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Lillian Crawford @lillcrawf.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Be the first to get your hands on a copy of my book, THE MIND OF THE DOCTOR: ACROSS THE NEURODIVERSE UNIVERSE OF DOCTOR WHO, at The Garden Cinema on 8 August! I will be introducing a very special and exclusive screening of DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. with an introduction and book signing!

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Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) + Introduction and Book Signing by Lillian Crawford / The Garden Cinema

Celebrate the publication of Lillian Crawford’s exploration of Doctor Who’s appeal to the neurodivergent community with a screening of Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., starring Peter Cushing as Dr. W...

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Lillian Crawford @lillcrawf.co.uk · 31/07/2026

DALEKMANIA IS BACK! I really like Daleks, so to celebrate the launch of my book I would love you to come and watch the two greatest films (featuring Daleks) of all time and space!

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Croydon-based Herne Books have published Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who by award-winning author Lizbeth Myles – and another title exploring the show’s themes is on the way.

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Herne Books offer new Doctor Who works exploring show’s many themes

Two new Who titles probe show’s many themes

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'Too important to give it up ...' Find out what 'it' is on the IG link below (the file's too large to post direct on Bluesky). @chrisbowlby1.bsky.social @hernebooks.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DZmsh5d...

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Smiffy or Toots? 😊 Mind you, I may well add it to my birthday list …

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

David Kynaston calls chrisbowlby1.bsky.social's No Complacency ‘one of the best football books that’s ever come my way’. This is an absolutely superb book about the heart and soul of football, and how being a fan relates to life, death, community and grief. www.hernebooks.com/product-page...

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Now available: lizbethmyles.bsky.social explores 63 years of political themes in #DoctorWho. ‘Intelligent and thought-provoking.’ Steven Moffat ‘A brilliant take on the history of Doctor Who.’ Sophie Aldred ‘I adored it.’ Paul Cornell www.hernebooks.com/product-page...

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Can’t get much more Spursy than this.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We’ve got this. It’s a hat-trick of Wrighty derbies.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Beautiful ❤️ Did you or anyone catch a photo of the large banner unfurled across blocks 8 and 9 in the North Bank just before kick-off? We were underneath it so I never saw what it looked like. I think a player in redcurrant 06 kit, but who? Can’t find any pics!

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I was just reading that earlier, Tim. Good article. Absolutely shameful, and scary.

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A gorgeous paperback edition of the superb FROM SPARE OOM TO WAR DROBE: TRAVELS IN NARNIA WITH MY NINE YEAR-OLD SELF by kathlangrish.bsky.social ‘The best book ever about why we love Narnia!’ Francis Spufford. Available now: www.hernebooks.com/product-page... #Narnia #CSLewis

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We’re extremely proud of this book. Written by fans, for fans, with many, many contributions by even more fans. This is a perfect gift for someone discovering women’s football for the first time, and long-term supporters alike. www.hernebooks.com/product-page... #womensfootball #woso #wsl #swpl

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David Moloney @hernebooksed.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New books for 2026: @lizbethmyles.bsky.social Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who (March) tinyurl.com/2fjt279x @lillcrawf.co.uk The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who (May) tinyurl.com/w5wcph68 Covers by Daryl Joyce. #DoctorWho

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Got this yearbook through the post today as a freebie because I contributed to the Glasgow City page. Really nice to see and the type of thing I would have loved as a child but was ofc not available in the 90s

Front cover of “the women’s football fan yearbook 2026”.

Double page spread of the page in the book on Glasgow City

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

All this week I’m posting some glimpses of one the titles on display on the racks of my time-travelling newsagent – visiting this week from the first full week of September 1978. Pop back tomorrow for another inky-fingered memory from when comics ruled the world.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

‘Gunga Jim’, one of the recurring characters, is lazily named after a racial trope – typical of the day, and the sort of thing that makes a reprinting of Cheeky for a contemporary market seem unlikely. Thankfully the readers’ gags all seem pretty innocent!

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Cheeky's a great nostalgia blast. Principal artist Frank McDiarmid was a unique talent, his strips so full of life and quirk (spot the Smurfs cameo). But a lot of the humour jars. There’s a cruelty there, mocking humour based on appearance or failings; less so in today's comics.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Kids love a joke. There must have been more one-liners packed into an issue of Cheeky than in any other comic. The title was based on the central figure, gag-master-in-chief Cheeky, and a large cast of supporting regulars – some of whom sat on this Joke Box Jury.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The Uncanny is a bit bonkers but really entertaining. Hope you enjoy!

