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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

If you're into antiques, country houses not open to the public and history this is the series for you. Angus Ashworth: Yorkshire Heritage Hero I was edit producer on it. Watch the joy that is programme 1, Newburgh Priory on Monday 24th November 9pm - Really, (Discovery)

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This is so beautiful: a Ukrainian soldier sent his wife sunflowers from the fields of Donbas — after coming back from the zero line. Photos: _kononchuk_annie_ threads.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

ANGELA LANSBURY - born 100yrs ago today - told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

21 August 1920 | A German Jewish woman, Susi Kreutzberger, was born in Katowice. She lived in Berlin. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Black and white photo of a woman with curled hair, resting chin on clasped hands, wearing a dark blouse with a white collar and a bracelet

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Darcy and Elizabeth appear to be completely incompatible. Is it possible they can every tie the knot? This is how everything conspires against them, particularly their own personalities. A Year of Jane Austen Part 2 of Pride & Prejudice open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

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Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 2 of 3

“Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility.

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Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 2 of 3

“Nothing is more deceitful,’ said Darcy, ‘than the appearance of humility.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 22/05/2025

I fucking love Stevie Nicks for this

“Is there internet on your iPhone?
It isn't connected, it's just a camera.
I'm envious of that.
I hate it. About 10 years ago, Katy Perry was talking to me about the internet armies of all the girl singers, and how cruel and rancid they were. I said, "Well, I wouldn't know because I'm not on the internet." She said,
"So, who are your rivals?" I just looked at her. It was my steely look. I said, "Katy, I don't have rivals. I have friends. All the other women singers that I know are friends. Nobody's competing. Get off the internet and you won't have rivals either."

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A Year of Jane Austen! Get your bonnet into a book, make sure it's written by Jane Austen, and in case you're wondering about some of the words she uses see below 👇 eastondrive.substack.com/p/janes-word...

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Jane's words: essay

Most of us dreaded the essay we had to write and to modern readers this word is likely to summon memories of school or university, particularly in relation to Jane Austen.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So here it is the Jane Austen novel everyone knows about Pride & Prejudice. My analysis on Substack: A Year of Jane Austen. It's only part 1 & an in depth assesment because there's absolutely no need to pander to the short attention spans! Subscribe! eastondrive.substack.com/p/pride-and-...

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Pride & Prejudice, analysis, part 1 of 3

What a superb opening chapter this novel has.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It's the big one! The one everyone's heard of. The one most people love. The one that gets discussed most. Pride & Prejudice

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 09/05/2025

“You just feel everything with Trump is about payback.” Tina Brown recalls how she watched Donald Trump turn from "a salmon colour to raging magenta" when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011 – and how that moment shaped his hatred for 'liberal media' articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq2LWZETiP...

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Tina Brown: Journalism ‘titan’ on the ‘dark’ world of Donald Trump and his hate for the press

Tina Brown, who became the editor of Tatler magazine at 25, tells The News Agents about the evolution of journalism during her 50-year career and how the negative impact of Donald Trump and social med...

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Yes. Go for it! We need a rebalancing

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Conduit Books @conduitbooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Submissions are open! Please send your novel, novella, short story collection or memoir to CONDUIT BOOKS via our website below. Subs close May 31st 2025. Looking forward to reading. Please RT to spread the word. www.conduitbooks.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's my decade long held opinion that many on the Brexit right are not really voting about migrants or EU membership or any of the other crap they purport to be about. They're voting against other people's joy.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Old Fox had been out since dawn with a stout willow basket gathering ingredients for his teas, tinctures & syrups, his wines, liniments & poultices. Elderflower, cow parsley, sweet woodruff, hawthorn, mallow, goose-grass & thundering great nettles full green of iron-spit-cure.

Country Lane in May, Andrea Bates (b.1943)

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What Willoughby said to Elinor that wasn't in the movie! Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

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Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3

Don't apologise, don't explain. Except Willougby does!

