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James Waddell

@jameswaddellwrites.bsky.social

In the TLS, Economist, Telegraph, The Fence, Observer, Prospect &c / PhD on distraction @UCL / Agent @tobymundy / Overquicke, hastie, rashe, headie and brainsicke

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please…..John Milton didn’t die for this

19.12.2024 18:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Absolutely amazing find outside my flat today, devastatingly chic imo

15.12.2024 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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13.12.2024 15:49 — 👍 21    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 9
Writing Historical Horror | Writers & Artists Do you want to bring horror into your historical fiction?

i'll be running an online workshop on writing historical horror for @writersandartists.bsky.social & Book Aid in january. tickets here, if that sounds like a you thing;

www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

02.12.2024 12:27 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fence's 20 Best Pubs In London (in no particular order)

23.11.2024 16:53 — 👍 55    🔁 4    💬 20    📌 18

Oh, cool! Here's another starter pack to get you going — a collection of writers from @artreview.bsky.social 🎨 Enjoy!

29.11.2024 13:34 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Like many Civil War pamphlets, the chaotic violence of it is kind of disturbing (she does get shot eventually). But I like to remember this woman, whoever she was (if she ever existed), long before she ever encountered those soldiers: taking to the water, pushing off, and skimming happily away

29.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The best part, though, is when she (nearly) makes her escape by taking to the water on a “boord…standing firm but upright”, and then “turning and winding it which way she pleased, making it pastime to her”.

29.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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When the soldiers were ordered to open fire on her, she “with a deriding and loud laughter…caught the bullets in her hands and chew’d them”, sort of The Matrix-style

29.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Her story is told in this Civil War pamphlet, “A Most Certain, Strange and True Discovery of a Witch”, which relates her discovery by the army of the Earl of Essex.

29.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Now that my PhD is over, keen to write (and post) more about non-thesis-related early modern stuff. I’ll start with maybe my favourite finding, which is what I believe to be the earliest documented incidence of surfboarding, in 1643, by a witch

29.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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