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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Upcoming family day event in #Alloa with #WikiLovesMonuments on Saturday 26th noon to 4pm.

Leaflet for Wiki Loves Monuments event, Saturday 26th noon to 4pm at the Community Hall, 44 Erskine Street, Alloa, FK10 2AU

AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Having written about Scotland's old Mercat Crosses, I see Abertay Historical Society are raising funds to restore the #Dundee one, and its unicorn sculpted by Scott Sutherland. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/dnzpeVPl This gives me the opportunity to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A black and white photo of a smiling Scott Sutherland working in his sculpture studio in the 1950s. Behind him are hanging two jackets and various casts.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

While trying to locate something in my piles of magazines, I found a copy of Masque, a Strathclyde Student Press publication from 1976 - a time when student unions could provide the access to tools and distribution for new initiatives. Fifty years ago. This […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cover collage with price (20p) and content summary highlighting Billy Connolly, Victor Jara, Tom Leonard, James Kelman, Bob Tait, David MacLennan, Jimmy Reid, Jim Sillars

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Seeing Edward Lucie-Smith's passing on Wikipedia put me in mind to try developing a #Wikidata query on writers involved in the various groups initiated by Philip Hobsbaum between 1952 & 1975. A first version is at w.wiki/SFjN

Diagram showing the original Cambridge/London group, the Belfast group, and the Glasgow group around Philip Hobsbaum, with several associated writers in green clustered around each.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Annual exhibition of the Glasgow Group, opening tonight at 6pm, at New Glasgow Society in Argyle Street (opposite Clayslaps Road). The Glasgow Group is an artists collective which has been exhibiting since 1958. #ScottishArt

Green ship front with open door, artworks within

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I found the installation disks for PagePlus v1. So many years of event posters, catalogues, newsletters using that and later versions. It is also the first software where after installing one later version (v9?) I chose to revert and stay on an earlier […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

An array of 4 old installation disks, labelled PagePlus for Windows and dated 1991.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Reading #IanPenman 's book on #ErikSatie in the smart, austere Fitzcarraldo Editions. Got me looking out Max Paddison's 1981 translation of "Memoirs of an Amnesiac": typescript in a highly-coloured cover which time has rendered strange by light fading.

Two books, the left with no cover title, just a stuck-on screenprint reusing Picasso's drawing of Erik Satie, and which has acquired grey/blue shadowing from an adjacent book. The right-side book cover is just title-author-publisher info printed on a white background.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

I noticed an item for Rowchoish bothy and wondered how many others are on #Wikidata A query on "Bothy" and "Wilderness Hut" items in #Scotland gives this map w.wiki/LtUW

Scottish map, showing 38 red spots scattered across the country.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Two newspaper notices relating to the Carron Company from the 1770s - a time when Scottish coal miners were kept in a state of servitude. #ScottishHistory #Falkirk

1770s advertisements from the Caledonian Mercury seeking the capture and return of runaway miners from Quarrole Colliery who "belonged" to the Carron Company

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

A substantial new book presenting the visual works of artist and musician Brian McFie, along with English & French texts. Can't be many books with back cover commendations by both Sam Ainsley and Fay Fife. #ScottishArt #ScottishCulture

Book front cover showing one artwork above the artist's name

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Yesterday I spent some time distinguishing and expanding #wikidata on the various Edinburgh Reviews published over the past 280 years. Going on from that, I had a look at Edinburgh-based publications. Capturing these in a SPARQL Graph looks ok for these, as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A bubble graph showing magazine names. Most are unlinked, except the several instances of Edinburgh Review which are arrow-linked.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

A found page providing the floorplan for the original Transmission Gallery in Chisholm Street #Glasgow 40 years ago. During 1986 the inner "exhibition area 2" (actually a walled-in cobbled lane) began to be used for performance, notably across a couple of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A4 page showing the location and dimensions of the spaces in Transmission Gallery

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Visited Adam Geary's "Utopia" exhibition at #Dunfermline Carnegie Library Gallery yesterday. Recalling his exhibition "The promise of tradition" at Transmission in Glasgow back in 1987, it is good to see a creator developing their project over the long term […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Central yellow panel labelled "Utopia", wall covering to the right, wall photo displays to the left, and books in display cabinets to the foreground

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

An archival photo of #Markinch Co-op butchers sometime in the 1930s(?) in front of a mix of horsedrawn and motor delivery vans. #ScottishHistory

A line of butchers, most wearing long striped aprons, standing in front of horsedrawn and motor vans

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

#OTD 20 years ago I went to Callendar House in #Falkirk for a concert by Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra with Barry Guy and Maya Homburger, performing "Witch Gong Game 11/10" based on graphical work by Alan Davie. Painter / saxophonist Davie (1920-2014) was […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Concert ticket from 2005, priced at 3 GBP

