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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · 22d

To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...

British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

YouTube video by ReutersLC

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 24d

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

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

Cover of the Book of Bogs featuring a moorland scene.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Sep 30

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 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

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

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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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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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Sep 22

Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory

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

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Sep 20

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

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Sep 14

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

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

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Sep 10

#Banksy retains its power at the RCJ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Banksy 'judge' mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall

The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Aug 27

I know, I know but still:

Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers

Nearly 20 years an Indie.

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Aug 24

Martin Parr’s photos - a series of memory cues.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘There’s something very interesting about boring’: Martin Parr on his life in pictures

From Benidorm sunbathers to British birdwatchers, for nearly 70 years the photographer has captured the magic of the mundane. As he publishes his life in pictures, he recalls what drew him to his s...

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · Aug 22

Bank Holiday ahead!

Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)

A family with at least three children drive the car over the brow of a hill, revealing a small bay in the sunshine.
The children, not wearing seatbelts, lean excititedly out of the window to get a better view

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Some Barbara Hepworth for your Monday morning (and for your pocketbook, since the Hepworth Wakefield is fundraising to keep it in the UK: link at bottom of article). 📜🎨

The campaign to save a very British sculpture | The Observer

A unique Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by the tension of wartime London and the comfort of the Cornish coast could soon leave the country. But a pu...

observer.co.uk

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Aug 5

An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the 'biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vintage postcard fair coming to Bishop Burton College

Organisers claim the event at Bishop Burton is the largest of its kind in the north of England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Aug 2

Many thanks to all the wonderful booksellers at The Bookcase in Hebden.

@nybooks.com

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Aug 2

Meta holiday reading #amreading

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · Jul 29

Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social‬

LSE Library Fellowships

Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

www.lse.ac.uk

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · Jul 26

Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages

Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Durham Brass festival

Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Jul 20

Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fantastic card index at #Chestermuseum

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Jul 4

Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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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 17

It’s cover reveal time!

Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

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