Sue Wilkes
@suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
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Sue Wilkes
@suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Amazon.co.uk: Sue Wilkes: 9781036113834: Books
Buy Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Sue Wilkes (ISBN: 9781036113834) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
A reminder that my latest release is now in stock on Amazon, too! www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Worker... #childlabour
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I’ve written for the FT on art and AI. Can we use it to find lost Rembrandts? www.ft.com/content/8f07...
Is AI killing the art connoisseur?
Such specialists are an endangered species but computer attribution is often wrong — and can be out by as much as a century
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’ve written for the FT on art and AI. Can we use it to find lost Rembrandts? www.ft.com/content/8f07...
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Three Pots of Tulips - 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9947
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9947
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Three Pots of Tulips - 1883
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9947
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9947
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One of at least seven Humpback Whales off the south Mainland of Shetland today. Amazing!
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of at least seven Humpback Whales off the south Mainland of Shetland today. Amazing!
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
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Roll of honour. St. Wendreda’s Church, March, Cambridgeshire. First World War. #LestWeForget
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Roll of honour. St. Wendreda’s Church, March, Cambridgeshire. First World War. #LestWeForget
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November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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A Skylark serenade 🪶🎶
The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small brown bird, with a small crest
It is a widespread species found across Europe and the Palearctic with introduced populations in Oceania and Hawaii
Video by Lawrence Chatton [FB]
Filmed in the Richmond Park, UK
#birds #singing #nature
The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small brown bird, with a small crest
It is a widespread species found across Europe and the Palearctic with introduced populations in Oceania and Hawaii
Video by Lawrence Chatton [FB]
Filmed in the Richmond Park, UK
#birds #singing #nature
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Reading Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and came across this fabulous aside in the introduction, that King Lear was ‘kept off the stage in Regency England lest audiences made comparisons between mad King Lear on the stage and mad King George on the throne’.
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reading Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and came across this fabulous aside in the introduction, that King Lear was ‘kept off the stage in Regency England lest audiences made comparisons between mad King Lear on the stage and mad King George on the throne’.
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Interesting article on the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on archival materials I catalogued at the British Library (as well as later papers still held at the Fund's offices): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n....
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers
Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Interesting article on the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on archival materials I catalogued at the British Library (as well as later papers still held at the Fund's offices): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n....
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#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.
theconversation.com/fifty-years-...
#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
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Great repeat display on the restored #woodbridgetidemillmuseum by #woodbridgefestivalofartandmusic last night
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great repeat display on the restored #woodbridgetidemillmuseum by #woodbridgefestivalofartandmusic last night
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This is Arthur's O'on, a large stone building that stood at Carron in Scotland. Thought by many to be a Roman temple or mausoleum, it because associated with the legend of King Arthur and his round table. Tragically, it was demolished in 1743 and its stones used to build a dam. #RomanSiteSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is Arthur's O'on, a large stone building that stood at Carron in Scotland. Thought by many to be a Roman temple or mausoleum, it because associated with the legend of King Arthur and his round table. Tragically, it was demolished in 1743 and its stones used to build a dam. #RomanSiteSaturday
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We want your views, memories, stories and photos! Stromness Museum are considering taking on the Flaws Pier and Yole Building next door to keep it in community ownership, but would love to hear your thoughts first. Please reply or email [email protected]
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We want your views, memories, stories and photos! Stromness Museum are considering taking on the Flaws Pier and Yole Building next door to keep it in community ownership, but would love to hear your thoughts first. Please reply or email [email protected]
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Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
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As #Rowvember ends, meet the people who keep the Rows thriving!
We chatted with business owners about life in these medieval galleries. This festive season, support the independent shops, cafés & businesses that make the Rows special.
Discover their stories 🎄✨
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
We chatted with business owners about life in these medieval galleries. This festive season, support the independent shops, cafés & businesses that make the Rows special.
Discover their stories 🎄✨
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
As #Rowvember ends, meet the people who keep the Rows thriving!
We chatted with business owners about life in these medieval galleries. This festive season, support the independent shops, cafés & businesses that make the Rows special.
Discover their stories 🎄✨
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
We chatted with business owners about life in these medieval galleries. This festive season, support the independent shops, cafés & businesses that make the Rows special.
Discover their stories 🎄✨
#RowvemberChester #ChesterRows
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The remains of Peel turret at Steel Rigg on #HadriansWall was an extra addition to the wall dating to the late 2nd Century AD but was short lived. The view shows in the foreground how the wall was rebuilt and narrowed during the reign of Septimius Severus #archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The remains of Peel turret at Steel Rigg on #HadriansWall was an extra addition to the wall dating to the late 2nd Century AD but was short lived. The view shows in the foreground how the wall was rebuilt and narrowed during the reign of Septimius Severus #archaeology
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I don't think it's particularly technophobic or luddite to dislike food delivery robots esp on first encounter. They raise questions. Are they safe for kids + the infirm? Is someone going to coopt them for covert surveillance? It's fairly human to find non human apparent autonomy unsettling, no?
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don't think it's particularly technophobic or luddite to dislike food delivery robots esp on first encounter. They raise questions. Are they safe for kids + the infirm? Is someone going to coopt them for covert surveillance? It's fairly human to find non human apparent autonomy unsettling, no?
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Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
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Sorting out my reviews folder and found these cover shots of recent issues of the Burlington Magazine that I've contributed to. Meanwhile, the current issue explores the latest findings about the work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sorting out my reviews folder and found these cover shots of recent issues of the Burlington Magazine that I've contributed to. Meanwhile, the current issue explores the latest findings about the work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
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Everyone is posting about the EUP sale but another hot tip is that it also applies to paperback pre-orders, for example Sara Crangle's two-volume study of Mina Loy edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethere...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Everyone is posting about the EUP sale but another hot tip is that it also applies to paperback pre-orders, for example Sara Crangle's two-volume study of Mina Loy edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethere...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
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We kick off this year's #ExploreYourArchive Week with the theme #EYAConservation. A Chinese star chart bound within a manuscript has recently been conserved by our Book Conservator with Japanese paper & jin shofu paste. Can you see the difference before and after conservation? 🌟 [Ref: MS Hunter 10]
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We kick off this year's #ExploreYourArchive Week with the theme #EYAConservation. A Chinese star chart bound within a manuscript has recently been conserved by our Book Conservator with Japanese paper & jin shofu paste. Can you see the difference before and after conservation? 🌟 [Ref: MS Hunter 10]
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The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December.
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December.
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
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Gun Rith.
Standing stones in West Penwith
Standing stones in West Penwith
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Gun Rith.
Standing stones in West Penwith
Standing stones in West Penwith
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We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...