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Perth Women on Wikipedia
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Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
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We created another #Wikipedia article, this time for Edith Drummond-Hay (1872-1960), a VAD nurse in World War 1 who created beautiful and detailed sketches of life in military hospitals in #Perth and France.

📸 from Red Cross archives. No photo of Edith though 😕
Sketch by Edith Drummond-Hay of life in a military hospital in world war 1. From Red Cross archives.
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#Perth people - join us this Saturday 29 November for our #Wikipedia Editing Club at Bramblers Café, St John Street from 10-12. All levels of experience welcome. Don't forget your laptop!

We'll also have a selection of festive cards and stocking fillers from our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
A group of people with laptops editing Wikipedia. A selection of Christmas cards by Protests and Suffragettes.
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Cover art for March of the Women was designed by artist / dancer Margaret Morris (1891-1980) - one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia Though she never lived in Perth, her partner was Perthshire artist JD Fergusson and she donated their archive to @perthmuseum.bsky.social
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Sketch by Margaret Morris for suffragette anthem The March of the Women, featuring women and girls marching under a banner of Votes for Women c1910.
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#31DaysOfGraves

Day 29: occupation

A Stewart, Hairdresser
Perth Cemetery, Scotland
Plaque above a grave stone 'erected by A Stewart, Hairdresser' in Perth Cemetery.
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Join us at our next Perth Women on Wikipedia editing club on 29 November! We'll be meeting 10-12 @ Bramblers Café on St John's Street. New and experienced editors welcome to help improve women's articles on Wikipedia - with peer support and coffee ☕️ BYO laptop!

#WeCanEdit #PerthScotland
Group of people working on laptops editing Wikipedia.
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Out for a walk today and passed Frances Gordon Road, one of the few Perth streets named for a woman. Frances was a militant suffragette who was force-fed in Perth Prison. She's one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia - we added the street sign to her article!
#Scotland
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Street sign for Frances Gordon Road in Perth, Scotland.
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Perth is being targeted for the next 4 Saturdays by racist protests outside hotels. Join Perth Against Racism to say no to racism in our community - meet today 10-10.30 at Station Hotel
#PerthScotland #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere
Image promoting a demo organised by Perth Against Racism on Saturday 27 September at 10am at Station Hotel.
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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When did you last see elephants on South Methven St?

Perth Civic Trust is holding a Photographic Memories of Perth event on Wed 17 Sept, 19.00 at Willows Café.

Free but booking essential: www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/photographic-memories-of-perth
A parade of elephants walking down South Methven Street in Perth, Scotland. Part of a flyer for en event by Perth Civic Trust on 17 September 2025.
August 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The Stone of Destiny / Stone of Scone is said to have come to Scotland from Ireland via St Columba on Iona in the 9th century. So many myths surround it. Which is the real stone?
#StandingStoneSunday
A replica of the Stone of Destiny at Scone Palace, Scotland.
August 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Our next Wikipedia editing club is this Saturday 16 August in Bramblers Cafe, Perth 10-12. Editors at all levels of confidence welcome. Bring your own device! #WeCanEdit #PerthScotland
Rosie the riveter image with text We Can Edit (Wikipedia), from Wikimedia Commons.
August 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Suffragette Ethel Moorhead (1869-1955) was the first hunger striker to be force-fed. Spent time in Perth Prison for attack on the Wallace monument. A road in Perth is named after her!

We improved her article by adding citations - and her 1911 census resistance
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Black and white photo of suffragette Ethel Moorhead, a white woman wearing glasses and looking serious. From Wikimedia Commons. Road sign at Ethel Moorhead Place in Perth. By Gillaween on Wikimedia Commons.
July 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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We had a lovely group of new and experienced editors at our Wikipedia club this morning. Here's a 🧵 of articles we worked on...

#WomensHistory
#LGBTQhistory #PerthWomenOnWikipedia #PerthScotland
'Rosie the Riveter' image of woman with headscarf, her arm indicating strength, and text that reads We Can Edit. Derived from famous We Can Do It image, in public domain on Wikimedia Commons.
July 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The new blue plaques made the front page of today's @thecourier.co.uk 😍
Front page of The Courier 1st July 2025 with the headline Perth photography pioneers recognised with blue plaques and a photo of a group of people standing under the plaques commemorating David Octavius Hill and Jessie Mann that have just been installed at 3 Watergate, Perth.
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Marjorie's photo is on Wikimedia Commons 🙌
We improved the lead paragraph on her article so it's clear why she's notable. We did the same for Charlotte's. Many women's achievements are buried in the text so beefing up the lead paragraph really improves their article
#PerthWomenonWikipedia
Head shot of Perth theatre owner Marjorie Dence (1901-1966).
June 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Sadly there's no photo of Georgina on her Wikipedia page. A challenge for 20th century women is that photos are still in copyright and we can only upload public domain or CC licensed images.

