is from Fife so perhaps beware satanic whelks on the Fife coast only. (7/?)
One that's nearly the same in English and Scots - the "deil's coachman" is the Devil's Coach Horse Beetle, but this just leaves me imagining a devil which is about 2cm tall. (6/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
One that's nearly the same in English and Scots - the "deil's coachman" is the Devil's Coach Horse Beetle, but this just leaves me imagining a devil which is about 2cm tall. (6/?)
The Tortoiseshell Butterfly, the "deil's butterfly". We are getting to the more baffling devil's creatures here - tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars feed on nettles, so they're not even garden pests. Is it the red and black colour scheme? (5/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Tortoiseshell Butterfly, the "deil's butterfly". We are getting to the more baffling devil's creatures here - tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars feed on nettles, so they're not even garden pests. Is it the red and black colour scheme? (5/?)
Magpies, the "deil's bird". If you want to avoid devilment, head for the Highlands and Islands where they are rare and you're much more likely to see hooded crows. (4/?)
February 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Magpies, the "deil's bird". If you want to avoid devilment, head for the Highlands and Islands where they are rare and you're much more likely to see hooded crows. (4/?)