Mark Baillie
@mbaillie
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Author of Salvage. Interested in Scottish Traveller history, music, books. Words in @zindaily @BubbleLitMag @Livina_Press @AnologiesLitMag @TravellersTimes
Joined July 2010
Salvage has been picked to feature in @BookWeekScot debut novels showcase! 🥳 Short vid here of me reading & discussing the historical background 👇#BookWeekScotland
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Get in touch if you know of any museums/universities/institutions who would be interested in having this Romany Gypsy archaeology exhibition installed after it’s current run ends at the start of March 🫡
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@welshkale I'm doing an article for History Scotland magazine. I'll share here when it's published 👍
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A lovely video here from @culturepandk and @BarneyDBlack. Some great details, not least the Lord Provost giving permission to 'clock' kids who interfered with the new trees. Wouldn't get that these days! @ColinBurnett16 you'll like this
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@SirGeoffPalmer I included a passage on Inveresk in my novel... my grandparents lived in the social housing across the park - a fascinating contrast!
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RT @CChakkers79374: Exhibit 5: Some you win, some you lose - not all will repent and be salvaged...
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@chelsmacdonn @johnhenry185 Then there's the issue of university Travellers 'collections and archives'. Some of the audio recordings/interviews particularly problematic to hold as 'records'
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RT @romanistanpod: We interview Gilda Horvath, aka Nancy Black, journalist, rapper, & human rights activist about politics, art, and capita…
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@welshkale There's apps being used to 'score' text - not sure if or how that takes into account target readers!
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It was great chatting to @elcourier for this interview, covering the amazing support I've had from @WritersTyneEsk & @TippermuirBooks 👍
Debut author uses granddad's history in a travelling family as inspiration for novel
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RT @BrokenBarnet: Fascinating item on tonight's #diggingforbritain on an investigation of a Romany 'rehabilitation' site in the New Forest:…
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RT @romanistanpod: On February 6, Roma Words, Roma Worlds book group will discuss Salvage by Mark Baillie @mbaillie, a novel that shines a…
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Some of my favourite scenes are in the first few chapters. I hope readers enjoy getting to know Emma, Nash, and Spence as I did writing them #booktwt
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RT @shado_mag: “It was an act of cultural genocide and an act for which the Scottish government is yet to apologise.” @chelsmacdonn’s lat…
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Forgot how good this film is - the music, the script, the acting- especially Richard Pryor - amazing
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