Alasdair

Museum Professional, History and Archaeology - Bagpiper - out of practice Historian - Views are my own

As a backup:

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

This 1745 Admiralty map (by John Elphinstone) on https://t.co/fGqJdfAxUD has answered a lot of the questions I had about my local 17th c. defences. The local histories (from the 20th c. arent particularly clear on the subject. #burntisland #history

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

@Newbattleatwar @6thGUARDS_TNK Well, certainly an attempt at it. Wonder if he still has all his teeth after a fall like that?

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

@Newbattleatwar @6thGUARDS_TNK Blue bonnets over the border

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

While I'm not necessarily leaving twitter, I am going to be using it less and might well be here instead:
https://t.co/hL20SQcAs8

[National Museums Scotland @NtlMuseumsScot]

📢 Last call to see the Declaration of Arbroath!

Sunday 2 July is the final day to view this foundational part of Scotland’s story before it goes back into conservation.

It’s free to see, so don’t miss out! 📜 https://t.co/zk9ETgIM5N

#DeclarationOfArbroath @NatRecordsScot

[Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage @MuseumScotFire]

Visit the hottest 🔥 new museum in Edinburgh this summer! We open this week and are excited to share this video by @OpenAccessArch with you!
Admission is free. See you soon!

[Dr Alice Blackwell @earlymedieval]

Only *four* days until the #DeclarationOfArbroath display @NtlMuseumsScot closes! Don't miss this once in a generation opportunity to see it up close. Open 10-5, every day til Sunday, free, no booking required 📜 https://t.co/A613KAds6d

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

You've probably been told by castle guides, a parent or teacher that castle stairs were designed turning clockwise to make fighting more difficult for attackers, but it's a myth.

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[@MOfP @MOfP2021]

Having somewhere to sit matters almost as much as having something to see #MuseumTruth

[Jacobite Wars @JacobiteWars]

19 June 1746: Argyll Militia under Major-General John Campbell of Mamore arrived at St Kilda. Mamore had received intelligence that Charles Edward Stuart and other prominent Jacobites were hiding there. He found nothing but a population largely ignorant of world events.

[Dr Graeme Millen @Weegie_Graeme]

This was an excellent article, which I’ve only just got around to full reading now. It’s an inter-connected dimension of Scottish history that needs to be taught to a broader audience!

But, the Williamite wars did occur in Scotland - there was bloodshed. https://t.co/djq3q4ybIn

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

@MathewJLyons @SamBHodgson I wonder if Scots choosing to settle in Poland-Lithuania, Sweden or Russia was entirely random chance, or whether they divided along political or clan lines?

[Christopher Ward 💙💛 🇪🇺 @bretwalda1958]

The fantastic Vasamuseet, Stockholm

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

love maps? love murder? love maps of murders?!!

new subst4ck post up and it's about my fave interactive maps of the medieval world, all of which you can access for free online! check it out!!!!👇👇👇
https://t.co/MOwwvwHEZx

[Michael Pearce @restalrig]

Patrick Rannald made meat pasties for the king's leopard at Holyroodhouse in 1584

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

A heart-breaking moment saved in an SS picture of deportations of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It was taken 79 years ago, most likely in late May 1944.

A little child found a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy. All the people in this picture were waiting to be killed in gas chamber. They were murdered some time later.

Please RT this unique document.

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

(2/2) everyone who has helped along the way, particularly as some of the subjects were difficult to approach.

The exhibition opens on Saturday (runs until October) and is well worth a look around, but I'd look up some of the subjects that he confronts before visiting.

[Alasdair @TimeTravelScot]

(1/2) Had a fun evening getting a sneak peek at the City Art Centre's major retrospective on Peter Howson!

I was honoured to have been asked to write a small amount of the interpretation along with working with some of the artworks in the run-up to this point. A big thankyou to

[John Duncan @Newbattleatwar]

I went into the sea at Portobello in 1996 to rescue a woman. It was dark, and I inadvertently swan through the sewage outlet. I contracted Giardia and was very ill. I have had a 'delicate stomach' since then. It's not character building etc.

[PKL Living History/Gaelhistory @gaelhistory]

277 years ago, the battle of Culloden was fought. Jacobite clansmen would advance across the field towards redcoated British soldiers for the last time.
The hopes of a Stuart restoration would soon come to an end. #OTD #History #Culloden #Jacobites #Stuarts