Elaine McFarland@[email protected]

Cat keeper, gardener, boat builder, emeritus history professor (ie. retired). Chair of the Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies: @Ayrshire_AFHS 🐾

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@WingsScotland This is superb. Beautifully written, never mind the power of the testimony. Thanks.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@is_glasgow Thank you! We saw this recently in Fairlie and couldn't work out what they were. We ruled out a gun battle.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@GlasgowAlbum Just seen the 2027 line up. Haud me back.

[A Dunlop Landscapes 🌳⚒️🧱 @alanfdunlop]

Information on the replica Spanish galleon in Ayr harbour. https://t.co/bquN6t9dnl

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@WingsScotland Die by chocolate or live in a care home being entertained by drag queens.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@babybeginner Well down. He trusts you so much.

[Pub Signs of Britain @pubsignsbritain]

On this day in 1842 the Mines Act was passed which made it illegal for children under the age of 10 to work underground.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@chiselbury Kohima deserves to be better known.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@QcWynter The Arday, postmodern type is rooted in former teacher-training colleges that have become universities. There was an older, empirically-based 'sociology of education' that had a perfectly sensible and clearly-expressed focus on class inequality etc.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@BelfastBooks You'd hate Lubeck.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@ProfAliceS Always had my suspicions about that conference. Colleague used to bring me back souvenir bookbags: Lisbon, Turku etc.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@Rab_Dickson1 Bizarre. Up there with 'leave it to Cambridge '.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@NeilThin Ironically, PhDs are supposed to be focussed exercises in originality - new contributions to the discipline. Instead, these are just examples of the academy eating itself. Postmodernism has a lot to answer for.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@HistoryPegg Devil's chickens.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@DrFrancisYoung @Heresy_Corner Speaking as one, yes. You keep the professorial title you held before you retired and you may still have unpaid roles in your university eg PhD teams. On my way to a viva now!

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@RonniNicole1 What, not even a Bee Network bus?

[Pub Signs of Britain @pubsignsbritain]

The Acorn, Pingle Drive, Bicester. #Bicester #Pubs #PubSigns

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@alanfdunlop Wishing you well on your recovery.

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

So, our new house in Millport is coming on ...

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@drewski429 @littlestmrs @thecavedaddy Cat's looking a bit nervous at me now ...

[Elaine McFarland@[email protected] @EMArdrossan]

@militaryhistori Still remember the excitement of visiting Prestwick Airport as a kid. Not so much the planes as the milk vending machine and the little packets of biscuits wrapped in cellophane. Height of modernity.