Melvyn Bragg bids his farewell.

It’s lovely to see that Songs of Seven Dials is one of the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk recommended Christmas gifts. Thank you for the kind words (in the alt-text): they have got me in the festive spirit now. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/... #London #history #20s30s

It's an honour to have written a foreword for a new edition of perhaps my favourite novel (or is it a novella?), A Month In The Country by JL Carr. It's published by Quince Tree Press, now run by the Carr family. Do investigate their other wonderful wares. www.quincetreepress.co.uk

Have a publication date for my new book, FIVE EVIL WOMEN; 1 March! Why do certain women become icons of evil? Explores Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karla Homolka and Karla Faye Tucker. Spread the news please because I need publicity 😅 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/five-ev...

Farewell, Martin Parr. Hebden Bridge O.G. His 1975 photograph of Lord Savile’s gamekeepers is unbeatable.

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Amazing launch event for This is Slavery - by @rickardsisters.com at Queen's Mill in Burnley. A real celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...

Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery! It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control. It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive? In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Book your place! 🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥 Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks RickardSisters.com/trouble

Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory

One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today #Heptonstall

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Chelsea pensioners evacuated to the West Country enjoying a cuppa with the VADs. #WW2

#Banksy retains its power at the RCJ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.

I know, I know but still: Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers Nearly 20 years an Indie.

Martin Parr’s photos - a series of memory cues. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Bank Holiday ahead! Artist: Martin Aitchison (We Like to Help, 1965)

Some Barbara Hepworth for your Monday morning (and for your pocketbook, since the Hepworth Wakefield is fundraising to keep it in the UK: link at bottom of article). 📜🎨

An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the 'biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many thanks to all the wonderful booksellers at The Bookcase in Hebden. @nybooks.com

Meta holiday reading #amreading

Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship 3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits www.lse.ac.uk/library/what... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social‬

Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages

Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral

Fantastic card index at #Chestermuseum

Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.

It’s cover reveal time! Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social

Good (including good for historians) to see that the census looks to be retained in England and Wales for 2031.

'Mrs. Meredith's life can be looked upon, of course, as an episode in the lives of Meredith or Peacock, but it cannot have seemed that way to her.' - Diane Johnson

Cow parsley heaven.

So amazing to see a review of my book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy in the Fortean Times! Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!

Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Mary Shelley's grave. Buried with her husband Percy's heart.

A tribute to the power of peaceful protest. This statue of the late Brian Haw, is sited just outside the House of Common's one mile exclusion zone.

Celebrating #bees at the British Library

On 5 June 2020, anti-racism protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Where is it now? Eleanor Callaghan examines how local authorities and museum curators in Bristol turned the controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history. www.historyworkshop....

Portrait of a marriage in home furnishings. Commissioned designer Koloman Moser in 1902, wedding in 1903, home interior magazine article in 1904, split up in 1906.

A chance to spend a Saturday morning in the company of the amazing Sammy Weaver at Heptonstall Museum heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/event/ink-ta...

Delighted to share details of the forthcoming TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul for BBC and RTE. Have visited the set – a wonderful cast and crew. Thanks to Subotica, BBC, RTE and everyone involved. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/05/leon...

Law libraries and a Maynard link (not related). Good to see digitised archival access paying such dividends. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve

This time last year, Tate Britain acquired its first painting by Manchester-born Louise Jopling, pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century. - @donnalferguson.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A heady brew of birdsong up on the tops this morning.