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  1. 'A Life Through the Lens: David Peat' - a profile of the photographer, who died in April. BBC2, Tuesday 5 June, 21.00 bbc.in/yCpzxN 17 minutes ago via HootSuite
  2. The Anglo-Scottish FHS is holding an #Ancestry Workshop in #Manchester on Saturday 16 June bit.ly/Ji5L62 #genealogy #familyhistory about 13 hours ago via HootSuite
  3. Another chance to see the documentary, ‘The Lighthouse Stevensons’: BBC4, Monday 4 June, 20.00 bbc.in/ijIUDX #scotland #history #rls 1:06 PM Jun 3rd via web
  4. The 'Highlands on Film' contains archive newsreel & documentary footage of the area & its folk. BBC4, Mon 4 June, 19.00 bbc.in/p7mxtr 12:57 PM Jun 3rd via web
  5. ‘The man who found time’! James Hutton, the chemist & geologist who paved the way for Charles Darwin, was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 2:00 AM Jun 3rd via HootSuite
  6. James Thomson, the Scottish poet who wrote under the pseudonym, ‘BV’, died on 3 June 1882 #poets #poetry #scotland #writing 1:15 AM Jun 3rd via HootSuite
  7. 'Let us journey together / Where glad innocence reigns...' Robert Tannahill, ‘the Weaver Poet’, was born in Paisley on 3 June 1774 #poetry 1:01 AM Jun 3rd via HootSuite
  8. @Fiona_Porter The number of actors from Dundee is like a cast of a DeMille movie! And that's not counting crocodiles... imdb.to/KpizZ5 4:56 AM Jun 2nd via web in reply to Fiona_Porter
  9. Sir William Leishman, one of the world’s leading bacteriologists and experts in tropical medicine, died on 2 June 1926 #medicine #scotland 1:01 AM Jun 2nd via HootSuite
  10. Brian Cox, arguably Dundee's best Hollywood actor over the last two decades, was born on 1 June 1946 bit.ly/Jmm5CZ #scotland #actors 12:30 AM Jun 2nd via HootSuite
  11. David Dunbar Buick - we like this story about the Scots #ancestry of the ‘Red Lichtie’ who built Buick Cars bit.ly/KfZf0V #genealogy 3:23 AM Jun 1st via web
  12. ‘Water of life’ alert! On 1 June 1495, Friar John Cor made the first written reference to Scottish #whisky in the Exchequer Rolls of 1494-95 1:40 AM Jun 1st via HootSuite
  13. Henry Faulds, the doctor and scientist who developed fingerprinting, was born in Beith on 1 June 1843 #history #crime #scotland 1:30 AM Jun 1st via HootSuite
  14. James Gordon Bennett, the Keith-born founding editor of ‘The New York Herald’, died on 1 June 1872 #newyork #newspapers #scotland #keith 1:01 AM Jun 1st via HootSuite
  15. @StephenRettie Looks like you're getting warm! Look forward to hearing more about this when you've done a wee bit more digging #genealogy 8:38 AM May 31st via web in reply to StephenRettie