Richard Castlemaine
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December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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‘For much of the 1980s, it was seen by critics as a white elephant. It connected the declining city of Hull with the empty expanses of North Lincolnshire: nowhere with nowhere.’
@tom--white.bsky.social on how the Humber Bridge was built.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tom--white.bsky.social on how the Humber Bridge was built.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom White · Short Cuts: A Bridge across the Humber
In 1966, as election day approached, Labour dispatched MPs and ministers to Hull, including Tony Benn, Tony Crosland,...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‘For much of the 1980s, it was seen by critics as a white elephant. It connected the declining city of Hull with the empty expanses of North Lincolnshire: nowhere with nowhere.’
@tom--white.bsky.social on how the Humber Bridge was built.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tom--white.bsky.social on how the Humber Bridge was built.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today's word: BLUE. Excerpt is from my romantic suspense novella SNOWDROP DREAMS, CHERRY THUMBPRINT SCREAMS.
#bookqw #excerpt #romanticsuspense
#bookqw #excerpt #romanticsuspense
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Today's word: BLUE. Excerpt is from my romantic suspense novella SNOWDROP DREAMS, CHERRY THUMBPRINT SCREAMS.
#bookqw #excerpt #romanticsuspense
#bookqw #excerpt #romanticsuspense
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“I have always felt removed from [tuberculosis], as though it were a curious relic of medical history rather than a contemporary plague. But early in my first pregnancy…my own blood tested positive for TB.” —Pria Anand
The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand
As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“I have always felt removed from [tuberculosis], as though it were a curious relic of medical history rather than a contemporary plague. But early in my first pregnancy…my own blood tested positive for TB.” —Pria Anand
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‘Frost talked and wrote about what he called a poet’s “freedom of the material”, the freedom to “move about” within a wide range of reading, “to establish relations in it regardless of time and space”.’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings
Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
‘Frost talked and wrote about what he called a poet’s “freedom of the material”, the freedom to “move about” within a wide range of reading, “to establish relations in it regardless of time and space”.’
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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From Lexit to Reform. The reliably brilliant James Meek on Blyth.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
From Lexit to Reform. The reliably brilliant James Meek on Blyth.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal and cerebral.
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal and cerebral.
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No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
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Every Christmas, when I see Santa Claus for the first time, I always say, "Hi Santa, how long has it been?" And he always replies, “A year!
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Every Christmas, when I see Santa Claus for the first time, I always say, "Hi Santa, how long has it been?" And he always replies, “A year!
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One of my sister’s kids has just brought me two bottles of bourbon and said, "Here's your Christmas juice uncle Rob," and now she's the one I'm leaving everything to.
December 22, 2024 at 8:42 AM
One of my sister’s kids has just brought me two bottles of bourbon and said, "Here's your Christmas juice uncle Rob," and now she's the one I'm leaving everything to.
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Next January, Simon Winchester joins us @blackwells.bsky.social discussing 'The Breath of the Gods'
Tickets now on sale
Tickets now on sale
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Next January, Simon Winchester joins us @blackwells.bsky.social discussing 'The Breath of the Gods'
Tickets now on sale
Tickets now on sale
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Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
December 18, 2025 Holiday Issue
Table of Contents
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November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
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Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
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On this day in 1641, Nürnberg poet & jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, sent 3 polemic pamphlets on the Ottoman Empire to Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, which led to the publication of these remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing.
#otd #rarebooks
#otd #rarebooks
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On this day in 1641, Nürnberg poet & jurist Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, sent 3 polemic pamphlets on the Ottoman Empire to Calvinist Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, which led to the publication of these remarkable graphic and typographic artefacts, early examples of colour printing.
#otd #rarebooks
#otd #rarebooks
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It is a pleasure to present our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong. Almost 50 interesting #rarebooks #maps #manuscripts, etc, concerning Art, Asia, China, History, Linguistics, Music, Natural History, Religion, Science & Medicine, Trade, Travel & Exploration, and more. Check our website for more info.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It is a pleasure to present our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong. Almost 50 interesting #rarebooks #maps #manuscripts, etc, concerning Art, Asia, China, History, Linguistics, Music, Natural History, Religion, Science & Medicine, Trade, Travel & Exploration, and more. Check our website for more info.
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Random highlight from our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong: #firstedition (Venice, 1590) of famous work by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530-1600) on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts, bound in splendid gold-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil with arms of Prince d'Essling.
#rarebooks
#rarebooks
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Random highlight from our catalogue for #FirstsHongKong: #firstedition (Venice, 1590) of famous work by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1530-1600) on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts, bound in splendid gold-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil with arms of Prince d'Essling.
#rarebooks
#rarebooks
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Upcoming Events at Blackwell's, Oxford
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Upcoming Events at Blackwell's, Oxford
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Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
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If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
I’ll be back in #Oxford on Monday to talk about my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - at Blackwells bookshop. If you’re free at 5.30pm, it would be lovely to see you there. Tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victoria-b... #EconHist #womenwealthpower
Victoria Bateman ECONOMICA
Economica rewrites our understanding of women's role in the economy, and tells a more accurate economic history of us all.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
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Join us on Sunday 14th December at 11am for a free and festive morning with @acaseforbooks.bsky.social as she takes us back to Wonderland @blackwells.bsky.social
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Join us on Sunday 14th December at 11am for a free and festive morning with @acaseforbooks.bsky.social as she takes us back to Wonderland @blackwells.bsky.social
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
Anna will discuss the bestselling 'Alice with a Why' @harpercollins.bsky.social
Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1975814044...
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.
No matter where you are, laughter travels — discover three books that unite the world in humour.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: bit.ly/3K6WdB9
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal & cerebral. I loved them.