a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

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!

Will do tomorrow

Almost anywhere in Scotland that’s not Viking derived.
Some appetisers:
Milngavie
Kirkudbright
Wemyss Bay
Hawick

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.

What do you mean they were "promised"(said with emphasis) a career?

More likely because they were privately tutored through their school exams, but that can't go on forever, plus parental pressure to go to uni.

A black and white illustration of a pregnant woman sitting on a chair. Another woman is supporting her from behind, while a second woman is sitting in front of her, ready to help deliver the baby.

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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#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #weirdsigns #hiddenlane #glasgowtoday

Titanic Survivor’s Letter, Written Aboard the Ship, Sells for Nearly $400,000 Col. Archibald Gracie wrote the letter while traveling on the Titanic days before the ship sank and plunged him into the icy North Atlantic.

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.

The most beautiful and affectionate little creatures ever, with fur like silk and razor blades for teeth

There is no year zero

He is risen.

It's the Assignment, but I wouldn't worry about it. All markers are sampled at cross-checking with the real scripts so anyone not marking to standard would be picked up then. I wasn't even aware of this and I'm a marker.

It's the Assignment.

HOW TO PODCAST | David Olusoga & Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire David Olusoga and Alan Lester reveal the dark realities of the British Empire, and reflect on the importance of historians amid the resurgence of nationalism and misinformation.

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

howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...

A pair of white gloves stained with blood lying on a pillow

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.

📽️ British Pathé

#glasgow #christmas #history #glasgowhistory

No Christmas lights on outside of Frasers this year 🥲

SCANDAL as senior member of Downing Street administration caught breaking the rules...
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It took me three attempts to read this because I just didn’t enjoy the slow background start. Colleague persuaded me to keep with it and it is really is the most wonderful, moving story. I cried at the end.