Heather Tweed

Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 24.10.1914. "The Famous Green Aerial Engine."

"The Famous Green Aerial Engine.
As announced in our last issue, the aerial engine invented by Mr. G. Green, of Bexhill, has been successful in winning the prize of £5,000 offered in the Naval and Military Aeroplane #Engine Competition..." #Bexhill Observer 24.10.1914. #Aviation #History #1910s #WW1

Yess! 🧙‍♀️🌞🌛🧙‍♂️

Treadwell’s is here!

Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.
Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society.
Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1

A few more excellent accounts added to this Starter Pack.
Do please browse and have a great weekend everyone!
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Reminder - tomorrow is #HistoricEuropeanTheatresDay

Looking forward to hearing about your favourite historic theatres

#HistoricTheatresDay

Oh I say! Do take care 💨 🌧️

Very nice to see you again Heather. It is a bit stormy here today.

Good day to you Lady Brassey. ‘‘Tis some time since we were acquainted on another ‘island’ 😁
How is your voyage progressing? 🌞

Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 23.10.1926. Photograph of Bexhill's seafront with beach huts.

"Our Sea Front.
Another view of the centre of Bexhill's Sea Front. It does not look an attractive feature even in a photograph. An improvement of Bexhill's "face" is considered overdue, and the first step is now proposed by the Council." #Bexhill Observer 23.10.1926. #Sussex #Seaside #History #1920s

A Dickensian Christmas Talk with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley - Museum of the Home Who better to get you into the Christmas spirit than a direct descendant of Charles Dickens? Join Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, author of Dickens…

I'm doing an event at The Museum of the Home on Sun 7 December. Tickets are on sale now. museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/a-d...

Good news fans, my Richard The Third graphic novel full colour edition is now available on Amazon.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1326663224

Or you can get a signed copy at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next month. Choice is yours.

#shakespeare #graphicnovel #booktok #comictok

Thank you for the invite. 😃 📚
I’m otherwise occupied.
Enjoy! ☺️ 📚📚📚

Can you make our Skychat this week? We’re talking about women writers and mindset. Can you join us? @arleneandrews.bsky.social @sunisamara11.bsky.social @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social @louiseduckling.bsky.social @jolloyds.bsky.social @heathertweed.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social

a horse with a blue saddle is being groomed by two men ALT: a horse with a blue saddle is being groomed by two men

Ok enough faffing around here! Off down my wondrous rabbit hole of 19th Century Circus research. Write! ✍️ Write ✍️ ✍️!

Would anyone be interested in either a couple-hour writing club or a reading group (academic article or book)? Maybe once a week or every two or once a month?

Full disclosure: I am sad about being unemployed and I am in need of academic community and conversation to feel like me again.

A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context

Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

Ready for caricaturing and Shakespeare graphic novel flogging fun at Bristol Comicon. Here they come now…

Two photos of a nine and a half stone Black or Black mixed heritage Chinese man in his late 20s. On the left he is posing shirtless in white tights, fists raised against a painted backdrop of tropical plants in a studio portrait. On the right in the same studio he is wearing a typical late-Victorian working man's outfit, a dark velvet looking jacket, waistcoat, shirt, trousers.

The first British Professional Boxing Association was formed in London in 1885 at the Blue Anchor, Shoreditch. Its founding members numbered around 60. I believe Hezekiah Moscow to be the first Black man to be elected, but the digitised Sporting Life in which they're all named is too faded to read!

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In your garden? Beautiful! 🌹

illustrated cover of a Huntley & Palmers catalogue for 'Shortbreads, Biscuits & Cakes' with a glamourous lady wearing jewelry and evening dress sitting on the edge of a table reaching for a bowl of biscuits. From Reading Museum's collection.

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is all about ✨glamour✨

We're sharing this beautifully illustrated catalogue for shortbreads, biscuits and cakes produced by Huntley & Palmers in 1929. Who doesn't feel this glamourous reaching for a cookie and a cuppa? 🍪

1994.21.50 🖼️

A fun night at the authors dinner with my fellow Isle of Wight Literary Festival authors. All notably more famous than me. But I’m the only person who took a selfie.

Cover of Helen Wilson'sbook on "The Remarkable Pinwell Sisters"

Choir stall bench end carved by the Pinwill Sisters at Plympton St. Mary, Plymouth, Devon, 1898. Photograph © Helen Wilson.

For Wednesday, what better than Helen Wilson's handsome and most enjoyable book on the Pinwell sisters and their brilliant woodcarving career victorianweb.org/sculpture/pi...

I'm writing this book partly, mostly, for readers who aren't already into boxing 🥊

The Devil's Dance Floor is about pugilists, pressmen, policemen, and Alf Ball's pet puma. Murder, madness, Jem Smith's tight tights. We got wives. Bald bears. A Victorian epidemic of discarded orange peel! Smallpox!

Pencil portrait of Tennyson in later life, by Helen Allingham

At Eastbourne #OnThisDay 1892, Lewis Carroll recorded in his journal just four words: "Death of Alfred #Tennyson." It was a personal blow to him as well as a national event, as Ray Dyer explains: victorianweb.org/authors/carr...
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Oh how wonderful. It was meant to be! I sometimes wonder if it’s the overlooked people we’re researching giving us a helping hand 👻😂

What an experience! Looking forward to book 📕

Wonderful image. 😃

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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