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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction

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✍🏼WRITER 📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller 🩰Late onset ballet dancer 🐕‍🦺Dog lover

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Aug 29

My next upcoming talk:
UGLY AS SIN: Women, looks and criminality in the Park Lane Murder
Tue 9 Sep 2025, 7pm at the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, London SE24 0DG
It's free but you should book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naomi-clif...
It's part Lambeth Heritage Month
#localhistory #historicalcrime

vintage photo from 19th century showing woman's head and shoulders - with text about the talk

Cover of 13 Park Lane by Naomi Clifford, showing back of a victorian woman in a green gown, with white lace trim.

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 2h

The starter pack of @bloodhoundbooks authors has been updated.
go.bsky.app/QfsENJk
Big welcome to @anniermcewen! New Bloodhound authors who want to be added - just put your hand up here or message me via the Facebook group.

Bloodhound Authors

Join the conversation

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 5h

If you're looking for historical images to illustrate your blog/book etc check out my list of resources and databases
www.naomiclifford.com/image-databa...
The focus is on Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
#history

Naomi Clifford | Historical image databases for your Georgian blog

An index of image databases useful for sourcing 18th and 19th century pictures to illustrate your history blog. Some free, others require permission.

www.naomiclifford.com

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Londonist @londonist.com · 10h

We've coloured in another John Rocque map panel from 1746. For the first time ever, see Georgian Westminster and Lambeth mapped in colour. londonist.substack.com/p/1746-in-co...

1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth

Colouring in a map of Georgian London.

londonist.substack.com

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 9h

NEW on the website: Q&A on how I came to write my historical crime novel 13 Park Lane. Karen Robinson ex Times Crime Club quizzed me this time last year... It's taken me all this time to get it up on the website (don't ask). Anyway, for your delectation...
bit.ly/43kFS1Z
@bloodhoundbooks

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 1d

AUDIOBOOK GIVEAWAY. Sign up for my TEA NO SUGAR newsletter and you'll be entered into the giveaway for an audio version of 13 PARK LANE based on a real-life 19th C murder, feat
1 angry servant
1 French actress
1 vile boss
1 Lord Lucan
13 PARK LANE
Dark stuff
subscribepage.io/13-park-lane...

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 2d

I am so excited about this exhibition. I wrote about Margaret Catchpole and the fake biography assigned to her on my blog: www.naomiclifford.com/the-legend-o...

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 3d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 6d

Upcoming themes in my new historical newsletter TEA NO SUGAR: Brontës, the French theatre in London, Victorian confectionery... I'm kicking it off with a giveaway of the audio of 13 PARK LANE, my #truecrime historical novel subscribepage.io/13-park-lane...

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re in south london check out Brixton Chamber Orchestra. Also Chineke! (currently on tour I think)

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 6d

Sign up for my TEA NO SUGAR newsletter bringing you 18th/19th/20th century history, inside gen, book recommendations and you'll be entered into a free draw for an audio version of my historical crime novel based on true event 13 PARK LANE. subscribepage.io/13-park-lane...

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 7d

BIG NEWS! I have rebooted my newsletter as TEA NO SUGAR for people who like the 18th/19th/early 20th centuries w/o saccharine. To kick off: a giveaway of 3 copies of the audio of my Victorian historical crime mystery 13 Park Lane. subscribepage.io/13-park-lane...
#historicalfiction

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 8d

Relaunching my newsletter as TEA NO SUGAR. Watch out for details in tomorrow's feed. There'll be a chance to win an audio version of my historical crime novel 13 Park Lane.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14d

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN

They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King.

So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO

Location: Windsor High Street, UK

#trump #epstein

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28d

In London, hate will never win.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Sep 13

FINALLY.

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is how to turn off AI search for Firefox! Hit the hamburger menu, open settings, and select "Search." Scroll all the way down and add a new search engine. Make it look like this (copy this for URL: www.google.com/search?udm=1...). Then select it as your default search engine.

Edit Search Engine box
Search engine name: GoogleNoAI
URL with %s in place of search term: https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 6

How an 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis was recovered 80 years later in Argentina

Painting was spotted online by Dutch journalists when the daughter of a former Nazi official put her house up for sale in Mar del Plata

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Re-upping this in light of the $1.5 billion settlement. Authors, make sure you register your details (see thread)👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just a shout out to #skystorians #academicsky #historians #historyteacher #18c #c18 #georgians #history of #Caribbean #slavery people that my new book #Heiresses is out now. You can read more about it here: www.heiresses.co.uk/about-heires...

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

the peace of the morning with the hell of the night before. During Sept and Oct half the revenues from Under Fire will go to Ukraine & Gaza medical charities.
*Please share widely*
Links to buying platforms are on my website: www.naomiclifford.com/where-to-buy...

Cover of the book Under Fire by Naomi Clifford, showing a young woman in 1940s service uniform and cap in front of a destroyed building.

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

June went to the ambulance station and listened to the screaming of the bombs. That night 843 incidents were declared. Over 850 people were dead, 130 of them children. In the morning, with the calm of a new day, many found it difficult to reconcile.. ⬇️

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

an inferno. "The fire was tremendous. One half of the sky was black smoke." At 8.35pm the sirens were going again - it was the second wave. "The sky was bright scarlet and remained so all night. The windows of the houses were brilliant with reflected light." ⬇️