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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 22h

Was King Henry VIII’s Wife Bagging Off When They Visited Hull In 1541?

This is what we want! A bit of spicy 16th Century gossip, courtesy of our royal affairs correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social. Off with his head!

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 22h

Was King Henry VIII’s Wife Bagging Off When They Visited Hull In 1541?

This is what we want! A bit of spicy 16th Century gossip, courtesy of our royal affairs correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social. Off with his head!

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 1d

Who Was Britain’s First Black Professional Sports Coach?

Sports writer @collinstony.bsky.social visits Airlie Street to discuss a Hull legend who revolutionised rugby.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 2d

Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?

Author of Inkbound (and former Hull Librarian!) @prleathley.bsky.social chances her arm in our Big Malarkey quiz, hosted by @typicallymai.bsky.social

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 3d

For those who like to keep records, the podcast recording this week was powered by posh Fox’s cookies.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 3d

On our podcast this week: As the John Godber Company have two new plays hitting the area this month, Burnsy gets the lowdown on both and much more from Liz Godber

Listen on our website or your preferred podcast supplier: curiosityhull.co.uk/curiositycas...

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 4d

Why Is A Hull Creative Company Featuring In Bradford’s City of Culture Programme?

Our cultural exchange correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social reports on an outfit from over here doing very well over there.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 4d

Why Is A Hull Creative Company Featuring In Bradford’s City of Culture Programme?

Our cultural exchange correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social reports on an outfit from over here doing very well over there.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 5d

Which Cinema Was Destroyed In The Last Bombing Raid On Hull?

@hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield heads back to his beloved East Hull to relay the tragic tale of the final local victims of WW2.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 5d

Which Cinema Was Destroyed In The Last Bombing Raid On Hull?

@hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield heads back to his beloved East Hull to relay the tragic tale of the final local victims of WW2.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/44js9j84

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 6d

What Are My Top 5 UK Festivals?

We caught up with Traitors star Jack Marriner-Brown at the Humber Street Sesh and he gave his rundown of his personal best fests.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 6d

What Are My Top 5 UK Festivals?

We caught up with Traitors star Jack Marriner-Brown at the Humber Street Sesh and he gave his rundown of his personal best fests.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 7d

Which Is Our Favourite Local Folly?

Our purposeless structures correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social uses a ‘research’ trip to Risby as an excuse to eat cake. Typical.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 8d

What Is The Role Of A Document Production Specialist?

Catherine, of solicitors Wilkin, Chapman Rollits, outlines what her job entails, and it sounds like the place would collapse without her.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 8d

What Is The Role Of A Document Production Specialist?

Catherine, of solicitors Wilkin, Chapman Rollits, outlines what her job entails, and it sounds like the place would collapse without her.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/4j7eehft

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Ally-mai @typicallymai.bsky.social · 9d

How well will a writer of non-fiction do when faced with a general knowledge quiz? Find out here:

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?

Troublingly bewigged author and cartoonist @mikebarfield.bsky.social attempts our Big Malarkey quiz, with @typicallymai.bsky.social acting as judge and jury.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?

Troublingly bewigged author and cartoonist @mikebarfield.bsky.social attempts our Big Malarkey quiz, with @typicallymai.bsky.social acting as judge and jury.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 10d

Did Hull Once Have Its Own Circus?

Another story from the ‘Well I Never Knew That!’ file from our bygone entertainment correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 11d

What Is My Favourite View In Hull?

Marianne Lewsley-Stier heads to the waterfront to explain the influence of the confluence.

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 12d

The long-awaited return of the mythbusters!

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 12d

Is That Really Mary Pickford At The Top Of The Tower?

Our Urban Mythbuster ‘Storm’ Amy Thompson blows back into @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social to solve the mystery of the identity of the lass atop the tower.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 12d

Is That Really Mary Pickford At The Top Of The Tower?

Our Urban Mythbuster ‘Storm’ Amy Thompson blows back into @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social to solve the mystery of the identity of the lass atop the tower.

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 13d

A National Poetry Day post from "the most poetic city in England"

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 13d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 13d

Two great E Yorks poets in one post here.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 13d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/yc2stc29

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 13d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/yc2stc29

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 14d

Which Hull Street Is Associated With England’s Fattest Vicar?

Our stout clergyman correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social gets perilously close to fat-shaming in this cautionary tale of street names and scale busting.

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