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Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?)
#EarlyModern ποΈ
Handwritten lines, one of which is underlined in red.
Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?)
#EarlyModern ποΈ
The Blue Vanguard is a monthly jazz club dedicated to bringing the finest national and international guests to our home town of Exeter. The club has run successfully since September 2011 and has a loyal following.
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27th March 2025
π 19:30pm
π www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
#exeter#jazz #music
New project funded with Β£1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3
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I'm trying to decide which is funnier:
β’ System of a County Down
β’ The Blarney Stone Roses
My poetry collection about teaching/education as English teacher and examiner over 40 years. Joys and despairs as poignant then as now, latter probably more for so many these days. An eclectic poetry mix, available at Wrecking Ball Press.
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Naughty Japanese Badgers - Artemis Storytelling double bill
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4th April 2025
π 7:30PM
π www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre
"Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell
#exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling
Thoroughly enjoyed watching @CountessLuann @swxbristol last night
Sheβs camp, sheβs loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative
An extraordinary presence
And donβt forget her great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...
If you're near #Bristol , come and join me this afternoon, to watch this great show swxbristol.com/events/count...
which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!
Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubelβs new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
18.02.2025 20:07 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Everyone knows it was originally 'a norange' and 'a nuncle', but did you also know that it was originally 'a ninkjet printer'?
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
New podcast now out, on the largest successful POW escape of the Second World War - the Great Epinal Escape.
You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts.
'Well that aged well'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...
This should be fascinating...
Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...
This is gonna be brilliant!
Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course
'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...
A Friend read this poem at our #Quaker Meeting for Worship at Exeter University yesterday.
Spot on, in my opinion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...
ITV1, 9pm: 'Ayres & Graces'. This week our intrepid trio of Pam Ayres, Grace Jones & Grace Slick go down the Colorado River in a canoe
06.02.2025 14:35 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0A print journalist had once asked me if there were enough English translators of Indian language literature. I had told her the real question ought to be whether there were enough resources for existing translators. They didn't publish that interview π
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Here's the spotify link
open.spotify.com/episode/0119...
New podcast (1 of 2) has just gone live on youtube and spotify and elsewhere.
Hosted by Erlend Hedegart
Please check it out and do give me your feedback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...
You're most welcome, Laura! It's a great space, at the heart of the university of Exeter. Do come and visit
03.02.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Ash
03.02.2025 13:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0PERSON OF THE DAY. 3 February 1924. Leading historian Edward Palmer (βEPβ) Thompson was born in Oxford. Heβs best known for his seminal historical work on British radical movements, in the early 19th century, most notably, his landmark book The Making of the English Working Class.
03.02.2025 10:42 β π 25 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0Rave on!
03.02.2025 10:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A good friend found these pages in a book in a street market in Chinatown in Singapore Can anyone identify what they might be, and indeed the language?
03.02.2025 10:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0See our latest book review by Dominic Alessio on Krishan Kumar's Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (2021): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else.
Constantly reevaluating and learning.