Eleanor Thom

I'm excited to share that the book I'm co-authoring with my daughter, 'Sea Legs' (coming 2027), has been shortlisted for the #sustainablestoryaward from World of Books. The Award highlights authors whose work speaks to urgent themes of social justice and sustainable futures.

Today former Thornton's Books colleague @eleanorthom.bsky.social was passing through Richmond in #Yorkshire and couldn't resist popping by a couple of Alice Thornton's old haunts and taking some photos. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/3

Local schoolchildren write poems inspired by aviation artefacts - Tyne & Esk Writers Find out about our workshop at the Museum of Flight, where local schoolchildren wrote poems inspried by the artefacts there. Read more.

In a wonderful collaboration with the National Museum of Flight, writer @eleanorthom.bsky.social led a series of writing workshops at the East Fortune museum for local pupils. Details about the project and examples of their work is here: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/local-school...
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Congratulations to all of the Thornton's Books team. I loved being part of this wonderful and fascinating project and discovering the 17th-century life wrintings of Alice Thornton. #writers #authors I highly recommend delving into this fantastic free resource.

YouTube video by Promote Shetland Live from Shetland: Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 torchlit procession and galley burning

Watching last night's Up Helly Aa with my dad. He has held onto the memory of this from when he was a boy, and his dad George being one of the Vikings carrying the galley.
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Digital Edition: Where will our new release take you? Blog article - 15 September 2023

We're nearing the end of our top 12 most viewed blogs countdown. At number 2, it's @eleanorthom.bsky.social's stocking filler of interesting passages picked from our partial release of Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Read more below. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
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A table with a page showing the morse code, a WW2 flying jacket and a WW2 escape boot, wooden pencils, spare paper, a navy WW2 field cap and field jacket.

Today was my last day working with P6/P7 classes at the National Museum of Flight for Tyne and Esk Writers. Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for supporting these sessions through the Live Literature Programme.

My son and my mum at the same age. Aren’t genes just amazing!

Inside, in front of some windows, a yellow ribbon is tied up as a washing line with wooden clothes pegs. Young people’s hands peg up postcards made to look like telegrams from WW2. The cards display the young people’s own words written in pencil.

Lovely to work with two more classes of young learners on creative writing inspired by WW2 items - today at the National Museum of Flight.

Dollhouse Premiere Join us for the digital premiere of Dollhouse, a new film by BOP Young Artists.

Birds of Paradise. Dec 3. Writer, Karis Williamson: "The film... examines how society’s ableism can disable all people to varying extents and raises questions around this. I had Classical references... attitudes towards disability haven’t changed that much in all that time." tinyurl.com/ye2zbub4

Close! We're in Duddingston.

Wow, hello @mccannthecan.bsky.social what a lovely coincidence! Please stop me and say hello if you see me - I'm guessing we are local to each other now too. I was in Glasgow previously when I wrote the Tin-Kin, then Ayr, and now Edinburgh (since 2016).

Photo by @jondavey.bsky.social

Eleanor and her daughter, Oona outside on a windy day. They are dressed in winter coats and are pictured against a wintery sky and a grey sea. Oona points at a badge of a scallop shell on Eleanor's coat. Photo by @jondavey.bsky.social

Delighted to say I'm now represented by the wonderful Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. With my daughter, Oona, I'm currently working on a memoir about #caring for each other, #paraswimming and disabled sea mammals. 💙

Apply for Live Literature Funding – Spring 2025 Live Literature brings reading and writing to the heart of communities by funding author events for schools across Scotland.

Fully funded Live Literature sessions for schools based in a bunch of Scottish LAs open now - FAO teachers, or writers who'd like to share the opportunity with schools they know! Author visits are magic.
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Jewish Literary Links - Erika Dreifus News about Jewish Book Month, the National Book Awards, and more.

Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...

Breezing through Alice Thornton's Books with our Text Search Function Blog article - 20 November 2024

Our latest post by @eleanorthom.bsky.social was inspired by a question posed by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social about #EarlyModern weather resources. It also demonstrates, with a video, how to use the new text search function on our #DigitalEdition. 🗃️
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Thank you ❤️

I’d like to be added please. Keen to connect with other carers. 😊

If you're going to post a picture about a book, *say something* about it. I hate these "post a book, say nothing" challenges. "This is a book" is not discourse.

Thank you Rachel!

Hi! I'm a Jewish writer based in Scotland. My second novel, Connective Tissue, based on my grandmother's life, may interest fans of this list. If there's room, I'd love to be added. I've been looking for Jewish writers on here for a while. Thanks for starting this list!

Brilliant! I only know of her from Ladykillers podcast. It was a fascinating case.

My daughter Oona sits in an all terrain wheelchair on a grassy hillside looking at the sea through binoculars. Overhead, a pale blue sky is spread with small clouds.

Hello new followers 👋
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities

Thanks Nic! I'm going to work out how to do that now.

A fluffy, white seal pup looks directly at the camera, with two adult seals at its side. They lie on a beach of pebbles, rubble and seaweed.

Seal pups today on Inchkeith Island (at a distance with a very long lens). My daughter thought the pups’ calls carrying over the water sounded like owls. My son said a zombie apocalypse.

I’m a life writer currently working on a book about caring. If you have room I would love to be added here too. Thanks!

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This will be a great event with @alisonirvine.bsky.social in Cumbernauld next weekend. I'll be taking my brutalist-architecture-mad teenage son with me. See you there?