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Coventry Transport Museum @covtm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I Remember That! 🧒 Childhood memories through the decades 🩴 Explore our holiday displays & objects 🎵 1950s and 1960s music 🏖️ Share your own holiday memories on our memory board 🎟️ Included with admission 📆 Wednesday 27 May 2026 | 10.30am-3pm ow.ly/WmPz50Z2j3j

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 31/03/2026

A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields, Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem. —Jim Alison, “Ingaunees” originally published as a poster for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #poem #poetry #chess #Vikings #medievalsky

Ingaunees
by Jim Alison

This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid.

Dootless there’s ither grand ingaunees ootby
In Russia, India an sic fremmit fields
Whaur gangrel skelfs an shards o Scotland skinkle
Or gether stoor on shelves.

A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon
Goggle-e’ed wi chowin the taps aff their shields,
Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

From now on this is the only way I will travel

A green Lister model autotruck, a three wheeled motorised truck with wooden platform for moving cotton bales.

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Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

For a chance to win a Buddo Bundle, snap a #BestBuddoSelfie of your best Buddo impression this Feb half-term! 😲 1️⃣Take a selfie during your visit to Stromness Museum. 2️⃣Post it to Insta, FB or BlueSky tagging @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social & using #BestBuddoSelfie 3️⃣You'll be included in the prize draw.

Poster: STROMNESS MUSEUM HALF-TERM HOLIDAY COMPETITION
We’d like to see your best Buddo impression this half-term! Take part for a chance to win our brilliant Buddo Bundle from Thursday 12 until Tuesday 17 February 2026.
For your chance to win our Buddo Bundle, snap a #BestBuddoSelfie of your best Buddo expression! To take part:
1. Take a selfie during your visit to Stromness Museum using the selfie props available in our front porch.
2. Post the selfie to Instagram, Facebook or BlueSky tagging @StromnessMuseum and using #BestBuddoSelfie
3. You'll be in the randomly generated draw to win our brilliant Buddo Bundle.
You must post your #BestBuddoSelfie selfie by 8pm on Tuesday 17th February 2026. The winner will be drawn shortly after and notified via DM.* Good Luck!
*If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 7 days of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner. The winner agrees to the use of their name and image in any publicity material, as well as their entry.
Remember, entry to Stromness Museum is free for all during February 2026. We’re open Monday-Saturday 11.00am-3.30pm (closed Sunday).
Find us at: 52 Albert St, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3DH

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

An annual reminder - much like a dug isnae jist fir Xmas, Scots isnae jist fir Burns Night! Git yaisin it ilka day! No shair where tae stert? Yin word at a time! 😊

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Play Scotland @playscotland.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🌿🔥 “Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.” – Robert Burns Through play in nature, children learn by exploring, imagining, and problem-solving. Let’s keep the spark alive by protecting time, space and opportunities for children to play outdoors.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals 2 Feb @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social – free Jennifer Smith & Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource – Speak for Yersel – which sets out to map dialect use in Scots throughout Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-speaks...

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Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals

In this paper, Jennifer Smith and Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource - Speak for Yersel

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This very special building is believed to be the only medieval Carmelite church that is still in use anywhere in the British Isles and is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. This remarkable 15th century Gothic church, in South Queensferry, was once part of a Carmelite friary, founded around 1330. 🧵1/3

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Grab your brick separators LEGO fans in Ayrshire - the #LEGOBuilders are coming your way! They'll need your help to rebuild the iconic #ArtDeco Viking Cinema in #Largs on 9&10 Feb. Spaces go like hotcakes - so dinnae hing aboot! #LearningWithHES

A poster with a blue and pink colour scheme for a LEGO event featuring two LEGO minifigures holding an architectural drawing with an old cinema building in the background.

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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I’m launching a new podcast today called The Carrying Stream, a space for long-form conversations about Scottish culture, literature, and ideas. 🎙️ The first three episodes are now live (link below). If you’re curious, you’re very welcome to follow along.

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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you are joining us for an interview tomorrow please do observe the trigger warning before entering the room. #LookAfterYourself #MuseumWellBeing

Door signage - trigger warning.

WARNING

We will be asking you that question about the time you dealt with a difficult manager and had to influence them to the detriment of your own health

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

#museum30 Day 29 prompt is #water - without which Stanley Mills would never have been established, as the mills drew the power for it’s machines from the River Tay. Oor hands-on water interactive, which illustrates how the water powered the mill, is popular with bairns - and adults!!