This fab one of Georgina with her salmon is from gameanglingscotland.co.uk (could they make it free to use?)
Photo of Perthshire angler Georgina Ballantine posing with her record salmon and fishing rod c1922.
June 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The latest volume of ALISS* Quarterly has an article about Perth Women on Wikipedia and the challenges of feminist knowledge activism 🙌

*Assoc of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences
Front cover of ALISS Quarterly volume 20:3 with a list of Women's History articles including Perth Women on Wikipedia.
June 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Exciting #BookPost arrived today - How to Kill a Witch by @clairekc.bsky.social and Zoe Venditozzi. The cover is stunning, and hardcover is the new Witches of Scotland tartan! Can't wait to get stuck into it 🥰
Book cover - How to Kill a Witch by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi. Inside cover of How to Kill a Witch showing the witches of Scotland tartan.
May 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Celebrating suffragette Jessie Stephen's 132nd birthday at @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social with @glasgowgallivanter.bsky.social and the @scotsuffragette.bsky.social crew. On the left is Jessie's grand-niece Sheana 🥰

Go visit the exhibition if you find yourself in Glasgow!
Three woman - coincidentally dressed from left to right in green, white and purple, the suffragette colours - with a cake to celebrate the 132nd birthday of suffragette Jessie Stephen at Maryhill Burgh Hall in Glasgow.
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Peacock at Scone Palace today

##PerthScotland
Peacock among some shrubbery at Scone Palace, Perth.
April 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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For #NationalUnicornDay 🦄 here's Destiny, the trojan unicorn created for Perth Museum's opening exhibition, now in Perth Art Gallery. Created by Becky Minto and Scott Bisset in collaboration with LGBTQ+ groups across Perth & Kinross, she's fabulous 💖🌈

#PerthScotland
Destiny the trojan unicorn sculpture in Perth Art Gallery. Looks like a trojan horse but with a unicorn horn that changes colours.
April 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Giving a presentation about Perth Women on Wikipedia this evening - in Italian! Wish me luck 🙏

Le Donne di Perth su Wikipedia
Two rows of thumbnail photos of women from Perth through the centuries, including engineers, code breakers, record holders, olympians, OBEs, dancers and a very big fish. The text reads Le Donne di Perth su Wikipedia.
March 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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People can support the students' campaign by voting for Janet! The consultation is open til 28 March #VoteForJanet

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Text reads Vote for Janet with a QR code linking to the consultation.
March 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Fantastic article in Perthshire Advertiser yesterday - Perth Civic Trust have applied for #BluePlaques for pioneer photographers David Octavius Hill & Jessie Mann, both born on Watergate. Delighted to see Jessie recognised as possibly first female photographer in Scotland
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Newspaper article about application for plaques to mark the legacy of pioneer photographers David Octavius Hill and Jessie Mann, both born in Watergate, Perth. Images of early photographs including one of Jessie, the house on Watergate, and mock ups of the blue plaques.
March 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Some photos from #Perth Soroptomist #InternationWomensDay event at Civic Hall. Gill gave a talk on Perth women - a whirlwind history from 1300s to 2000s!

@seileasdar.bsky.social was giving Women of Perth guided walks throughout the day. Here we are holding each other up!

#IWD2025 #PerthScotland
Two women, one introducing the other, at the Soroptomist Perth International Women's Day in Perth Civic Hall, March 2025. Woman speaking with powerpoint on large screen featuring a Women in STEM - codebreaker Jean Valentine - at the Soroptomist Perth International Women's Day in Perth Civic Hall, March 2025. Two women smiling at the Soroptomist Perth International Women's Day in Perth Civic Hall, March 2025.
March 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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What a pleasure to meet author and storyteller Jess Smith this evening at @waterstones.bsky.social Perth. We were chatting about #PerthWomenOnWikipedia and she very kindly posed for a photo we can use for her Wikipedia article 🙌
Author Jess Smith with her book Button Bog at an event in Waterstones Perth in March 2025.
March 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM