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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 23/03/2026

Here’s a glimpse of the day This Slavery brought a crowd to Queen Street Mill in Burnley and filled it with art and song and resistance ✊ @commonerschoir.bsky.social @jenniferballads.bsky.social @jennyharper.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social Thanks to Huckleberry Films

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 06/02/2026

The president has demanded that Democrats approve the renaming of Penn station and Dulles airport before he unfreezes the money for the New York to New Jersey project

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Trump holds $16bn tunnel fund hostage until airport named after him

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Fantastic to be a part of the Rickard Sisters excellent Trouble at Mill- the launch event celebrating their graphic novel adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery. @swwdtp.bsky.social @unirdg-phd.bsky.social @nicola-wilson.bsky.social @simonrennie.bsky.social @rickardsisters.com

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So, #ThisSlavery is coming out tomorrow - but, @RickardSisters.com, what's it all about? 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #newbook

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 21/08/2025

🔥 Three weeks to publication day! 🔥 You can pre-order This Slavery in all good bookshops (or on the bad one where it is heavily discounted) or even from our website. You could ask your library to stock it. We’re so excited for folk to see it after years on the drawing board

A panel from This Slavery graphic novel,in which Rachel is being arrested. As the police lead her from her terraced home into the snowy night, her mother and sister, Hester, watch helplessly from the doorway. Behind them stands the top-hatted man Hester has just agreed to marry.
“Thank God you’re out of this scramble at least,” says Mother.
“Aye,” says Rachel, “She’s chosen her prison bars and I’ve found my own. Well neither of us escape this slavery, Will we? Good night.”

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Waterstones has a 25% discount off online pre-orders off the beautiful new edition of Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'. From 28-31 July. Code: SUMMER25 www.waterstones.com/book/and-so-... Or order directly from publishers @bhousepress.bsky.social -- at a chunky discount.

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And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, Valerie Waterhouse | Waterstones

Buy And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, Valerie Waterhouse from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 23/05/2025

Look at our lovely cotton tea towels! They are made in Lancashire and there are combination offers available at rickardsisters.com/product/post...

On a red background with organic white flourishes, cream and green scrolls bear the words UNITY IS STRENGTH. In the centre, two hands grasp in a firm handshake. A twisted golden rope hangs down each side, and the whole thing has the air of a traditional Union banner.

On an ornate gold and purple background, cream and green scrolls bear the words NO-ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS EQUAL. The scrolls have rich curled ribbon flourishes. The design was inspired by our suffragette graphic novel NO SURRENDER and reminds us all that it’s our humanity is what counts, not what’s in our pants.

On a dark green and gold ornate background, red scrolls bear the words DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. In the centre a hand holds aloft a flaming torch. The whole mood is that of a traditional union banner, and of course the BASTARDS are everywhere…

on an ornate dark red and gold background, green scrolls bear the words MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. Thirteen hands are arranged in a circle, each holding the wrist of the next. They are each different and distinctive in age, skin tone, jewellery, tattoos etc and present an image of strength in diversity

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.

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CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing

This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously publi...

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 19/05/2025

Many Hands Make Light Work New design! Available as an A2 poster (£10) or a cotton tea towel (£12) at RickardSisters.com, where you’ll find various gifts for the activists in your life

On a dark red and gold ornate background, green scrolls bear the words MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK. The scrolls have curled ribbon flourishes with a medieval air. Thirteen hands are arranged in a circle, each holding the wrist of the next. They are each different and distinctive in age, skin tone, jewellery, tattoos etc and present an image of strength in diversity.

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Long before BookTok or #BookSky, readers got their hot tips from the Book Society. ‘Recommended!’ by @nicola-wilson.bsky.social looks at how these proto-influencers shaped the tastes of the reading public for decades! In need of some new recs? 📖 rdg.ac/4jhqE3C #WorldBookDay #readingatReading

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Picked this up from the local library today and noticed it was published by Everyman. @nicola-wilson.bsky.social

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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'll be at @litfest.bsky.social in just two weeks, talking all things Cotton Famine with @simonrennie.bsky.social from @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social and Jack Southern from @uclan.ac.uk. 📅 Sunday 16th March, 2pm 🗺️ Lancaster Central Library Registration links are below, see you there!

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In Common @incommon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"Southampton stands together and leaves no room for racism. Southampton is one city, one community, united by our shared values. We want unity and peace.” Hundreds of anti-racist protesters gathered for a counter-demonstration in Southampton yesterday. www.in-common.co.uk/2025/01/26/h...

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Hundreds of anti-racist demonstrators gather for Southampton counter-protest - In-Common - Southampton

Hundreds of local anti-racist protesters gathered in Southampton city centre to tell UKIP supporters they were not welcome in the city. UKIP leader Nick Tenconi announced his intention to march throug...

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Anybody else thinking it’s time to re-read Jack London’s ‘The Iron Heel’?

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The 1921 UK Census has been released, it's striking how many wrote their occupation as 'out of work' or 'no work.' Industrial unrest and an unemployment rate of 20%.

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Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Do join us via zoom and find out more about this remarkable woman - mill worker, writer, pacifist, socialist.

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I am giving an online zoom talk about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth for Heptonstall Museum on Thur 9th Jan, 7-8.30pm. A rare example of a working class female writer, she was an ethical socialist who fought for social justice. From free-£3, link below: heptonstallmuseumfriends.org.uk/event/ethel-...

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: A Clear Light and a New World - Heptonstall Museum

Jenny Harper joins us for a virtual talk about the inspiring work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the importance of her work involved in The Clear Light, a publication pivotal to the northern political...

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Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@themerl.bsky.social From the University of Reading's Postgrad Department, I would just like to share a picture of my absolute unit of a fox with you. 🦊

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Pls Repost: building a list of people working on/in working-class literature. #workingclassliterature

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