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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

VERY honoured to be featured as part of this long-running series put together by the enviably erudite and admirably public-spirited Mathew Lyons!

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing. Musica universalis | @derekturner.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/musi...

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Musica universalis

The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.

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Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

With #Lincolnshire making headlines recently as a hotbed for the so-called right wing Reform party, now is a good time to revisit my review of Derek Turner's @derekturner.bsky.social‬ evocative book. Read on - there's more to it than you might imagine! simcomm.blogspot.com/2023/01/engl...

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England’s forgotten county

Topical comment and travel writing

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Louth Canal, Sunday - a well-mannered brick house set amid foggy and sopping fens and watercourses, like a vignetter from the 18th c. Netherlands

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Graveyard-sharing churches - St Adelwold's, Alvingham (L), the only church dedicated to Adelwold - and St Mary's, North Cockerington, burial place of Barnabe Googe. Nearby are the mounds of Alvingham Priory, a Gilbertine foundation (Gilbert was the only Englishman ever to found a monastic order)

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I was always conscious of the deficiencies of my Concise DNB (3 vols), so when I saw for sale a complete set of the 1908-1911 edition (22 vols), plus 11 supplements taking me up to the 1990s, I was not going to leave without several extremely heavy boxes (although I did haggle successfully)

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The front garden is seething with small lives eating seeds and suet - blackbirds, chaffinches, collared doves, dunnocks, goldfinches, jackdaws, robins, sparrows, starlings and wood pigeons, all periodically scattering to make way for promenading magpies, putting all to flight by sheer presence

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

For sale. We are told it is an "ornament," which was wise of the vendor, because otherwise we might not have known

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Halfway through my book! Farewelling Michael Drayton, and his excellent 'Poly-Olbion' (1611-1622)

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ponderable ephemera found in a charity shop - souvenirs of a 1971 trip to Andorra by one Raphael Caves and family (the paper wallet also contained a leaflet on St George's Chapel, Windsor)

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Revisiting 'Poly-Olbion' by Michael Drayton, mythmaker for Jacobean England

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Presently with Izaak Walton (imaginatively, for my book) on the banks of the Dove in summer - not a bad place to be when it's 0 degrees outside

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Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A third of the way through my book! Time for lunch

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