A blue and silver interactive exhibit consisting of three channels each containing a different type of waterwheel.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ok @magnifyzoology.bsky.social - 1st time in 5 years of #museum30 you’ve got me stumped with a prompt! Cannae find a connection atween #mural & Stanley Mills! So here’s an image of a mural fae yin of ma learning projects. St Tenew on a Glesgae gable end thit we yaised for the Thaney’s Haven project.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

#museum30 Day 27 prompt is #achievement Ou were fair chuffed this year when oor Stories in Scots at Stanley Mills project wi the P2/3 bairns fae Stanley PS was shortlisted for a Scots Language Award. It was great fir aw the effort pit in by the bairns & cless teacher tae be recognised. 😊

Still image taken from a film with the title Scots Stories from Stanley Mills centre screen and a background image of a red brick mill surrounded by trees.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

#museum30 Day 26 prompt is #moving Moving materials, whether raw or finished goods, was integral to the cotton process. Stanley Mills has all sorts of objects that were created to move cotton from yin part of the mill to another - from slubbing cans on wheels to hide skin bogeys!

Two large cylindrical cans on casters stand on a wooden floor with a blue and white sign on the wall behind that says Stanley Mills Scotland.

A large square grey metal container on castors sits in a room with other bits of machinery. One side of the container has been folded down.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#museum30 Day 25 prompt is #danger The first workers at Stanley Mills were Gaelic speakers. It was a dangerous (Gaelic = cunnart) working environment: moving machine parts to cotton dust, noise to risk of fires. This panel from yin of oor community textile projects was created by Murthly WI.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

#Museum30 Day 24 prompt is #specialist From drama to storytelling, historic re-enactment to craftwork, specialists have been integral to bringing Stanley Mills history to life for learners, creating memorable and engaging experiences for all ages.

A lady with orange hair is seated on a wooden bench with a window behind her. She is dressed as a Victorian millworker, wearing a light brown shawl and dress, and white apron.

A man dressed in a late Victorian style black top hat, coat and trousers, and a light grey waistcoat, stands with a walking cane in front of a large image of millworkers at Stanley Mills from 1910.

A lady with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a light brown jersey, is demonstrating felting, using bubble wrap, while sitting at a table. A lady with white hair, wearing a black jersey, is on the right.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

#museum30 Day 23 prompt is #animal At the restored hydro scheme at Stanley Mills, an escape ladder’ was installed to help otters get out the modern, steeper lade. This otter, holding a fish, was knitted by the Stanley WI ladies as part of oor Community Textile Project.

A knitted brown otter holding a fish sits on a wooden table top against a wooden backboard.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

#museum30 Day 22 prompt is #walk the majority of the millworkers at Stanley Mills lived in Stanley village - which was created for the workers. When the bell rang to start work, they would walk doon mill brae often arm in airm . At the end of the day, it must have been a thought to walk back up!

A view of a tarmac road leading uphill with trees on either side and a grassy area to the right.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#museum30 Day 20 is #careers ou’ve joined up with Springboard Scotland in the past to host careers events at Stanley Mills, focussed on hospitality, heritage & tourism with students learning a host of different skills.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#museum30 Day 20 is #Diary. James Boswell, biographer & diarist, records meeting up with George Dempster MP (an early investor & key figure at Stanley Mills) & another Scot, Andrew Erskine, in London to see a new Tragedy called Elvira's - though they'd already decided to damn the play in advance!

a painted portrait of a man who is seated, his right arm leaning on a covered table, holding a scroll of paper, and his left hand on his thigh. he wears a short white wig and fine embroidered clothes and white neckerchief.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#museum30 Day 19 prompt is #magic. There used to be ‘fairy ring’ behind Stanley Mills. They were said to be magical places where fairies danced in a circle. If you stepped in yin, you’d be made to dance til exhaustion. This millworker clearly wasnae feart! Rings are caused by an underground fungus.

A man dressed in black wearing glasses points to a large circle of mushrooms that he stands within on a grass area beside a tree.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 18/11/2025

Brissit brawnis, and brokin banis, 🚑 Stryf, discorde, and waistie wanis, 🚔 Crukit in eild, syne halt, withal, 🤕 Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball. ⚽ “The Bewties of the Fute-ball” (anon) Middle Scots poem, c.15–16th century, from the Maitland manuscripts (with added emojis) Also heart attacks

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#Museum30 Day 18 prompt is #photographs There‘a no many photaes of folk who lived or worked at HES properties. But ou have them for Stanley Mills! Glass plates showing the construction of the hydro scheme in the 1920s were donated by the Culbert family, many of whom worked at the mill.

A black and white image showing a hydro-electric scheme under construction with workers standing along a walkway and sitting along the top of a building.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#Museum30 Day 17 prompt is #making Stanley Mills made predominantly cotton products throughout its 225 year history. Specialising in niche products ensured it outlived its competitors into the late 20th century. These included narrow tape for cigarette factories & heavy duty belting for factories.

two folded lengths of narrow, off-white coloured woven tape with a catalogue number attached on a small piece of white card.

a folded length of thick woven cotton that has been dipped in tar, which is brown in colour.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

#museum30 Day16 prompt is #Last12Months has involved lots of community engagement at Stanley Mills, starting with oor mill themed tree at Stanley PS Xmas Tree Fair & including a LEGO mosaic for Mills weekend, a Pop Up display, Soup Club talks & visit, & activities for National Play Day & Maths Week.

