Time for a THREAD👇: amazing Scottish women who had disabilities. Let's start with this lass, brilliant analytical chemist Christina Miller: deaf & blind in 1 eye. In the 1st 5 women fellows @news_RSE & an inspirational teacher. This building 👇 is named after her. Trailblazer /1 
'Warrior in a wheelchair' Dr Margaret Blackwood MBE set up the Disability Income Group Scotland and founded a housing association to provide homes designed for disabled people (now @blackwood_HC). Legend. /2
Nurse Angela Booth Dobbie founded @ArtlinkEdin to help disabled people access the arts. She was also a daredevil who didn't let her disability hold her back from paragliding. She said 'I like to feel the wind on my face'. Some quine. /3
We mustn't forget that some accused witches were disabled & vulnerable. Janet Horne was the last to be executed as a witch in 1727. She probs had dementia. Her daughter's hands & feet were deformed - she was also charged. The daughter escaped but Janet was killed. /4
Orcadian Hettie Scott had no hands & was unable to walk. She could write paint, knit & crochet using her feet & drank tea holding a saucer with her left foot & the cup in her right. Her autobiography 'Brightening Her Corner' is inspirational. /5
From Aberdalgie Christian Gray known as the 'blind poet' worked in Scots and English. She wrote feisty and beautiful poems including some about her blindness, which she lost when she had smallpox. /6
Harris lass, Murdina Macdermid was a community activist and Disabled Scot of the Year 1987. She ran the Harris Disabled Group shop and was key to the creation of this tapestry project 👇 that depicts 1000 years of Harris history. Great legacy. /7
Tx for reading my thread of inspirational Scottish lasses. A while ago I asked which theme you'd be most interested in & this one came top. Our foremothers are endlessly resourceful & our history is full of their untold stories. So yes, I wrote a book 👇shop.historicenvironment.scot/where-are-the-…
Pls feel free to add more fab Scottish quines to this thread cos all stories welcome here. Have a fab Sunday & I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this. Covid, writing next year's books & just life conspired to slow me down but our grannies remain amazing. Here's to them. /9
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