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Emily Brand
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Portrait of a Young Lady holding a Spaniel, by François Dumont, c1780 (detail)
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Vivienne Dunstan@vivdunstan.bsky.social |
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Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. '>vivdunstan.co.uk
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Emily Brand
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Portrait of a Young Lady holding a Spaniel, by François Dumont, c1780 (detail)
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Eric Liddell: The Olympic champion who still inspires 100 years on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Stocked up earlier with loads of berries from Balhungie berry farm near us in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland. Have punnets of strawberries, raspberries and cherries. Plus we got in some extra thick cream and some Rodda's Cornish clotted cream. Yum.
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Vivienne Dunstan
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I'm entering a new interactive fiction game in IFComp next month. Have had huge help from some wonderful playtesters helping me smooth the playing experience. Today my husband is playtesting for me. Am very nervous! He's played IF games since 1990s. I'm currently avoiding the study where he is. Eek!
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Helen Day
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
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‘Sea Otters’ Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Sea and Air Mammals, 1972)
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Reading a 2000AD comics anthology, and ending up skipping 2 stories - the reduced page size in this reproduction is doing them no favours, especially re splotchifying the lettering frequently. But hey, a fab Judge Anderson story is next. Which feels almost Luther Arkwright like. Happy reader again!
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Deidre Lynch
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
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Last week I read James Hogg's weird 1818 novel The Brownie of Bodsbeck, all to write ONE sentence which today I've cut from my conference paper so as to save time.
On the bright side, the novel surprised me by containing a musical score. How often can you say that?
#c19th #romanticism #BookHistory
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Beth DeBold
@elizaaudacis.bsky.social
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A lovely evening playing Gutenberg (as Polish printer Helena Ungler) with print historians in advance of the Centre for Printing History and Culture Conference tomorrow
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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The Space. Um not sure that's exactly a thing!
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Dr. Tom Horne
@hornesupremacy.bsky.social
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Have you ever seen a box FULL of #Viking oval brooches?
In 2018, I had the immense privilege of being at an NMS viewing as part of our 'Vikings in Scotland: 20 Years On' event, which served as the precursor to our EUP book, The Viking Age in Scotland (eds. Horne, Pierce, Barrowman).
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Dr CJ Readioff
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Delighted to have been invited to review another #DoctorWho episode for @bsecs.bsky.social Criticks!
There was a lot I loved about the episode (sumptuous costumes, a thrilling romance...) but nonetheless a good deal of room for improvement:
www.bsecs.org.uk/criticks-rev...
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Phil Plait
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.
More:
cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...
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Sardonicus
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French printing of the Basic D&D Rulebook from 1980
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will pooley
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Has anyone published on the history of lost dog adverts? Maybe Chris Pearson? Anyway I am not working on this but they are amazing on affective relationships etc. This is Progrès de la Somme 12.01.1929 🗃️
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Peachykeeen
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When Art Galleries Are Art no.15:
V&A Dundee
#WeekAforArt #AlphabetChallenge 📷
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Yes gorgeous! There are some more photos on my husband's Flickr feed at www.flickr.com/photos/mndun...
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Just realised my husband and I - plus pal Andrew - graduated 30 years ago today at St Andrews University! We hope to get video clips soon, but the uni haven't got them to us yet. Here's the Dundee Courier page from that day, 6 July 1994. Me and Andrew Computer Science, Martin Astronomy + Physics.
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Cats of Yore
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This is so pretty! The White Kitten Book, written and illustrated by Cecil Aldin. 1909. www.abaa.org/book/1334935...
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Cats of Yore
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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The White Cat, fairy tales translated by Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess d’Aulnoy in 1698. This version was published in 1847 but unfortunately the illustrator is identified only as “J.W.”
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Helen Day
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
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The modern world in old Ladybird books. The mail train, 1965 Artist: John Berry (On the Railways)
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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That was worth waiting up for #LizTruss
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Oh I might just have laughed #DouglasRoss
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Pleased to see the SNP win in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, my constituency. But it was phenomenally close. www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Still waiting for mine (one of the two Angus ones not declared yet) and also some Fife. All these ones are a couple of hours or more behind schedule.
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Oh what a shame #ReesMogg 😜
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Not declared yet but fingers crossed for a bad outcome for her :) www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Yup agreed.
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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As a Scot I fervently hate the hex map.
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Yup I'm mainly watching Sky, if watching the telly, and certainly for keeping an eye on their website. BBC Scotland was particularly slow on reporting one English count that Sky had reported 10 minutes earlier.
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Reminder about today’s best hashtag on social media #dogsatpollingstations - there are also some other animals showing up, including cats.
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Coco
@cocochan.bsky.social
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I see your #DogsAtPollingStations and I raise you #CatsAtPawlingStations 🗳️
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Cats of Yore
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His Majesty. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.
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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures
@glasgow2024.bsky.social
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We have our first list of programme participants and a sampler of some of programme items now on our website!
You can check it out the participant list here: glasgow2024.org/whos-coming/...
And the sampler of programme items here: glasgow2024.org/what.../prog...
(1/2)
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Smalltown Boy: Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Oscar Onley: The cycling Scot among the Tour de France elite - from Kelso in the Scottish Borders www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Looking ahead to this week, and a big task is get a too long in development academic journal paper out the door for peer review. Or at least virtually there! I think the illustrations issue may be a backlog one, but need to see if what I have is ok. I have illustrations (maps), but need to check ok.
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Vivienne Dunstan
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I have just registered to enter IFComp 2024. Eek! Still to add cover art (I'm doing it) and obviously the final game file. But very excited. I will have the entry ready by mid August, after the current final round of playtesting. ifcomp.org
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Sending out my IFComp 2024 game for its final round of playtesting. Scary and exciting at the same time!
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Really grateful to our ISP Zen and an Openreach engineer at 8am for a big speed boost to our home Internet. We finally switched from slow ADSL to fibre to the cabinet + VOIP for our long term landline number. Faster connections especially help my hardware/software engineer husband working from home.
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Tonight’s supper reading material. And hugely relieved that past me stuck postit notes in years ago at just the sections I need right now for polishing my latest interactive fiction game!
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mia
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The only thing better than someone making something great with open collections from the British Library is when they share how they did it!
Guest post from Sak Supple on how he made digitised British Library playbills searchable online blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
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Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Voted. Head spinning as usual with the whole envelope A, envelope B etc palaver. But done.
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Owen Davies
@odavies9.bsky.social
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Ice cream vans. As summer finally arrives in the UK why not have a read of this FREE article exploring the history & folklore of ice cream vans - their chimes, ice cream & urban legends!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Vivienne Dunstan
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Closure threatened Mills Observatory secures five-figure funding - a hefty donation from my husband's company, a space technology research company spun off from the University of Dundee. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dund...
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