Aids memorial quilt to be displayed at Wakefield Exchange It is the first time the giant tribute has been on show in its entirety outside London.

Rare chance to see the Aids memorial quilt outside of London. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dark Peak Books and Gifts Book launch Wednesday 29th April Sarah Lonsdale Wildly Different

Cannot wait for this! I'll be at Dark Peak Books, Glossop, to launch the paperback of Wildly Different on 29 April, then Durham on the 30th. I'll be telling the amazing story of how Ethel Haythornthwaite secured National Park status for the Peak and also the other 4 inspirational women in the book.

Cloudy sky with half rainbow over moorland, with tree on left-hand side.

Beautiful start to the day of action to protect our green spaces #NatureDayOfAction #VoteForNature

A circular white badge with a cartoon picture of a puffin dressed as a vampire holding a gold topped cane with red capital letters reading I’m a sucker for puffins. The badge is on a pink fabric background

Who could resist this Jill McDonald vampire puffin? Not me, anyway

Stone front of Harrogate library with decorative pillars and frieze framing the window. Above the window, the inscription reads 'Carnegie Library.'

Another day, another library.

A decorative silk purse in the shape of a bird with talons and feather details. Moss green in colour.

Caught this frivolous little beauty at Knaresborough earlier - a C17th silk purse.

Very touched to have been sent these wonderful photos of the Brothers in Arms memorial commemorating all brothers and sisters who died during the First World War.

A white woman wearing a brightly patterned dress stands next to a large quilted piece of textile art, which is black handwritten scrawl on cream calico, increased in size.

Today I saw the Cromwell Textile Cloth - a representation of a list of textiles in Thomas Cromwell’s hand - hanging properly for the first time. In 22 years of quilting, I have made precisely two pieces I am completely happy with. This is one of them.

Stitching Cromwell in Worcester I am writing this piece from The Hive in Worcester, where I am supposed to be stitching for the week, alongside my Stitching Cromwell exhibition.

Having a good time at The Hive @worcesteruni.bsky.social with Stitching Cromwell.

📢 New book alert 📢 via @manchesterup.bsky.social. New insights into #womenshistory #Irishhistory via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social 🥳

My new book is out today! Aways a nervous thing..... FIVE EVIL WOMEN: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. First interview: newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-wo... Really enjoyed talking to the amazing Miranda Melcher about evil & femininity. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Transparent globes if frog spawn clustered in clear pond water.

You wait for one sign of Spring and three come along at once. Curlews, lapwings and now fog spawn.

Each year, around this time, we strain to hear our first curlew of spring. This afternoon, during a lull in the rain, it finally came. In the words of W.S. Graham, we are 'under the curlew's loveweep.'

Melvyn Bragg bids his farewell.

A screen shot from the LRB bookshop website showing an image of Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials. There is a recommendation from David, one of the shop's managers, which reads: ‘A century ago, Seven Dials, just a few minutes walk from the shop, was a shabby, cosmopolitan working-class district, not quite Bloomsbury, not quite Covent Garden. It was also, as Matt Houlbrook shows in his powerful study, a microcosm for the tensions and conflicts that defined British society then, and continue to define it now.’

It’s lovely to see that Songs of Seven Dials is one of the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk recommended Christmas gifts.

Thank you for the kind words (in the alt-text): they have got me in the festive spirit now.

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/collections/...

#London #history #20s30s

It's an honour to have written a foreword for a new edition of perhaps my favourite novel (or is it a novella?), A Month In The Country by JL Carr.

It's published by Quince Tree Press, now run by the Carr family. Do investigate their other wonderful wares.

www.quincetreepress.co.uk

Have a publication date for my new book, FIVE EVIL WOMEN; 1 March! Why do certain women become icons of evil? Explores Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karla Homolka and Karla Faye Tucker. Spread the news please because I need publicity 😅 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/five-ev...

Farewell, Martin Parr. Hebden Bridge O.G. His 1975 photograph of Lord Savile’s gamekeepers is unbeatable.

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73 Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book

One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Amazing launch event for This is Slavery - by @rickardsisters.com at Queen's Mill in Burnley. A real celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win YouTube video by ReutersLC

To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
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Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

Cover of the Book of Bogs featuring a moorland scene.

Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Event poster for TROUBLE AT MILL: The Radical World of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. The illustration is of a huge cotton mill on fire, with the townspeople watching. Launch of THIS SLAVERY graphic novel by the RICKARD SISTERS featuring THE COMMONERS' CHOIR JENNIFER REID • BURNLEY YOUTH THEATRE CLARION CHOIR • JULES GIBB • JENNY HARPER SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER ENGINE IN STEAM FROM 12 NOON • PERFORMANCES 1pm & 2•30pm QUEEN ST MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BBIO 2HF Tickets £ 12

Book your place!

🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥

Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks

RickardSisters.com/trouble

A draw full of small red and brown archive boxes containing microfilms.

Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory

One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today #Heptonstall

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Two uniformed VADs with a tea trolley surrounded by Chelsea pensioners wearing their caps.

Chelsea pensioners evacuated to the West Country enjoying a cuppa with the VADs. #WW2