#stokeylitfest @ByDonkeys we are taking about #shame and how being able to never feel shame is a political superpower but utterly wrong. And that we all need to know whether these things matter any more.

#StokeyLitFest lovely overview of Alexander Baron from Nadia Valman @LondonCurious makes me want to read #KingDido instantly. Baron’s lack of sentimentality about the East End makes him a reliable reporter on #HowWeLive

Another #StokeyLitFest event another church. About to hear SIX people talk about the novels of #AlexanderBaron #HowWeLiveNow I’ve been looking forward to this one. The lectern admonishes me.

#StokeyLitFest Palaces of Pleasure, hearing about the tale of woe that was #AlexandraPalace archives have a list of possible attractions& adverts on the bottom of drinking glasses. My favourite is the idea that they would find #watershoes that would float you across the lake.

#StokeyLitFest I’m at the @AbneyParkN16 #Mortuary Chapel again to hear @VictorianLondon talk about #PalacesOfPleasure we’re going to do #gin and lots about #pleasure. We are turning our ideas about prudish Victorians on their heads.

#StokeyLitFest waiting for a lark to ascend at the Mortuary Chapel @AbneyParkN16 looking forward to thinking about places and music with #RichardKing

#Remainiacs Most remain-y novel? Anything by Forster who believed in Only Connect #stokeylitfest

#stokeylitfest now we are plotting #RemainiacEntryism sssh don’t tell anyone

#stokeylitfest #Remainiacs auction £255 don’t give up he day job, auctioneering is an art

#Brexit charity auction £175 #StokeyLitFest

#stokeylitfest Gordon Brown outlined the issues with the Irish Border well before others & the hazard #Brexit presented. #remainiacs

#StokeyLitFest #Remainiacs a room full of people ready to take #StokeNewington into the heart of #Europe #BailOutOfBrexit @guyverhofstadt

#Death The Last Taboo #StokeyLitFest thinking about making death plans but I am powerfully reminded by the comforting words of Thomas Lynch’s poems in the The Undertaking when he says ‘the dead don’t care’. Let survivors be free to do what they can/must is kindest surely?

Oh @MillarCaroline we are 12 minutes into #Death The Last Taboo and guess what... homeopathy has reared its unevidence based head. #SilentlyFuming but loving the Barr’s Pathology Museum curator. #stokeylitfest

Awaiting #Death The Final Taboo in the peaceful, cool @AbneyParkN16 Mortuary Chapel. I expect we’ll think about the @DeathCafe movement and honour Jon Underwood. #Endings #Mutability #StokeyLitFest

#stokeylitfest @HistoryOfStokey delightful photographic tour, history and geography. The story of the photo of #airship #R101 flight over Church St that happens to have an out of focus brother in also is a #poliakoff story

#stokeylitfest we DO need a little book of Brenda Hale’s judgements. #legalheroines #awomanspkaceisntinthefamydivision Thank you Angela Rafferty.

#stokeylitfest we are perseverating on problems of #disclosure, it can’t be just be a lack of time, it must be both lack of inclination & a long history of withholding generally. Oops now we are on lazy judges and loving ones too @BarristerSecret

#stokeylitfest anyone who cites ‘12 Angry Men’ gets my vote. #JusticeIsBroken @BarristerSecret

@RobertsonQC @BarristerSecret #stokeylitfest excellent exposition as to why disclosure should be defendant’s right rather than a prosecution’s discretion. And now we are talking about autism and disadvantage. #RangingWide

#StokeyLitFest Ece Temelkuran talking about how easy it is to silence & belittle women using 2000 year old insults, "and it still works".

Is there life for women in Turkey after secularism? Ece Temelkuran thinks not & that women are fighting for their lives. #StokeyLitFest

#StokeyLitFest listening to the astonishing Ece Temelkuran, now we know about who those women are who blow on knots.

#StokeyLitFest #Timbuktu we are talking archives & librarians & mention has been made of the coolest librarian in the world @booniepops

#StokeyLitFest AL Kennedy works on characters, they are ready when they stand and salute her, borrowed from a blacksmith's iron working.

#StokeyLitFest AL Kennedy just read & sung the "Pleeeease' by Jerry Rafferty, Stealer's Wheel & read that connection can be like rage & wine

#StokeyLitFest one minute in and the Old Church is full of A L Kennedy's thoughts & a good deal of laughing.

#StokeyLitFest Oscar the forger, deprived of a place at medical school created blizzards of documents for Jews. Qualified as a doc after WW2

#StokeyLitFest delightful Thomas Keneally, in his novels everything is true apart from the lies & the lies are more important than facts (1)

#StokeyLitFest @StokeyLitFest serendipity that our speakers on #utopia are linked or separated by 'remembrance'