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Starlord showcased its roster of incredible creators with superior print quality on a higher grade of paper than most comics of its day. Look at the fantastic colour on this centre-page spread of Strontium Dog. Ian Gibson was the artist, John Wagner and Alan Grant the scribes.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Wakelin's cover trailed the latest instalment of psi-fi space opera Mind Wars, written by Alan Hebden and drawn by Jesus Redondo. Beautiful Spanish and South American art such as this was as influential for our generation as Manga is today.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I’m not sure at what age of reader Starlord was targeted. The adverts within suggest perhaps 8-11 years old? If that’s right, it’s remarkable that it carried such mind-bending cover artwork as this (by Bob Wakelin). Little wonder it’s so fondly-remembered. Watch the stars!

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This edition of Misty carried the third and final part of a stunning Misty board game, featuring art from Shirley Bellwood and a selection of covers and memorable moments. I’ve put this together with parts one and two – something spooky to play as the nights draw in.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It’s possible some of the inspiration for this series may have come from the 1977 Amicus movie The Uncanny, in which Peter Cushing plays a writer narrating three stories of cats with devilish qualities. Great fun if you ever get to see it!

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The cover illustrated the third instalment (of eleven) of The Cats of Carey Street. A pack of ferocious felines guard the only remaining residents of an estate listed for demolition. This week they saw off the ‘Slum Demons’ gang – proper scary stuff for a young readership.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This Misty cover positively purrs with dark mystery and peril. The artist was Mario Capaldi, a regular on the cult supernatural thriller comic intended for girls, and which ran for two years between 1978 and 1980.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This issue of ROTR is one of the titles on display in the time-travelling newsagent from the first full week of September 1978. I’ll be posting about a few more of them over the next few days.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The back page of this week’s Roy of the Rovers carried this striking Smiths Crisps ad drawn by Paul Sample, creator of Ogri - a comic cult-hero in the biker community.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Roy did eventually go to Basran in the summer of 1986, and all the Rovers went with him (on a summer tour). Not all of them returned. www.greatnewsforallreaders.com/blog/2016/7/...

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The ‘comedy Arab’ is typical of broad-stroke 70s racial stereotyping, and Roy’s patronising of Penny is also pretty cringe. The outlandish and sensational transfer scenario played out through the media of the day seems quite foresighted, however.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s transfer deadline day in England, and a suitable opportunity to look back at an audacious attempt by the fictional Middle-Eastern nation of Basran to lure Roy Race away from Melchester Rovers at the start of the 1978-79 season. David Sque was the artist.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This copy of Whizzer and Chips is one of the titles on display in the time-travelling newsagent from the first full week of September 1978. I’ll be posting about a few more of them over the next few days.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The Louis Marx promo seems as though it was quite a big deal for IPC, who also advertised it heavily in this week’s Buster, Whoopee! and Cheeky. Here’s the competition page. Sadly, we’re all 47 years too late to enter.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

In this week’s issue dentally-decayed confectionery aficionado Sweet-Tooth joined forces with The 12 1/2p Buytonic Boy Steve Ford to foil an elephant-riding crook. Kids in the seventies regularly received cash rewards for doing coppers’ jobs for them. Art by Bob Nixon.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sid Burgon drew this eye-catching cover of Whizzer and Chips (with Krazy) to promote a Louis Marx toy competition in early September 1978. Curiously, one of a tiny number of W&C covers from the comic’s first 16 years not to include an image of Sid’s pet snake Slippy.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Lovely memory. I have a recollection of being bought an earlier issue of Star Lord (unusually) at Bishop’s Stortford railway station for a journey into London. Sense memories of the smell, sounds and feel of the seats on those old trains mixed with awe at what seemed such a sophisticated comic.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Oh wow that really is the stuff of anxiety dreams. Do you mean it was closed but still had old comics visible inside?

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Ever dream of travelling back in time just to pop into a newsagent and see what comics were on display? Here’s a selection of some of the titles on sale in early September 1978 (off-sale date Saturday 9th). I’ll post some of the covers and contents over the next few days.

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

You’d like to think that was positioned ironically by the editorial team, but I suspect not. PM just commented on it on Twitter:

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

One of history's most important comics was Charley's War, published initially in Battle and written by the great Pat Mills. Now Pat's sequel is on the way! Please back Ragtime Soldier here, and share as widely as possible. t.co/zuByo5Ga2B

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

They were lucky today. That wasn’t a penalty. I guess it was unlikely Arsenal would have caught them even if we win but we showed so much progress today and I thought Chelsea looked shaken. Three cups to challenge for now. Still feeling gutted and deflated though. What a weekend 😞

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Great News For All Readers @gnfar.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I haven’t seen a single angle on this that looks as though it hits his arm or his hand.

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