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Jon Woolcott

@jonwoolcott.bsky.social
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Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus wept, Instagram, I'm posting a short reel about some book events not the Three Colours trilogy. Hurry the fuck up.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is what I do.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Me: 'Are you an American State whose politics, especially in the 21st century have overwhelmingly favoured the Republican Party ? Because you're the only Tennessee. That's ten I see, can I buy you a machiatto oh OK.'
A sign reading Pickup Cafe.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Despite my sombre face, I'm looking forward to this event tomorrow in Dorchester. There's a bar too. www.teaselandskylark.com/events/the-t...
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The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures with author Jon Woolcott — Teasel & Skylark
A journey through Britain’s chalklands, uncovering the stories, symbolism and shifting meanings of the mysterious figures carved into our hills
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is giving Pink Panther energy.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I recalled now the boyhood thrill of climbing the ladder and peering through the window into the abysmal depth of the bull's eyes." Highly recommended. Especially if you like Alan Garner, elegiac social history or the East Midlands. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Water And Sky by Neil Sentance (2014).
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A photograph of Gloria Steinem.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is a fabulous essay about cuckoos, family and more. Honoured to publish it.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Me again, rabbiting on about My book. A few events this autumn, would be lovely to see you (all of you) there. Tickets from the venues or via link in my bio.
A list of events for The Tattooed Hills: Teasel & Skylark 15 September, Isle of Wight lit festival 10 October, Real Magic Books 15 October, Yeovil lit festival 23 October, Bridport literary festival 12 November.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A photograph of Dolly Parton
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This thing seems to be out in the open now, so even though publication’s eight months away, let’s drum up some early interest, shall we? Wayfarers is out next April. Here’s the cover.
A book cover. Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration, by Lev Parikian. It’s mostly blue, with swirling patterns representing movement, and stylised images of various migrating animals (butterflies, terns, a whale, bats, wildebeest, dragonflies, penguins, an arctic fox) dotted about the place.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'Hell is other people, as some chump once said.' The ever brilliant @adellestripe.bsky.social on Nuts in May at 50, on @thequietus.com . thequietus.com/culture/film...
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Get Back to your Tenements! The Modern Relevance of Nuts In May | The Quietus
I must have seen Nuts In May over 20 times since first watching it as a film student back in my late teens. Back then, I was an outsider trying to understand where I fitted in. Mike Leigh’s films help...
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Ken Worpole @kgeorgew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
‘These are two very different books, that crystallise the perennial question, what is folklore? Whatever you might decide, and although this review does neither Worpole nor Boyd justice, it is impossible to recommend these two books too highly.’ Richard Jenkins, Folklore Journal, 24 July 2026
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Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good morning - I hope you slept like a berry-stuffed mistle thrush - I'm starting with with the arresting 'May' by Eric Ravilious. If you'd like a set, they're available from our website as a postcard collection. Currently 25% off too! www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/the-... #ericravilious
A wood engraving depicting the Wilmington Giant above a star-filled dew pond - on the right, a bull enters the picture from the air. A full moon is apparent.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an album cover.
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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All kicking off in Shetland. If the local police weren't always off solving complex multi-layered murder mysteries they could be catching these real criminals.
SHetland TImes headline: ‘Absolutely disgusting’ - Wheelbarrow thief told to ‘get a grip’ and return stolen item.
With photograph of wheelbarrow filled with foliage, possibly not the actual stolen wheelbarrow.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In a very 'me on Bluesky' way I'm having 2 separate conversations about how underrated Lovesexy by Prince is, and the diarist Francis Kilvert.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Come hear me talk about my book in a full multimedia experience (slides) for the wonderful Teasel and Skylark on 15 September in Dorchester. @quartobooksuk.bsky.social
A poster for an illustrated talk on 15 September with QR code.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My cereal box has never seen the likes.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
...also features reference to @jonwoolcott.bsky.social's excellent new book on the chalk figures of England, which weaves the Cloudbusting video in with Eric Ravilious, XTC, and a deep exploration of why humans have had the urge to carve images into our hillsides www.quarto.com/books/978180...
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The Tattooed Hills
In The Tattooed Hills, writer and publisher Jon Woolcott journeys to Britain’s enigmatic chalk hill figures uncovering their origins, meanings and enduring role in shaping ideas of English identity.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11/08/2026
boiling a batch of eggs for the cold salads I'll be eating during this nth heatwave with the enthusiasm of someone being made to dig their own grave by the mob
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This excellent piece reveals the truth behind one of Ravilious' best loved paintings, and how the Westbury White Horse is really in Sussex...
