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Heather Tweed

@heathertweed.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall. SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250 Book Ahoy! www.heathertweed.net www.heathertweed.co.uk

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
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‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*
Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and
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IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Biography can help recover history from colonial dispossession and silencing - join us next Wednesday September 30 for the first IHR African History Seminar in 26/27 with Ben Lawrance and Vusumuzi Kumalo to explore how, focusing on South African writer Dugmore Boetie, apartheid, and decolonization!
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British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social · 1h
#MusicHallMonday - This month Monday's will look at some ghost stories from Theatres. The Sunderland Empire is up first where the ghost of actor Sid James (1913-1976), who died on stage there is said to have been seen including in 1989 when supposedly witnessed by the comedian Les Dawson! Spooky Eh?
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 3h
Happy World Teacher Day! 🍎 From online workshops that guide Advanced Higher students through using our catalogue for their dissertations, to self-guided visits and staff-led tours, we offer a range of ways to bring the Library into your classroom - or your classroom into the Library.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19h
Next issue of Strange and Wondrous: Notes from a Science Historian coming out in a few hours with my spooky season reads. Sign up now for free to make sure you don’t miss it! buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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Strange and Wondrous: Notes from a Science Historian
Dr. Surekha Davies on history, science, and politics through the stories people tell about monsters. Scroll cautiously past this Renaissance cyclopes for why you should subscribe. François Deserps, Re...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing a "soft launch" in Edinburgh on October 14! Get your hands on SLEUTH-HOUND before it's officially out in the city where the story took place! I'll be in conversation with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! Tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
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Lindsey Fitzharris for Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes at Edinburgh New Town Church
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026
Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2
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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...
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Sussex Heritage Community @heritagecommunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My ships bigger than yours, medieval ship envy at Old Winchelsea. In 1254, Old Winchelsea had prepared for a Royal visit..... what could go wrong 🤔 For the full story please see our Facebook page Sussex Heritage Community, its a fascinating read.
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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok round two for #NationalPoetryDay - would you enjoy the quaking duck, the ‘nice’ mountains, the ungrammatical fatality, the patted sod, or the nocturnal chirping cuckoo? Is my harshest critique ‘perfect twaddle’?
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Jane Hoodless @janehoodless.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Jane Hoodless @janehoodless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dead and buried - and probably a bit sassy…
Close up of a gravestone which reads: “she was as wise as a serpent & harmless as a dove & the world was not worthy of her”.
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits 🐇🐇🐇
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’m a bit of an old toy collector myself so rather enjoyed this one. Thanks Heather. And yes you can read that both ways - I’m old and I collect old toys… @heathertweed.bsky.social #museums #museumfromhome #museumlover #oldtoys mainlymuseums.com/post/1462/th...
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Theatre of Memory A Visit to Pollock’s Toy Theatre Museum
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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1578 Counsell Against the Pestilence - use cinnamon, violet and cloves, but under no circumstances rely on a walnut
Open page of a book, only text is visible, no illustrations. The text is unreadable.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remembering novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, born on this day 1810.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poor little ratty! A plump owl with beautifully curved wings carries his prey off on a 15thC misericord at St Mary Magdalene, Newark, Nottinghamshire. #OwlishMonday
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good lion! Lovely lion, patina lion. Pleased you live with me now.. along with your pal 🦁😃🎭
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘Temporary Theatre’ ? Well .. not quite 😁🎭
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‘Lived here’ …well not quite 😁🎭
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To all the people saying: "How can I find time to read to my kid when I have a high-powered full-time job?" I taught high school full time; marked A-level exam papers in my spare time; wrote a bestseller in 4 months and still found time to read to my kid every night. I did give up dusting, though.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 28/09/2026
Anthropic:
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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eothen #NiagaraFalls #Canada 28.9.1872. "When we reached the top, we were all again photographed, dripping and dishevelled as we were; so I expect the picture will be more peculiar and picturesque than pleasing." #Brassey #Victorian #Travel #History #1870s
Pages from "A Cruise in the Eothen, 1872" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1873. Niagara Falls, Canada 28.9.1872.
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who’s walking cane is this? Answers on a postcard please 😃🤗
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now THAT'S getting a re-post.
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Bristol24/7 @bristol247.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I would be so happy if someone circled all the mistakes in red paint like a teacher or a spot the difference puzzle," one artist said
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Artists heavily criticise AI-generated mural
"AI designs not only devalue but undermine the work of artists"
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 23/09/2026
Six new Welsh words have made it into the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary - including a creature from Welsh folklore and a phrase many of us have been mocked for using
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'Now in a minute': Oxford English Dictionary adds new words from Wales
Stephen Price Six new Welsh words have made it into the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary – including a creature from Welsh folklore and a phrase many of us have been mocked for using. Th...
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@wandaopalinska.bsky.social haven’t you got some deadlines? 😃Oh so have I … why am I noodling round on here? 🤣🥰
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Christabel Pankhurst, leading suffragette, was born on this day 1880 in Old Trafford.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Off to Cambridge tomorrow for a spot of museum-bothering before the @constructionhist.bsky.social annual conference. Links in ALT. Not too late to book to come to a fascinating couple of days. We are a very friendly lot, so if you havent been before, let us know at registration & someone will buddy.
Programme: https://www.constructionhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Programme.CHS_.2026_FIN.pdf

