Alison Twells

Please forgive the self-promotion, but this book has been many years in the making and is published today by OpenBook Publishers: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below

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Tony Harrison's 'Study' Don Paterson on the best room

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‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. In our latest blog Isabelle Carter reflects on gender, housing and everyday life at Sheffield’s (in) famous Park Hill. Built in 1957 and still standing today, Park Hill remains one of Sheffie…

For World Habitat Day read ‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. womenshistorynetwork.org/a-womans-par...

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Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness

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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.

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#20s30s

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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.

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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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