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Hannah Piekarz

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Writer, pharmacist. Drama and drugs.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Powell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 📸 Cornel Lucas (1985)
Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only known surviving copy of the poster produced by police after Agatha Christie disappeared in December 1926 is on display at the Royal Berkshire Archives in Reading.
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Rare missing persons poster of Agatha Christie to be seen in an exhibition
A rare Agatha Christie missing person's poster will be part of a new exhibition.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Typology of Pedestrian Walking Symbols walking-men.com/product/hood... Via @kottke.org
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Royal train pulling out of Reading station this evening, pulled by 67006 'Royal Sovereign'.
Train class 67 claret engine 'Royal Sovereign' crossing an overhead concrete road bridge Pullman train carriage in claret and beige livery, inside tables with white tablecloths and chandeliers can be seen
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Harry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE SECRETS DISPLAYED ON ROADSIGNS
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 30/08/2026
Saw a post from someone who works at harborview medical center who said 3-5 of their 30 beds are usually lime scooter injuries and they call it lime disease
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Paul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do you think anyone has ever bought a ticket for the Reading Festival thinking it's a literary festival because they didn't know how to pronounce Reading? It must have happened at least once over the past sixty five years.
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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Michael Powell and Thelma Schoonmaker's cottage in Gloucestershire is up for sale peterjoy.co.uk/properties/s...
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Steps Lane, Avening
2 Bed Semi-Detached House Steps Lane, Avening £550,000 , Steps Lane, Avening, Gloucestershire, GL8 8NJ
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/08/2026
“please make me a sequel to this game I loved very much” maybe the best use of rich guy money I have seen in a hot minute
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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Great Wondering: 'Oceani' by Polish artist, Michael Swider, (1962-2019) whose timeless work was created by using traditional techniques.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Kent Walmer, Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 21 Aug 1934.
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yesterday watched restored lost 1932 Joan Crawford film 'Letty Lynton'. Chuckling at the "it's not the 90's anymore", but in five year's time (2032) I'll be *that* old person grumbling that the 90's were the best times ever. #bfi @womenandcocaine.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
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Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film
A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
9pm, two days after harvest
Converging lines of wheat stubble climbing a hill to a horizon where, silhouetted left to right: dark smear of treetop, 14th century church tower, sparse ash crown, two further bulks of the tops of trees, the whole suffused with a steady orange and peach evening light. SUFFOLK, UK
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Can't believe I nearly missed her birthday. The luminous Pamela Brown. One of my favourite introductions to a character, in one of my favourite films. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). 🎬
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
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Check out this 3 bedroom link detached house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom link detached house for sale in Christie Miller Road, Salisbury, SP2 for £114,000. Marketed by Carter and May, Salisbury
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some of the collection of Huntley & Palmers biscuits that were taken to the front in WW1, but not actually eaten, on display @readingmuseum.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/06/2026
The curious case of the cremation ashes left at Newbury racecourse burger van
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The curious case of the cremation ashes left at Newbury racecourse burger van
Urn with loving messages to ‘Gary Bonsor’ to be buried in local churchyard as efforts to find family draw a blank It is a puzzling story with a still unsolved mystery at its heart: just who is the individual whose cremated remains were left on the counter of a burger van at Newbury racecourse? And why – despite the cremation urn being labelled with a name and a message that hints at a loving family – has no one come forward to claim it? Continue reading...
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In The Ring, Blackfriars Road having a beer next to ‘Bombardier’ Billy Wells, also known as one of the Arthur Rank ‘gongmen’ . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombard...
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Amazing... 😍 'Pelicans have been living in St James’s Park since 1664, shortly before the Great Fire of London, when the Russian ambassador presented a pair to King Charles II as a gift. Now, for the first time in more than 360 years, chicks have been born.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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First pelicans in 360 years hatch in St James’s Park London
Birds have been in the park since the Russian ambassador gave King Charles II two in 1664 – but none ever bred there
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Years ago I was on a stag weekend in Poland. We went paintballing. We were chatting to the Polish guys who ran it over beers afterwards and one casually mentioned that British dudes were the ONLY ones who ever seemed to listen and keep their eye protection on. So we explained Byker Grove to them.
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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Another BFI archival bit from me, this time on Pressburger, pre-Powell www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...
