Karen Campbell
@writerkcampbell.bsky.social
Book writer. Scottish. European. www.karencampbell.scot
Amazing night to celebrate 30 years of the English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden. Thanks to Jan and all his brilliant team for such kind hospitality.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Amazing night to celebrate 30 years of the English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden. Thanks to Jan and all his brilliant team for such kind hospitality.
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An updated list of prizes is here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An updated list of prizes is here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
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We had a great morning at Glasgow Central station handing out free copies of 'Friendship' for #BookWeekScotland! 📚
Catch us again tomorrow at Edinburgh Waverley from 8am! Thanks to Scotrail for having us🚆
Catch us again tomorrow at Edinburgh Waverley from 8am! Thanks to Scotrail for having us🚆
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We had a great morning at Glasgow Central station handing out free copies of 'Friendship' for #BookWeekScotland! 📚
Catch us again tomorrow at Edinburgh Waverley from 8am! Thanks to Scotrail for having us🚆
Catch us again tomorrow at Edinburgh Waverley from 8am! Thanks to Scotrail for having us🚆
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Today and every day the @scottishgreens.org stand with our refugee and migrant neighbours.
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Today and every day the @scottishgreens.org stand with our refugee and migrant neighbours.
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Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
Delighted to be in this illustrious line up! Good folk of Wishaw - hope to see some of you this Tuesday 😊
Have a look at our #BookWeekScotland line-up and tell us who you would most like to see. See the line-up here: culturenl.co.uk/bws
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Delighted to be in this illustrious line up! Good folk of Wishaw - hope to see some of you this Tuesday 😊
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Bella is supported only by its readers. We don’t have corporate backers and we don’t take advertising, so we rely entirely on your support. Please give whatever you can. Make a small monthly donation and support independent Scottish journalism pay.gocardless.com/billing/stat...
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Bella is supported only by its readers. We don’t have corporate backers and we don’t take advertising, so we rely entirely on your support. Please give whatever you can. Make a small monthly donation and support independent Scottish journalism pay.gocardless.com/billing/stat...
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Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
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We’re officially mid-way through #BFLAOpenWeek!
Today’s Question of the Day: What would you love to see on submission? What’s top of your wishlist?
📖✏️📖✏️
All our agents share the books they want to see in their inboxes – and you read even more at blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op...!
Today’s Question of the Day: What would you love to see on submission? What’s top of your wishlist?
📖✏️📖✏️
All our agents share the books they want to see in their inboxes – and you read even more at blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op...!
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We’re officially mid-way through #BFLAOpenWeek!
Today’s Question of the Day: What would you love to see on submission? What’s top of your wishlist?
📖✏️📖✏️
All our agents share the books they want to see in their inboxes – and you read even more at blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op...!
Today’s Question of the Day: What would you love to see on submission? What’s top of your wishlist?
📖✏️📖✏️
All our agents share the books they want to see in their inboxes – and you read even more at blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op...!
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Poverty is a policy area that is highly responsive to policy change. We know what works. In Scotland, where families on a low-income receive £26.70 per child per week, poverty rates have been falling. This contrasts to increase in child poverty everywhere else in UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
What Scotland’s policies can teach Westminster about fighting poverty | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The economic choices the Chancellor sets out in the Autumn Statement should be based on evidence of what works and should apply to all those needing support
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Poverty is a policy area that is highly responsive to policy change. We know what works. In Scotland, where families on a low-income receive £26.70 per child per week, poverty rates have been falling. This contrasts to increase in child poverty everywhere else in UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Mark your calendars!
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Mark your calendars!
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
Islay Book Festival 2026 will take place from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th August. 🎉
We have been busy planning ahead for our next festival after the success of 2025. We can’t wait to share updates with you soon…
📚❤️
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We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Looking forward to this! Come and say hello if you're about 😊
We can't wait to welcome you and author @writerkcampbell.bsky.social to #WishawLib on Tuesday 18 November, 7pm as we continue our #BookWeekScotland activities.
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
Book a free place now here: culturenl.co.uk/kcBWS
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Looking forward to this! Come and say hello if you're about 😊
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ICYMI: Come along to our Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
ICYMI: Come along to our Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
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Our #BFLAOpenWeek returns NEXT WEEK (10th – 14th Nov): 5 days of FREE tips, advice and insight on getting published – and more. We can’t wait! For a reminder about what’s on offer, visit our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op.... 📚📝
Blake Friedmann Open Week returns! — Blake Friedmann
Our Open Week is back! After an exciting and busy 2025, we’re pleased to be reopening our virtual doors next month with a week (Monday 10th – Friday 14th of November) dedicated to demystifying publish...
blakefriedmann.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our #BFLAOpenWeek returns NEXT WEEK (10th – 14th Nov): 5 days of FREE tips, advice and insight on getting published – and more. We can’t wait! For a reminder about what’s on offer, visit our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/bfla-op.... 📚📝
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The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action.
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!
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"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
'From beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre has proved not even princes are untouchable'
Virginia Giuffre has proved that not even princes are untouchable. From beyond the grave, she is doing her best to ensure nobody else is ever…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
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And just like that we're officially counting down to Christmas! Our Christmas elves have been busy getting out Christmas cards, advent calendars, advent books, decorations & of course gorgeous gifts! Tis the season to shop local! #shoplocal #christmasiscoming #adventcalendar
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And just like that we're officially counting down to Christmas! Our Christmas elves have been busy getting out Christmas cards, advent calendars, advent books, decorations & of course gorgeous gifts! Tis the season to shop local! #shoplocal #christmasiscoming #adventcalendar
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October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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2 weeks to go, and the seats are nearly all gone!
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
2 weeks to go, and the seats are nearly all gone!
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899
Join us in @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social on the 13th November for our Nae Borders comedy fundraiser.
Book your tickets now before there's none left!
🎟 booking.glee.co.uk/22899