Amy Kenyon

Archive of a Rust Belt Girl The Wizard of Oz

First published for the film's 80th birthday. #filmhistory #archiving #rustbelt #WizardofOz

Shabana Mahmood is wrong Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.

Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Stop the attack on family reunion: Email the Home Secretary URGENT: The Government is cracking down on refugee families’ right to be together. As part of a major immigration shake-up, the Home Secretary plans to restrict the right to family life, protected und...

If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads.

Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>

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Postcard #30 November 11, 1918 / Armistice Soundwave

Postcard #30
A small curation for Remembrance Day. It's about the moment the guns fell silent, sound and memory, history, the Western Front, and Laurie Anderson's 'sound table' installation.

Amy Kenyon (@amyk) A new one. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.

See AmyKenyon.Substack.com for my latest post. xx

Postcard #29 Penny for the Guy: London, 1981

Postcard #29: Penny for the Guy / London 1981
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #BonfireNight

Wild child, ghosts, and a haunted house Two films for Halloween

Wild child, ghosts, and a haunted house #film #Halloween #AGhostStory #DavidLowery #MeetMeInStLouis

receptivity and photography Kaja Silverman’s work has long been a gift and I look forward to Volumes Two and Three of her History of Photography. Meanwhile, I am drawn repeatedly to Volume One: The Miracle of Analogy, which focu...

A new one - with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #photography

Postcard #13 1972: Ray Bradbury

#ThePumpkinTree #RayBradbury

October country “If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that’s long ago.

#October #RayBradbury

Walking away ...and time passes

A new post, about an old post, and about some things that happened. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx

Lost in the times of a photograph “It’s a really beautiful thing how lost we are, and we want to get even more lost sometimes.” (David Lynch)

Lost in the times of a photograph
#photography #memory #archiving

A Relic of Bygone Days I live out west in a place made by the Gold Rush. Call me Absalom Townsend, for instance. Think of me as Absalom, sepia-toned founder of a mining town called Rough and Ready.[1] Picture me as Absal…

A short story. Love gone sour, an old song, and the ghosts of '49ers. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.

The Erie Canal Song and a snowstorm long ago

A new one. #ErieCanal #Michigan history #BruceSpringsteen's birthday

Ghost stories Something to tell us, something that used to be

A new one... With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. XX

Moon River I can’t know what made Billie Eilish pick up this old song.

#MoonRiver #BillieEilish #ghosts
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.

Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!

No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres

I've just signed the @weownit.org.uk petition to say NO to private finance deals for Neighbourhood Health Centres. Will you join me?
Tell Wes Streeting - put patients first, don't put our NHS at the mercy of new PFI deals

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Fourth of July, 2025 I can't fathom the persistence of Trump.

With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.

Songbook: For All We Know For all we know, we may never meet again. So goes the 1934 song, a classic love song, at first glance.

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Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM Exclusive: Edi Rama attacks British return hubs scheme as looking for ‘places to dump immigrants’

“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful”

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I'm 70. Trans-inclusive. Feminist. Also a historian.

@sharifkouddous Health ministry has released an updated list of names, ages, DoB, ID number of 55,202 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza bet. Oct 7, 2023 & June 15, 2025. On 1st page, age starts at "less than 1 day" — by page 21 it's still at 11 months old. Total of 17,121 children's names. [screenshots of single-spaces lists of names] 5:05 AM • 6/23/25 • 5.7K Views

The Gaza Health Ministry has released an updated list of the more than 55k people *confirmed* to have been killed by Israel.

The first 21 pages are the names of dead babies.

More than 17k of those listed are children.

Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran Stop Trump Coalition

Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
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Summer Wine one from the archives, for the season...

One from the archives, for summer. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx

Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS! Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...

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Romancing the Archive The personal and the political

#archive #archiving #history #art

No Tyrants Day! London UK ?️ Saturday 14 June ⏰ 3pm - 5pm BST ?US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, SW11 7US, London, UK We don't put up with mad tyrants. NO TYRANTS is an international day of action and mass mobilization in...

No Tyrants, No Clowns

Join us at the US Embassy in London at 3pm on Sat, 14 June!

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