Fraser Horn
@streethistorians.bsky.social
I’m
🏰 Edinburgh based
☂️ Tour Guide
✍️ Writer
🖥️⌨️ Built my own computer and website streethistorians.com
👨🏻👶👶 Dad to babies
🌈 LGBTQ
🧠 Got an interesting brain
🏴 Really into Scotland and our global links
Replaced Harry Potter tours with LGBTQ ones
🏰 Edinburgh based
☂️ Tour Guide
✍️ Writer
🖥️⌨️ Built my own computer and website streethistorians.com
👨🏻👶👶 Dad to babies
🌈 LGBTQ
🧠 Got an interesting brain
🏴 Really into Scotland and our global links
Replaced Harry Potter tours with LGBTQ ones
This is a thing I’m going to be doing! Waverley Care were such an integral part of the community response to HIV/AIDS, so for World AIDS Day we’re putting on our Edinburgh LGBTQ walking tour with 100% of the proceeds going to support their ongoing work
Come along or drop a donation!
Come along or drop a donation!
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a thing I’m going to be doing! Waverley Care were such an integral part of the community response to HIV/AIDS, so for World AIDS Day we’re putting on our Edinburgh LGBTQ walking tour with 100% of the proceeds going to support their ongoing work
Come along or drop a donation!
Come along or drop a donation!
In honour of Edinburgh’s housing crisis, does anyone fancy a tradition of “no rent November”?
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In honour of Edinburgh’s housing crisis, does anyone fancy a tradition of “no rent November”?
Next week for Halloween we’re doing our LGBTQ tour and guests are encouraged to get dressed up as your favourite LGBTQ figure, so come along!
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Next week for Halloween we’re doing our LGBTQ tour and guests are encouraged to get dressed up as your favourite LGBTQ figure, so come along!
In the past 8 months I’ve been running the Street Historians, I’ve been thrilled to tell stories others don’t. That includes our Forgotten Women’s tour which has been getting numbers thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
In the past 8 months I’ve been running the Street Historians, I’ve been thrilled to tell stories others don’t. That includes our Forgotten Women’s tour which has been getting numbers thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social
#edinburgh is making great use of Bristo Square these days. It was Pride, then graduations, then Fringe, now Freshers
September 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#edinburgh is making great use of Bristo Square these days. It was Pride, then graduations, then Fringe, now Freshers
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The lesson is clear: you can’t outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.
September 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The lesson is clear: you can’t outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.
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GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.
August 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
GenAI is the informational equivalent of hummingbird feeders filled with sucralose. It's wildlife who die because their stomachs are filled with plastic. It's a child seeing a stranger from behind and thinking it's their mother. It's the uncanny forced upon an entire world, and it's obscene.
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hi, cis folks!
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
hi, cis folks!
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
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Today is Wednesday 13 Aug 2025
It is International Left Handers Day 👈🏽
also
✍🏽 World Calligraphy Day
🍾 Prosecco Day
🍖 Filet Mignon Day
French Republican Calendar: MYRTLE
It is International Left Handers Day 👈🏽
also
✍🏽 World Calligraphy Day
🍾 Prosecco Day
🍖 Filet Mignon Day
French Republican Calendar: MYRTLE
August 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Today is Wednesday 13 Aug 2025
It is International Left Handers Day 👈🏽
also
✍🏽 World Calligraphy Day
🍾 Prosecco Day
🍖 Filet Mignon Day
French Republican Calendar: MYRTLE
It is International Left Handers Day 👈🏽
also
✍🏽 World Calligraphy Day
🍾 Prosecco Day
🍖 Filet Mignon Day
French Republican Calendar: MYRTLE
Due to the fire on Arthur's Seat, I added a banging line to this article:
"Be careful with your cigarettes, campfires, birthday cakes, and gender reveals"
streethistorians.com/2025/07/29/w...
"Be careful with your cigarettes, campfires, birthday cakes, and gender reveals"
streethistorians.com/2025/07/29/w...
What to Wear in Edinburgh this Month (August 2025) - Edinburgh Street Historians - Unique Historical Walking Tours
This article is about what to wear in Edinburgh in August. It contains helpful hints about where to find various pieces of clothing too.
streethistorians.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Due to the fire on Arthur's Seat, I added a banging line to this article:
"Be careful with your cigarettes, campfires, birthday cakes, and gender reveals"
streethistorians.com/2025/07/29/w...
