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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again I remind you that the Duchess of Atholl got there first (Red Duchess is available where you get your books etc etc etc)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Alice Thomson’s column today. The Tories are on their fourth female leader.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love this. It was not easy to explain to the 7yo though 😂

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This Alexa Shopping List has appeared alongside the two Amazon lists I created. I don’t have an Alexa. I’ve never had an Alexa. I don’t ever plan to have an Alexa. But I don’t seem to be able to delete the list.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The #GBBO sweepstake I ran at one job was excellent. Everyone drew a contestant’s name, and in the week following their exit you had to bring homemade baked goods into the office. There were more people in our team than contestants so we had at least 3 cakes a week.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think I thought that this was already the case. So if it isn’t, it should be.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Northern enough that I know what pea wet is; not so northern that I’ve ever actually tried it

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is apex children’s publishing and you cannot tell me otherwise.””

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I used to use King’s Hall in Hackney a lot. It was pretty grotty & needs this investment. But it had a completely mixed ‘changing village’ which was awful. I always felt unsafe. Hope they’re putting separate women/men/mixed spaces in.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Rev Husband is watching the (v bad) Masters of the Universe film which has prompted me to find a picture of the She-Ra dentist sticker I had on my bed for most of my childhood

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is a terrible line from the LCC. “Cyclists tend to run reds when they feel delayed unreasonably”?!?!

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I really wanted to watch this but the Channel 5 app on our TV doesn’t show live programmes. And we don’t have TNT Sports or HBO Max. Guess the only bit of the Commonwealth Games I’m going to see is when we’re actually at Hampden Park next week.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When did the work start? More importantly, when will it finish? I wish all councils put this info on playground closure signs. And, given it’s needed doing for at least a year, why on earth is Cambridge council doing it during the summer holidays?

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Janice Turner is spot on today about why Labour is about to get its 20th male leader, while the Tories are on their 4th woman.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So the whole of an adult woman’s life then. Cool. Or very much not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My experience was the same as @orlandobird.bsky.social: full marks on the driving theory test, several (ahem) attempts to pass the practical

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you’re an Oxbridge English graduate who *hasn’t* read every Shakespeare play then you did it wrong. (Yes I am, and yes I have.)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A lot of ice cream/lolly discourse today thanks to @yougov.co.uk. Evening plans made now that I’ve found these (not ice lollies) under all the low sugar fruity kids’ ice lollies in the freezer.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Went through King's Cross last night. Of course the water fountain was broken.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cambridge City Council announces its new summer strategy for filling potholes

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Me on why there's plenty of historical precedent for the Pokemon trails happening at National Trust properties this summer - why not celebrate a great British/Japanese tie in instead of being sniffy about something that's popular? spectator.com/article/the-...

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This was in trying to explain what the cartoon is about (a daily question)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is what the Times Diary is for.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

When Polanski is a chaotic mess who can’t sort out his own council tax or registering to vote, how can he possibly be trusted?

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I remember the Gillian Duffy day during the 2010 general election. At CCHQ we put down our Blackberries, sat back from our desks and watched the disaster unfold.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Doesn’t quite trip off the tongue and geographically incoherent. Well done that branding team.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“What are some environmental energy things we can do?” Scotty asks an AI in the latest Beano. I was not expecting the response!

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My piece in today's @scotsman.com on why we should remember the Red Duchess (with thanks to my in laws, who bought me the print paper this morning!)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Some relaxing reading just arrived on Libby.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Only one of them is a king. And the other one isn’t. Hugo Rifkind on great form today.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

At last! A report which doesn’t just blame women

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Absolutely love this story about Queen Victoria

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

For #womenshistorymonth, here are some of the best books by women about women which I drew on when writing Red Duchess. Eleanor Rathbone, Edith Summerskill & Thelma Cazalet-Keir are all fascinating. (There's no biog of Florence Horsburgh & there really ought to be, for anyone in search of a subject)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Had the biggest silliest grin on my face throughout the Horrible Histories live show this afternoon - and amazed the cast are doing it all again at 5.30!

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Interested that Netanyahu has oh so casually placed Tim Bouverie’s Allies at War here. Does he think he’s Churchill? Who is Stalin? Trump is no FDR for sure

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Went to talk to my son’s Beavers troop for their Book Readers Badge. Their attention was most grabbed by the REAL SCOTTISH CASTLE where I did my research and they urgently wanted to know WAS IT EVER *ATTACKED*. (They were pleased the answer was yes, but disappointed it was not with catapults.)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

After the Burning of Westminster in 1834, William IV offered Buckingham Palace (which he hated) to Parliament. They turned him down.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Vernon Bartlett has possibly the best ever picture in any MP’s memoir, of the Westminster Home Guard. Duchess Kitty’s husband, the 8th Duke of Atholl (a retd Brig-Gen) volunteered until he became too ill. That is actually a brilliant scenario for a Dad’s Army reboot….

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Right there on the back cover of ‘I Know What I Liked’! He says he wrote two books about his attempt to become a farmer there, ‘Tuscan Retreat’ and ‘Tuscan Harvest’.

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Spotted in the Parliamentary shop off Westminster Hall this week. I signed all the Red Duchesses, in case you're looking for a gift for the discerning politico in your life... (Also what a thrill be on the same shelf as Mary Beard, Kate Mosse and Philippa Gregory!)

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Had an event in Parliament yesterday and was thrilled to see Red Duchess in the Westminster Hall giftshop. I signed them all, in case anyone's looking for a good gift.... 😉

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Isn’t King *in* the North the Game of Thrones title? Which is subtly different and I think perhaps better

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My grandmother once cooked a stuffed marrow so inedible that our family still remembers it 35 years later. She was of the ‘meat isn’t properly cooked unless it’s dark brown all the way through’ school.

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