Joanne Knowles

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going.
Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thank you.

Ah, in our day...! 😃

Happened to be in #Birmingham today ahead of my #VPFAExtremes visit: Victorian culture fans, make time to visit the fabulous Museum & Art Gallery just off Victoria Square. Plus, what a great venue in the B&M Institute! Can't wait for Monday @vpfa.bsky.social

Me too (confused that is). I do like the sea front. Haven't seen all the sculptures though of course have posed with Eric.

Went once between Christmas and New Year and the owner was giving sherry and mince pies out. He's a 🌟

The Pier! I love it. Proper old school.

Saw Hamlet Hail to the Thief at Factory International / Aviva Studios today and was really impressed. Great version, streamlined with brilliant staging and compelling darkness & energy. Go and see it if you can. Still some tickets coming up on Twickets. #HamletHailtotheThief

A black and white drawing of a donkey pulling a cart and being offered some hay by children

For #WorldDonkeyDay here's a hard-working donkey enjoying kindness from children, in an image from one of the 19th century periodicals held in LJMU Special Collections @ljmu-sca.bsky.social #archives

labour party (uk) looking at the c.240k people who work for universities, “nah we will never need those votes”

It's also got a special mention in my latest (also blue, sigh) passport, having not been worthy of note before. Maybe we're now regarded as potentially dangerous 🤔

So here's what's cool about my job:

Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Time to get everyone out to the park and running around! You can observe 😎

We are hiring 2 x Postdocs to work on our AHRC project 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible' app by:20/01/25 Details below ⬇️

1) PDRA-Archives
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#archivejobs #specialcollections #womenshistory #womeninfilm
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As an entertainer, Truss is the gift that keeps on giving 🤣

Liz Truss’s lawyers have written to Keir Starmer, possibly in green ink www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Some good news: the stupid idea of destroying historic wills has been entirely rejected.

#Archives #History 🗃️

imho Grimshaw has done a really good job & I’m v pleased Laverne, a superb broadcaster, will remain

But not leaving BBC6music. Excellent news. Relieved & happy that Lauren Laverne is returning (on mid mornings).Have enjoyed Nick Grimshaw on breakfast & pleased he's continuing. Any space for some more Deb Grant too? #6music

Cheap history books klaxon! On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe is available for just 99p on Kindle all this month. I’m sorry for the self-promotion, but so glad that these important and marginalised histories are being made easily accessible to wide audience. 🗃️

Oh would you look at that? So the Tories didn’t want to pay the compensation, so continued to kick the can down the road and are now expressing moral indignation on the same issue to have a political swipe at a new government. Beneath contempt.

The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan From 2006 to 2009, Bob Dylan hosted the Theme Time Radio Hour on Sirius Satellite Radio.

The Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions Read by Bob Dylan

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

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Knew they wouldn't let us down

Knew they wouldn't let us down ❤️ #GavinAndStacey

The demise of Christmas train services since 1948 This article was originally published in the 27 December 2023 edition of RAIL magazine. In December 1950 children on British Railway’s (BR) long-distance trains got a surprise – Santa Claus arrived…

I have produced some written #Christmas content: The demise of Christmas train services since 1948.

In the post, I plot the decline of British Christmas Day and Boxing Day services since 1948 and explore the factors that shaped this process.

davidturnerrailway.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/t...

And I can't build myself a throne of skulls if I'm not allowed to commit murder and/or grave robbing. We all live with disappointment, you aren't special

Looks beautiful! I 😍 bleak dramatic winter scenes.

While the UK government considers upending the law to allow AI companies to train on people’s creative work without a license, our statement opposing unlicensed training just hit 38,000 signatures.

Still open ➡️ aitrainingstatement.org