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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

May Storey, a mysterious sleuth of the 1930s, was born #onthisday in 1895, in Camperdown, North #Tyneside – or was she? thehistorypress.co.uk/article/sleu... Private Inquiries is out in paperback on Thursday lnk.to/PrivateInqui... #womenshistory #truecrime #femalesleuths #femaledetectives

image of detective May Storey in trenchcoat and trilby, and front cover of Private Inquiries showing detective Zena Scott Archer

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Lady crooks n' Forty Elephants tips! @caitlindavies.bsky.social's ace book Queens of the Underworld, @sophiemhistory.bsky.social research for @lucyworsley.bsky.social Lady Swindlers, @hallierubenhold.bsky.social advised on #AThousandBlows. Brian McDonald on Alice Diamond - has family connections.

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Zena Scott-Archer died #onthisday in 2011, aged 90. Her obituary described her as ‘widow of the late David Archer’, with no mention of her own career as the world’s leading female sleuth. Pic: Zena's family collection. #privatedetectives #femalesleuths #womenshistory #privateinquiries #truecrime

black and white portrait of Zena Scott-Archer in the late 1940s

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Thanet Women & Girls’ Network @thanet-w-g-network.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Open letter to Leader of Kent County Council, Cllr Linden Kemkaran and Chief Executive Amanda Beer Dear Cllr Kemkaran and Ms Beer, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern about the recent motion regarding violence against women and girls (VAWG), put to Kent County Council (KCC) ~~>

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

#Onthisday in 1861 #AgnesBeckwith was born in #London (her father came from #Ramsgate). She went on to become Champion Lady Swimmer of the World, starting off with a record breaking #Thames swim at the age of 14. She's pictured here during a show at the Royal Aquarium. #championwomen #womenshistory

cover of novel Daisy Belle showing victorian swimmer Agnes Beckwith in satin performing costume

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

August 1851: #Dickens publishes 'Our English Watering Place', his ode to #Broadstairs, written while staying at #BleakHouse. ‘In the Autumn-time of the year, when the great metropolis is..so much more disturbing and distracting in all respects...a quiet sea-beach becomes indeed a blessed spot.’

cover of Our English Watering Place, showing Viking Bay and Bleak House

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you're enjoying #bookish on TV, set in #london in 1946 featuring a bookseller who helps solve crimes, you might enjoy the story of a REAL private detective from the exact same time and place, the one and only 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes', Annette Kerner 🔎 #femaledetectives #womenshistory #truecrime

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Strange question. Is domestic violence 'funny'?

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Queen Victoria arrives at Broadstairs Dickens Festival, celebrating its 88th year today 🎩 #dickens #charlesdickens #broadstairs #dickensfestival #thanet

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

lovely chatting to #WritersRoutine about my...writing routine. And especially switching back and forth between #novels and #nonfiction. Podcast here www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEy...

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

stairway down to heaven in the #algarve, if my knees were up to it ... #swimming

steep set of steps leading down a cliff to the sea in the Algarve, Portugal

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Queens of the Underworld @caitlindavies.bsky.social (History Press, '21) has just arrived in the post! I'm also really enjoying this delicious large book about the 1860s carte de visite craze, Cartomania - Photography and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century - (September, '24) by Paul Frecker! 🌻📚

Yellow and black cover of book Queens of the Underworld A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks by Caitlin Davies. It shows a lady crook looking cool and having a drink. Book is on top of my modern reproduction/rip off of 1970s M&S yellow and brown floral duvet cover.

Spine of sage green large hardback book show 1860s photo card of a young Black kid and authors name and book title.

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Ramsgate Harbour with some of the Dunkirk Little Ships that took part in #OperationDynamo in May 1940, rescuing over 300,000 troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. In the foreground is a cockle boat from #Leigh-on-Sea, Essex #dunkirklittleships #ramsgate

green blue waters of ramsgate harbour with a few small boats

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#margates old #lido, originally the 1820s Clifton Baths, renamed in the 1930s, sadly disused since the 1970s

Old lido in margate, LIDO written in red down white tower

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Georgie Bowden @georgiebowden.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Bee fly and primrose.

A brown Bee fly hovering like a hummingbird and drinking nectar from a yellow primrose.

