Linda Maynard

YouTube video by ReutersLC British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
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Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

Cover of the Book of Bogs featuring a moorland scene.

Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Event poster for TROUBLE AT MILL: The Radical World of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. The illustration is of a huge cotton mill on fire, with the townspeople watching. Launch of THIS SLAVERY graphic novel by the RICKARD SISTERS featuring THE COMMONERS' CHOIR JENNIFER REID • BURNLEY YOUTH THEATRE CLARION CHOIR • JULES GIBB • JENNY HARPER SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER ENGINE IN STEAM FROM 12 NOON • PERFORMANCES 1pm & 2•30pm QUEEN ST MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BBIO 2HF Tickets £ 12

Book your place!

🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥

Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks

RickardSisters.com/trouble

A draw full of small red and brown archive boxes containing microfilms.

Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory

One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today #Heptonstall

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Two uniformed VADs with a tea trolley surrounded by Chelsea pensioners wearing their caps.

Chelsea pensioners evacuated to the West Country enjoying a cuppa with the VADs. #WW2

Banksy 'judge' mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

#Banksy retains its power at the RCJ
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One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.

I know, I know but still:

Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers

Nearly 20 years an Indie.

‘There’s something very interesting about boring’: Martin Parr on his life in pictures From Benidorm sunbathers​ to British birdwatchers​,​ for nearly 70 years the photographer has captured the magic of the mundane. As he publishes his life in pictures, he recalls what drew him to his s...

Martin Parr’s photos - a series of memory cues.

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A family with at least three children drive the car over the brow of a hill, revealing a small bay in the sunshine. The children, not wearing seatbelts, lean excititedly out of the window to get a better view

Bank Holiday ahead!

Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)

The campaign to save a very British sculpture | The Observer A unique Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by the tension of wartime London and the comfort of the Cornish coast could soon leave the country. But a pu...

Some Barbara Hepworth for your Monday morning (and for your pocketbook, since the Hepworth Wakefield is fundraising to keep it in the UK: link at bottom of article). 📜🎨

Vintage postcard fair coming to Bishop Burton College Organisers claim the event at Bishop Burton is the largest of its kind in the north of England.

An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the 'biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many thanks to all the wonderful booksellers at The Bookcase in Hebden.

@nybooks.com

Meta holiday reading #amreading

LSE Library Fellowships Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social‬

Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Durham Brass festival Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages

Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages

Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral

Fantastic card index at #Chestermuseum

Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously publi...

Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

It’s cover reveal time!

Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social

UK should hold traditional census in 2031, statistics authority says Plans had been mooted to scale back once-a-decade household survey

Good (including good for historians) to see that the census looks to be retained in England and Wales for 2031.

'Mrs. Meredith's life can be looked upon, of course, as an episode in the lives of Meredith or Peacock, but it cannot have seemed that way to her.' - Diane Johnson

Cow parsley heaven.

The cover of Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy by Hannah Priest, next to a quote from the Fortean Times reading: "In Unburied, Hannah Priest seeks to uncover the truth behind Beswick's story and in doing so contributes to histories of the body, museums, and death and dying... the reader is encouraged to ponder the human experiences of historical actors, the temporality of burial, and quite why stories like Beswick's continue to fascinate us in the modern day."

So amazing to see a review of my book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy in the Fortean Times!

Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!

Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’ Kevin Duffy was an eccentric who sculpted everything from a mini pub to a lion’s den to a Tudor village. But after his death, the future of this outsider artist’s work is in doubt

Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...