Reposted by Hannah PiekarzTomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Michael Powell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 📸 Cornel Lucas (1985) 14710 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzJonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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.oxfordmail.co.ukRare missing persons poster of Agatha Christie to be seen in an exhibitionA rare Agatha Christie missing person's poster will be part of a new exhibition. 1239 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Typology of Pedestrian Walking Symbols walking-men.com/product/hood... Via @kottke.org 26812255 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Royal train pulling out of Reading station this evening, pulled by 67006 'Royal Sovereign'. 010 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzHarry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE SECRETS DISPLAYED ON ROADSIGNS 1398 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarztinybaby @tiny.baby · 30/08/2026Saw 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 1173098 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzPaul Putner @realpaulputner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Do 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. 7516 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzTony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Michael Powell and Thelma Schoonmaker's cottage in Gloucestershire is up for sale peterjoy.co.uk/properties/s...peterjoy.co.ukSteps Lane, Avening2 Bed Semi-Detached House Steps Lane, Avening £550,000 , Steps Lane, Avening, Gloucestershire, GL8 8NJ 24014 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzMicah @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 572274419 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzNina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Great Wondering: 'Oceani' by Polish artist, Michael Swider, (1962-2019) whose timeless work was created by using traditional techniques. 0407 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Kent Walmer, Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 21 Aug 1934. 010022 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Yesterday 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...theguardian.comSex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest filmA 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 010 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzHelen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 17/07/20269pm, two days after harvest 413111 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 5579133 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarz"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Can'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). 🎬 4245 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzSam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The 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...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 3 bedroom link detached house for sale on Rightmove3 bedroom link detached house for sale in Christie Miller Road, Salisbury, SP2 for £114,000. Marketed by Carter and May, Salisbury 63507108 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzRobin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Some of the collection of Huntley & Palmers biscuits that were taken to the front in WW1, but not actually eaten, on display @readingmuseum.bsky.social 0186 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/06/2026The curious case of the cremation ashes left at Newbury racecourse burger vantheguardian.comThe curious case of the cremation ashes left at Newbury racecourse burger vanUrn 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... 22510 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026In 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... 010 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarzpaulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Amazing... 😍 '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/...theguardian.comFirst pelicans in 360 years hatch in St James’s Park LondonBirds have been in the park since the Russian ambassador gave King Charles II two in 1664 – but none ever bred there 929359 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Years 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. 1432083 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzMelanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Another BFI archival bit from me, this time on Pressburger, pre-Powell www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...bfi.org.ukEmeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi GermanyThis 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. 1228 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzNotes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Travellers 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".notesfrompoland.comPoland's 666 bus to Hel returns in new form 46214 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzXploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Laughed at this image for 10 entire minutes 2249411391 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzRobin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Pilgrimage to Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan’s grave at St Mary’s, Cholsey. The church was founded by Ethelred the Unready in c986. 0113 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzErnst Arbouw @ernstarbouw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Just 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! 073 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzVirginia Helena @v-helena.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Handwriting 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 1452723806 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzHelen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026STOP PRESS yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social described Tarkovsky’s STALKER as “The Detectorists, but Russian” and I may never recover 411332 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarzwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Huipil, 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 247991 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Enjoyed 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 020 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzDuille @duille.com · 12/05/2026Design 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 201694475 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026'Adamson Road, NW3' (c.1918) by Stanisława de Karłowska (Manchester Art Gallery) 110712 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Foyles book shop in the evening rain, Charing Cross Road, London, c. 1935, by the great Wolfgang Suschitzky. 133163 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarzderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Summer 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. 🧵 642049201 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13/04/2026This 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) 198155492703 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 31/03/202693 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. 1019347 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzBirmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Remembering 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 4223 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Friday afternoon pint in The Pocket N1, £5.27 and gluten-free! 😘 110 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzMutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused 7822282 0
Hannah Piekarz @hannahpiekarz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Picked 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. 010 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzBertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 21/03/2026On the set of A Matter of Life and Death. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. 1946. 323474 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarz 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Can this be a solution? 04814 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzFatale Distraction @fatale-distraction.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Here is the direct link for donations. If donating from the US, put your phone number in without any dashes loldorsetarchivestrust.orgSylvia Townsend Warner Fundraising Appeal | Dorset Archives TrustDorset 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.... 044 0
Reposted by Hannah Piekarzhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Folklore 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 335373 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026'Berwick Street Market, Soho' (c.1920s) by Rex Vicat Cole (Private Collection) 110515 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzNW London Time Machine @timenw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The Camden Roundhouse in 1964. News UK Archives. 095 0
Reposted by Hannah PiekarzGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model). 4958811516 0