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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Late 1980s, Prince Charles sought disgraced paedophile Jimmy Savile's counsel on matters of public relations during a tumultuous period for the royal family. In one handwritten note, he called Savile "the bloke who knows what's going on"....

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Where eagles dare. The FED Building, USA 1936. The German Exhibition Building, Paris 1937.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

LGBT memorial lifts idea from The Bottle of Notes (1993) by Claes Oldenburg but here lettering used as a bit of crumpled paper. Rubbish?

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Photograph of the artist Carton Moore-Park (1876-1956 Born Stewarton, Ayrshire - Died New York) in his chelsea studio around 1898.

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Good night😴 dear people at #Bluesky💙🤝- ❤️‍🔥 #Kyiv Churches Ring National Anthem as #Alaska Talks Begin I really love #Ukraine and it's people #ArmUkraineNow #UkraineWillWin #StandWithUkraine

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

An ENORMOUS Ukrainian flag is unfurled at protest in Alaska. Don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Looks like it is PURUSING not PURSUING peace?

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Trump is in Scotlamd and tonight watching BBC and the film "Avengers: Infinity War" part of which was filmed in Edinburgh. Later Trump dreams he is in the movie and a Master of the Universe but they don't tend to be a fat bully sociopath with a comb-over.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It “Caught the English spirit in all its ambiguity and whimsey” Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion at Festival of Britain, 1951 typically ignored the fact that the Unicorn is the symbol of Scotland - along with any mention of our country anywhere in the exhibition!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Company advertising material from the 1930s for furniture designed and made by Morris and Company of Glasgow

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sean "Diddy Man" Combs has been found guilty of prostitution charges but cleared by a jury of sex trafficking and racketeering, at the conclusion of his New York City criminal trial.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Two Scottish postcards designed by Crackerjack, c1914

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

BBC Saying number 5 "Fill my can once, shame on you; fill my can twice, shame on me”.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Bob Vylan on YoutTube. UK government condemned it but I, friends and family agree with much of it. According to a United Nations Special Committee, Amnesty International, and other experts such as academics and lawyers, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza against the Palestinians. Starmer stinks!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

"Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan van Eyck was one of the most notable works found in the Altausse mine by the Monument Men at the end of WWII

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Illustrations to "Polish Fairy Tales" of 1920 by Cecile Walton (1891 – 1956) Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

China’s Wuhan's Optics Valley Light Rail - a suspended monorail in 2025. A century earlier - the Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie. Built near Glasgow in 1929.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Large murals from auditorium of the lost Rutherglen Repertory Theatre. One by Irene Bruges on life in the theatre and the other by Thomas H. Sharks showing the historic industrial and cultural story of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen. Both c1948.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Jim Prime, keyboardist to Scottish band Deacon Blue, has died. Thank you for the music.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

From the royal court, to humble rural communities, Robin Hood's popularity in medieval Scotland was huge. Earliest references to the outlaw are found in 15thc chronicles but only the Asloan Manuscript (1515) references Robin Hood and a May parade in Edinburgh for all the burgh's male inhabitants!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Arnold Bronckhorst, or Bronckorst (fl. 1565–1583) was a Flemish or Dutch painter who was court painter to Mary I and James VI of Scotland.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My sign at the Swallow Theatre, Whithorn – the smallest professional theatre in Scotland. Just booked for another 4 forthcoming wonderful productions!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

William Miles Johnston (1898-1974) Kirkcudbright based animal and bird artist, a Life Fellow of the Edinburgh Zoological Society. After WWI assisted Robert Lorimer on the Scottish War Memorial in Edinburgh. Now known for his pottery, which he sold under the “Zoo” brand.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ayr Town Hall, built in the Neoclassical Renaissance style in 1828. Clock tower and stone steeple 226ft high. Architect Thomas Hamilton (1784 – 1858).

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Cecile Walton (1891 – 1956) Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. She and her husband Eric were two of the moving spirits of the Symbolist movement in Scotland in the early 20th century.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Scottish Temperance League Offices, 108 Hope Street, Glasgow. Architect, Salmon & Son, 1894. Described as a "little orange-red Franco-Flemish" building, wiith "light-hearted sculptural details" but it is five storeys high, so it is only small in comparison with the neighbouring buildings.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/06/2025

Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a G R E A T fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Waving farewell on Stornoway harbour to 260 young Hebrideans who have set sail for a new life in Canada. (1923)

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

First municipal fire brigade in the modern world was formed in Edinburgh in 1824, led by James Braidwood. In 1832 he was persuaded to move to London to lead a force of firemen there. The new fire brigades were very effective but Braidwood was killed in a fire in 1861. The first fire engine survives

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Francis Campbell Cadell (1883–1937) Scottish Colourist painter, renowned for his depictions of the elegant New Town interiors of his native Edinburgh. Scottish Art Deco.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Plates from a series of pieces designed by Thomas Allen (1831-1915) that were inspired by the works of Walter Scott (1777-1832). Scott's novels were incredibly popular, not least with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and typified the Victorian's love of an idealised and romantic medieval period.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Relics of St Columba were carried before Scottish armies in a reliquary made in mid-8th C at Iona called the Brecbennoch or Monymusk Reliquary. Carried in the Battle of Bannockburn (24 June 1314) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army, Columba is said to have helped us to victory over the English.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

James Hutton (1726 –1797) Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. Often referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology," "We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end" - The Earth is constantly shaped, reshaped over immense timescales.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955) Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering in 1928 the world's first broadly effective antibiotic which he named penicillin. His discovery has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thomas Smith Tait (1882 – 1954) was a Scottish modernist architect. He designed a number of buildings around the world in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles, notably St. Andrew's House, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, the pylons for Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Empire Tower, Glasgow.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Some of the designs by Ernest Archibald Taylor (1874–1951 illustrated in The Studio magazine, 1910. Glasgow Art Nouveau.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

From the first battle of Little Sparta, 1983, Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

David Allan (1744 – 1796) Scottish painter’s “The Origin of Painting” representing a Corinthian maid drawing round her lover's shadow. In the 20th century, American painter R B Kitaj (1932-2007) based many paintings on this account of the invention of art.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

At the Swallow Theatre, Whithorn, “Boiler Room Six” tells the impossible true survival story of Titanic stoker Frederick Barrett. A superb physical, solo performance by actor Max Beken.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Daniel Cottier (1838–1891) Scottish artist, designer, decorator and art dealer whose business empire spanned 3 continents. Cottier and his decorating firms brought art to the public and were key exponents of the Aesthetic Movement, with its focus on beauty and the creation of a ‘unified interior’.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

John Duncan Fergusson (1874 – 1961) Scottish artist and sculptor, one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists. In 1918 he was commissioned by Ministry of Information for a series of paintings of Porstmouth Dockyard.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Yuval Raphael gets second-place in the Eurovision Song Contest. She is a sort of modern Leni Riefenstahl. Here she is in conversation with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, 1937

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@regretteruane.bsky.social Thought this might be of interest to you.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

in 1969 the song ""Boom Bang-a-Bang" sung by Scottish singer Lulu, was a joint winner in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1991, the BBC included the song on a blacklist of banned songs issued during Gulf War...

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

With the Empire Exhibition, held in Glasgow in 1938, Scottish architects and designers fully embrace European Modernism that the rest of Britain had been very wary of.

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