Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵
Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Starter Packs
Created by Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 (1)
Edinburgh & Leith Local History
A starter pack of accounts to follow that cover aspects of Edinburgh & Leith local history.
@surgeonshall.bsky.social
Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world. Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
@tonypollard.bsky.social
Prof of Conflict History & Archaeology, Uni of Glasgow. Bit of TV and the write stuff.
@pssatweets.bsky.social
Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
@blue24yes.bsky.social
@carinrunciman.bsky.social
Sociologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Johannesburg. Editor-in-Chief at The Sociological Review
@sethornelgtales.bsky.social
Scottish children's fantasy writer and purveyor of eight-year-old humor.
@debsmooth.bsky.social
Your average, pixel-stained techno-peasant. Graphic designer and photographer based in Leith (Scotland). ©2025 D Mullen All rights reserved. She/Her 🚫 NO AI 🚫 NO DMs 🚫 I SAID! NO!! DMs!!!! 🚫
@sarahchalmerspage.bsky.social
Inveterate generalist. Still European, whatever anyone says.
@alasdairjblair.bsky.social
Old pubs, history, lapsed skateboarder, architect. In that order.
@kenlussey.bsky.social
Author, photographer, traveller, husband, father, grandfather and lover of Scotland and all things Scottish. Website: http://www.kenlussey.com/
@nigeblog.bsky.social
Generous liker #comics #music #sysadmin #flaneury #maths #history #nonsense Cor blimey, it's nigeblog
@anorcadianabroad.bsky.social
Scottish islander, budget traveller, living in Edinburgh 🏴 🌍 Most likely to be found with a cup of tea & a map, planning my next adventure or writing about past ones ✈ https://anorcadianabroad.com/
@sheenanimmo.bsky.social
Volunteer with Breast Cancer Now and owner of Stanley the border terrier 📍Edinburgh
@ricjl.bsky.social
Edinburgh, history, climate crisis, activism, photos. You can also find me at: www.ricjl.com https://mastodon.scot/@ricjl https://www.instagram.com/ric_james_lander/
@timeteam.bsky.social
The official Time Team! The future of the past! https://linkin.bio/timeteamofficial #TimeTeam #Archaeology
@edinburghcamra.bsky.social
We are the Edinburgh & South-East Scotland branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). A not-for-profit consumer group that campaigns on all beer & pub issues.
@allanfinlay.bsky.social
Perthshire, Scotland. Semi-retired employment lawyer now repatriated and happily settled in rural Perthshire. Scottish rugby supporter.
@juliaallum.bsky.social
Illustrator with a love of colour shapes & Art Deco design, represented worldwide by Meiklejohn Portfolio & shop - https://juliaallum.co.uk/
@scottishindexes.bsky.social
Professional Scottish genealogist and co-founder of scottishindexes.com. Regularly to be found in the National Records of Scotland untying Sheriff Court records. I also organise the Scottish Indexes Conferences.
@sionnachairgid.bsky.social
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
@daviehutchison.bsky.social
Father of two wee Irishmen. Untidy Typophile. @ScotGov Finance, Culture & Broadcasting SpAd. Views mine, retweets not so much. Check http://lobbying.scot if meeting.
@ianmac.bsky.social
Recovering TV addict, nerdy fan of Dystopian drama. Love a bit of ScandiNoir, Science-Fiction, Aviation, Military History and Cold War Radars & Bunkers. Currently researching the US Cavalry in the Indian Territory and First World War command & control.
@oisinbreen.bsky.social
Poet, Financial Journalist (RIABiz), and occasional narratologist. Buy my work here: https://linktr.ee/OBreen @Breen@mastodon.ie // @Breen
@sean-mcp.bsky.social
Edinburgh Leitrim Southport Education consultant at Hibernian FC, teacher, writer, reader, socialist republican, music fan.GAA CricketScotland, Hibs and Southport FC. Family 🫶🇮🇪🏴
@portybooks.bsky.social
An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
@jillharrison1.bsky.social
Social art historian/Fifteenth-century Scotland, Flanders and Burgundy. Research Associate, Open University. Leads the Trinity Network and Adornes Network. www.open.ac.uk/people/jh294
@abeardwalks.bsky.social
I walk, cycle, write and code. Musings can be found at: https://givemecoffeeand.pizza/
@pegerteg.bsky.social
Occasional music journo, weekday business editor. Embra born and based. Portfolio/blog: pegerteg.com
@techconnectify.bsky.social
I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now. he/him https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@profellenstu.bsky.social
probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness
@ionaddhuneideann.bsky.social
Ag adhartachadh na Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Eideann Promoting Gaelic in Scotland's capital
@haylesben.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. Welfare state, social security, (un)employment, poverty, policy-making. Views own, RTs not endorsements. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/hayley-bennett
@lauravivanco.bsky.social
Independent scholar of popular romance fiction (https://www.vivanco.me.uk/), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (https://www.jprstudies.org/) My database of scholarship about romance novels: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
@chamfan74.bsky.social
Engineer, consultant, business owner and offshore renewable energy expert. Championing clean energy and a clean planet. (Slight side-addiction to skiing, sci-fi and pro-level yacht racing 😀)
@drcarolinebrown.bsky.social
Town planner. RTPI Director for Scotland, Ireland & English Regions. Recovering academic. Likes green space, blue space and active travel. Sometimes knits.
@pennyduggan.bsky.social
Archives | Local History | Family History Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
@jde22ix.bsky.social
'What a child can comprehend and what shall not yet be absolutely uninteresting to the grown reader.' Now with @scga.bsky.social Got the June 2016 1000 metre stare 🇪🇺 🇨🇴
@traceymadden.bsky.social
PhD MInstP SFHEA Learning Technology Advisor in higher education. Key interests: learning design, accessibility. Graduate of MSc Digital Education (disertation on private funding of edtech and its claims to deliver social justice).
@burkeandhare.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes, http://burkeandhare.com
@sgreenhorn.bsky.social
Word Monkey Edinburgh Passing Places. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114104/
@geocycle.bsky.social
Professional Volunteer Posting about: 🚲 | ☕️ | 🌾 | 🌍 |🕹| 🎒 🏡: 🧀 ➡️ 🇯🇵 ➡️ 🏴 ➡️ 🏴 Wisco Emigrant | Scottish Immigrant Zen and the Art of Things Not Zen.
@lucygrig.bsky.social
Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
@lynnpearson67.bsky.social
Architectural historian and early portable buildings enthusiast, working on a book about 'tin tabernacles' (and suchlike) and their wooden friends