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

There are a lot of books I really don't want to read. Romantasy. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Domestic Noir Victorian Gothic. Up-lit. Life is too short and getting shorter.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Well, have we? I definitely detect celebrity fatigue as the basics become very expensive for most of us. The escapism of celeb watching is beginning to pall. Also 'Gremlins' is a great & under-rated movie open.substack.com/pub/annetteg...

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Have we fallen out of love with celebrities?

Watching Katy Perry gush about her trip into space - ‘I’m so proud of me!’ - turned my stomach.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Don't apologise, don't explain. Except Willoughby does both. The final part of my analysis of Sense & Sensibility. open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

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Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 3 of 3

Don't apologise, don't explain. Except Willougby does!

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

15 April 1945, 11th Armoured Division of British Army entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp+found 55,000 surviving prisoners. Directed by Sam Mendes, story of 2 soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis+Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation of Belsen At #BBCIplayer 👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Two - What They Found

A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We've reached the stage where even 'deep concern' is gone, while russia's genocide of Ukrainians escalates by the day. What a dark time to live in.

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Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My Sunday recommended Substack read, necessary words for all Austen aficionados: ⬇️

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My strawberries have woken up for Spring & are wasting no time!

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My weekend read - no not Jane Austen today - but this which is wonderful. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Which are you? Someone with lots of sense or someone who's all sensibility? Jane Austen did more than write rom-coms she had questions she wanted answered. Part 1 of my analysis of Sense & Sensibility open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

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Sense & Sensibility - analysis, part 1 of 3

Jane Austen has given herself a question to answer in Sense & Sensibility. Which of these two characteristics is it more important to possess?

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Not all my articles on A Year of Jane Austen are long, some are quick reads like this one, posted today open.substack.com/pub/eastondr...

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Jane's Heroes

The most famous of her heroes is, of course, Mr Darcy.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I started my Substack: A Year of Jane Austen 2 months ago. Since then I've had a wonderful response & loads of people reading it. I'm doing a deep dive into each of her books from a writer's pov, looking at what she's saying & how. Please retweet! eastondrive.substack.com/p/sense-and-...

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Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 2 of 3

For the inhabitants of Barton Cottage, the social scene in Devon is relentless.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

😢 Zelensky: 3-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital. 7-year-old Radyslav. Arina, who will also be 7 forever. 9-year-old German. 15-year-old Danylo. 15-year-old Nikita. 15-year-old Alina. Konstantin, who will be 16 forever. Nikita is 17 years old. Kryvyi Rih.

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Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Moscow killed Mike Yohansen in 1937 and banned his books. I never expected Washington to try to kill my translation of his best novel in 2025. Read @katetsurkan.bsky.social's latest for @kyivindependent.com on Trump's attack on Ukrainian literature in translation. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...

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Publishing house of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute latest target of Trump’s federal budget cuts

The future of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) publishing program is in jeopardy, as it has become the latest target of sweeping grant cuts under the administration of U.S. President Dona...

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Dear @ronanhession.bsky.social @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social @matthewpb.bsky.social @lizetkruyff.bsky.social Please Retweet my post below. I need all the help I can get & it's quite hard for writers to get anyone to do that.

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Sense & Sensibility, analysis, part 2 of 3

For the inhabitants of Barton Cottage, the social scene in Devon is relentless.

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AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy Publication day! Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.bsky.social Totally agree about identity politics - “There’s so much shit in the world. Entertain me, make me laugh and cry. But please don’t preach to me because I can’t bear it.” www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Kit de Waal: ‘If I see a book about identity, I’m not going to read it’

The novelist, memoirist and Women’s Prize judge tells Johanna Thomas-Corr about her dysfunctional childhood and how she turned her life round in her mid-fifties

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“Washington Square is a work of great genius” - Rebecca West To showcase this gem of a book, we commissioned the internationally acclaimed best-selling writer Colm Tóibín to pen a new introduction to a brand new edition. Out now, at manderleypress.com! #booksky #newbook #colmtoibin #henryjames

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