Pete Mitchell

i hope you're thoroughly ashamed of yourself and blushing bright beetroot blue with embarrassment

this is violence against me and everyone else in the colourblind community

In the office today. We used to be a country

reading recommendations, please! looking for scholarly accounts of the use of the phrase 'concentration camp' in pre-1937 British (NOT GERMAN!) media and novels. How was the phrase being used? What was it understood to mean?

Very chuffed indeed to find that my essay for @corridor8.bsky.social on the @nenature.bsky.social archive is amongst Jonn's list of interesting other stuff this week:

Pete runs for refugees, round six For the sixth time, I'm hustling the rickle of bone and hair I'm ashamed to call my body around the 13.1 miles of the Great North Run for the benefit of Action Foundation - a top-notch charity who do

This year - for the sixth time - I'm doing the Great North Run for @actionfdn.bsky.social, a North East charity who persist in treating refugees and asylum seekers like people instead of problems. Please give generously, if you've cash to spare! ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/peter-mit...

Oi mista! You me dad?

Here are just some of the insights we gleaned from this workshop:

Books: KARIN SANDERS BODIES IN THE BOG THE BOG PEOPLE Iron-Age Man Preserved FULLY ILLUSTRATED by P.V. GLOB

Happy International #BogDay.

Running and raising money for Palestinians I'm running two races this September in order to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians: the Great North 5km on 5 Sept, and the Great North Run Half Marathon (21km) on 7 Sept. We all know about

My friend Ed is doing the Great North Run for Medical Aid for Palestinians: please give generously to alleviate the unimaginable suffering in Gaza and inflict some on Ed, who actually deserves it ajbellgreatnorth5k2025.enthuse.com/pf/edward-an...

It was great!

Nature's Cure: a day out in Gosforth Nature Reserve Exploring how nature shapes our lives with a group of North East asylum seekers and refugees Photo: Simone J. Rudolphi. As part of our Nature’s Cure project, we’ve been working with local communities ...

In which I go to Gosforth Nature Reserve with a group of people with lived experience of the asylum system, and listen to the inside of a tree: www.nhsn.org.uk/natures-cure...

Had a great time at the @litandphil.bsky.social 's celebration of the bicentennial of their incredible library - featuring local telly celeb Alexander Armstrong, jazz from Top Banana, and a special appearance from the ghostly spectre of Mrs Affleck, charlady of the Society in the 19th century

Amazing Grace Anne Wilson explores the life of the NHSN's most famous 20th-century Chair, and the first woman to lead the Society Grace Hickling dominates the post-war history of the NHSN. The first female head of ...

Grace Hickling MBE (1906-1986) was the first woman to act a Chair of the NHSN and a towering figure in the North East. In this guest blog, Anne Wilson explores her life and times: www.nhsn.org.uk/amazing-grace/

Well, he's not gonna be there is he

that wind you feel beneath your wings? that's the international working class, all - blowing, let's say blowing - at once

what you love is that you get to exchange off-colour badinage online with LABOUR MOVEMENT ROYALTY

Going to the Big Meeting tomorrow and a mate sent me this (from Ken & Jean Smith, 'Splendour of the Gala'): what I like about it is that Edwards' second (I think) grandchild would've been two months old that week, and I ate soup with her last night because she's my mam. Mams + trade unions 4 EVA ❤️🌹✊

A very messy bookcase, full of nature books. Also includes a six-inch bust of Charles Darwin and a vintage print that reads The Naturalist's Library.

As we're all enjoying the milkshake-ducking of Nature Writing, I thought I'd pull together some of my writing on the subject from over the last few years. Can you believe I've been on this bullshit since 2015? Anyway, if you'd like, have a read. richarddsmyth.com/tag/nature-w...

I mean, I read an incredible memoir a few years ago. This bloke got his leg nobbed off by a whale. He wasn't having a bar of it. He went after that whale. Mental

A great talk packed with many gems of history from Northumbria.

What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions? - Darwin

From my other life here's a thing me and some mates put on on Friday. It was class. We haven't decided what the next Lort Burn Specials will be about but it's going to be MIND-BLOWINGLY GOOD

Features Thomas Bewick's sketches, George Gibsone's shells, Sarah Dickson's mushrooms, the Cullercoats Sea-Serpent and all your other favourites (and also, unsettlingly, one of Thomas Bewick's teeth which is now in its rightful place in human remains storage)

My admiration for John Simm is tempered today, admittedly, by the fact that all that coal he dug up is currently making it too hot to think

This was and is very cool: Maureen managed to secure some of the actual fossils these guys collected from the pits of Newsham, Shiremoor and Cramlington, and to get John Simm's fossils - and his reverie of the prehistoric world that formed the material of his labour - on display

i'm at work so i'll probably just have to climb into the big jar with the coelacanth

the worst! I choose Ice

Cover of the forthcoming Verso reissue of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix's The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests.

Out next week from @versobooks.bsky.social

Hailed as "the only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme."

I assume it means bird!