Alice Hunt

Thank YOU @mrsamin.bsky.social. Inspirtational and thought-provoking few days meeting this wonderful group of history teachers as part of the @histassoc.bsky.social teacher fellowship with The Visible Crown colleagues @profannawhitelock.bsky.social @gracemc971.bsky.social and Kate Quinn.

Yes! I LOVE this bookshop.

Thank you, Owen. V happy to hear this.

Thank you @stuartbj.bsky.social. What a lovely post to see - and on my birthday too! 🙂

Definitely! And especially if it's al fresco reading.

Cheers, Tracey!

Jonathan Healey · Blood and Confusion: England’s Republic The English republic isn’t recalled with much fondness by anyone. It is known as a fun-sapping entity that cancelled...

‘The republic was a great age for English satire. Royalist laughs had been generated by rejecting certain social norms and annoying Puritans with wilful impurity – fart jokes, heavy drinking and a celebration of sex and dancing.’

Jonathan Healey on England’s republic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A fantastic listen – Prof @alicehunt.bsky.social talks about Britain's oft-maligned revolutionary decade and how it actually laid the groundwork for the radical changes in the years following it www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/brit...

Jonathan Healey · Blood and Confusion: England’s Republic The English republic isn’t recalled with much fondness by anyone. It is known as a fun-sapping entity that cancelled...

‘As the old order creaked, new ideas flourished, particularly in religion: radical sects emerged not only from the London streets but from country towns and the ranks of the parliamentary army.’

Jonathan Healey on the English Commonwealth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

'Until recently,​ trade publishers have avoided England’s republic – as too dowdy, perhaps, and too complex. But now it’s all the rage.' It is, it is!
V pleased with @jonathanhealey.bsky.social's review of my book REPUBLIC in the latest @lrb.co.uk @faberbooks.bsky.social

And wit music too! Lovely cover reveal.

25 poems written between the eighth century and today = 25 time machines into moments in England's past.
My new #history #book A History of England in 25 Poems, out September 2025 with Penguin Allen Lane (available for pre-order now).
www.penguin.co.uk/books/461263...

Looking forward to being a bookseller tomorrow at the wonderful @pgwells.bsky.social to celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek
@jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social and I have recommended some of our favourite non-fiction books -- some of which can be glimpsed here 👇

📚 'Magisterial.' Suzannah Lipscomb
📚 'Gripping.' Malcolm Gaskill
📚 'Evocative.' Clare Jackson
📚 'Superb.' Jessie Childs
📚 'Compelling.' David Kynaston
📚 'Thrilling.' Paul Lay

Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade 1649-1660 by Alice Hunt is out in paperback today!

www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

We also have a brilliant article from Alice discussing six poems from Britain's Republican past which you can read here on the Faber Journal.

www.faber.co.uk/journal/alic...

@cathamclarke.bsky.social was so thoughtful on the relationship between literature and history, and fascinating on how writing for non-academic audience can be so unexpectedly emotional -- and in a good way. Can't wait to read #AHistoryofEnglandin25Poems

Really looking forward to this.

Very pleased @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social picked up Carys Davies' Clear which had been carefully placed on his bedside table.
Love The Writer's Bookshelf by@matthewlyons.bsky.social

Joyous launch last night @dauntbooks.bsky.social for The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain - the brilliant new book by @profannawhitelock.bsky.social which gives us James I waking up to the rest of the world.

And I answered: 'yes'.

Cannot wait to read this.

Many congratulations to Brian Thornton. It was a privilege to be on the judging panel for this with @uk.theconversation.com .

Ah, thank you @andymack.bsky.social
Very pleased to hear this. And narrated so well by @sophierobertsaudio.bsky.social

Thank you @rchrdbkr.bsky.social !

I think 'for instance' can be used for an experience; 'for example' for an experience and a thing; but 'for instance' cannot be used for a thing. For example/instance, I can't answer: 'What would you like to drink?' with: 'I don't know. Something cold, like a juice for instance?'

Very nice to see 'Republic' on display in the finest museum in the country @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social

'Less terrifying and foreign'. Job done! Thank you @laurenworking.bsky.social

one for you, @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social