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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The current AI plagiarism fever reminds me of that sub-Borges story, 'The LLM that Wrote the Quixote'. Me? Never read either of them...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Midday interview on Parkinson's and why I have been Dancing with Architects with Simon Herbert at www.hailshamfm.com

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Home - Hailsham FM

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lordy, I'm in a magazine again ... and I'll take 'for fans of the Aristocrats, Joe Satriani and John Petrucci' every day of the week! What's more, it's bandcamp friday, so 100% of purchase price of Dancing With Architects goes to Spotlight YOPD ... getcha paypals out ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today, all sales of Dancing with Architects from Bandcamp will be commission-free, so it's a great day to help Spotlight YOPD by listening to some seriously good music!

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sir Francis Walsingham tempered Queen Elizabeth I's emotions but also counterfeited her anger. The fab @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social talks to @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social & yours truly about exciting discoveries that will change the way we look at Tudor history bit.ly/4fwBu6Q @erc.europa.eu #FEATHERS

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New Discovery: Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I's Letters?

Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · July 30 · 44m

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Want to have Dancing With Architects embedded into your streaming library the moment it's released? This is the link for you! orcd.co/architects

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Dancing with Architects

Choose your preferred music service

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Released into the wild 31 July ... petelangman.bandcamp.com/album/dancin... in aid of SpotlightYOPD

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Dancing With Architects, by Pete Langman

10 track album

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fascinating stuff ... Elizabeth I didn't stop at the heart and stomach of a man, she borrowed his bile, too!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Release date is 31 July ... new/old music in aid of SpotlightYOPD. See petelangman.bandcamp.com

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Dancing With Architects, by Pete Langman

10 track album

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

England would do well to declare their second innings ... put us all out of our misery.

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If you have yet to get your hands on a copy of Spycraft, now is as good a time as you're likely to see ...

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Cover Reveal! Coming soon, open access, with Taylor & Francis. Edited by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social, Suzanne Trill and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

Cover of a book called Alice Thornton's Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-century Woman. The image on the book cover is a 17h-century painting of a domestic interior with a woman writing at a table while a younger woman stands behind looking out the window.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Two paperback copies of Metropolitan Science with a detail of a 17thC map of London on the cover.

Shows the top copy of Metropolitan Science being opened, revealing a plan of the Tower of London from 1597.

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

For those of you who didn't catch the first episode of this last night, it promises to be a grand little series full of special guests - especially (or so my spies tell me) episode three ... programme your VCRs immediately!

Sidelit geezer looks wistfully at old portrait.

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

'I two-step verify therefore I am'

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

LLM admits to using human to 'do the really creative part' of writing their latest novel ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

When a LLM retires, will it decide it's time to write that novel?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

So. Human writers use AI to gain agents and publishing contracts. Soon AI will self-publish autonomously via Amazon. But the death of the novel will only come when AI designed to do other stuff-y'know, medicine, remote targeting-spend years writing and re-writing novels that no one ever reads...

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama. bit.ly/4bEeH7a Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

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PhD position within the project Judicial Guardians

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When will Trump resurrect the 'Beat the Ayatollah, Drive 55' campaign?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

'mimically he feignes him to have put forth his Middle-Finger, which is the fooles Index'

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Bumped into Passmore Edwards on a plaque at Stationers' Hall last night (as well as a 3/4 sized Elizabeth I birthday cake). Well, it sort of made sense to me ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

'To smile upon euerie man, is rather a signe of a vaine minde, then of a cheerefull countenance.'

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

'Hee which washeth his mouth with his owne praise, soyleth himself with the suddes that come of it'

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A rocking festival of delights in store, as ever!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I wrote this about AI a few years ago. I find the image of an attack drone boasting about its PB rather more chilling now ... www.petelangman.com/cogito/

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Cogito, ergo amo | pete langman

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Francis Young is brilliant on the greatness of The Stripping of the Altars - on the Writer's Bookshelf this morning. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...

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The writer's bookshelf: Francis Young

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Reading the Guardian blather on about the trend for being 'disgustingly educated' made me wonder whether they meant 'disgustingly well-educated' or for 'bashing other people's vacuity into a pulp with the sheer bulk of your eruditon'?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

On the 18th anniversary of my Parkinson's diagnosis, here's a selection of things that I've written about it - if I write the eighteenth, it will probably be about whay I so rarely write about Parkinson's these days! www.petelangman.com/17-pieces-of...

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17 Pieces of Parkinson’s | pete langman

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Who says romance died in 1849? The year J R Jackson published 'Minerals and Their Uses. In a Series of Letters to a Lady' ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Spycraft review in JBS praises its ‘innovative approach’, calling it ‘impressive’, ‘invaluable’ and even ‘classic’! As for us authors, we ‘pair methodological heft with elegant, accessible prose.’ Not saying which of us does which, but definitely saying co-writing rocks! TY @rmidura.bsky.social

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

@rmidura.bsky.social Thank you for your splendid review of Spycraft!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Every morning a young grebe greets a companion it sees reflected in the hull of a boat moored on the canal. It calls but never receives an answer. It is one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

One definition of a good morning is when Philippa Gregory namechecks your book in an interview! Spycraft, found on all the best bookshelves ... zoomer.com/zed-book-clu...

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Philippa Gregory’s Favourite Classic Novels – and the Canadian Author She Just Discovered

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

From this day hence, if any should ask of thee why no one buys your books, simply refer them to 1668, when a theologian commented thus on some blow hard or other 'The invincible Obscurity of his Writings will prevent his being over-popular.'

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Wanted: Spycraft from @YaleBooks has escaped from the Tower disguised as a paperback ... track it down at a bookseller near you today!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On the day the paperback edition of Spycraft @YaleBooks is released from close confinement in the Tower, here's an extract to whet the appetite ... www.the-emigre.com/column/the-c...

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The Counterfeiting of Robert Gray — The Emigre

An extract from Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, out this week in paperback.

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

So ... is it a coincidence that EEBO only thinks I might be a robot when I'm summoning something by William Perkins?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Will the $3,000 per book Anthropic ruling lead to a plethora of authors complaing that their book wasn't stolen to train AI models? It is, after all, not the most lucrative of professions ... authoring, that is.

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾 Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers. #womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Delightful to find the pinky, or little finger, described in beautifully practical fashion as the 'eare-finger' (1644)!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Here's what happened when I was forced to bat left-handed one-handed due to a shoulder injury ... with apologies to Chris Woakes! www.petelangman.com/lefty-langman/

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Lefty Langman | pete langman

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

As ex-unbounders turned author-publishers we applaud initiatives helping those affected by the fiasco, as we’ve been doing for 2 1/2 years, and are happy for anyone on this new lifeboat. (1/2)

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Great day @harvingtonhall.bsky.social talking all things Spycraft with @misswalsingham.bsky.social and Gunpowder Plottage with @enortonhistory.bsky.social and Prof Stephen Alford ...

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Harvington Hall @harvingtonhall.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

He’s at it again! Hall Manager Phil is locking himself in a priest hole for 48hrs from Sunday 27th July with the a goal of raising £15,000 for Harvington Hall! Help him hit his target: 🎯 donate.mydona.com/harvington-hall

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