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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Sep 23

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Sep 23

Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · Sep 23

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

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

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · Sep 10

So, #ThisSlavery is coming out tomorrow - but, @RickardSisters.com, what's it all about?

🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX

#selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #newbook

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · Aug 21

🔥 Three weeks to publication day! 🔥

You can pre-order This Slavery in all good bookshops (or on the bad one where it is heavily discounted) or even from our website. You could ask your library to stock it.

We’re so excited for folk to see it after years on the drawing board

A panel from This Slavery graphic novel,in which Rachel is being arrested. As the police lead her from her terraced home into the snowy night, her mother and sister, Hester, watch helplessly from the doorway. Behind them stands the top-hatted man Hester has just agreed to marry.
“Thank God you’re out of this scramble at least,” says Mother.
“Aye,” says Rachel, “She’s chosen her prison bars and I’ve found my own. Well neither of us escape this slavery, Will we? Good night.”

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · Jul 28

Hey, this is exciting! Waterstones have a special offer 25% off pre-orders of This Slavery between now and Thursday www.waterstones.com/book/this-sl...

This Slavery by Sophie Rickard, Scarlett Rickard | Waterstones

Buy This Slavery by Sophie Rickard, Scarlett Rickard from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · Jul 28

Waterstones has a 25% discount off online pre-orders off the beautiful new edition of Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'. From 28-31 July. Code: SUMMER25

www.waterstones.com/book/and-so-...

Or order directly from publishers @bhousepress.bsky.social -- at a chunky discount.

And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, Valerie Waterhouse | Waterstones

Buy And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, Valerie Waterhouse from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · May 23

Look at our lovely cotton tea towels! They are made in Lancashire and there are combination offers available at rickardsisters.com/product/post...

On a red background with organic white flourishes, cream and green scrolls bear the words UNITY IS STRENGTH. In the centre, two hands grasp in a firm handshake. A twisted golden rope hangs down each side, and the whole thing has the air of a traditional Union banner.

On an ornate gold and purple background, cream and green scrolls bear the words NO-ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS EQUAL. The scrolls have rich curled ribbon flourishes. The design was inspired by our suffragette graphic novel NO SURRENDER and reminds us all that it’s our humanity is what counts, not what’s in our pants.

On a dark green and gold ornate background, red scrolls bear the words DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. In the centre a hand holds aloft a flaming torch. The whole mood is that of a traditional union banner, and of course the BASTARDS are everywhere…

on an ornate dark red and gold background, green scrolls bear the words MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. Thirteen hands are arranged in a circle, each holding the wrist of the next. They are each different and distinctive in age, skin tone, jewellery, tattoos etc and present an image of strength in diversity

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · May 22

Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.

CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing

This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously publi...

research.reading.ac.uk

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · May 19

Many Hands Make Light Work

New design! Available as an A2 poster (£10) or a cotton tea towel (£12) at RickardSisters.com, where you’ll find various gifts for the activists in your life

On a dark red and gold ornate background, green scrolls bear the words MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. Thirteen hands are arranged in a circle, each holding the wrist of the next. They are each different and distinctive in age, skin tone, jewellery, tattoos etc and present an image of strength in diversity.

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Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social · May 6

Here is a link to my latest article on adult education and dialect poetry during the Lancashire Cotton Famine. 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...

‘Gooin t’ schoo’: The Subject of Adult Education in Dialect Poetry from the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861–65

‘The Beddin’s Goan’, published in the Blackburn Times in November 1862 by W. A. Abram, begins with the lines ‘EH! Robbut! th’ lan’lord’s bin tu-day, | Whol tha wor deawn at th’class’, encapsulating li...

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · Apr 23

Long before BookTok or #BookSky, readers got their hot tips from the Book Society. ‘Recommended!’ by
@nicola-wilson.bsky.social
looks at how these proto-influencers shaped the tastes of the reading public for decades!

In need of some new recs? 📖 rdg.ac/4jhqE3C

#WorldBookDay #readingatReading

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Apr 14

#modwrite Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, psychic disintegration and the ecocritical in Eagles’ Crag.

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Mar 7

Picked this up from the local library today and noticed it was published by Everyman. @nicola-wilson.bsky.social

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Mar 7

Seems odd. Bought a beautiful copy of Katharine Bruce Glasier’s The Glen Book a couple of weeks ago from AbeBooks, Signed and only £25. It’s a presentation copy for the South Welsh miners to whom she gave her son Glen’s funeral collection.

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Mar 6

The republication of four great novels by the working-class early twentieth century writer and social activist Ethel Carnie Holdsworth:
research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: new insights into her little-known later novels as they are re-published for the first time in nearly a century - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing

by Jenny Harper, PhD Researcher, Department of English Literature, University of Reading As part of my PhD research investigating the work of the early twentieth-century radical socialist author, Ethe...

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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · Mar 5

I'll be at @litfest.bsky.social in just two weeks, talking all things Cotton Famine with @simonrennie.bsky.social from @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social and Jack Southern from @uclan.ac.uk.

📅 Sunday 16th March, 2pm
🗺️ Lancaster Central Library

Registration links are below, see you there!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Feb 1

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 28

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 28

Very sad news, it was a privilege to hear him at the Piston, Pen and Press conference.

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 28

Brilliant piece, enjoyed hearing you talk about your work at our SWW DTP online event last year as well.

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In Common @incommon.bsky.social · Jan 26

"Southampton stands together and leaves no room for racism. Southampton is one city, one community, united by our shared values. We want unity and peace.”

Hundreds of anti-racist protesters gathered for a counter-demonstration in Southampton yesterday.

www.in-common.co.uk/2025/01/26/h...

Hundreds of anti-racist demonstrators gather for Southampton counter-protest - In-Common - Southampton

Hundreds of local anti-racist protesters gathered in Southampton city centre to tell UKIP supporters they were not welcome in the city. UKIP leader Nick Tenconi announced his intention to march throug...

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Jan 21

Anybody else thinking it’s time to re-read Jack London’s ‘The Iron Heel’?

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 17

A week of writing and feeling as if every brain cell has been depleted.

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 16

So great, fab work!

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · Jan 13

The 1921 UK Census has been released, it's striking how many wrote their occupation as 'out of work' or 'no work.' Industrial unrest and an unemployment rate of 20%.

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