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Tidying up, I found these stickers, from a 1991 Lawrence Weiner exhibition at #TransmissionGallery in #Glasgow

Two stickers with green shape between two green bars, overlaid with text: AN ARCH AFFORDED IN A WALL OF STONE WITH A KEYSTONE OF CHALK & IMPOSTS OF SLATE

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

Opening of Elisha Enfield's "Thresholds" exhibition at Fire Station Creative in #Dunfermline tonight. #OutwithFestival

Gallery view, two people looking "Reaping", a circular oil on wood painting.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

I visited Paul Eames "The Things About Us" exhibition at #DunblaneMuseum this morning. as ever, his works are careful explorations full of cultural resonances. (I was unaware that #Dunblane featured in The Thirty-nine Steps - the 1959 version.things you learn.)

Image looking down gallery with works on walls and in vitrines. In front of the window stands the old burgh chair.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

This evening's opening of the Ron O'Donnell exhibition in #Stirling. Well worth a visit - an interesting mix of early capture-the-moment images from 1970s #Edinburgh to digital collage images. #ScottishArt

Photo of milling crowd in gallery, with two digital images visible beside and above the gallery fireplace.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

200 years ago in July 1825 #ThomasHodgskin published "Labour Defended against the claims of Capital", influential at the time, but Hodgskin's opposition to government, property interests and law led to him being marginalised by leading reformers. James Mill […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Original cover page of Labour Defended against The Claims of Capital by "A Labourer" (Thomas Hodgskin). Subtitled "Or the unproductiveness of Capital proved with reference to the present Combinations amongst Journeymen"

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Retrieved a 1994 London Psychogeographical Association leaflet, talking of "industrialisation of the imagination, where the promulgation of algorithms can be used to create electronic environments which imprint patterns and ways of thought on those who engage them". Aye, indeed.

Leaflet heading London Psychogeographical Association Bay Area Supplement. Left sidebar contains several Lettrist and Situationist quotations, main article is illustrated by a cartoon and headed "Overthrow the Kings of Solicon Valley"

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

"Find each other", an #artexhibition by Tilda Williams-Kelly, Ruby Pluhar and Gill Walton in #Glasgow from today until 27th June. At Kurdika, 22 Cleveden Gardens, G12 0PT #ScottishArt

Poster showing 3 painted figurative images, with text on opening hours and venue beneath.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Looking upwards, I realised how intricate is the design of the top floor above the 1882 Stirling Arcade entrance at the former Temperance Hotel. Between the former windows, behind the acroters, is a patterned slate roof. The sort of detail easily missed in the normal dreich weather. #Stirling

Two top floors of a building, with the top having 3 dormer windows separated by scalloped acroters, with patterned slate tiles behind.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

Seeing in the weekly #Wikidata news that the CAMRA Pub ID is now an identifier, I generated a map of pubs in #Scotland. Useful for days out, I'm thinking. w.wiki/E4T9 It is a zoomable clickable map, with colour-coding often helping with a building's […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A Wikidata + Leaflet + OpenStreetMap map of Scotland showing pub location dots. To the right is a table showing available layers. To the left is one opened-out example, Skeabost House Hotel on Skye.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

A weekend when some volunteer-run local museums open for the summer, so I generated a map to see which are on #wikidata Quite a lot there - and also some blank areas where there surely are unrecorded museums. w.wiki/Dr4d This is a clickable map of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Wikidata+Leaflet+OpenStreetMap Scottish map showing the locations of 140 independent and local museums

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

Found poster for 70s avant-rock band #ChouPahrot whose music featured at venues across the West Coast of Scotland (Amphora, Burns Howff) and occasionally into West Germany. It was the success of Ally's Tartan Army (the single, not the team) that gave the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Silver poster with folds and crumpled corners, showing the title Chou Pahrot and a prominent pantomime horse, with Oor Wullie, Cary Grant and other images at the base.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

A Dani Garavelli article on the Alasdair Gray Trust led me to adding info on Scottish sculpture facilities to #wikidata By extension, I began looking at the data on Scottish art spaces and seeing gaps to fill. This query is the current state […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Wikidata / Leaflet /OpenStreetMap view of Scotland with coloured location dots for art centres, galleries and museums, artist-run spaces and initiatives, studios and sculpture gardens.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

Super: Artists of Polish Origin Exhibition at Pittenweem Arts Festival's gallery on the High Street, until next Sunday. Exhibiting artists are Remi Jablewski, Marysia Lachowicz, David Mach, Robert Mach, Stephen Ratomski and Gosia Walton. #Fife #Pittenweem #ScottishArt

Super poster with a red waving hand on a blue background, listing the artists (Remi Jablewski, Marysia Lachowicz, David Mach, Robert Mach, Stephen Ratomski, Gosia Walton) and the venue.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

While sorting things, I found this wee booklet documenting a 1974 performance by Joseph Beuys and percussionist Albrecht/d. at the #ICA in London. It is almost a flickbook (lost opportunity maybe). The German #wikipedia has a biographical article about […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Green covered booklet, text "a concert at the ica London Joseph Beuys 1.11.1974 albrecht d

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025

Lovely day for a walk to the Black Devon Wetlands nature reserve in #Clackmannanshire yesterday. The signage is slightly less than helpful though!

