Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
947 followers · 1521 posts · Server mastodon.scotBrowsing old #newspapers in the #BritishNewspaperArchive and finding a very intriguing J.G. Yung #accordion performer and piano etc tuner popping up frequently in the #ScottishBorders in the latter half of the 19th century (1850s onwards). A bit of genealogical digging finds he was born in #Darmstadt, #Germany, and died in #Hawick in 1903. I may well pull together the various references into a more scholarly article. #squeezebox #Scotland #music #MusicHistory #HistoryOfMusic #Genealogy #BNA
#bna #genealogy #HistoryOfMusic #musichistory #music #scotland #squeezebox #hawick #germany #darmstadt #ScottishBorders #accordion #britishnewspaperarchive #newspapers
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
923 followers · 1375 posts · Server mastodon.scotDigging out my schoolgirl #French to email #accordion makers #Maugein to tell them how phenomenally the new chromatic box #CBA seems to be helping my hand control generally, fighting my #neuro cerebral #vasculitis. 250 ish French words later and all done. It's a marvel how much French language I remember, even if I have to check a few words here and there. But I can write 90% of it in one go. Higher French in 1988/9 at #Hawick High #School was a very long time ago. #LanguageLearning #squeezebox
#squeezebox #languagelearning #school #hawick #vasculitis #neuro #CBA #maugein #accordion #french
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
873 followers · 1319 posts · Server mastodon.scotTime for a fresh #introduction. I’m an academic historian (have PhD in historic Scottish reading habits #bookHistory), genealogist, former computer scientist and #accordion player. Live with progressive #neuro disease. Keen player and author of #InteractiveFiction games. Also before I got too ill I enjoyed playing #CallOfCthulhu #RPG. Keen reader (that PhD was really appropriate!), and #fountainPen user. Originally from #Hawick in #ScottishBorders, now live in #Dundee, #Scotland. #books #reading
#reading #books #scotland #dundee #ScottishBorders #hawick #fountainpen #rpg #callofcthulhu #interactivefiction #neuro #accordion #bookhistory #introduction
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
862 followers · 1286 posts · Server mastodon.scotDon’t usually watch the #proms, but chanced upon #Grieg tunes. Which I recognise from the local #Hawick operatic society doing the Song of Norway show one year in the 1980s! I was asked by my #violin teacher to play the violin for the show that year, but declined. #ScottishBorders #music #AmateurOperatics #Norway
#norway #amateuroperatics #music #ScottishBorders #violin #hawick #grieg #proms
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
844 followers · 1261 posts · Server mastodon.scotHappy 4th of July to my American friends who celebrate. Two g..uncles of mine emigrated from Hawick in Scotland to America and fought for American independence against the British. I need to look more into their history ... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScottishHistory #Hawick #ScottishBorders #Scotland #4thofJuly #IndependenceDay #AmericanRevolutionaryWar #USA #America #AmericanRevolution
#americanrevolution #america #usa #AmericanRevolutionaryWar #independenceday #4thofjuly #scotland #ScottishBorders #hawick #ScottishHistory #familyhistory #genealogy
Undiscovered Scotland · @UndisScot
5976 followers · 1288 posts · Server mastodon.scot
When it opened in 2018, the Borders Distillery in Hawick became the first (legal) whisky distillery in the Scottish Borders since 1837. It comes complete with the most visually impressive still room we've seen. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/bordersdistillery/index.html
#Scotland #BordersDistillery #Scotch #Whisky #Distillery #Hawick #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland
#undiscoveredscotland #ScottishBorders #hawick #distillery #whisky #scotch #bordersdistillery #scotland
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
794 followers · 1090 posts · Server mastodon.scotI finished reading Raw Spirit by #IainBanks last night, a tour around Scotland’s #whisky distilleries. After he wrote it a distillery was started in #Hawick in the #ScottishBorders, my home town. They claim they’re the first distillery in the Borders since 1837. Maybe first legal distillery. My ancestor in 1857 Hawick had an illicit whisky still at #WiltonDean. Which I view as rather enterprising of him! https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/an-ancestors-illicit-whisky-still-in-1850s-hawick/ #Scotland #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #ScottishHistory
#ScottishHistory #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry #scotland #wiltondean #ScottishBorders #hawick #whisky #IainBanks
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
774 followers · 933 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Delighted to manage a little #accordion practice, playing lots of my own arrangements. Here was my quick initial warm up today, playing Sunrise Sunset from #FiddlerOnTheRoof. I first played this in the late 1980s for the #Hawick High #School #show production. I also played the accordion for school shows of Joseph and Oliver in other years. Back then I was playing on my larger red accordion bought in 1981. That's still my main box. Today I was playing my smaller blue model. #musicals #squeezebox
#squeezebox #musicals #show #school #hawick #fiddlerontheroof #accordion
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
769 followers · 910 posts · Server mastodon.scotBill McLaren's 'chaotic' study to be recreated