A green Christmas tree with blue tinsel and hessian parcels underneath standing in a school hall

A room with pillars with a hopscotch grid marked out on a grey floor with red tables in the background.

Two tall glass cabinets containing a range of objects with windows behind them. A torso mannequin with a maroon football shirt on it stands between them.

A mosaic of a mill made using LEGO single studs stands on a red tabletop with a yellow display sign on the left.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

#museum30 Day 15 prompt is #kindness During WWII, Stanley Mills took 3p a week from the wages of millworkers like Nell Hannah, for Comfort Boxes for troops. Nell nominated a man she yince dated who had joined the navy. He received a box, it led to a marriage proposal (which was accepted!) 😊

A head and shoulders image of an older lady with short, dark hair and glasses wearing a pink shirt underneath a light blue jumper.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#museum30 Day 14 prompt is #heavy . The design of the Bell Mill at Stanley Mills is all aboot process, with some of the biggest & heaviest machinery on the lowest floors. Yin of the heaviest machines is the opening machine which broke up cotton - it’s now in oor Artefact Room - on the 4th floor!!

A large green and black machine with moving rods and wheels sots on a green base in a room with windows behind and cream coloured walls and ceiling.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

He also picked up a braw pair of socks when he was there. For his feet… 😄🍏🧦

A knitted doll with dark curling hair and a white face, wearing purple socks, green trousers, green scarf and green jersey.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#museum30 Day 13 prompt is #background This is Hamish, yin of oor knitted soft toy dolls produced by the Stanley WI ladies as part of a community textile project at Stanley Mills. He went to Finland as part of a storytelling exchange! Here he is with Vapriikki museum in Tampere in the background!

A knitted doll with dark brown curly hair and a white face and dark green jersey in front of a red brick building with large windows.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#museum30 Day 12 theme is #digital Yin of the first learning resources developed at Stanley Mills, back in 2008, was digital. But as ou aw ken, digital technology moves quickly, and the software used to create (and support) it became obsolete - much like the waterwheel technology used at the mill!

a graphic of a web page showing a waterwheel with five circular buttons to the left with thumbnail images and tabs for themed sections.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#museum30 Day 11 prompt is #reflection and taking it literally, this iconic shot of Stanley Mills, in Perthshire has the Bell Mill reflected in the water in the lade.

A 5 storey red brick mill with blue sky and clouds above it, the reflection of which is in water in a lade in the foreground. There are dark green railings on the left of the lade and trees on the right hand side.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The day's #museum30 prompt is #rainbow. There's nae end of photaes of rainbows ower historic castles - but rainbows ower Stanley Mills arelike hen's teeth! However ou've run some fab sessions for Rainbow Guide units ower the years, playing traditional games, sharing stories and trying weavin. ☺️

a young girl wearing a light blue and red polo shirt with text Rainbows on the front weaving on a small loom with a ball of yarn in foreground.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#museum30 Day 9 theme is #map This close up is from a map of Perthshire created by James Stobie, factor to the Duke of Atholl, in 1787 - the year Stanley Mills opened. You can see the Bell Mill on the banks of the Tay and Stanley House to the right. It notes the names of local landowners too.

An 18th century map with a pink coloured section that also features a river, small icons of buildings and the names of landowners.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

#museum30 Day 8 (back in sync efter a double Day 5!). The theme is #stitch . Oor Community Tapestry panel is displayed in the Stanley Mills visitor centre. Made by 117 folk of aw ages, it has 13 different types of stitches and represents Stanley's links to the world & the world's links to Stanley.

an embroidered square panel featuring a central circular design of figures, a mill building, church and river, and four blue compass points at each corner.

three seated ladies stitching small pieces of fabric.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

#museum30 Day 6 theme is #box . Back in the early 1800s, James Craig, the manager at Stanley Mills, received advice on running the cotton mill from David Dale & Robert Owen at New Lanark. They received boxes of salmon in return! Nowadays salmon boxes are used to store oor artefacts!

A large rectangular wooden box marked with text The Tay Salmon Fisheries Perth on green shelving.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#museum30 Day 5 is #clay. The Company set up to establish Stanley Mills, along with the inhabitants of Stanley village, were given permission by the Duke of Atholl to extract clay from local pits and to make bricks. The Bell Mill at Stanley is an early example of a brick building in Perthshire.