Three-way signpost on the edge of a field. The texts on all 3 directional arrows have become weathered away.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025

The cover of "outside right at the sunset gate", a 1994 book by the artist #StevenCampbell, born 19 March 1953 died 15 August 2007. The book is a catalogue with a running story by the artist. I was hoping to link an article by Michael Bracewell about […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Book cover showing multiple sheets of pages of images with the artist's name and the title handwritten at the bottom right.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

Sorting some piles of books, I came across this 1961 #IanHamiltonFinlay pamphlet, an appropriate find with the centenary exhibitions getting underway. 4 shillings it says on the flyleaf, and a post-decimal 50p pencilled on the inside. #ScottishArt #ArtistsBooks

Buff cover of "Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd Haw, an Inseks, an, aw, a Fush" by Ian Hamilton Finlay, papercuts by John Picking, Pete McGinn.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025

I'm reading a new hardback book from a leading publisher, printed in the UK. I've long been reconciled to the reality that the art of making #books that open flat is long lost, but this one is a nightmare. Holding it open feels like using both hands to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A book spine, showing some pages with an internal creasing.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

This past week, I've been enhancing #wikidata items about aspects of #Scotland that were "orphaned" - lacking any properties. A lot of these now have a basic type & place. Others have been linked to the facets of society that they form part of. Following on […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Bubble diagram showing yellow bubbles of items linked to Scottish society, Scotland in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era and Scots Law.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2025

Having to relocate books, so I laid out a wee array of books bringing a sense of space to early modernity #bookstodon

An array of books. Top right is Blaeu's atlas. To its left: Machiavelli, More, de la Boetie, Montaigne. Beneath: Althusius, Descartes, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Swift, Diderot, Voltaire

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

50 years old, "An Index of Possibilities: Energy and Power", a compendium from the Alternative Press - covering everything from Gerrard Winstanley to Solar and Wind Power. Such wild outsider ideas... Two further books were promised, on Structures and on […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Cover of the book An Index of Possibilities: Energy and Power, showing a processed image of Nikola Tesla

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2025

I found this fascinating map of the coal mines around #Stirling #Bannockburn and #Alloa on the end papers of a book which was privately printed for Alloa Coal Company in 1944. So much #IndustrialHistory has simply been erased, so it is good to have this context. #ScottishHistory

Old map showing the mine workings across the Forth Valley, from Stirling in the west to Dollar in the east, the Ochils in the north to Bannockburn in the south.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2025

A flyer for an upcoming discussion and networking lunch in #Clackmannanshire #Scotland this coming Wednesday. Unconvinced that AI's effect on culture and community is more than astroturfing, but that feeds into the risks, opportunities and ethical challenges.

Flyer for session to "help shape the future of AI, culture and community", Wednesday 19th February 11am to 1pm at ResonateTogether's Carsebridge Cultural Campus in Alloa

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

Ian Moir at the opening of his Good and Evil exhibition in Pittencrieff House, #Dunfermline The exhibition can be seen on weekends through February #ScottishArt

Hall with artworks on the walls, artist speaking to a large crowd

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2025

A new biscuit from the excellent SimplyFlo who sell Lebanese #VeganFood at the Farmers Market in #Stirling on this cold and misty morning. Yansoon is aniseed; I'd say these are very delicately flavoured.

A punnet of artisan biscuits, labelled "Vegan Ka'ak bil Yansoon". In front is one biscuit which has been bit open.

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2025

An advert from around 1908 nicely encapsulates the controversies of the time: Can grain whisky be called whisky? Does drinking it have malign effects? #ScottishHistory #cambus

Advert for Cambus pure patent still Scotch grain whisky. A silhouetted drinker admires a glass, over a long text acknowledging the legal controversy about "What is whisky?"

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025

#OTD messages for 4th and 6th January highlighted stations along whole rail line which were closed in 1965 and 1969. Mapping these (and also adding the Peebles line closure in Feb 1962) shows the impact of these days in limiting accessibility of a swathe of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Map of Scotland to the south of Glasgow and Edinburgh, marking the railway stations closed on 5th February 1962 (in purple), on 4th January 1965 (in red) and on 6th January 1969 (in orange).

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AllyD @allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024

Dreich afternoon in #Stirling Here is the former bank building in Murray Place, now home to the _Radical Weavers_ project - who are currently fundraising. www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/weav…

Former bank building, lights reflecting on rain-sodden street。In the foreground is a crow sitting on a wheelie bin.

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