#Scottish

The Origins of Halloween - Samhain (Thread) Halloween, as most know it, is a festival where you dress up, go trick-or-treating, try apple bobbing, attend parties and carve pumpkins.Although
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Talking strategically for a moment, what does yesterday's vote mean for Labour and it's electoral position in 2024: you could argue it doesn't make a jot of difference because we
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In my day job I work with email platforms of various types on a daily basis.I'm a little bit of a geek but excuse that for a second and let
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One of our amazing authors, @shugmcmillan, has been working hard and in collaboration with a collection of brilliant writers (some published by us too!) to provide newsworthy #poetry and readings
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I cannot overstate enough how important it is to have diverse representation on our bookshelves, especially in our Children's Departments. @Knightsof & @JacarandaBooks are doing incredible work, please consider supporting
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician
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#OTD 199 years ago: Unemployment, radicalisation, spies, armed cells, insurrection, and bloody retribution! It’s THE RADICAL WAR 1820! (a thread) I’m going to explore this little know attempt at “Liberty
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#Archive30 #Fashion Archive & Library Assistant Louise here! I like looking at textiles in our photograph collection. Everyday handmade items are so interesting to me. I want to share a
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What's in a name? This is Dr Margaret Todd, Scottish physician, author, and feminist. She coined the word ISOTOPE after hearing Frederick Soddy describe them at a dinner party and
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1 Trying to gauge outcome of #SPFL vote. Although it doesn't impact directly on Premiership clubs will have an eye on possibility of being repeated at that level in a
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Flying during COVID-19: I’ve been somewhat stranded in Turkey for the last 2+ months, and on Friday I finally flew back to London. Here’s what the experience was like. THREAD
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So my plan for my first day in isolation is to sort out & photo all my football pin badges.There are approx 2500 of them so should keep me busy
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Just started a free Gothic Fiction class with @RomGothSam - looking today at types of demons in Gothic texts. Starting with interacting with the paradigms and understandings of the devil/demonic
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Wondering what's happened to the SNP over the last few years.Where is Independence in all those years since 2014? Now may not be the time to be lamenting the complete
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#RuleofLaw This important meeting has just begun. I understand there is a very high level of registrations. The speakers - former President of UK Supreme Court Lord Neuberger, Dominic Grieve
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When I saw this tweet from @MrMalky’s about “Bunga Bunga Parties” at @theSNP I took it as a joke. But the more you think about it, the more it looks
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