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65400600 #BillMcLaren #Rugby #ScottishRugby #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Hawick #Sport
#sport #hawick #ScottishBorders #scotland #scottishrugby #rugby #billmclaren
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
759 followers · 868 posts · Server mastodon.scotJust watching last night’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Rivers, this week about the River #Teviot and #Teviotdale, my home area https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001l1jy/grand-tours-of-scotlands-rivers-series-2-5-an-independent-river #ScottishBorders #Roxburghshire #Hawick #Jedburgh #Kelso #Roxburgh
#roxburgh #kelso #jedburgh #hawick #roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #teviotdale #teviot
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
757 followers · 848 posts · Server mastodon.scotNational importance of #Stobs Camp near #Hawick recognised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65262798 #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Army #ArmyHistory #Military #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WorldWarOne #PrisonersOfWar #POW #GermanSoldiers #TrainingCamp
#trainingcamp #germansoldiers #pow #prisonersofwar #worldwarone #ww1 #militaryhistory #military #ArmyHistory #army #ScottishBorders #scotland #hawick #stobs
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
750 followers · 799 posts · Server mastodon.scotJust got my own first member copy of the #Hawick Archaeological Society transactions. Crikey it’s bigger format now than in my youth! Dad is listed in the obituaries section. Says he’d been a member since 1982, so 40 years. #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #LocalHistory #Archaeology #History #LocalSocieties
#localsocieties #history #archaeology #localhistory #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #hawick
Undiscovered Scotland · @UndisScot
5566 followers · 895 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Urban scenery at its best. A view of Hawick Town Hall, in the heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hawick/hawick/index.html
#Scotland #Hawick #TownHall #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland
#undiscoveredscotland #ScottishBorders #townhall #hawick #scotland
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
738 followers · 742 posts · Server mastodon.scotApplication form filled out, ready to send off in the post tomorrow, for me to get #lifetime #membership of the #Hawick Archaeological Society. Still a gamble with my life threatening progressive #neuro disease, but with no minimum age and a fair lifetime membership offer, plus no need to renew annually, it's too good not to go for. #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #History #Archaeology #LocalHistory #Roxburghshire
#roxburghshire #localhistory #archaeology #history #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #neuro #hawick #membership #lifetime
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
735 followers · 730 posts · Server mastodon.scotMy dad was a member for many decades of the #Hawick Archaeological Society. I am finally going to join myself! Did plan to join yearly, but there is a very good #lifetime #membership rate, no minimum age. It is a gamble with my life threatening #illness, but saves renewing each year. #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #Scotland #Archaeology #History #HistoricalSocieties
#historicalsocieties #history #archaeology #scotland #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #illness #membership #lifetime #hawick
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
730 followers · 709 posts · Server mastodon.scotA few more coherent thoughts on watching #Hawick win the #rugby #ScottishPremiership today https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/hawick-rugby-champions/
#ScottishPremiership #rugby #hawick
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
730 followers · 708 posts · Server mastodon.scotWow! Well done #Hawick. That was nail biting. #rugby #ScottishPremiership
#ScottishPremiership #rugby #hawick
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
701 followers · 632 posts · Server mastodon.scotFrom the Guardian: Country diary 1973: minor roads of the Scottish Borders offer rich rewards https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/13/country-diary-1973-minor-roads-of-the-scottish-borders-offer-rich-rewards #ScottishBorders #Scotland #Countryside #Rural #Roads #Eskdalemuir #Hawick #StMarysLoch #Cheviots #Lammermuirs #Moorfoots #BerwickUponTweed
#berwickupontweed #moorfoots #lammermuirs #cheviots #stmarysloch #hawick #eskdalemuir #roads #rural #countryside #scotland #ScottishBorders
Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
699 followers · 623 posts · Server mastodon.scotRather bizarre - but delightful! - is learning that the retired #Hawick #librarian Hugh Mackay has a copy of my #PhD #thesis about Scottish #reading habits on his shelves. A proper bound copy that came from me via a circuitous route! He was a big help to young me in my family research. I am delighted he is still thriving. #ScottishBorders #ScottishHistory #BookHistory #Books #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
#genealogy #familyhistory #books #bookhistory #ScottishHistory #ScottishBorders #reading #thesis #phd #librarian #hawick
Kit Everhill · @RickEtyhat
14 followers · 140 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk@Christownsendoutdoors My great-great-great-grandparents and their family lived in Hawick in 1846. I'd love to know if they attended #familyhistory #Hawick