#Highlands

Alex Tiffin - FND, BPD

RespectIsVital

Let's not forget the first state funded, aka Universal Healthcare system anywhere in the UK began in the Highlands and Islands in 1912.That scheme was used as the blueprint for

Daniel Domingues

dandomingx

A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies

Ruairidh Maciver

RuairidhMaciver

One in three acres in the West Highlands and Islands between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries was purchased using slavery-derived wealth, according to a new report by @IainMacKinnon75 and

Darien Wilson

DarienSWilson

Thread: Letter to the owner and editor of @ColoradoNewsCCM Dear Mr. Healey,At a time that every other news outlet in the country is breathlessly talking about the “unprecedented” times we

Magnus Davidson

DavidsonMagnus

Interesting to see a community lead planning submission for a new golf course at Coul Links. Whilst the Coul Links campaign is still being celebrated it looks like the community

Dr Elsa Panciroli

gsciencelady

Hugh Miller, the Highland writer, stonemason & palaeontologist, held racist views in later life. This @BBCHighlands article has a few things wrong though, so let me give you the real

Anas Sarwar

AnasSarwar

Today, I have highlighted figures on child poverty rising by 20,000 in Scotland in just 4 years. This is an utter failure of Tory and SNP austerity, and their constant

Nicola Sturgeon

NicolaSturgeon

1/ Spent much of today in meetings about the impact of closure of France-UK border to accompanied freight, and @scotgov⁩ is actively engaged in supporting resolution of these issues. A

Gaelic House Mafia

DailyGael

Thread - Skye has become massively more popular in the last ten years. Has this made is any easier to grow up there, make a life, buy/rent a home and

Zephyrus

EdinaZephyrus

LIVE TWEETING: School Board Emergency Meeting 11/10/20 Nov. 9 one-day totals:219 students in quarantine, 9 positive casesAverage # of students in quarantine during the month of October: 217 per WEEK,

collbradán

collbradan

thread: in the far NW of Scotland, around 40km from Cape Wrath, lay the 'great wood of Letyr Inriny' - described as such by 16th century map maker Timothy Pont.

Arran

arranlouise

I am going to be brutally honest here and I hope I don't ruin anyone's dream but I must say it. I want to be realistic here. I've seen many

John MacDonald

1johnmacdonald

THREAD: This week, a campervan stopped in front of a friend's croft, emptied its chemical waste tank into the burn that serves as the croft's water supply.Today, an old man

Arran

arranlouise

I am so fucking fed up of people using the Highlands as their playground. This is our home. You cannot abuse people's croft land for your "wild camping" and abuse

Jamie McIntyre

_JamieMcIntyre

There's a rash of community projects currently raising funds & investment in the Highlands & Islands, which is fantastic.However many people perhaps don't realise that funding via crowdfunding platforms comes

zuki

zukitakata_

The Scottish highlands. |THREAD| First stop, Arrochar. Second stop, Argyll forest park. More of Argyll forest park. Drive through Argyll forest park. Third stop will make the bulk of

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