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Boys and Girls: Different Expectations in Scottish Education
Bottling Up: The Alcohol Industry
Quack Medicine
Engineering Lanarkshire: William Bain & Co
Engineering Lanarkshire: R B Tennent
Engineering Lanarkshire: Alexander Findlay & Company
Following the Life and Biography of a Covenanting Banner
The Monkland Canal
The Cambusnethan Stone
Colonialism, Empire and Migration: North Lanarkshire’s Asian Connections
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It's #WorldBookDay & here is a wonderful sculpture of Ophelia from #Shakespeare's Hamlet. The figure, with another of Hamlet himself decorated the original 1700s core of #Colzium House, #Kilsyth #Lanarkshire https://t.co/9oNqRRIGEN #OnlineArtExchnge https://t.co/Ti8U2J4XP6
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The latest in our series of stories on #Ravenscraig Scotland's biggest steelworks looks at how steel was made in the Melting Shop https://t.co/s8Z6Hvukf2 Our picture shows the 1st iron from the blast furnaces being poured ready to make steel in 1957 #GoIndustrial https://t.co/UTeSxIInAr
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RT @markrustbucket: @NL_Heritage There was a legal dispute after the contractors found cheaper steel in Wales, but had already contracted t…
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#HappyBirthday Forth Bridge! Opened #OTD in 1890. Check out https://t.co/M17XGUp9C2 to find out how much of the steel used for this groundbreaking structure came from Motherwell. https://t.co/mCLAZ27pJM
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Thank you very much to everyone who has shared their views on our museum collections website https://t.co/NHREATGYX0 If you haven't yet done so please drop in & let us know how you would like to see the site develop 🗣️🏛️💻 Direct link to the survey here: https://t.co/WSJv2ukdCa https://t.co/CS2AzNBbSz
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RT @NatRecordsScot: Happy birthday to the Forth Bridge, first opened 4 March 1890. You can find information and more images from #NRSArchiv…
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RT @NL_Heritage: Women sorting rags for blotting paper at Caldercruix Paper Mills, North Lanarkshire around 1920. The room had little venti…
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RT @GoIndustScot: #WomensHistoryMonth In 1914 Margaret Maxwell's petition against force-feeding of women prisoners did not reach its intend…
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RT @hanarchovist: Last year, I wrote this blog post about Russian solidarity in Airdrie and Coatbridge during WW2. The women of North Lanar…
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North Lanarkshire women, such as the Airdrie Anglo-Soviet Women's Committee, were at the heart of an incredible campaign of solidarity with besieged Leningrad during WW2. Blog: https://t.co/xtk6VA86Mi #WeShouldAllBeFeminists #WomensHistoryMonth (image credit: @acadvertiser) https://t.co/kzSdabDp24
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Women sorting rags for blotting paper at Caldercruix Paper Mills, North Lanarkshire around 1920. The room had little ventilation & would be filled with dust from unwashed rags. This was considered women's work #WeShouldAllBeFeminists https://t.co/m7BAEtpDFe #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/9m2WviCvGS
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RT @FootballMemSco: With Motherwell Ian scored 80 goals in 113 league games. St John represented Scotland 21 times, scoring nine goals. He…
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RT @SFootballMuseum: We are deeply saddened by the passing of Scotland, Liverpool and Motherwell legend, Ian St John. Our thoughts are wi…
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