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Emeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi Germany
This is the pass that Emeric Pressburger – later half of Powell and Pressburger – used to access the screening theatre at Germany’s biggest film studio, just before he fled Berlin in the early 1930s.
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Travellers can once again take the 666 bus to Hel - a town on Poland's Baltic coast - after FlixBus this week launched a new service under that number. A previous route was shut down three years ago after complaints that it was "spreading Satanism".
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Poland's 666 bus to Hel returns in new form
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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Laughed at this image for 10 entire minutes
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Pilgrimage to Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan’s grave at St Mary’s, Cholsey. The church was founded by Ethelred the Unready in c986.
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Ernst Arbouw @ernstarbouw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just putting the finishing touches to 'From the Soviet Union to the Moon' - the very first #Dataharvest26 Tintin Osint challenge, together with the rather magnificent Jonathan Stoneman of @journalismarena.eu. Going to Mechelen? Don't miss it!
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Virginia Helena @v-helena.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
STOP PRESS yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social described Tarkovsky’s STALKER as “The Detectorists, but Russian” and I may never recover
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Huipil, traditional garment created by Ingenous Maya women from the small towns of the Guatemalan highlands, who formed their own union to stop large fashion corporations stealing their designs. #WomensArt
Photo of the top of a highly embroidered garmebt with floral design
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Enjoyed The Sheep Detectives - family fun a la Babe, plus kooky Vicar of Dibley/Twin Peaks tone. Fun fact: Director Kyle Balda created the opening sequence for the game Day of the Tentacle! Kudos @clmazin.bsky.social
A Tube poster for the film The Sheep Detectives, showing the cast including flock of sheep stood in a field in front of a Airstream.
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Duille @duille.com · 12/05/2026
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
'Adamson Road, NW3' (c.1918) by Stanisława de Karłowska (Manchester Art Gallery)
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Foyles book shop in the evening rain, Charing Cross Road, London, c. 1935, by the great Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Black and white portrait photograph. On the left, Foyles book show with its lit-up windows full of books. The pedestrians mostly wear dark macs and hats, except for the guy nearest to us, in a white mac and no hat, who walks away from the viewer and looks like an incredibly hip indy musician from the early 80s.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Summer is around the corner and soon you'll read a bunch of posts about how every man should have a pair of loafers. I don't think anyone needs anything, but if you're shopping for a pair, let me show you how to think about loafers. This applies to any wardrobe item. 🧵
A pair of brown suede loafers sits on a luggage trunk.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13/04/2026
This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
93 Easter eggs from the 1980s and 1990s, all issued by Rowntrees of York (later purchased by Nestlé) www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s... Nostalgic tooth ache.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Remembering William Willett who campaigned for British Summer Time, but didn't live to see his idea implemented. His memorial sundial in Petts Wood is set to Daylight Saving Time #ClocksGoForward #SpringForward
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Friday afternoon pint in The Pocket N1, £5.27 and gluten-free! 😘
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Picked up an arcana of Penguin author postcards from Drury Lane Oxfam - they’re in a box on the till and have many classic orange stripes titles along with David Gentleman’s beautiful n/f covers.
Black and white headshots of top row:
Bulgakov, Proust, Bashevis Singer; middle: Conrad, Lorca, Borges; bottom: Musil, Spark, Zweig
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
On the set of A Matter of Life and Death. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. 1946.
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Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Party invite vibes...
A birthday party invite with blank spaces to hand-write in personal details
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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Can this be a solution?
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Fatale Distraction @fatale-distraction.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Here is the direct link for donations. If donating from the US, put your phone number in without any dashes lol
dorsetarchivestrust.org
Sylvia Townsend Warner Fundraising Appeal | Dorset Archives Trust
Dorset Archives Trust isleading a fundraising appeal to bring the Archive of writer and LGBTQ+ pioneerSylvia Townsend Warner(1893-1978) into the public domain through the creation of a full catalogue....
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Folklore is so much a part of our collective culture that it cannot help but spill out everywhere. It tumbles out of pub signs, street names, graffiti spat from spray cans. Manifests as wondrous acts of knitting. It is an essential element of us. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
'Berwick Street Market, Soho' (c.1920s) by Rex Vicat Cole (Private Collection)
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NW London Time Machine @timenw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Camden Roundhouse in 1964. News UK Archives.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares  - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.
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