Linda Maynard
@lindamaynard.bsky.social
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Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
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Rose Ruane
25 days ago
Who could resist this Jill McDonald vampire puffin? Not me, anyway
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Another day, another library.
26 days ago
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Caught this frivolous little beauty at Knaresborough earlier - a C17th silk purse.
27 days ago
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Very touched to have been sent these wonderful photos of the Brothers in Arms memorial commemorating all brothers and sisters who died during the First World War.
about 1 month ago
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Dr Bea Stitches
about 1 month ago
Today I saw the Cromwell Textile Cloth - a representation of a list of textiles in Thomas Cromwell’s hand - hanging properly for the first time. In 22 years of quilting, I have made precisely two pieces I am completely happy with. This is one of them.
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Dr Bea Stitches
about 1 month ago
Having a good time at The Hive
@worcesteruni.bsky.social
with Stitching Cromwell.
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Stitching Cromwell in Worcester
I am writing this piece from The Hive in Worcester, where I am supposed to be stitching for the week, alongside my Stitching Cromwell exhibition.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thethreadofhertale/p/stitching-cromwell-in-worcester?r=7ee00&utm_medium=ios
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Caitríona Beaumont
about 1 month ago
📢 New book alert 📢 via
@manchesterup.bsky.social
. New insights into
#womenshistory
#Irishhistory
via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social
.
@whaireland.bsky.social
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Joanna Bourke
about 1 month ago
My new book is out today! Aways a nervous thing..... FIVE EVIL WOMEN: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. First interview:
newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-wo...
Really enjoyed talking to the amazing Miranda Melcher about evil & femininity.
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-women
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You wait for one sign of Spring and three come along at once. Curlews, lapwings and now fog spawn.
about 1 month ago
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Each year, around this time, we strain to hear our first curlew of spring. This afternoon, during a lull in the rain, it finally came. In the words of W.S. Graham, we are 'under the curlew's loveweep.'
about 2 months ago
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Adrian Monck
3 months ago
Melvyn Bragg bids his farewell.
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Matt Houlbrook
4 months ago
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
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Benjamin Myers
4 months ago
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
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Joanna Bourke
4 months ago
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...
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Adelle Stripe
4 months ago
Farewell, Martin Parr. Hebden Bridge O.G. His 1975 photograph of Lord Savile’s gamekeepers is unbeatable.
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
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Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/07/landmark-british-photographer-martin-parr-dies-aged-73?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Dr Fern Riddell
4 months ago
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...
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Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/golden-hare-kit-williams-masquerade-auction-b2872047.html
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Amazing launch event for This is Slavery - by
@rickardsisters.com
at Queen's Mill in Burnley. A real celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
5 months ago
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To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
YouTube video by ReutersLC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBODHFBZ8k
6 months ago
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Rickard Sisters
6 months ago
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
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Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.
6 months ago
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History Workshop
6 months ago
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 🗃️🎙️
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Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/changing-the-record/
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Rickard Sisters
7 months ago
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
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Microfilm Monday
#archives
#localhistory
7 months ago
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One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today
#Heptonstall
7 months ago
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Bluemoose Books
7 months ago
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
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Chelsea pensioners evacuated to the West Country enjoying a cuppa with the VADs.
#WW2
7 months ago
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#Banksy
retains its power at the RCJ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Banksy 'judge' mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall
The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2z30p033ro
7 months ago
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One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.
7 months ago
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Bluemoose Books
7 months ago
I know, I know but still: Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers Nearly 20 years an Indie.
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Martin Parr’s photos - a series of memory cues.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘There’s something very interesting about boring’: Martin Parr on his life in pictures
From Benidorm sunbathers to British birdwatchers, for nearly 70 years the photographer has captured the magic of the mundane. As he publishes his life in pictures, he recalls what drew him to his s...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/aug/24/theres-something-very-interesting-about-boring-martin-parr-on-his-life-in-pictures
8 months ago
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Helen Day
8 months ago
Bank Holiday ahead! Artist: Martin Aitchison (We Like to Help, 1965)
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Christina Riggs
8 months ago
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). 📜🎨
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The campaign to save a very British sculpture | The Observer
A unique Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by the tension of wartime London and the comfort of the Cornish coast could soon leave the country. But a pu...
https://observer.co.uk/culture/art/article/the-campaign-to-save-a-very-british-sculpture
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Brian Groom
8 months ago
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...
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Vintage postcard fair coming to Bishop Burton College
Organisers claim the event at Bishop Burton is the largest of its kind in the north of England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99mpnr892ro
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Bluemoose Books
8 months ago
Many thanks to all the wonderful booksellers at The Bookcase in Hebden.
@nybooks.com
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Meta holiday reading
#amreading
8 months ago
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Heather Dawson
8 months ago
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
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LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/lse-library-fellowships
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North East Bylines
8 months ago
Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages
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Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Durham Brass festival
Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/region/county-durham/poet-laureate-simon-armitage-at-the-durham-brass-festival/
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Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral
9 months ago
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Fantastic card index at
#Chestermuseum
9 months ago
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Brian Groom
9 months ago
Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano.
#WomensArt
#NorthernArt
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Jenny Harper
11 months ago
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.
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CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously publi...
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/cbcp-workshop-re-vision-on-re-publishing-re-design-1-july-2025/
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Rickard Sisters
11 months ago
It’s cover reveal time! Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from
@SelfMadeHero.bsky.social
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Margot Finn
10 months ago
Good (including good for historians) to see that the census looks to be retained in England and Wales for 2031.
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UK should hold traditional census in 2031, statistics authority says
Plans had been mooted to scale back once-a-decade household survey
https://www.ft.com/content/7d429dbc-5939-4706-96c4-175cac7953f7
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'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
10 months ago
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Cow parsley heaven.
10 months ago
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Hannah Priest
10 months ago
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!
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Brian Groom
10 months ago
Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’
Kevin Duffy was an eccentric who sculpted everything from a mini pub to a lion’s den to a Tudor village. But after his death, the future of this outsider artist’s work is in doubt
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/10/chicken-wire-mr-darcy-wigans-gaudi-kevin-duffy
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Mary Shelley's grave. Buried with her husband Percy's heart.
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago
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