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Alex Hutchinson

@alexthearchivist.com
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Chocolate historian, author, broadcaster, archivist. Formerly the archivist at Nestle.co.uk, but now archiving at YorkshireTea.co.uk Published: HarperCollins.co.uk Rep'd: knightayton.co.uk Trustee: yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Or: alexthearchivist.com

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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 10/03/2025
Ah, you've picked the perfect location. Not too close to town, but not too far from St Helen's woods or the park. My primary school (Elphinstone) was just round the corner from Ore station. What's the literary scene like these days? Is it still thriving? When I was there it was chock full of poets.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 10/03/2025
Someone is tearing up a French manuscript from c.1637 and selling the pages on Etsy for scrapbooking. As an archivist, this is giving me nightmares. Are there any French historians out there who can reassure me this is a worthless copy...? www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/03/2025
Such a shame about the timing, but huge congratulations on both of those things! I grew up in Hastings in the 1990s and miss it terribly because it's wonderful. I'm envious of your move, but shall salve my envy with the enjoyment of going out and looking for your novel. Good luck with the move 🤞🏻
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 04/03/2025
Now why don't they make these anymore?!?
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 16/02/2025
It's hardly dropped any needles!
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 16/02/2025
Yes, my Christmas tree is still up. Thanks for asking.
A three foot live fir tree (or is it a spruce?) which I got in a pot in Lidl at the end of November 2024. In the icy cold of my living room the tree has thrived. I've taken down the Christmas decorations, but left up a string of warm white lights. It is sitting on a box in front of a set of bookshelves which are home to the complete works of Charles Dickens, whose writing I love, but whose life I despair of.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 09/02/2025
Susanna Clarke is going to be at the York Literature Festival next month. I'm going to see her speak!
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
You can also use the 'pin' emoji. 📌
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
Two of my all-time favourite books!!! We're clearly soul mates. What are your feelings toward I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith?
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
Excellent! Thank you, I'm going to look up all of these.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
Sally Lockhart, trying to put her troubled past behind her after her fiancé's death, has settled ...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best F...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. T...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
Why stories make us human and how to tell them better.There have been many attempts to understand...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how A...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold
In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the g...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
All children mythologize their birth…So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's col...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel concerning a modern police officer's investigation...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
If you need inspiration, these are some of the books which have kept me turning the pages with anticipation or fascination over the last few years: app.thestorygraph.com/books/b5f945...
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The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey
When the 9th Duke of Rutland died alone in the cramped family archives on April 21, 1940, his son...
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
Paging #BOOKSKY This is an open call for book recommendations so gripping I won't be able to think about anything else. Preferably books available both in print and on Audible. I'll read anything, but I'm not keen on visceral suffering right now. Life is throwing me lemons, please send lemonade.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 08/02/2025
We have a literary festival here in York @yorklitfest.bsky.social If you would be so kind 🙏🏻
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 25/01/2025
But you have to pronounce it like Timothy Dalton. youtu.be/iYscVj9MMlE?...
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Brains' Faggots advert - 1984
YouTube video by Fishy Fish
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 25/01/2025
The Painted Veil. The ending to the book was clumsy and made me wonder if the author had in fact ever met any women. The altered story in the film was heartbreaking, finely crafted, elegant.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 19/01/2025
Wishing you the biggest life and the best year in 2025 x
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 18/01/2025
Always worth the trip. Don't know what I want? They'll curate a shortlist of bangers and show me to a chair.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 11/01/2025
"Whee! Magic Eee!"
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 09/01/2025
I can recommend Signal. Fewer scammers and spammers than Telegram. Although my ideal would be a return of the penny post, obvs.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 09/01/2025
Yes, mine is sending articles from the Guardian but he's on two other messaging apps instead of WhatsApp, so now I need eight different messaging apps installed to keep up with all my relatives and pass messages between them. I'm ready for the yogurt pots and string 😵‍💫🤯🤡
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 09/01/2025
Isn't WhatsApp owned by FB/Insta? My dad has boycotted it 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 04/01/2025
Oh, thank god. The 2020s have been brutal enough.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 04/01/2025
Wait?! What's happened to the Radio Times?!? It's not going online only, is it? That would truly signal the end times 😰
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 04/01/2025
I once worked on a project with Nestle to calculate the distance cocoa aroma could travel from their factory based on weather conditions. On a warm dry day the aroma would rise and travel on the breeze for miles, but in these conditions it would settle over the factory. Aroma is vapour, apparently.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 31/12/2024
Also, Sir Alec isn't a man, he's a god.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 31/12/2024
In that case I really should have recognised it, I'm only down the road in York! Scarborough is very like Hastings. I recommend the latter; you've given me a new appreciation of the former.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 31/12/2024
Completely gorgeous. That's not Hastings castle over there on the left, is it?
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 28/12/2024
Am I the only person who thinks this cat looks like Thomas Brodie-Sangster?
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 28/12/2024
She is incredible. I'm glad she's with someone who appreciates her, and the opportunities offered by alt text.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 26/12/2024
They originally contained a Brazil nut. The nut was changed to a hazelnut after the Second World War but no one is quite certain when, because the date of the change was not recorded in the company archives.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 24/12/2024
Erm... I think you'll find the Ninja Foodi combined pressure cooker air fryer is a God and not an oven. This is my grievance aired, Happy Festivus! (Seriously, though, it's more amazing than God)
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 24/12/2024
Happy Cheesemas to all who celebrate.
A barrel of KP Cheese Footballs photographed in front of a real Christmas tree decorated with plumb coloured strings of beads, lights, and a a string of oak leaves. In the top corner of the photo is a glimpse of some hardback Dickens novels on a bookshelf. I bet Dickens would have loved Cheese Footballs. They really are the meaning of Christmas.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 24/12/2024
I think you'll find it's Christmas Adam. It's in the Bible 😆
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 18/12/2024
Fellow archivists, have you ever seen anything more adorable than this? I'd have *loved* this when I was a toddler!
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 17/12/2024
This is excellent, thank you!
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 17/12/2024
You can mute words on Bluesky?! I need to know how to mute football. I don't understand how I see so much of it in my feed!
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 15/12/2024
Noticed too late that you're not in the UK. This will still work if you have WiFi and plug sockets. You just have to Google the relevant plugs for your outlets.
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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · 15/12/2024
Although the Echo Pop is reduced to £18.99 right now so it's cheaper than a second hand Flex. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18683876...
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<p>This Amazon Echo Flex smart home device is the perfect addition to any home. With voice control capabilities and compatibility with both universal and Amazon brands, this speaker is a must-have for...
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