Glasgow Weekly Mail poetry column speaking to me through the years yesterday

💫MA IRISH STUDIES💫 Our MA is delivered through the interdisciplinary @IrishStudiesQUB founded in 1965, the first centre for the study and teaching of Irish Studies in the world 📽️Hear from our staff & students👉ow.ly/blXl50OjbeE More info👉ow.ly/mZzl50Ojbp0

This small, unassuming building at 161 Gallowgate was home to a Quaker Grocer by the name of William Smeal. Through his work, and that of others, Glasgow became one of the key centres for the campaign to end slavery worldwide in the 1820s and 30s. #glasgow #glasgowhistory

We are flying a flag outside the civic centre this week to pay tribute to the 11 volunteers from North Lanarkshire who lost their lives fighting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. The three-year conflict claimed half a million lives and ended in 1939.

Are you currently researching or writing about the Victorian period? Come to University of Stirling in September ‘24 for Scottish Centre for Victorian&NeoVictorian Studies’s hub on Victorian Events, part of event2024.org’s Flightless Conference! Abstracts due 1 December ‘23 NAVSA BAVS BAVS Postgrads Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Victorian Literature and Culture

It is 100 years since the death of the great revolutionary, anti-imperialist & working-class leader John Maclean. And there are a whole host of events marking his life and engaging with the battles he fought and which we still fight today. For more info please get in touch!

moved to see Dick Gaughan back on stage tonight in commemoration of clydeside hero John MacLean

🗓️Save the date for the Scottish History Society conference (16 March in Edinburgh). What an incredible line-up of speakers and papers! Registration details to follow soon.

The inaugural Humanities Symposium is looking for papers on the theme of “connections”. To register your interest in attending or speaking please fill out our form: forms.gle/EEoUGDX7RJ6AY2…

Very chuffed to announce that Graeme Armstrong a fellow Strathclyder will be one of our guest speakers at the inaugural Humanities Symposium 2024! A good guy doing important work 🤝 Just over a week left to register your attendance. Sign up here: forms.gle/EEoUGDX7RJ6AY2…

Delighted to introduce you to Leena Nammari one of our guest speakers who will be running a workshop at the Humanities Symposium 2024. A wonderful woman sharing her culture and creativity♥️ Only a week left to register your attendance or submit a paper: forms.gle/EEoUGDX7RJ6AY2…

yorkshire man at metal gig: let's open up t'pit

An incredibly moving award for Eamonn Nugent for Album of the Year. What a legacy. 💚 Sponsored by Birnam CD

I well recall my jaw-dropping over and over upon reading the chapter of Brothers Karamazov in which Ivan spends six months trying to close a Scottish Power account after he moved house and changed suppliers.