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Claire O’Callaghan

@drclaireocall.bsky.social
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Writer. Literary & cultural historian. Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni. Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities. Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies linktr.ee/drclaireocall

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History Today @historytoday.com · 27/07/2026
This Dark Night: The Life of #EmilyBrontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to this approach? ✍️ Claire O’Callaghan reviews the recent #historybook buff.ly/W7WXzdn
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‘This Dark Night’ by Deborah Lutz review
This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz vividly reconstructs the world that produced Wuthering Heights. Are there limits to this approach?
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
More info on the event - which raised money for Women’s Aid, Friends of Brontë Country, and Haworth and Oxenhope Bridleways - can be found here:
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500 ‘Cathys’ brave the rain for joyful celebration of Kate Bush, Emily Brontë and Haworth’s moors
Brontë scholar Dr Claire O’Callaghan has celebrated the legacy of the 19th century author alongside a cast of 500 Cathys, dancing to Kate Bush’s iconic Wuthering Heights on the rain-swept moors above ...
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'We asked the Cathys to dance for Emily Brontë, Kate Bush and their respective Wuthering Heights, but also for the bogs and moorland.' Our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social co-organised this event involving 500 Cathys dancing to Wuthering Heights!
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Delighted to co-organise the Actually the Most Wuthering Heights Day, Haworth 2026 today. 500 Cathys dancing in unison on the windy wiley moors - she’s definitely come home #wutheringheights #katebush
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Really pleased to be talking with Meg Duell today about ‘The Sensory Wuthering Heights’ for the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Brilliant speaking at Bradford Lit Fest at the weekend with Jo Parsons and then with Lucasta Miller, chaired both times by the fabulous Kate Fox #literature #history #heritage
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thrilled to be participating in two fabulous events for Bradford Lit Fest (@bradfordlitfest.bskyb.social) this year.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks for a BRILLIANT keynote and a REALLY helpful publishing workshop too - held in the student union, soundtracked by Chappell Roan, as it should be 🖤
Everyone at EHU Nineteen’s Placing the Nineteenth Century enjoying a Prosecco or non alcoholic alternative at Claire’s workshop
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A brilliant day! Pizzas by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell is the lind of high-quality venture we didn’t know we needed. 🍕🍕🍕 Will let you know when we are open for bookings folks…!
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks to all sending messages of support as me and my colleagues in Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter face being made redundant in September. I'll be back here once it's less hot & I can think. Please consider signing & sharing this petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thrilled to be delivering the keynote talk at today’s conference at @ehunineteen.bsky.social. 🤓 #brontës #north #history #heritage #literature
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Dr Matt Crofts @mattcrofts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Amazing free 19th C event you can join online! Always recommend listening to @drclaireocall.bsky.social, a great speaker & wonderful person.
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Super chatting with you Jen! 💙
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Happy publication day to @drclaireocall.bsky.social and Emily Brontë Reappraised 🎉 This expanded and updated edition includes fresh analysis and popular depictions and adaptations, including the 2026 film "Wuthering Heights" saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #BookSky #EmilyBrontë 📚💙
Emily Brontë Reappraised: Expanded and updated edition by Claire O’Callaghan, published by Saraband.
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Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A new episode of Talking the Gothic feaures the brilliant scholar and writer, @drclaireocall.bsky.social. Join us as we discuss the life and work of the most gothic of the Brontës - the 'strange one' - Emily. essiefox.substack.com/p/emily-bron...
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Emily Brontë Reappraised ~ Episode 9
Essie Fox in discussion with Dr. Claire O'Callaghan, author of Emily Brontë Reappraised, a fascinating work blending biography, feminist criticism, and cultural history.
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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Once again sharing our upcoming EHU19 PGR & ECR conference as the abstract deadline for 1st May is looming closer! We're very lucky to have @drclaireocall.bsky.social as keynote & running a journal workshop! Send any abstracts or queries to ehu19place@outlook.com ✨️ @ehunineteen.bsky.social
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’m thrilled to have finally sent off the manuscript for a new edition of Agnes Grey that I’ve produced for @oxunipress. Working with Anne’s novel has been utterly joyful - she is such a smart writer and woe betide those who underestimate the power of Agnes Grey.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.
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How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry
Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
ARE YOU READY, CATHYS? 💃 ACTUALLY THE MOST WUTHERING HEIGHTS DAY EVER 2026 – HAWORTH 📅 Sunday 26th July, 11 – 2.30pm 🌹Save the Date! 🎟 Tickets on sale from midday, Sunday 22 March - details coming soon
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The only Heathcliff that truly matters 💞 #sweep #heathcliff #wutheringheights
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying. #books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram
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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
One of my brilliant doctoral researchers passed her viva yesterday! So pleased for her, but will miss the regular meetings with her and @drclaireocall.bsky.social very much.
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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀
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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Adapting <i>Wuthering Heights</i>
Explore the article collection: Adapting Wuthering Heights. Published in Brontë Studies.
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Becky Little @msbeckylittle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When Sam Hirst teaches Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, they often find the students who end up hating it are the ones who expect it to be a love story. Thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social @drclaireocall.bsky.social @drmtremellen.bsky.social for speaking with me! time.com/7373005/wuth...
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What Wuthering Heights Adaptations Miss About the Novel
Many movies based on the oft-adapted classic excise the scenes most central to the themes Emily Brontë was so focused on.
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Today we are celebrating all things Emily Brontë 🤎 And we are delighted to reveal the cover for the expanded and updated edition of Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, publishing in 2026! Discover more here: saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #emilybronte 📚💙
Emily Brontë Reappraised: Expanded and updated edition by Claire O’Callaghan, publishing in 2026 from Saraband.
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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!
Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference
Friday 26th June 2026

