@angerj.bsky.social
Have mostly been a bookseller so you'll see some booky stuff here. Also trained in horticulture. Now doing art among other things. UK
Crow landing. #draw #mentalhealthmatters 5x7”
21.02.2026 01:56 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Monochrome photograph featuring a Black woman crouching in the corner of an interior wearing boots, jeans and a t-shirt looking outwards half smiling
Tracy Chapman (b.1964), award winning US singer-songwriter #WomensArt
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#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9263...
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A square collage of nine different Holloway paths in different seasons
Holloway or sunken paths around #Dartmoor, I recently ordered some greetings cards of this collage, arriving tomorrow.
These paths are Lettaford, path near Huckworthy, Footpath near Tavistock, Lydford and track near Middlemoor, Whitchurch Down.
#Devon #photography
#Leicester people. It's a good read.
20.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At this stage, Avian Flu hasn’t been ruled out. If you see a dead seabird, please don’t touch it or move it. ⚠️
Report it to Defra (or Daera in NI) and log it on BirdTrack via the BTO website.
BTO: www.bto.org/get-involved...
DEFRA: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
Every report helps build a picture.
Faber is looking for a confident and creative campaigns marketer to help build our Children’s list. You will have a brilliant understanding of the Children’s market from ages 2 – 18, through picture books up to Young Adult fiction.
faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-marketing-manager
NEW: Margaret Bondfield was the first woman to serve in the UK Cabinet. So why is she almost forgotten?
On the latest episode of Parliament Matters, we are joined by @nansloane.bsky.social to discuss her new biography of this pioneering political figure.
🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/RYXZLuB
A bold, provocative examination of what it means to create art from a place of opposition to the mainstream, from novelist and screenwriter Courttia Newland.
The Art of Opposition is out in July and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/TheArtofOpposition 🐞
Historians! What are good histories/who is working on, the RNLI, Coast Guard, Coastal Watch and such groups? For a thing
#CoastalHist
Casual Reading #oilpainting #art
20.02.2026 03:33 — 👍 3347 🔁 390 💬 70 📌 20Gorgeously moody.
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Out today, my new book about Margaret Bondfield, all-round ground-breaker and political pioneer is published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and is available in both book and audio form. I am, obviously, very pleased about it!
19.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
👉 Join us for a free online talk by Dr Susan Kilby, as she reveals the fascinating story behind some of Charnwood Forest’s place-names.
📅 Thursday 26 February, 7.30pm
🌐 Book you place now: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/free-o...
sketching in Ireland.
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Before neon diners, there was a park lamp. Night in the Park (1921, etching) isolates one reader under a single light—urban hush becomes a subject in this early example of Hopper’s nocturnes.
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Dunball a sketch from the other day
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Indeed, am doing a talk there! www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events/tales...
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Image of hand stamped green pine trees on a mountain by Tofu.
Black and white watercolour image of a mountain by Lizzie Brewer.
Detail of an orange and red artwork with text saying Australian Plate and Pacific Plate by Terrie Reddish.
An image of a small bookwork, hand printed with drawn outlines of a sitting human figure and abstract blue green mountain shapes in the background by Carol Wood.
World Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… We invite you to send something inspired by mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026. Download the brief www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026
Images here by @tofuart.bsky.social, Lizzie Brewer, Terrie Reddish, Carol Wood.
Looking for history book recommendations from your favourite historians? Our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page has over 30 lists curated by some of the UK's best authors of history.
Happy reading.⬇️
uk.bookshop.org/shop/wolfson...
In case you missed it...
From now until Sunday, 15 March, children can swap their £1/€1.50 book tokens for one of the brilliant @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social books, for FREE! 📚🎉
Your local bookish haven is waiting to welcome you ✨🤗
📸 @portybooks.bsky.social @thebookery.bsky.social
They wouldn't explain any of it. They'd assume we know.
18.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).
I got my MMR about 10 years ago!
www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
France has issued red alerts for flooding in three départements as the aftermath of Storm Nils causes chaos across the country:
buff.ly/VN7qftI
If you're near Leicester, come and join me for a talk at the Botanic Garden next week.
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/02/17/j...
#pollinators #biodiversity #bees #ecology
The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad.
I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list.
But what I can say is...
The Leicester Gazette is now officially a member of workers.coop, the federation of worker-led cooperatives!
17.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Highly recommend this pavementgeology.bsky.social tour of London. It's perfect for anyone with an interest in #geology ...and you won't even have to dodge the midges, ticks and leeches usually associated with Ruth's fieldtrips. *shudders at memories of Assynt*
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
I’ve been drawing like mad…shorelines
West Penwith, Cornwall
Drawings in watercolour and pencils
#landscapeart #landscape #drawing #sketch #art #cornishart #abstractlandscape #womenartists #landscapepainting #watercolour #gouache #mixedmedia #art #westpenwith #cornwall
