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

There is one part of me which..wants to be a good cook..My mind would be intent on flavours & sauces, I should have..a quantity of fat friends. No..I will not make cooking my reason for being on earth Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 5 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

On Frida Strindberg's Marriage with Genius, 1937: "How can we, how dare we try to present another person, when it is an impossibility even to present ourselves?" Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 6 days to publication: @bhousepress.bsky.social

"My birthday is on the first official day of autumn..42 is 42..It is certainly better..than being half that because my 21st birthday fell in the middle of the war, the horror of which never leaves me." Born #OTD Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939. 7 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Malachi Whitaker! Born #OTD 130 years ago. 🎈 🎈 🎈 Let the 130th Birthday Celebrations commence! Still a few FREE tickets left for online launch of Malachi's 1939 memoir And So Did I on 14/10 @bhousepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Woman with geese, Lake District, photo by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Arts).

Bill Brayshaw, a former policeman, found fame as the dozing art gallery attendant after Harry Rutherford's portrait of him was used as the front cover of the magazine 'John Bull' in 1947. Walter Sickert later said Rutherford was his 'intellectual heir and executor.'

On P.D. Ouspensky's New Model of the Universe, 1931 "He tells you what the Fourth Dimension is. He says it is the Fourth Dimension. In forty-five pages. He is a clever man, but no nearer to heaven than I am." And So Did I, 1939, Malachi Whitaker 8 days to publication day @bhousepress.bsky.social

On Noel Coward's 1937 memoir, Present Indicative: "The impression he gives is one of a human being just functioning. You can wait for the heights. You can wait for the depths. Yes, you can wait." Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 9 days to publication: @bhousepress.bsky.social

"It is amazing who knows who if you track things to their source. Just think, my father’s cousin’s wife’s sister was nurse to the late T.E. Lawrence. This is the only connection I have with the higher life." Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 10 days to publication: @bhousepress.bsky.social

"It is amazing who knows who if you track things to their source. Just think, my father’s cousin’s wife’s sister was nurse to the late T.E. Lawrence. This is the only connection I have with the higher life." Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939 10 days to publication: @bhousepress.bsky.social

Getting a bit boastie round 'ere but here goes ... "Malachi in the News". A reel Thanks @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie) www.instagram.com/reel/DOvjhAc...

I love Literature Cambridge courses and lectures & have been on a few over the past 5 years. Although I haven’t been able to do as much as I would like this past year, I’m super excited to be attending the first of the Virginia Woolf season & hopefully do many more. Highly recommended 📚

Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.

Getting a bit boastie round 'ere but here goes ... "Malachi in the News". A reel Thanks @bhousepress.bsky.social (Valerie) www.instagram.com/reel/DOvjhAc...

'Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath' open.substack.com/pub/gabriell... @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social

Our next virtual launch from the Recovered Books series at @bhousepress.bsky.social will be for Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse. Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

"Transposed into art, the house, somewhere in Yorkshire, exists for ever, & the children, servants, relatives, friends, neighbours, exist forever too." Elizabeth Bowen Join @bhousepress.bsky.social for the online book launch of Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir And So Did I FREE tickets at link below

"Transposed into art, the house, somewhere in Yorkshire, exists for ever, & the children, servants, relatives, friends, neighbours, exist forever too." Elizabeth Bowen Join @bhousepress.bsky.social for the online book launch of Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir And So Did I FREE tickets at link below

Perhaps some members of the @moderniststudies.bsky.social will be interested in this new edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. It's the most accurate version of Richardson's first edition texts, at least until the Oxford Edition project is completed.

Our next virtual launch from the Recovered Books series at @bhousepress.bsky.social will be for Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, And So Did I, on Tuesday, 14 October, at 7PM BST. Our special guests will be Catherine Taylor and Valerie Waterhouse. Register on Eventbrite:

'Valley of the Somme,' was painted by Albert Fullwood in 1918 and is reminiscent of his landscapes of New South Wales. He was later to write: 'It is a strange thing, but all that country along the Somme reminded me very much of Australia in its colouring.'

Well done all and especially Ed Hogan @ensfr.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE Join Boiler House Press for the FREE online launch of Malachi Whitaker's light, dark & witty 1939 memoir, And So Did I. 14/10/25. 7pm BST. 8pm CEST. 2pm EDT. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... @bhousepress.bsky.social

Another classic from the Bradford-origin firm about Arts & Crafts critic Sir Lawrence Weaver

Malachi Whitaker Event at Ilkley Lit Fest is now SOLD OUT. (Look out for Returns!) Loving the ❤️ for our Malachi! www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/40-va...

Here it is, the final edition of History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine. It has been a privilege to share these stories, and I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to every reader and supporter who has joined me on this journey. As always, the magazine is available at this link 1/3 payhip.com/b/RXVYk

Short stories by another brilliant Bradford writer. Back in stock! @rubycowling.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE Join Boiler House Press for the FREE online launch of Malachi Whitaker's light, dark & witty 1939 memoir, And So Did I. 14/10/25. 7pm BST. 8pm CEST. 2pm EDT. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... @bhousepress.bsky.social