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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I'm excited to share that the book I'm co-authoring with my daughter, 'Sea Legs' (coming 2027), has been shortlisted for the #sustainablestoryaward from World of Books. The Award highlights authors whose work speaks to urgent themes of social justice and sustainable futures.

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today former Thornton's Books colleague @eleanorthom.bsky.social was passing through Richmond in #Yorkshire and couldn't resist popping by a couple of Alice Thornton's old haunts and taking some photos. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/3

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Tyne & Esk Writers @tyneeskwriters.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In a wonderful collaboration with the National Museum of Flight, writer @eleanorthom.bsky.social led a series of writing workshops at the East Fortune museum for local pupils. Details about the project and examples of their work is here: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/local-school... Supported by Tesco

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Local schoolchildren write poems inspired by aviation artefacts - Tyne & Esk Writers

Find out about our workshop at the Museum of Flight, where local schoolchildren wrote poems inspried by the artefacts there. Read more.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Congratulations to all of the Thornton's Books team. I loved being part of this wonderful and fascinating project and discovering the 17th-century life wrintings of Alice Thornton. #writers #authors I highly recommend delving into this fantastic free resource.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Watching last night's Up Helly Aa with my dad. He has held onto the memory of this from when he was a boy, and his dad George being one of the Vikings carrying the galley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVi...

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Live from Shetland: Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 torchlit procession and galley burning

YouTube video by Promote Shetland

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We're nearing the end of our top 12 most viewed blogs countdown. At number 2, it's @eleanorthom.bsky.social's stocking filler of interesting passages picked from our partial release of Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Read more below. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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Digital Edition: Where will our new release take you?

Blog article - 15 September 2023

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today was my last day working with P6/P7 classes at the National Museum of Flight for Tyne and Esk Writers. Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for supporting these sessions through the Live Literature Programme.

A table with a page showing the morse code, a WW2 flying jacket and a WW2 escape boot, wooden pencils, spare paper, a navy WW2 field cap and field jacket.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My son and my mum at the same age. Aren’t genes just amazing!

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Lovely to work with two more classes of young learners on creative writing inspired by WW2 items - today at the National Museum of Flight.

Inside, in front of some windows, a yellow ribbon is tied up as a washing line with wooden clothes pegs. Young people’s hands peg up postcards made to look like telegrams from WW2. The cards display the young people’s own words written in pencil.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Birds of Paradise. Dec 3. Writer, Karis Williamson: "The film... examines how society’s ableism can disable all people to varying extents and raises questions around this. I had Classical references... attitudes towards disability haven’t changed that much in all that time." tinyurl.com/ye2zbub4

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Dollhouse Premiere

Join us for the digital premiere of Dollhouse, a new film by BOP Young Artists.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Delighted to say I'm now represented by the wonderful Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. With my daughter, Oona, I'm currently working on a memoir about #caring for each other, #paraswimming and disabled sea mammals. 💙

Eleanor and her daughter, Oona outside on a windy day. They are dressed in winter coats and are pictured against a wintery sky and a grey sea. Oona points at a badge of a scallop shell on Eleanor's coat. Photo by @jondavey.bsky.social

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Lynsey May @lynseymay.com · 21/11/2024

Fully funded Live Literature sessions for schools based in a bunch of Scottish LAs open now - FAO teachers, or writers who'd like to share the opportunity with schools they know! Author visits are magic. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

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Apply for Live Literature Funding – Spring 2025

Live Literature brings reading and writing to the heart of communities by funding author events for schools across Scotland.

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...

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Jewish Literary Links - Erika Dreifus

News about Jewish Book Month, the National Book Awards, and more.

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our latest post by @eleanorthom.bsky.social was inspired by a question posed by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social about #EarlyModern weather resources. It also demonstrates, with a video, how to use the new text search function on our #DigitalEdition. 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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Breezing through Alice Thornton's Books with our Text Search Function

Blog article - 20 November 2024

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18/11/2024

If you're going to post a picture about a book, *say something* about it. I hate these "post a book, say nothing" challenges. "This is a book" is not discourse.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello new followers 👋 I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities

My daughter Oona sits in an all terrain wheelchair on a grassy hillside looking at the sea through binoculars. Overhead, a pale blue sky is spread with small clouds.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Seal pups today on Inchkeith Island (at a distance with a very long lens). My daughter thought the pups’ calls carrying over the water sounded like owls. My son said a zombie apocalypse.

A fluffy, white seal pup looks directly at the camera, with two adult seals at its side. They lie on a beach of pebbles, rubble and seaweed.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This will be a great event with @alisonirvine.bsky.social in Cumbernauld next weekend. I'll be taking my brutalist-architecture-mad teenage son with me. See you there?

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My daughter Oona is ten. She swims laps while I sit by the pool on a folded towel and write. When I was ten, I hated swimming lessons, but now I love the smell of chlorine. I sniff out local leisure centres when I need to focus on my writing. #Writers, where are the weirdest places you go to work?

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

November 1942. The British decided that my grandmother was no longer an 'enemy alien'. In June 2021, my research on my grandmother's life was presented in the Bundestag, helping amend Germany's citizenship law. The historical chapters in my novel 'Connective Tissue' tell the story of her family.

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Really enjoyed talking with people from various creative writing groups tonight about @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social and Alice's deliverances from death. We get to see the illustrations of the writers' own deliverances next week. 📚 #17thCentury With thanks to @eleanorthom.bsky.social for organising.

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Project team to give talk to Local Writers and Illustrators

News article - 21 November 2023

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Looking forward to reading from Connective Tissue alongside fellow #authors @chitgrrl.bsky.social and Jean Barr at Portobello Book Festival this weekend.

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

As well as being an #author, I am lucky enough to also have a job supporting #authors. Did you know the oldest writer I support was born in 1626? Yes really! Find out all about Alice Thornton and her work at @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social 📚🗃️

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

If you are in Irvine on Saturday, please come! This will be a great conversation and I love to meet people afterwards if you want to hang about to chat about family history /writing /being an air traffic controller (ok, I can't speak from experience there). tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets...

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Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hello. First ever post. If there are other #author or 📚 or #writingcommunity people on here, please follow... or do whatever it is that you do here, and I will do the same. My novel Connective Tissue is out now should you be looking for a #Jewish family saga kind of thing. In all good bookshops!

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