A front entrance to a 5 storey red brick building with windows.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#museum30 Day 5 #sharing Yin of the joys of the learning programme at Stanley Mills has been involving the former workers. This is former mechanic John Robertson sharing his stories of working in the carding room in the 1960s with families as part of a Mills, Machines & Mechanics activity day.

A small group of children sit on the floor of a room which has white pillars. Three adults sit behind them on stools. All are looking towards a man with white hair sitting on a bench. There are large machines for processing cotton in the background.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#museum30 Day 4 #sketchbook Oor learning programme at Stanley Mills doesnae jist make use of the inside of the mill building. Oor Art Cart included a Make a Stanley Sketchbook option for families to sketch the amazing views of oor riverside setting and beautiful woodland. ✏️

A view of a trees in autumnal colours with a stone wall to front left and green railings and interpretation board in foreground.

An image showing paper, pens and hole punch, with two A4 signs that say Art Cart and Make a Stanley Sketchbook.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Day 3 theme of #museum30 is #eyes . This is the only shuttle ou have at Stanley Mills. 'Kissing the shuttle’ involved weavers sucking thread through the 'eye' of a shuttle (the small white circlular hole) when the pirn was replaced. This unhygenic practice was used in UK mills til c1952!

A shuttle (a long rectangular wooden object with pointed ends with a hollow along the centre) from a weaving loom. A red pirn with thread sits in the hollow.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Hot on the heels of #museum30 Day 1, here's #museum30 Day 2 - #signage ! Back in the day, the machines at Stanley Mills might break doon - nowadays, its interactive technology! Ou've leaned into it wi oor signage for just sic occasions. ☺️

A sign with white text on a blue background used for interactive exhibits that are temporarily out of order, titled A Spanner in the Works, with a line drawing of a scene showing millworkers gathered around a broken machine.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Nearly missed #museum30! Guid job it’s only Day 2! Heres’s Day 1 #introduction tho. I’m a learning officer wi an obsession wi waterwheels & a passion for Stanley Mills, a former 18th century cotton mill on the banks of the River Tay in Perthshire, now a visitor centre with fantastic stories to tell.

A red 6 storey brick cotton mill with a blue sky in background branches of a tree to the right in foreground.

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It was great to be back! Ou loved meeting & working with some terrific LEGO builders. Everybody who built an object should be really proud. The displays look braw! And whae kent it was possible to build a floral hat fae LEGO bricks! 😁

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Claire Adler @cladle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Sweet Patootee are one of my favourite clients (and I’m lucky I have many!) but they have created this wonderful film about a really neglected part of the WWII story and how it impacted the Caribbean and therefore UK. #WWII #🏛️🎓 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war

Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort

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Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk · 10/10/2025

📢 Registrations are open for this year’s Intangible Cultural Heritage conference on 14th November at Perth Theatre. This event is for anyone interested in ICH or living heritage, including practitioners and people working for culture/heritage organisations. Register here: buff.ly/isnzBbN

A café area filled with people gathered together in discussions.

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Maths Week Scotland @handle.invalid · 03/10/2025

For #ScottishMuseumsDay (3 Oct) we’ve rounded up some of our favourite #MathsWeekScot museum activities from across the country! mathsweek.scot/news/scottis... #mathstoday #UKMathsChat #kidsinmuseums #tmwyk

The photograph shows a table with large fern leaves and stacks of paper, along with some paint and paint rollers. Two sheets of paper show prints of fern leaves that have been made with the paint and rollers.

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Maths Week Scotland @handle.invalid · 28/09/2025

Very excited to welcome author David MacPhail to the National Museum of Scotland this morning for “Legends, Myths and Maths: A Journey Through Scotland” - exploring the myths, legends, wildlife and landscapes of Scotland, with hidden maths. #MathsWeekScot #KidsBooks #tmwyk #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Photograph of the author David MacPhail giving a thumbs up, pictured with his two books Atlas of Scotland and History Atlas of Scotland. Alongside the Maths Week Scotland mascot Finn Finity.

Photograph of the author David MacPhail holding up a photo frame which reads “Every Week is Maths Week”.

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Maths Week Scotland @handle.invalid · 26/09/2025

For families today (26 Sep) we have #MathsWeekScot events & trails in Anstruther, Coatbridge, Dingwall, Dundee, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fort William, Hawick, Lerwick, Livingston, Motherwell, Muir of Ord, Rosemarkie, St Andrews & Stanley Mills! Details at bit.ly/MWSFamilyEve...

Graphic with a purple background and white text which reads What's On for Families? Fri 26 September

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Fiona Davidson @learninghoolet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Right up there as yin ae ma favourite films 😊

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Strathnaver Museum @strathnaver-museum.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Poster for Strathnaver Museum Open Day. Free entry Sat 20 September 10am to 5pm. Family friendly, crFt activities, building tour, treasure hunt, spinning demo. For full programme visit www.strathnavermuseum.org.uk

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