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Love Cliftonville @lovecliftonville.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The Walpole Bay tidal pool is closed for maintenance until Friday 2 May. It is so unusual seeing the tidal pool almost empty of water! #walpolebaytidalpool #walpolebay #tidalpool #cliftonville #margate

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

North Foreland #lighthouse, #broadstairs looks particularly glorious today 💡

North Foreland lighthouse, white walls against a blue sky

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Vote for Joanne, a brilliant councilor (and to prevent Reform)

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Private Inquiries: The Secret History of Female Sleuths, a bestseller & currently just 99p.... www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals?... #womenshistory #feministhistory #privatedetectives #privateinquiries #truecrime #femalesleuths #missmarple #sherlockholmes

cover of Private Inquiries showing PI Zena Scott Archer leaning out of a car window with a 1950s camera

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Looking forward to talking about the history of #London's criminal women at SalonfortheCity, such as Lilian Goldstein aka the 1920s Bobbed Haired Bandit & a member of the 40 Elephants salonforthecity.blogspot.com #womenshistory #truecrime #athousandblows #queensoftheunderworld #feministcriminology

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A petition started by Barry Stickings to keep the #Broadstairs lift open all year round - right now, when it's supposed to be open, it's closed for 'maintenance', preventing so many people from access to the beach chng.it/Kq84NLWNMZ #beachaccess #broadstairs

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Dickens House Museum #broadstairs reopened for the season today, ready to once again welcome visitors from all over the world 🔥 These Dickens baubles are hand-painted and decoupaged onto ceramic - one of many items in their very busy gift shop...🎁 #dickenshousemuseum #dickensgifts #charlesdickens

small ceramic baubles decorated with Dickensian images

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

authors need the power to permit and be paid, exactly! it's hard enough to earn a living as it is, especially for those just starting out ✒️ #metabookthieves

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Kathleen Jones @kathleengjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Me too. I'm mad as hell and out for legal action.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

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AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

1pm Thursday. Granary Square, King's Cross. Join a peaceful protest against the #MetaBookThieves who stole millions of books to train AI. Authors and readers unite following the biggest abuse of British literary copyright in history. Lisa Nandy please say something. www.change.org/p/protect-au...

Image of a mask with #MetaBookThieves below. Details of the meet at 1pm kings Cross granary square. "They stole our books to train AI now it's time to #DoTheWriteThing

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Meta appears to have got its hands on quite a few of my books - including ones in translation (Dutch) - according to the search box provided by The Atlantic. Tomorrow is a day of action - and hopefully everyday after that... 🔥 #metabookthieves #makeitfair #thewritinglife

LibGen search box, showing 17 results under the name Caitlin Davies

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances is at Colchester until 9 March. Leonora was expelled from an Essex convent, and the county welcomes her back by mixing her work with local witchcraft relics, Mexican artefacts and pieces by her friends inc. Lee Miller and Max Ernst. Wow. tinyurl.com/2s4akd78

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Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances - Firstsite

Step into the magical and mystical world of Leonora Carrington, the British-Mexican painter and novelist, in her debut exhibition in the East of England.

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'm excited to be taking up the post of Writer in Residence at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, as part of the Royal Literary Fund's brilliant social sector scheme which offers free, confidential writing skills help to NHS staff. #amwriting

screen grab of video from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust website showing NHS staff member

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If anyone's interested in the historical background to #athousandblows, #dopegirls or #acruellove, the real women on whom these series are based are all in #badgirls - the only comprehensive history of #hollowayprison - from #thefortyelephants to #katemeyrick and #ruthellis

cover of Bad Girls, history of Holloway Prison, showing a woman peering out of a broken window

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m watching various documentaries for World Maths Day and Hank is utterly hypnotised by this film on infinity. Maybe he is assembling the relevant knowledge to build his spaceship back home.

A chocolate brown oriental cat transfixed by A Trip To Infinity (Jonathan Halperin and Drew Takahashi, 2022)

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

How to spot when someone's got a good novel in them 👇 #amwriting

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Victoria Claflin (1838-1927), was a leader in the women's suffrage movement and the first woman to run for president of the US in 1872. She was an advocate for the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children without social restrictions or government interference for women. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Interested in the real story of female sleuths? The History Press are offering 40% off selected eBooks in celebration of Women's History Month 👍 🔎 thehistorypress.co.uk/collection/w... #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #femalesleuths #privatedetectives #privateinquiries #agathachristie

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What a lovely pink house - houseboat? boathouse? - in Folkestone Harbour #folkestoneharbour #pinkhouses

Folkestone Harbour at low tide, pink boat and pink house

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

'Perfugium Miseris' - a 'refuge for those in need', carved into the beautiful Georgian lighthouse at Ramsgate harbour, a tribute to those who lost their lives at sea #ramsgate #visitthanet #lighthouses #kenthistory

small 18th century harbour lighthouse at Ramsgate, Kent, stone with red door and lantern

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Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the real historical characters behind #AThousandBlows 👇 #MaryCarr was a pickpocket & blackmailer (she didn't carry a gun or organise Harrods shoplifting), #AliceDiamond led the #40Elephants an all female crime syndicate in the early 1900s

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Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Only a month until our next *free* online seminar! We'll be considering why we take our British #seaside resorts for granted and if we should recognise their value as (potential) world #heritage sites. seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/british-seaside-resorts-as-world-heritage-

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