AllyD
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<p>As well as posting on this account, I use <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishPlaces" class="u-url mention">@<span>ScottishPlaces</span></a></span> (formerly at botsin.space) to post daily random thematic items of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ScottishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScottishHistory</span></a>, generated using <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wikidata</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> information.</p>
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Post #2649010
The Community Bakery in #Dunbar is seeking support to sustain it after suffering a fire on their premises in February. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Zn56PXBy
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Post #2649009
Adding basic #Wikidata info for &quot;Edinburgh plague of 1585&quot; got me looking at data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare. Even the &quot;1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak&quot;, which put #Aberdeen in lockdown, is scant on Wikidata. And nothing on the &quot;Glasgow plague of 1900-1901&quot;, the northernmost point of the Third Plague Pandemic, so I created an item. It feels like a data gap, especially when C19 cholera outbreaks were the ca...
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Post #2649008
Programme for the #ThreeRiversFestival events in the #Stirling area in July. https://www.threeriversfestival.co.uk/events-pages/2026-events It is good to see independent local initiatives such as this, looking to the needs of a range of age groups and using a variety of venues across the area. #ScottishCulture
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Post #2649007
I noticed an item for Rowchoish bothy and wondered how many others are on #Wikidata A query on &quot;Bothy&quot; and &quot;Wilderness Hut&quot; items in #Scotland gives this map https://w.wiki/LtUW
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Post #2649006
At #CallendarHouse for the opening of Tom Astbury&#39;s &quot;Iron and Clay&quot; exhibition of industrial photos from the early 1980s, I learned a lot from various photo captions. One in particular was a 1979 photo of Robert Shaw, patternmaker of #Larbert. It is claimed that he was the first person seen on a television, when John Logie Baird did a preview demo in #Falkirk &#39;s Temperance Hotel, prior to taking his apparatus to London.