Looks like it, and extension of the Japanese personal seals. Apparently each pin is individual to the owner.
Looks like it, and extension of the Japanese personal seals. Apparently each pin is individual to the owner.
Round flower badges in gold and silver denoting Administrative Scrivener (Cosmos) Attorney (Sunflower) Judicial Scrivener (Paulownia)
One for legal nerds. Japanese lawyers have gorgeous badges denoting their specialty. Don't know if it's the translation, but nice to see the Scriveners amongst them.
Scrolling by and thought they'd announced new trains for the subway again. Hilhead Express anyone?
a picture of the book with the words NOW AVAILABLE
"PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World" is OUT NOW!
The wildest movie deep dive you've ever read
+
a memoir of how the film changed my life (and how *any* art can change yours).
45 years in the making!
π©·π§ββοΈπ©·π§ββοΈπ©·
www.danielkraus.com/books/partia...
Schwebebahn! Schwebebahn.
Does everything a Bennie railplane can.
An index for Labour History Review vol 90 (2025) is now on our website. There are indexes for every issue of the Society's publications since it was founded in 1960, with a consolidated index in Excel from 1990 when LHR was launched. All indexes are free to download.
sslh.org.uk/publications...
Lots of #BookHistory action happening in Edinburgh later this month (20-27 March) with 'Rare Books Edinburgh 2026' - maybe see you at some of these events? rarebooksedinburgh.com ππ
Wondering what the Lidl app algorithm will make of today's shop - two bags of compost and mini tub of ice cream. I await the vouchers with interest.
A special issue of IUGS Episodes dedicated to women in geology is now online:
www.episodes.org/journal/view...
An afternoon spent in a Haymarket pub when Scotland are playing at Murrayfield is an *experience* .
An afternoon spent in a Haymarket pub when Scotland are playing ar Murrayfield is an *experience* .
"Resurrection Men at Work"
New signage opposite the Ramshorn Kirkyard.
Colloquial phrase updated for modern usage
A useful resource
Aardman's The Wicker Man.
In 2006 I told the late (great) Prof. Ray Gillespie that I wanted to publish every surviving scrap from the 1766 religious census, by 2016. I missed the π―by 10 yrs, but π to report that on the 260th anniv. it's done. Everything, >50k names & population details, now online.
@maynoothuniversity.ie
Genealogy books for sale at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society research centre.
Shelves of genealogy reference books at GWSFHS
Reference books and collections of journals on shelves at GWSFHS
Genealogy reference books on display, including Mining the Lothians.
On #WorldBookDay why not plan a visit to our genealogy library in the West End of Glasgow?
Perfect midweek fun. Adieu #TheFilmCrowd
I'm looking for "Fly fishing" by J R Hartley #TheFilmCrowd
Having spent most of the day lugging books, I'm looking forward to this! #TheFilmCrowd
19 March - Friends of Perth and Kinross Archives are hosting a talk on Discovering Perthshire's Notable Women (Gill will be presenting about the PWOW project). Event is free to members of Friends of P&K Archives or Β£6 / Β£3.50.
#PerthScotland #WHM26
www.perthshireboxoffice.com/whats-on/dis...
Mrs Lovi's beads - sharing a short piece I wrote for a newspaper feature for #WomensHistoryMonth on Isabella Lovi, a female scientific instrument maker in Edinburgh
teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/m... #histSTM
Crocuses, mainly purple and white, taken from ground level with trees and an old wall in the background. In centre foreground is a ladybird.
Crocuses in the sun at Saughton Park. Taken from the ha-ha, so I didn't have to get down on my knees! Pictured one bonus ladybird, there were also several bees buzzing around.
An image captured from GLASGOW BELONGS TO ME (1965)
GLASGOW BELONGS TO ME (1965) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tup0Hb8J7M
Headline news re V & R!
But just maybe, this time it will.
I donβt know who needs to hear this, but nobody has the right to tell you that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder βwonβt fix you.β
If I'd have to guess I would have gone for 50s moderne.
Did they run out of film or something? Not one of the classics. Oh well night all! #TheFilmCrowd
And Sid James has entered the buiding #TheFilmCrowd