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Bookishwonder

@bookishwonder.bsky.social
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Library systems bod, local history, industrial history, printed ephemera. South Yorkshire wanderer.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think you can get a better measure of Dolly than how she was brought up in a house were some of her siblings couldn't read, so she set up a foundation where literally anyone could sign-up to have a curated, age-appropriate book, delivered to their children until they entered kindergarten.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
An excellent new resource from @uoscollections.bsky.social! We're looking forward to exploring the catalogue and developing links between the Arthur Scargill Archive and the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers archives (full NUM catalogue available in the next couple of months!)
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/01/2026
Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.
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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Also hat tip to Parkway Cinema for their 70mm screenings. Making #Barnsley the only place (in England) outside of LDN to show this highest definition format. #bluesky
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New website trove.scot brings together 335,000 records + 1.2 million images relating to designated sites and culturally significant objects in #Scotland, from 4 existing websites. This FutureScot article has background info; Help with your research has tips on using the new site. #OnePlaceWednesday
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Three million historic records spanning 5,000 years of Scottish history made available online in new digital platform | FutureScot
Three million records spanning 5,000 years of Scottish history have been made available in a new national records digital portal
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HelpSheffield @helpsheffield.co.uk · 17/01/2025
#SheffEvents #060225
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Reminder of the kindness of strangers and hope in our common humanity.
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Members of the best club in town? The Sheffield District Rollers' & Tilters' Association (20th Century trade association) #Sheffield #steel #industrialhistory
List of members of the Sheffield District Rollers' & Tilters' Association, a mid-20th Cent trade association of the iron and steel trades.
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Elsecar in the (melting) snow #NotQuiteSnowmageddon #November #WinterCame
Rail cleaning train (loco on each end with compressed tanks blasting the rail) rockets through Elsecar Railway 19/11/24Descending through a winter wonderland of melting snow, Elsecar station 19/11/24Melty-white wonders await. Elsecar Station 19/11/24
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Tokenism, technology and trade. The 2nd electric vehicle exported from Messrs Immisch & Co., Kentish Town, London to Abdul Hamid II's court in the Ottoman Empire, in 1890. Copying the underpowered 'original' of Magnus Volk in Brighton of 1887. #EV
Engraving of an Immisch Electric vehicle a very early 1890 battery powered three-wheeled dogcart. All soid cartwheels. Front wheel, free-pivoting, steered by a 'tiller', two fixed rear wheels, although their shared axle appears to have a crude differential.Wood engraving by John Swain published in The Engineer journal, from photograph of Magnus Volk and two young family members in an electric dogcart built in Brighton in 1887.
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Nostalgia from native lands. Gentle teasing of #Darfield from a local autograph book a century ago. No pit and no trains now, but new literary light and poetic love is daily sprinkled in the morning strolls of @imcmillan.bsky.social
Sing a song of Darfield, a song of Darfield Main,
See the soot and sewage from the Darfield Urban Drain;
If you've been there once, you never will again,
When the water's overflowing, and you've missed the only train
A.R.H. 18/3/1924
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Bookishwonder @bookishwonder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Some light and darkness in South Yorkshire to start with.
Oddly satisfying evening skyline of Sheffield from the Sheffield station tram stop. Station lights peek out beneath a dark canopy at the bottom. Then silhouettes of unlovely buildings punctuated by oblong lights. All beneath a blue-purple sky.Daytime street scene in the South Yorkshire town of Hoyland. Cream painted late Victorian stone and brick buildings, with modern signs and shutters. Car park and bollards to the right, double yellow lines running down the road and a glimpse of the green tree-topped hillside of Wentworth beyond.Autumnal tree colours, brown. orange yellow and green, and long shadows left to right from an avenues of trees and departing visitors walking along the path away from Wentworth Woodhouse. The last blast of bright low sunlight raking across the parklands beneath darkening grey clouds.Landscaped earth beneath the pond bridge at Wentworth. Newly-moved but dry grey mud bank, seeded but still sterile, forming a new embankment, appearing to 'beach' the bridge.
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