Blue Poppy Publishing

Obviously this is also available on Amazon in the US
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLWSVVFM
The book includes a brief look at Henry Bagwell who became a planter in #Jamestown #Virginia story covered in detail in The Henry Bagwell Story, Secant Publishing 2021 by the same author www.amazon.com/Henry-Bagwel...

Merchants and Mayors: The Chappell Family in Tudor Exeter Merchants and Mayors: The Chappell Family in Tudor Exeter eBook : Rice, Margaret: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Just gone live on Amazon today, the Kindle version of Merchants and Mayors: The Chappell Family in Tudor Exeter.
amzn.to/45oRtxi (Affiliate link to UK Zon)
#History #Exeter #Devon #DevonUK #BookSky #Kindle #Tudors #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory
Sorry it took so long 🙂

Walter Henry We have the brilliant #clairebarker coming to the shop to do a wishstick workshop, reading and signing on Wednesday 27th August from 11am. Tickets are £1 to take part which will get you £1 off the...

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High time Walter Henry's had a Bsky account, but meanwhile...

Wow! I genuinely thought this must be a joke, but the story – see thread – is fascinating and even has a sort of moral.

A drawing of a deer lady in historical inspired clothing

Art

She is done look at her

These look great
Although, it's easy to get suckered in by fancy "designer" cheese at exorbitant prices when nothing really beats a good cave aged cheddar a slab of Stilton, and a nice warm brie.

Socialism is good

Dang, I should have known that. Been there plenty of times and always admired it. Took photos for DnD inspiration as well.

If someone says you must not have funt,
The chances are that person's a c***
Especially if he's old, rich, and orange,
And makes up words like covfefee or floringe.

I can't pretend it doesn't irk me that none of my titles ever makes these list.
What can I say? I am secretly self-centred and egotistical while maintaining a veneer of altruism. 😁

What glorious colours

You could say that about almost any STP book, but yep. I will take the recommendation.

Si.
Also oui.

I need to fill that gap in my education

I started learning it. I got good enough to get muddled up and ask for "very beers" in a French café, instead of three beers.
I could still just about cope in a restaurant in either language.

Do it.
Go on.
You know you want to

Fair

Should be so obvious.
At bare minimum, they could put the link in the #AltText
Actually, that is a good solution.

Assuming they paid for a professional editor.

This is why there should really be NO taboo words.
Not a hill I am willing to die on though. It's not worth the grief.

In my great-grandmother's memoir she talks about the whole family being at her father-in-law's bedside while he died. They sang hymns with him.

This is appalling.
People, human beings, should not be treated like this simply for being born in a different country. This obsession with stopping migration is inhuman. People have always moved around and should be free to continue doing so.

Oh, for sure. I think I would probably have failed abysmally, but then again, I come mainly from middle and upper class stock so I would be the one getting away with stuff.
My grandfather, as a youth, would break into empty houses and light open fires and cook food. Never got caught, lucky for him.

Whereas the wealthy could act brazenly and escape justice simply because it was excused as "high spirits" a "jolly jape gone wrong" or "all a big misunderstanding".
And if a poor person has to choose between stealing or starving then, both then and now, I think the real criminals are the rich.

Not so simple as it seems, to obey the law I mean.
Curious fact, "naughty" used to mean poor, because they had naught. But it changed meaning because poor people were "inately bad"; poverty was God's punishment for their wickedness.
So the slightest misdemeanour could result in arrest.

I've never thought of it in that way either. I have only ever used a sensitivity reader to ensure I don't inadvertently cause more harm than good to a marginalised community out of ignorance.
If a writer needs a filter to hide their bigotry I think they should get a different job.

Yep. It's a hell of a shame that people don't choose to read books marketed to children and young adults.
Some of them are gems.
Maurice is another example by Sir Terry
I have a few in my own catalogue too.

Just an observation. The poorest cannot possibly pay a higher proportion of income tax than anyone else since they pay none.
They (we, I am one of them) still pay VAT which probably makes up a fair whack of their total income, but that's not income tax. Poor choice of words

I can't think of anything, apart from the obvious boring self-promoting one of my own titles. But I am too polite to do that.