ST JAMES-THE-LESS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1872-1914 St. James’ beginnings in the nineteenth century In the second half of the 19th century, the Episcopal Church in Scotland experienced a revival of its fortunes following the darker days of disestablishment after 1688. The growing problem of the urban poor in the city in the latter half of the …
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Paradise Found
This article first appeared in Celtic View November 2022. My first time at a football match seemed like a good way to mark a significant zero birthday. My Celtic daft, season-ticket holding grandson Eddie kindly obliged – bless him – with tickets to see Celtic play Motherwell at home on 1 October. I grew up …
New online resource to tackle gender based-violence prevention on Scottish campuses
The University of the Highlands and Islands is one of seventeen Scottish universities that came together to create and fund access to a new training course to help prevent and eradicate gender-based violence in colleges and universities. Building on the work of the Scottish Government’s Equally Safe in Higher Education Toolkit and carried out in …
2016 Crashes in!
It was touch and go for the ham hough. You never know the bloody minute… well more the elongated moment…when I was happily but sedately bowling along Loch Lomond-side, already bored with what was on the radio, planning to stop at Tyndrum to get out the Kindle for some decent driving tunes, past the engineering …
#WeCanStopIt
Rape Crisis Scotland and Police Scotland have launched a high profile media campaign to tackle rape. The latest phase of the #WeCanStopIt rape prevention campaign is aimed at 16-27 year old men – an age group who commit one third of reported rapes in Scotland. Young women in the same age group are also the …
A Woman’s Place – Riveting story of women who looked to the future
From the Lennox Herald 15 May 2015 I heard this week of the death of Mary Doyle aged 91 years, the woman who posed as Rosie the Riveter for Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting (not to be confused with WE CAN DO IT). The painting was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May …
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Book Review: Sheila Stewart – A Traveller’s Life
Originally posted on GlasgowAnni:
If we were a’ sensible, there would be nae fools Traveller’s Life – The Autobiography of Sheila Stewart Published April 2011 Birlinn £9.99 Maybe this book is not like other people’s biographies. But it has to be different…because a travellers’ life is different from anyone else’s.’ And so it is. A…
#16 Days of Activism against VAW – A Woman’s Place
This article first published @LennoxHerald 19 November 2014 November 25 marks the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and signals the start of the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence ending on 10 December, Human Rights Day. This year the global campaign, which began in 1981, highlights the links …
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The Accidental Journalist #WritetoEndVAW awards @ZTScotland
by Anni Donaldson, 2013 “Best Article” Winner of the Write to End Violence Against Women Awards It was a bit of a shock when I was told I had been nominated for Best Article in the first Write to End VAW Awards in 2013. Writing about violence against women seemed like a natural extension of my …
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