Robin Campbell

Interested in British mountaineering history, especially Scottish mountaineering history. Also dabble in early British drawings and watercolours.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

For International Women's Day here is a thread about Ms. Mira Marko Debelak, the intrepid leader of the Slav Route on Ben Nevis in September 1934. Known as 'Marko', her gender was often confused in guidebooks. But she was a women, and looked like one too.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

The utter hypocrisy of US pro-lifers, who care more about embryos than children in Gaza.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@HighlandHistory The seated climber in these photographs is identifiable as William Naismith, SMC founder and author of the famous eponymous Rule

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@HighlandHistory I have now found your image, also in the SMC Collection, and also taken by William Douglas on the same visit. The location is one of the Stacach tors on the ridge running north from Goatfell.

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

For Art History News, I've written a Q&A on image fees, the new copyright ruling, and why in most cases (for historic artworks) we don't now need to pay them.

https://t.co/IoWYOfOsFV

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@arthistorynews A useful and fair summary. Still some way to go, of course. The big museums are the problem, since they have historians on their staff, who don't want to lose a publishing advantage.

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Although I would have made it 'shooshed', had I the wit to construct this gem.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

Outstanding

[Henry Normal @HenryNormalpoet]

Join me tomorrow celebrate the opening of the new central library in Nottingham at 7pm this Friday

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@ScotlandTBP @townsendoutdoor And it must be obvious, even to ardent re-wilders, that we don't need an apex predator for avian raptors. Our charming gamekeepers fill that role.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@ScotlandTBP @townsendoutdoor There IS an apex predator. It's us. All we need is a bit of encouragement and some decent weapons.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@arthistorynews The Tate's conduct in relation to the 1000s of Turner drawings they hold is in my view particularly disgraceful and harmful to scholarship.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@DanNeidle Also, it's unfortunately the case that false promises are not lies. Moses should have proscribed these as well.

[Henry Normal @HenryNormalpoet]

THE LOST MARBLES

It’s not science or philosophy
That’s all Greek to me
The Parthenon Marbles
Are as English as democracy

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@NoContextBrits i think its 'readers' just look at the pictures.

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@melindahaunton Indeed. But irresistability leads inevitably to dark glasses, a headscarf and severe tailoring – a victim of her beauty.

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@melindahaunton https://t.co/GprthoIbj2

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@melindahaunton Jakob Nieweg, 1910 (Kröller-Mueller)

[Robin Campbell @RobinCampbellSM]

@thealpineclub False, sorry. Since the Alpine Club was amalgamated with the Ladies Alpine Club in 1975, and the Ladies Alpine Club was founded in 1907, the combined Club has had 23 female Presidents to date.

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@charliejorr @DavidDhenry Harsh!

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@s1sm1th @RewildScotland We already have a keystone apex predator - homo sapiens. It's just a matter of encouraging it to kill deer by means of suitable incentives.