Calum M Ross

It is often said that Christmas Day only became a Public Holiday in Scotland in 1958. But I’m not sure where that claim originates, and I think the premise is mistaken. Legally, Scottish Public Holidays aren’t a thing. Thread 🧵

@davidtorrance @HerbinGooner A minority of the Free Church didn't enter the 1900 union and continued the existence of the old Free Church, but afaik they weren't involved in union negotiations with the CoS in the 1920s. @NeilBriogaisean is an expert on the establishment principle and the man to speak to.

@davidtorrance @HerbinGooner This briefing has a slight error. The 1921 Act was passed during negotiations between the *United* Free Church & the CoS - not the Free Church. The United Free Church was formed by a 1900 merger involving most of the Free Church and the United Presbyterian Synod.

The government has no plans to re-establish the Church of Ireland as the established church of Northern Ireland…

@JSAinslie I'm going on secondment to the KLTR in the new year - assuming no change of plans. Let me know if you would like any involvement from them.

@DavidsonMagnus Thanks for sharing - I don't think I knew of them before but they articulate a strongly held feeling

@Calum_M_Ross Really good. Often quoted without the last one but it pulls them together.

From the war time Cooper Committee, that led the way Labour Secretary State of Scotland, Tom Johnson, to deliver ‘Power from the Glens’, arguably one of the greatest socio economic interventions in the history of the Highlands of Scotland. Johnson went on to chair the NoSHEB.

@StagecoachEScot Hello, do you have an update on the X59 that was due to stop at Queensferry St at 0811? The app suggests it hasn't left the station?

@NeilBriogaisean @MacqueenHector @lanarkboy His father was Dr Henderson of Crieff, prominent UF leader and son of Dr Henderson of Glasgow. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of the famous Dr Candlish of Edinburgh. The absence of any mention of this in the 1964 obituaries is perhaps a sign of secularised times 🤔

@MacqueenHector @lanarkboy Who were Hendersons parents? Intrigued by his middle name.

This is quite intriguing. #ScotsLaw

@katiemacleann The team at @StGilesHighKirk worked with Glasgow Uni to produce interactive videos for visitors - would that count?

does anyone know of any people in Scotland who have done/are doing history/literature research with creative application for public engagement? e.g. writing a fiction novel as result of their research, an artist's residency or performance, turning research into a video game etc.

@NeilBriogaisean @MacqueenHector Is this the Fodd that went into partnership with Simpson & Marwick?

Found him @MacqueenHector #findfodd #SSCSociety

@cocteautriplets @ncdominie An entertainingly spurious claim 🚣‍♂️

@cocteautriplets @chriscwn9 @Historic_Ally *Moray 😬

Used to work near here, just off the Royal Mile, and this story always blew my mind

@chriscwn9 @Historic_Ally I can't think of a source, but I thought the treaty was signed in this wee building which was once in the Queensberry House grounds, rather the house itself. Perhaps @cocteautriplets can enlighten us

@Historic_Ally I think they fled after signing the Treaty/Act in what is now the lady's toilets at Bella Italia on the corner of North Bridge/Royal Mile. The kitchen of Queensberry House is now the Parly Bar and you can see where the spit would have been!

@TainMuseum This is cool! Is there a collection of photographs of the 17th century stones somewhere?

Denoon of Pithogarty This 17th-century gravestone is one of the oldest in the graveyard. The inscription in Scots reads: "Heir lyis ane honorable man called Alexander Denoon of Pithogarty _ _ _ departit the XX day of August 1610."

@PAlanMcMahon Thanks for sharing! The Aberdeen University Printing Press building of 1899 on Upperkirkgate has a doorway modelled on this. I hadn't heard of the story from the 60s - where can I read more? Both pics from Google street view.

This is L’École Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. It's the old Scots College, Collège des Éscossois, dating from 1325 and paid for by Bruce in Crown Jewels. Confiscated by Napoleon, a Scot researched it in the 60s and the French offered it to Scotland; our colonisers showed no interest.

@nickunderdown Thanks! I'll send you a DM.

@Calum_M_Ross Hello - this is a really interesting bit of legal research. Is there a link to the article?

Happy to see my first article published. Thanks to @lixmount for providing access to the @signetlibrary's Session Papers, @Meaning_of_Fife for commenting on an early draft, the anonymous reviewer for their comments and @janemairlaw for her patience and encouragement as editor🦀🦞

@diarmidmogg @SecretEdin Excellent thread ☺️

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POSTAL VOTES: if you won't be home next week and haven't received your postal vote yet, come to our emergency facility tomorrow Saturday 29 Jun, 9am-4pm, Fife House Glenrothes. Please bring photo ID. Find out more: fife.gov.uk/news/2024/fife…

Cue the belated spotting of spelling and grammatical errors...

@SChurchesTrust @NeilBriogaisean The burning bush was used to represent the Huguenots in the 1580s, and then the Church of Scotland from the 1690s. At the Disruption it was adopted by the Free church to support their claim to be the true heirs of the reformers. 11/12 x.com/jeelyeater1/st…

@SChurchesTrust @NeilBriogaisean In 1906 this Tin Tabernacle was built to house the dispossessed UF congregation. It can be considered a monument to the 1900 union with glass depictions of a dove of peace and a burning bush. These are your photos of them. The dove was the UP symbol for decades before 1900. 10/12

Two surviving, simple stained glass windows in the Mill shop in Fort Augustus, a "Tin Tabernacle" church building dating from 1906. The roundels in the centre show the Burning Bush emblem of the Church of Scotland, with the motto "Nec Tamen Consumebatur." #StainedGlassSunday