"Be careful with your cigarettes, campfires, birthday cakes, and gender reveals"
streethistorians.com/2025/07/29/w...
Looked at flats. I’m not having one less one of my richer relatives dies. And I love my family so it feels bad
August 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Looked at flats. I’m not having one less one of my richer relatives dies. And I love my family so it feels bad
I can hear Oasis 2 miles away #edinburgh
August 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I can hear Oasis 2 miles away #edinburgh
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the emergency responders at chernobyl got paid in exposure
August 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
the emergency responders at chernobyl got paid in exposure
Wind or bad driving? #edinburgh #edfringe
August 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Wind or bad driving? #edinburgh #edfringe
Good night world
July 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Good night world
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Born #OnThisDay in 1819 was Eunice Newton Foote. Her experiments with solar radiation and carbon dioxide may have lead her to be the first to hypothesise the greenhouse effect, three years before John Tyndall FRS published his work. #WomenInSTEM
llustration: Carlyn Iverson, NOAA Climate.gov.
llustration: Carlyn Iverson, NOAA Climate.gov.
July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Born #OnThisDay in 1819 was Eunice Newton Foote. Her experiments with solar radiation and carbon dioxide may have lead her to be the first to hypothesise the greenhouse effect, three years before John Tyndall FRS published his work. #WomenInSTEM
llustration: Carlyn Iverson, NOAA Climate.gov.
llustration: Carlyn Iverson, NOAA Climate.gov.
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"Any discussion of the Supreme Court judgment must be conducted with sensitivity, respect and compassion."
It's a bit fucking late for that folks. Have you met Labour Women's Declaration? (lol, jk, I'm well aware that they are the only people you meet with on this issue these days)
It's a bit fucking late for that folks. Have you met Labour Women's Declaration? (lol, jk, I'm well aware that they are the only people you meet with on this issue these days)
The big lie.
‘Importantly, this decision does not reduce or remove the legal protections against discrimination for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.’
The item explains how trans people are to be excluded from their affirmed gender…
labour.org.uk/resources/su...
‘Importantly, this decision does not reduce or remove the legal protections against discrimination for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.’
The item explains how trans people are to be excluded from their affirmed gender…
labour.org.uk/resources/su...
Supreme Court Judgment FAQs – The Labour Party
Supreme Court Judgment: Frequently Asked Questions On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court clarified that references to “women” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex (meaning the sex of a perso...
labour.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Any discussion of the Supreme Court judgment must be conducted with sensitivity, respect and compassion."
It's a bit fucking late for that folks. Have you met Labour Women's Declaration? (lol, jk, I'm well aware that they are the only people you meet with on this issue these days)
It's a bit fucking late for that folks. Have you met Labour Women's Declaration? (lol, jk, I'm well aware that they are the only people you meet with on this issue these days)
Tour Guides at Work
July 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Tour Guides at Work
I’d love to be a tourist with not a single care in the world, walking slowly everywhere and completely unconscious to the life that surrounds me
July 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I’d love to be a tourist with not a single care in the world, walking slowly everywhere and completely unconscious to the life that surrounds me
Wonder whose idea this was, it’s amazing
The Royal Family celebrates Pride Month with a performance of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.”
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Wonder whose idea this was, it’s amazing
One of my guests put the sticker I gave her on her bag and I think it’s iconic
June 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
One of my guests put the sticker I gave her on her bag and I think it’s iconic
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This article from @threadinburgh.scot is a jolly read. But when you get to the end, you realise that it is making a point that should worry all of us, even if we are not interested in the history of large suburban villas in #Edinburgh .
threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...
threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...
The thread about the Salisbury Arms and the famous literary association that never was
My eye was caught by a claim in local news that the author Arthur Conan Doyle once frequented the Salisbury Arms. In the best spirit of Sherlock Holmes, this thread sets out to thoroughly and factu…
threadinburgh.scot
June 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This article from @threadinburgh.scot is a jolly read. But when you get to the end, you realise that it is making a point that should worry all of us, even if we are not interested in the history of large suburban villas in #Edinburgh .
threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...
threadinburgh.scot/2025/06/27/t...