I teach this every year on my 'northern history' module. My students often struggle with poetry, but once we've read it a few times, and watched him reading, they get it and enjoy. The first writing I ever read on being 'educated out of your class.' RIP, genius man.
27.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#20s30s
04.09.2025 07:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Utterly gorgeous snapshot of everyday #20s30s.
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A pika sits on a mossy rock.
Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.
An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.
An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
28.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 43139 🔁 10743 💬 641 📌 445
All must have prizes (except Iain Dale)
I don’t intend to get excessively pearl-clutchy over the language, but LBC’s Iain Dale calling Portsmouth VC Graham Galbraith a “twat” wasn’t on my bingo card for today.
'With a relatively fixed pool of applicants and a relatively fixed distribution of A-level points, if “top” universities are expanding their intake, they’re inevitably either reducing the attainment of those they admit, or redistributing market share at smaller institutions’ expense, or both.' 1/3
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A closed group -- and a self-selected group!
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Transnational Working-Class Literatures
This book addresses an urgent need for a study which brings together the national, transnational and international dimensions of working-class literatures.
Please forgive the shameless self-publicity, but a collection of essays on transnational working-class literature which I helped to co-edit (and also contributed to) has been published today! See the link below for details & ask your library to order a copy!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaborating, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Author, 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member @WomenWritersNet. Lit Dir, Hampstead Arts Fest. Querying #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy. Women's history nerd.
English prof at King's / Dalhousie (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
Words | history | sounds. Author, editor, archivist. Autistic. Latchy student of Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Kreyòl & stringed instruments. Book: Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846. Researching revolutionary slogans. North Pembrokeshire. www.bulldozia.com
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Nottingham Forest is an English football club based in Nottingham, founded in 1865. They play at the City Ground and have won multiple domestic and European titles, including back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980.
Red Duchess, my biog of the Duchess of Atholl MP, OUT NOW from The History Press. Freelance public affairs, small person wrangling, incurable reader, always trying to write. Also on IG.
Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive
contentedly retired academic (economics)
diatonic accordion fumbler (https://www.youtube.com/@ekhezlaik/videos)
shelfloads of #vinyl - not a collector though, just old.
#COYI btw
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Putting class back on the agenda. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning On Gallows Down. Ghosts of the Farm coming 30/11!
Climate Fic Prize Judge.
North Wessex Downs.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
Britain’s walking charity, opening the way for everyone to enjoy the simple pleasures of walking & fighting for the places we love to wander.
ramblers.org.uk
Working class feminist academic. Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside.