Booking: https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-architecture/construction-history-society-conference
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FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join us on 24th September for our autumn and fall-themed #FolkloreThursday! Our hosts will share posts made to the hashtag at the following times BST: 9am-2pm 3.30pm-4.30pm 6pm-7pm 🍂🍎🎃 (🎨John William Godward, Autumn.)
A woman in a flowing red dress with a green sash reaches for grapes hanging from a vine, with a bowl of grapes at her feet. John William Godward, Autumn.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026
Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a wonderful evening launching our Bloomberg Connects guide for #HeritageOpenDays! We also celebrated our Marilyn art competition winners & becoming an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social designated collection 🎉 Our special #Everydayhistories display remains open throughout Heritage Open Days!
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the foxes, for today is their special day! To celebrate National Fox Day, here is an illustration of a fox from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #NationalFoxDay #FoxDay #RareBooks
Cropped image from a book showing a colour illustration of a fox in side profile, standing on a patch of grass. The illustration is decorated in shades of white, orange, brown, and green. The fox has an orange-brown coat, a white underbelly, a long snout, pointed ears, and a bushy tail with a white tip. It has a thoughtful expression on its whiskery face, as if it is pondering something...
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our collections of archives, maps and rare books are available for everyone to access for research, interest or enjoyment in the Reading Room! When visiting us, please: 🗓️ Book in advance 🧼 Wash your hands with soap and water ✏️ Bring a pencil or electronic device (no pens!) Book your visit here ⬇️
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LibGuides: Visiting Heritage Collections: Reading Room booking form
LibGuides: Visiting Heritage Collections: Reading Room booking form
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Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Florence Bravo died on 17 September 1878 at Southsea, two years after her husband’s murder. Aged just 33, she died from the effects of alcoholism. Find out about her turbulent life and complex relationships : 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-P... #truecrime #CharlesBravo
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are delighted to announce a new exhibition inviting you to travel back in time to the 1920s to explore life at St Luke's 100 years ago! This exhibition is free to visit on the ground floor of St Luke's Library on the University of Exeter's St Luke's Campus. #Archives #Exhibitions #Exeter
Dark green box in which is written on the left in white text 'New Special Collections Exhibition at St Luke’s Library! Back to the 1920s: 
Exploring life at St Luke’s 100 years ago through the University Archive. This exhibition is available to visit on the ground floor of the Library on the University of Exeter’s St Luke’s Campus.' On the right is a photograph with a light green border. The photograph shows a display case with four shelves, on which a range of photographs, documents and objects are displayed.
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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Beach below De La Warr Parade, Bexhill-on-Sea postcard sent 16.9.1905. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Beach #Holiday #History #1900s
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Reader comments on THESE ISLES: 'Another superbly written and all too readable book.' 'What a great informative read, so much research must have been involved!' 'It’s a great, eclectic, overview.'
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Chartist Lives - the paperback #Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is from the Bexhill Observer 31.8.1957. Also a postcard c.1975
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'The Old Woman Who Lived' in a Shoe is one of those nursery rhymes that becomes stranger with age. Why a shoe? How large was it? Where did it come from? Children's literature simply hands us impossible real estate and expects us to move on. #FairyTaleTuesday
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Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @fashioningtheself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This 1830 painting by Arnaud Julien Pallière depicts the artist’s son with his mother on the veranda of his grandfather Grandjean de Montigny’s home in Rio de Janeiro. Although mother and child occupy the center of the composition, the scene is structured by the labor of 3 domestics, likely enslaved
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Final call: Chartist Day is this Saturday at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick. Book now to avoid disappointment as tickets are limited. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...
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Chartism Day 2026
Join us to discover the latest research on Chartism and get the chance to meet fellow Chartist scholars and enthusiasts. All welcome.
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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For #TextileTuesday, above the misericords in @gloscathedral, #Gloucester, sit these fabulous cushions, made by the cathedral embroiderers. These were crafted during #WW2 and after, and are a remarkable exercise in craft as impressive as the woodwork around them.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service, opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, died later that day.
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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"If a recommendation of the Estates and Parks Committee is approved, the Metropole site will be used as a miniature golf course next summer." Bexhill Observer 15.9.1956. #Bexhill #Sussex #Golf #History #1950s
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Heather Tweed @heathertweed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who doesn’t love a pair of giant Kelpies? A wondrous sight 🧚🐴✨
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