Mathew Lyons

Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

Reverting to Tom Lehrer in the face of geopolitical events.

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A love letter to ‘The Jolly Postman’ Forty years after it was first published, Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s classic picture book delivers as much joy and humour as ever, writes Kirsten Tambling

While children’s illustration since the 2000s ‘has tended to move towards simpler visuals often inspired by graphic and digital design’, Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s ‘The Jolly Postman’ is a valuable reminder of ‘the delights of staying analogue’, writes Kirsten Tambling

You've reminded me of one my favourite things from the other place.

Intrigued by the dining table with insufficient place mats and even fewer chairs.

Last few tickets left for the 24th of March!

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Some events coming up, featuring A History Of England In 25 Poems. I'd love to meet you at one of these! All info via my website www.catherineclarke.info
#history #event #reading #poetry

Er, Hamlet? could be one of the Brahms and Simons books.

IIRC, Dickens claimed he dreamt it up while pacing the streets of London at night. Hard to know who to believe, really…

I haven't, no. A still mysterious and elusive source for one of the most famous books on the planet, you say?

[Um, er, has anyone ever heard the suggestion that Dickens adapted A Christmas Carol from a mysterious, elusive earlier work, like Shakespeare and the so-called Ur-Hamlet?]

[Asking, literally, for a friend.]

Spycraft - Yale University Press London A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assass...

To make things even more fun, if you go to the UK Yale website, and look up Spycraft, you'll see a little link called 'related content' where you can download some DIY cipher wheel blanks! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

There's a new exhibition about Eleanor of Castile at Leeds Castle that I thought looked interesting until I read that it boasts an AI avatar of Eleanor, which just makes me cringe.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ooh yes! 😍

I amused myself imagining that I'd come out and there would be a couple of German guys in lab coats standing over a bank of 1970s synths and staring coldly into space while they played

The Baltic Crusades: A Photo Gallery - Yale University Press London Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. In the Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, c...

Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region.

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Today @plough.bsky.social 47 is out, featuring my short story 'Sieidi' - which has been beautifully illustrated

Sad news.

This was great fun to do. My Writer’s Bookshelf, spanning from Sherwood Anderson to Sue Townsend, via Joseph Roth, the Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World, Peanuts, Toni Morrison and many others… Many thanks to @mathewlyons.bsky.social for asking me!

Some lunchtime reading from me!

The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England | Jennifer Heller | Taylor Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice

Does anyone have a pdf of Heller's The Mother's Legacy in #EarlyModern England? #CanIHazPdf #HistGender #SkyStorians www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Many hands In Caravaggio’s “St Matthew and the Angel” (1602), the Bible seems to arrive as a shock to those who wrote it. Matthew, bare-armed and dirty-toed, is a

Fantastic to see William M. Schniedewind’s Who Really Wrote the Bible reviewed in @thetls.bsky.social! Read the full piece here:

Good news that the digitised Beowulf manuscript has survived the digital equivalent of the Cottonian Library fire, the British Library cyberattack of 2023

Our Autumn/Winter 2026 catalogue is here 🎉 📚

Discover original and impactful new titles ranging from a chilling investigation into modern surveillance states to a history of the kola nut, and more.

Browse the full list ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvkkycsw

See the thread below for some highlights ⬇️

New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @keironpim.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...

Ha!

What did Amy Mary,my clever village grandmother,think of her grandest employers? The Kindle/phone/computer edition of 'Village' is FREE today.This is not the world of Downton Abbey. But Amy Mary's bag of fragrant mints may rustle open! SEARCH ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON #women'shistorymonth

Some weekend reading from me. First up, a brilliant edition of the Writer's Bookshelf with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social.
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Thanks!

What platform is that on? We've been watching Man on the Run, and, well, it would be good to watch something better.