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Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history.
London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas.Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born.

We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as:• Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West)
• The legacy of space in the North (West)
• Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port)
• Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places
• Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed
• Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century
• The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance
• Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationshipsPlease send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution.

We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal.

Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking all things Brontë with the marvellous @drclaireocall.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, edited by @helenaesser.bsky.social and @drclaireocall.bsky.social alert ‼️ The issue explores Victorian popular fiction and culture as key sites for negotiating gender and sexual non-conformity, with a focus on the concept of the ‘third sex’.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Commercial academic publishing profit margins typically in excess of 32% ... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #journals #libraries #scholarship
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Really looking forward to being in conversation with Dr Olivia Krauze this Thursday. We’re discussing 178 Years of Wuthering Heights for the @BronteParsonageMuseum. Book via the Parsonage website. #bronte #brontes #brontesister #emily #emilybronte #emilybrontë #wutheringheights
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Appear to have gone low-key viral with my Hall/Troubridge head, as is only mete and correct. I've now successfully transported it to my office (phew) and it will be shown to the students in their Well of Loneliness lecture today if @drclaireocall.bsky.social allows me to interrupt proceedings...
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I’m honoured to be included in the forthcoming anthology The Book of Bogs: Stories from the Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, edited by the brilliant Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw. It’s published by Little Toller Books. 💚 www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Brontë Parsonage Museum’s very first read-along begins in October. We’re reading Charlotte’s second novel, Shirley. We’ll dive into the novel’s three volumes over the first three weeks of the month. In the final week, there is a live discussion to explore your thoughts questions & responses.
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The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We're offering 2-for-1 tickets on our upcoming event with the brilliant Liz Williams! Liz will be in conversation with @drclaireocall.bsky.social to discuss all things folk Britain. Use code 2FOR1TOWN at checkout (link to tickets below) @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @thegraystonunity.bsky.social
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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I just really want AI to go the way of MiniDisc players.
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Er, no, it’s not, it’s really not.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist
We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 08/08/2025
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Today marks Emily Brontë's birthday 📚💙 Discover more about Emily in Emily Brontë Reappraised by @drclaireocall.bsky.social The book conjures a new image of the great writer by looking at her afresh from the vantage point of the new millennium saraband.net/sb-title/emi... #Booksky #EmilyBronte
Emily Brontë Reappraised by Claire O’Callaghan, published by Saraband.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our wonderful researchers are exhibiting 'Materials of pandemic care across time' today and tomorrow at the British Academy Summer Showcase. Tickets are free and available through the link below 👇
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Summer Showcase 2025 - Exhibits
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This was the first of many highlights at the Summer Showcase - the British Academy's free festival of ideas. Discover our full programme through the link below: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
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The British Academy Summer Showcase
Every year we throw open our doors for the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase, a free festival of ideas for curious minds. Meet the researchers shaping our world through their pioneering social ...
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Sneak peak at slide: isn’t it great we have images of Patrick Brontë!
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 12/06/2025
We are deeply disappointed that the Data Bill will not include the necessary provisions to keep creators' works safe from being used without their knowledge or permission by AI companies, despite clear and unified calls from across the creative industries. (1/3)
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Really looking forward to this! #healthhumanities
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Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
💥 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities' workshop, hosted by @uniofreading.bsky.social Centre for Health Humanities! Join us for this event, feat. an in-person & online keynote by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, on health, ageing, and violence.  📣 All welcome! See poster for details.

Poster for an upcoming workshop, 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities', hosted by the University of Reading's Centre for Health Humanities. The workshop takes place on Wednesday 18th June between 13:00 and 17:00. There will be flash talks given by University of Reading staff and postgraduates, alongside a keynote by Dr Claire O'Callaghan, which will also be available to join online. The event is primarily in-person. 
All very welcome! To attend, email Sophie Franklin on sophie.franklin@reading.ac.uk.
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Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Our petition to Parliament to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England has 10000+ names! Thanks to all who’ve signed so far - let’s keep on keeping on and #protectourpeat #stopcalderdalewindfarm #teampeat #teamnature #teambat #teamnewt #walshaw #moor #peat #blanketbog
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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is good news - the ban-driven grouse petition will be debated in parliament on 30 June ... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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