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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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Toby Carvery admits felling ancient Whitewebbs oak tree

The owner of the pub chain falsely claimed the tree was dead as justification for the felling which has shocked local people and prompted outrage from conservationists across the country

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#Internationalhaikupoetryday This is just to say unworn baby shoes for sale. It was delicious. from 'The Sawney Bean WCW Fake-Hemingway-Short Story Haikus'

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Working on a long poem incorporating various voices, including free-ish translations of Lorca. #modwrite

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Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A 1939 advert for Huntley & Palmer's biscuits from Reading & the "Empire's largest biscuit factory". This long established company had helped revolutionise biscuit production & marketing & were already part of the larger Associated Biscuits group. #vintage #biscuits ↘️ flic.kr/p/2qWujEg

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Clara Chamberlain @clarabchamberlain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Academics, please share widely! We have a few speaker slots still available to apply for and registration for attendees is also open: forms.gle/MEUDJjkQxYsp... @chase-dtp.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @memrn.bsky.social @memsunikent.bsky.social

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Good morning to @tommckinney.bsky.social and whatever birds just twittered away on Radio 3 Breakfast. Looks like we’re keeping Bach before 7 and adding birdsong. Maybe Tom can combine the two? Birds singing Bach before 7?

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Very sad to lose you from the early morning, Petroc. You’ve been a wonderful voice accompanying us through so many historic events. Best wishes for the new adventure!

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

That’s very tough. Have you looked at the Civil Service? They’re the people who often want analysis and reflective writing skills. You need to follow their application process carefully to demonstrate the match of your skills with the job spec, and practice the interview format.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We had a rule instituted in the HE institution that I used to work in, which was that emails to colleagues containing brief questions were strongly discouraged - instead, we were asked to get up from our desks, walk down the corridor, and ask face to face.

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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A marginalia drawing consisting of notations, made by former readers, found in a library book compressed on to two endpapers.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Very sad news. We chatted from time to time after an early morning church service where we were both regulars - Clive told me that he looked forward to discussing my PhD with me as it progressed. I’m sad not to have the opportunity to hear what he was going to share with me.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with and old books to read.” All we need in life, according to one 17th century writer.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

So far my mind has been blown the revelation that bookshelves actually got invented at a certain date. I think I imagined bookshelves as being intrinsic to human culture, or at the very least being first designed for the Tower of Babel.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

… and yet climbing down the tree to sit at a desk with a piece of paper seemed like it would slow me down too much… #PhDnightmares * It was very specifically the Cambridge Uni 3rd year “Tragedy” exam.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Had a nightmare that I was trying to retake my final undergraduate exam.* As I wrote, I knew that I would have made things easier for myself if I hadn’t opted to write it while balancing on a tree branch writing into the pale spaces of an old photograph…

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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Narrowly defeated by F.T. Marinetti

F.T. Marinetti struggling to sit normally in a chair

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Italy a clear winner there, with Marinetti’s innovative asymmetric approach.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I arrived 30 mins before the library actually opened.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/01/2025

"Remember the very first time you watched 'Borat'? And you were like, 'Okayyyyy, TRUE, now I get what people are talking about when they talk about art'? 'To the Lighthouse' was like that."

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Dude, You’ve Gotta Check Out This Virginia Woolf Chick

Yo, Tanner! Get your dick over here; I’ve got a Four Loko with your name on it. Yeah, bro, so far my summer has been tight tight tiiiiiight — thank...

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today I have a cunning plan to get to my favourite library early and get THE BEST DESK. It is adjustable and has a view out of the window and has seen me through many tough writing days.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When you’re reading a scholarly work and wondering if the author was playing the game of “how many obscure and unrelated words can I insert into my argument?” “Melismatic”? Really??

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

First reconstruction of the original 1952 4’33” score by John Cage. David Tudor, 1989.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am so behind the reading times that I have only just read the kaleidoscopic, kleitic After Sappho from Norwich press @galleybeggars.bsky.social longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. My copy was not exactly stolen - more liberated from a place where I felt it was not being appreciated.*

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Taking a look at Ford Madox Ford’s 1918 poem pamphlet Antwerp. It begins ‘GLOOM!’ and continues in that vein.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The builders are wheeling wheelbarrows of rubble past my desk. Both the front and back doors of the house are open. They have advised me to give up trying to make notes on literary criticism for a while.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#PloughMonday 🌾 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪ #Wales

A gravestone depicting a horse-drawn plough and includes the inscription "God Speed the Plough" at the top.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

One of my favourite poems, especially ‘ah wis a GREAT fox’. The zebra (heh heh heh) is also brilliant.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A temporary installation in my garden titled ‘17th July 1789’

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If there weren’t building works in my garden as I type, I’d take a photo of a Finlay-inspired ‘broken circle’ among cyclamen. As it is, I can show some mud.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ian Hamilton Finlay, the poet better known to my family as “that Scottish one”, “that poet that wouldn’t leave his garden”, and “that weird one you like so much”. As in “Is your PhD going to be about that Scottish one?”

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I knew there was a reason I’m not going out tonight.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale about a mathematical request of my Lord’s to him, which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ somebody to answer it, something about observation of the moon and stars, but what I did not mind.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I entirely agree with the need to check cafe locations and opening hours, after really struggling at the Residencia de Estudiantes archive in Madrid. I ended up eating a selection of nuts and chocolate from a local mini-market.

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This v interesting 1787 edition of Robert Burns’s poems has been brutally washed in solvent, probably by a lateC19 collector. This results in super clean pages but also a kind of cancelled, ghost marginalia that has been almost washed away. It’s like the book has repressed memories of a former life

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today I was lucky enough to get a preview of a new story by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social and it was a smasher! Dark, beautiful fantasy with an amazing evocation of the sea. Future readers are in for a treat.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A friend of mine proudly posted that he read 50 Non-work books in 2024. The thing that amazed me was that none of them seemed to be the sort of embarrassing romantasy / chick-lit / mysteries set in the 1930s that I read. So far this year - embarrassing books: 6 worthy and non-embarrassing books: 1

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

‘On Going to Read Don Paterson’s Famous Zen Poem in the Digital Edition of his Book and Not Finding It’ #poetry #missingpoetry #digitalEditionsNotDoingTheirJob #thisIsMyThesisInANutshell

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My family has just attempted the TLS Christmas Quiz (first cousin to Uncommon Places from @cbeditions.bsky.social). We scored 20/200 and by the end were awarding ourselves points for vaguely having thought of that author at some point during the day.

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Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

In the swine cellar?

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Somewhere in my house I have concealed a small cuddly wild boar. Where? Where??

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"Thank you so much for the poems, the greening grasshoppers and the concertina one. If and when [we] get a house, we will put this on the mantlepiece (if there is a mantlepiece)."—Ian Hamilton Finlay, 6 October 1964. Stephen Bann, with Colin Sackett, 1964/2024 #concretepoem

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Turns out that we had a wrong answer elsewhere, and so we can stop desperately thinking of UEA staff / novelists called Rory.

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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Following @jntod.bsky.social’s impossible Christmas poetry quiz, here is another question I have no answer to. Unless it’s Malc Bradbry.

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