An essay on murals and public art. Please let me know your comments. 'Life in a Boarding House,' (1930) by Eric Ravilious,' for Morley College, London was destroyed in WW2. richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/mural…

Ruby Cowling is one of Yorkshire's most talented authors. Published, like Malachi Whitaker, by @bhousepress.bsky.social

Nice little precis of the life of 'Marjorie "Malachi" Whitaker' in the newly-released "Book of Bradford" (Comma Press; 2025). But since when has Orwell been known as Eric "George Orwell" Blair?

Malachi Whitaker's 1929 story "Smoke of the Tide" is included in "The Book of Bradford" alongside contemporary short fictions by Sairish Hussain, Ross Raisin, etc (2025; Comma Press). Malachi's wonderful story is about a night-time "tide" (fair), Bradford & class mobility

"I will show you what a woman can do." Artemesia Gentileschi

Italy’s great forgotten artist is getting her dues 400 years on Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right by Julia Buckley for The Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Malachi Whitaker always did love travelling by train so it seemed appropriate to take the new edition of her witty 1939 memoir "And So Did I" on a bit of a cross-European jaunt. @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social

Elleke Boehmer and Gerri Kimber after their brilliant discussion of Gerri's new book, "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life," last week at Waterstones, Hampstead, London. Still thinking about it! A great evening! @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

Self-Portrait, c. 1556, by #SofonisbaAnguissola (Italian, about 1532–1625), who died #otd, Nov 16 -- 400 years ago. Held at the @mfaboston.bsky.social, collections.mfa.org/objects/3365... #artherstory #womenartists

Karina Jakubowicz & Gerri Kimber discussing Gerri's new book: "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life" at Waterstones, Hampstead. The book reveals new research, with academic John Wood, on Mansfield's love affair with "New Age" editor AR Orage @litcamb.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Sitting pretty. Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", among classics including Tara Westover's "Educated" and Charlene White's "No Place Like Home". @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds, Albion Street. @bhousepress.bsky.social @neglectedbooks.com

Jane Austen. Jan Morris. Malachi Whitaker. Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I" in great company under "Biography" at Leeds Waterstones on Albion Street. @waterstones.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social

Still no copies of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, "And So Did I" on the dedicated stand at Waterstones in her home city of Bradford. On order apparently. Waiting patiently (with fingers crossed!) @bhousepress.bsky.social

This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal. Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo... Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...

‪It's done! Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night. What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience. Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery (Valerie Waterhouse)

So looking forward to this forthcoming book! Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Latest sighting of Malachi Whitaker's brilliant 1939 memoir, 'And So Did', at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. (With a "Signed by the Author" label by her "ghostwriter", obviously!) 😜 @bhousepress.bsky.social

"An undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching." @andrewcrowther.bsky.social on Malachi Whitaker's fast, fun but never frothy 1939 memoir "And So Did I". Out now from @bhousepress.bsky.social

A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.

Thank you @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social for the generous comment on my Afterword for Malachi Whitaker's fast n funny "And So Did I" @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie)

I became a Whitaker fan thanks to Valerie Waterhouse - fitting to enjoy this with her brilliant afterward! “Malachi’s 1939 memoir is more tightly controlled…. ‘What is the use of life?’ when uncertainty is all around, she asks, supplying the book’s unifying theme.” @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social

Katherine Mansfield died from TB #OTD in 1923, in a clinic outside Paris. She was 34. Three months earlier, she had written this in her journal: 'Warm, eager, living life – to be rooted in life – to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want.'

Katherine Mansfield died #otd 9th January 1923 aged just thirty-four. Brilliant short story writer. I adore her.

Last chance to sign up for the FREE Online Book Launch of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'. With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse. TONIGHT, 14/10. 7pm UK, 8pm CET Link below

Signing copies of my Afterword in Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir 'And So Did I' yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social with Malachi's daughter Val Tordoff. Reprinted for the first time in 38 years by Recovered Books, Boiler House Press, University of East Anglia @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie)

Thanks to the 90+ people who came to the launch event for Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir, And So Did I @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social reprinted after 38 years by @bhousepress.bsky.social Thanks for the great questions & for buying so many copies of our Malachi's marvellous book!

Two days at BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Reading, working with wonderful archivists to go through Malachi's contributions to The Listener in 1930s and 40s; and hunting for BBC Radio 4 scripts. BBC aired 50+ broadcasts of Malachi's stories but sadly, all correspondence seems to be lost.

Opening March 2026, our new family exhibition will explore the enchanting world of fairy tales! ✨ 🏰 Read more about what 2026 has in store: bit.ly/BL-Exhibitio...

Wise words from EM Forster Postcard @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Rocks at Night (1939) by Paul Klee

The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.

Thrilling to see that in Italy, Malachi Whitaker's 'And So Did I' is available for online orders & delivery from La Feltrinelli Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...

"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention." Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Back in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance. And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have. (One reason to be cheerful today.)

Me trying to talk about neglected books with pretty much any man in real life. "So, it's been out of print for how long?" "Decades." "Must not have been any good. [Pause.] D'you ever read Tom Clancy? He's good. The Missiles of October. Great book. You should read that."

"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention." Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Final review of the month on the Ramblings today, and it's another marvellous reissue from @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social "AndSo Did I" by #malachiwhitaker with a foreword by Catherine Taylor - a wonderful read!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

“And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social

We have LIFT OFF!!! Bradford author Malachi Whitaker's 1939 light dark n witty 1939 memoir is relaunched by @bhousepress.bsky.social for the first time since the 1980s. @bradford2025.co.uk @bradfordtanda.bsky.social @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social With a big thanks to @neglectedbooks.com

Still a few spaces left for Malachi Whitaker workshop/lecture with @litcamb.bsky.social on 25/10. Celebrating 130 years of Malachi Whitaker and Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 @bradford2025.co.uk

"Life has been perfect in parts, and..I am and always shall be grateful and glad that I was ever born." Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939. Republished #OTD by @bhousepress after an absence of 38 years

Available tomorrow, 30 September, from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press: @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social's unique memoir, And So Did I, recovered with the help of @neglectedbooks.com, Valerie Waterhouse, and Catherine Taylor.

"I am one of the teeming millions who do not want either Fascism or Communism. We will be neither led nor driven because we..don't want to have our thoughts broken into & rifled. But we are here as the grass is here" M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 2 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Live online course on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, with Lisa Mullen, Cambridge. • Keep the Aspidistra Flying • Homage to Catalonia • Coming up for Air • Animal Farm • Nineteen Eighty-Four Tuesdays, 18 November to 16 December 2025. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/orwell-2025 #orwell

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker Guest Post: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/whitaker On Malachi Whitaker's remarkable 1939 memoir, And So Did I. @litcamb.bsky.social New edition out 30 Sept. From @bhousepress.bsky.social

130 years old today and she's got a book coming out next week! How does Malachi Whitaker do it? Whitaker's funny, moving, ironic memoir, And So Did I, is available now from @bhousepress.bsky.social and @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

"I am one of the teeming millions who do not want either Fascism or Communism. We will be neither led nor driven because we..don't want to have our thoughts broken into & rifled. But we are here as the grass is here" M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 2 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

"We can live in several kinds of confusion..& I am like the child in the fairy tale, & will still cry out that the king has no clothes on." Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 3 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

I like Everybody's Weekly..Surely there are times when most of us want to read some straightforward thrilling fact such as 'Only Had PenKnife but fought Man-Eating Tiger' or 'He Exhibited a Red Nose at the Flower Show' M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 4 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social