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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2h

The fine looking @literatureireland.bsky.social stand at Frankfurt @buchmesse.de.

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Grüneberg

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Dialectical jerks at the Adorno Gymnasium

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2d

1980, the kitchen porter era (Savoy Hotel, Blackpool)

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2d

My pleasure!

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 2d

I had the great pleasure of editing Naomi Baker’s Voices of Thunder, her groundbreaking book on radical religious women in the 17th century, which arrives with these emphatic endorsements. Out today from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern

In Voices of Thunder Naomi Baker gives us the most accessible, detailed and well-informed study to date of the women preachers and prophets of the seventeenth-century, a time when nearly all women were meant to stay home and be quiet. Baker shows us how very many women were involved and influential in the early Baptist and Quaker movements and beyond, and how sharply they saw gender and class oppression, while often enduring harsh persecution, usually by men, at home and abroad. With notable biographical skill and sympathy, the author shows us how the women prophets saw and experienced their world. All can benefit from this book, and many will find it an eye-opening revelation.'
Nigel Smith, Princeton University, author of Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon
Voices of Thunder offers a ground-breaking account of the radical women who, during the political, social and religious turmoil of seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, found voice and vocation. Naomi Baker is an outstanding guide to this complex, challenging and extraordinary culture.
Crawford Gribben, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast and author of J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
This book crackles and fizzes with the energy and bravado of the many overlooked women who metaphorically hitched up their skirts to challenge forms of authority that sought to marginalise them. Naomi Baker brings deft erudition to her narrative and stylishly synthesises the complex histories of religious radicalism in the seventeenth century. This elegantly written and lively book has much to teach us about belief, politics and activism in both the seventeenth century and the contemporary moment.
Danielle Clarke, Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature, University College Dublin
Her timely book reminds us of the urgent need to listen to the voices of those who disrupt our social and moral commonplaces.'
Adrian Streete, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Religion, U of Glasgow

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

“The rages, the slamming doors, the silences, the dissembling. Each was for the other a treasured object of gossip and complaint.”

Elizabeth Hardwick’s peerless novel ‘Sleepless Nights’.

Well read first edition of Elizabeth Hardwick’s novel ‘Sleepless Nights’.

Author photo on the back cover of Elizabeth Hardwick’s novel ‘Sleepless Nights’.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

Anna Perach’s exhibition ‘A Leap of Sympathy’, out of Henri Bergson and inspired by ETA Hoffman’s tales, at the East Gallery in Norwich. norwichuni.ac.uk/events/a-lea...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

Preferably they should have contacted you beforehand about whatever led to them blocking you (presuming it wasn’t accidental). But absolutely they should talk with you about this.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

If it’s the result of an action that is difficult or impossible to forgive, it’s to be explained (unless it puts one at risk). If it’s resulting from an accumulation of mildly alienating or tedious remarks, an explanation might cause real hurt. But then so do the varieties of ghosting.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 4d

Pink and blue dusk cloud, adumbrations of chimneys, trees and telecom pole

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d

'Letter to Juan in Space', by
Armonía Somers, tr Kit Maude @wwborders.bsky.social. Might take your fancy if you like Lispector & Carrington. Would love a collection of Somers stories in English. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Letter to Juan in Space - Words Without Borders

In this wry short story, Uruguayan writer Armonía Somers charts a life lived at the speed of light.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d

'Letter to Juan in Space', by
Armonía Somers, tr Kit Maude @wwborders.bsky.social. Might take your fancy if you like Lispector & Carrington. Would love a collection of Somers stories in English. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Letter to Juan in Space - Words Without Borders

In this wry short story, Uruguayan writer Armonía Somers charts a life lived at the speed of light.

wordswithoutborders.org

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d

Now unplayed, the still loved survivors of what was once a record collection.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 6d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 6d

László Krasznahorkai

“Only the people played a role in the existence of God…not God.”
L.K. at the London Review of Books bookshop, 2020.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d

Frankfurt am Main, city and river at night

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d

And Clare telling you to fear the owners and that trespass is good.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d

That's really excellent. As is the Veronese and Peter Burke's new book 'The Connossieur'. Thanks!

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 7d

Books on Auden, Mao, Qaddafi, Edwin Morgan's concrete poetry, Stooges' Raw Power, fascism & the global far right, 'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments', Katherine Harvey's superb 'Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' & more coming @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Just one highlight from the new Reaktion catalogue
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-mus...

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments | Reaktion Books

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, t...

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