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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you for sharing. I had no idea this page existed!

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you very much for this mention :)

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see M. John Harrison on the Booker shortlist. We were honoured to have him contribute to A Personal Anthology, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, with some writers you'll expect, some you won't and some you just love to see: apersonalanthology.com/category/m-j...

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M John Harrison (as editor) – A Personal Anthology

M. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've shared this before. It was set up by my friend Tori after a hospice cared so well for her husband Richard. Re-sharing in memory of my wonderful mother-in-law who received hospice care at home this last week. Hospices are so vital, please sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices

Hospices provide vital care yet are dependent on fundraising. Palliative care costs are lower in a hospice than hospital. UK hospices are in financial crisis, having to drastically reduce specialist s...

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Loved Christa Gattringer's practical workshop on making her K2 book covers at #ARA2026. I accidentally left two bits unfolded in my first attempt but I quite like the fact the book ended up with wings!

Conference table with black cloth and glasses and a chaos of paper, bonefolder and a small brightly coloured book with white paper cover and two flaps mistakenly left unfolded.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today, I feel like I achieved peak conservator-conferencing by using a handy free nail kit (thank you Ancestry exhibition stand) in a great workshop on remoistenable repair tissues by Lou Blackmore from TNA #ARA2026

Green cutting board, pink sponge, bone folder, tweezers, deaccessioned torn document on a blotter, tissue samples, and mini yellow kit with tiny scissors, tweezers and mysterious scoopy tool.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Niche post, but this was such a satifying tear repair on fragile 100-year-old tracing paper at work today (remoistenable microfibrillated cellulose film with gelatine - it will be pretty much invisible from the front) #conservation

A brown sheet of tracing paper with a winding path of whitish repair strips bridging a tear.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My friends' daughter made me this lego Claire and I think she captured me perfectly ❤️. I had no idea you could get lego heads with hearing aids!!

Lego minifigure with grey messy hair piled up in a ponytail, a little blue hearing aid, pale blue top and long blue skirt with stars. Also a lego cake.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#MorecambeBay looking beautiful (and feeling lovely on my toes)

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is an excellent resource:

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Very excited to have made it onto the letters page of this week's New Statesman. I think this means I'm a proper grown up now! #MorecambeBay

Photo of letter published in new statesman

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A bit of boat washed up on the beach in Morecambe yesterday carring barnacles. If you look very closely, you can see it has also become a kind of photograph of seaweeds over time. #MorecambeBay #AlternativePhotography

Fibreglass boat panel, faded orange colour with darker images of seaweed at its edges. Tiny blue barnacles have colonised its crevices.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm v happy to have retrained as a conservator & currently have a fxd term contract in an archive. However, there are v few conservator roles about & the orgs we work for tend to have their own financial/bureatic challenges. If you & Kim start a bookshop I could come and offer a book repair service!

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you're in the UK, please consider signing and sharing this petition set up by a friend whose husband died last year. He received wonderful hospice care and it made a huge difference to him, her and their two young children. Proper funding is needed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Two of my favourite short story collections of all time by indie presses on #indiepressday #indiepress by @dumb-belles.bsky.social and @clairedean.bsky.social

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay

A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Finding it quite hard to readjust to normal life after a wonderful scholarship week living and writing in a library @gladlib.bsky.social

View from a desk at Gladstone's Library. Two floors of bookshelves and sweeping wood beams.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Peepshows, paper theatres and zoetropes at the Bowes Museum (got to introduce my 19-year-old to some lovely old plastic View-Masters too!)

A glass display cabinet holds a selection of paper peepshows with bellows stretched and the metal drum of a zoetrope. Bookshelves are visible through the cabinet.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Lepus leaping. From the Aratea, a 9th-century manuscript on astronomy featuring constellations comprised of words. More here: buff.ly/34uIsEa

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

First commute of 2026 (miraculously there are still trains to Barrow today despite them seemingly going nowhere else!) #MorecambeBay

View from train. Sun rising over the Leven estuary. Heysham nuclear power station in the distance. Chapel Island and the ripples of waves are closer.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

An attempt at drawing the last of the light #Morecambe #Solstice

A pastel drawing of rocks and seaweed on the muddy beach with the sea and the last of the light in the distance

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

That's fantastic news! (And don't mind the warring heritage professionals)

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

In the attic at Salts Mill, Bradford

Skeins of blue fabric stretched across a flagged floor. A beam of sunlight pierces the glass roof in a derelict attic space.

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Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It was an absolute joy to be at the launch of Myriam Frey's (@dustynewrose.bsky.social 's) first collection, 'The Building Inspector', published by the indomitable @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Myriam reading from her book in Saul Hay gallery. A white woman with glasses and great earrings, casual clothes and white trainers.

Myriam smiles as publisher Nick Royle gestures to the contents page of the book. Nick is a white man with grey beard and thick black rimmed glasses.

The red brick gallery from the outside and Myriam can be seen signing copies of her book through the four-paned window.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/

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Weekly Stories · WORDTheatre

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

haha, thank you. Can't wait to read and explore the Ephemeral City! 😊

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Glad to hear they're letting you WFH! This was me in one of the buildings I work in a fortnight ago 😂. When I retrained, I didn't realise saving old paper things was going to be so full of adventure!

Claire in hardhat getting rained on with plastic shrouding the shelves behind.

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Very much this (although I don't get sent home, I have to rescue things from the leaky/crumbling bits).

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Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Barrow looking beautiful on my dinnertime wander yesterday.

Red brick promenade, railings, bright blue sea in the Walney channel and house in the distance on Walney island under a blue sky with small white scudding clouds.

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