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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you’re in London this evening, my good mate @jonwoolcott.bsky.social is presenting his book The Tattooed Hills at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in Covent Garden. A wise and witty tour of England through its astonishing chalk figures, TTH is great, and Jon too! www.stanfords.co.uk/event-jon-wo...
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Event- Jon Woolcott: The Tattooed Hills | Stanfords
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thrilled to pieces to be shortlisted @wainwrightprize.bsky.social! My quirky fusion of a book & its delightful & opinionated ghosts (human, wild & otherwise) revisiting the points in recent wildlife & rural history where we could have taken different paths, why we didn’t, & what we do now!
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Me, talking in London, this Wednesday at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social . Some tickets left: www.stanfords.co.uk/event-jon-wo...
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Event- Jon Woolcott: The Tattooed Hills | Stanfords
The World's Biggest and Best Map and Travel Bookshop. For over 170 years, explorers, travellers and adventurers have looked to us as map specialists to get them where they need to go, and back again.
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Clint Sp♾️n @clintspoon.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026
Just finished The Tattooed Hills by @jonwoolcott.bsky.social terrific read - exploration of chalk hill figures and narratives and people around them. Beautifully written and readable!
Tattooed Hills book cover, a chalk horse in a summer landscape
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Liberal England: The white horses of Lutterworth They are the work of the artist and sculptor Graeme Mitcheson, who was inspired by Lutterworth's role as a staging post for the coaching trade in the 18th century.
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The white horses of Lutterworth
I went to Lutterworth today and was taken by these four white horses on a grassed bank at the bottom of the town's main street, which climbs...
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Rainbows. I had forgotten rainbows.
A rainbow and its shadow over a field in north Dorset.
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wild Twin @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Winner of the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 ‘This exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe, Tribune ‘A surging heart-song…’Iain Sinclair www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
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Wild Twin by Jeff Young - Little Toller Books
Wild Twin is the new memoir by the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Ghost Town. In this new book Jeff leaves Liverpool for the Europe of his dreams.
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think we're all ready for The Muppet Odyssey.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a brilliant podcast and this episode, a conversation between 2 of my favourite people, is tremendous and tremendous fun.
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Ted Wicks @t166er.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Count Binface has announced his Cabinet... Transport.......... Wheelie bin Environment..... Recycling bin Trade................. Pedal bin Health............... Dust bin Media................ Swing bin Justice.............. Sin bin Chancellor.........Bread bin
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Saw your boyfriend on the train and immediately texted the British Transport Police on 61016 to report something that doesn’t look right
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Today's lengthy, lunatic, AI generated book marketing pitch, offering 'luminary shelf mapping' to solve the 'problem' of Real Dorset, which is on its 4th reprint. How shall I respond?
A loony writes...A further bit of long loony email.Gosh his AI has definitely skimmed some of the themes in the book.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Haven't seen any football in years. It seems to have morphed into some kind of high-speed wrestling. Exciting.
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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The living landscape of The Vale of the White Horse, by @annadillon.bsky.social (photo courtesy of Friends of the Ridgeway).
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What do I have in common with Kenneth Williams, aside from Infamy! Infamy! ? Both of us once worked for the excellent @stanfordstravel.bsky.social .I'm back there on 5 August to do a talk for The Tattooed Hills. With jokes. Kenneth would be proud. Tickets here: www.stanfords.co.uk/event-jon-wo...
A photograph of Kenneth Williams as Caesar in Carry on Cleo.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Original Mick was also my driving instructor. #claimtofame
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
PUBLICATION DAY! Signed ones available Blackwell's, who also do FREE international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Extract here: www.tom-cox.com/one-week/ You might like it if you like the sea, walking, knitting, old records, community, crows, dogs, silliness, folklore or the sea.
A new paperback of Everything Will Swallow You, out walking today on the Jurassic Coast
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Documenting the project to vaguely label every feature in the countryside with spraypaint.
A photo of a root labelled root.A photo of some roots spraypainted with the word roots.A photo of a tree trunk spraypainted tree.A photograph of a branch spraypainted with the words Not Root.
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Magnetic North HQ
Image shows my office. Books , papers, chair, typewriter, blinds, sunlight on floorboards
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/06/2026
Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hydration break
Penelope Keith with a cup of tea.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I sure am eclectic, as this review by @lauraparker.bsky.social adroitly observes.
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Max Tundra @maxtundra.com · 23/06/2026
The most “metal” photo you’ll see all day. (Pic credit: Nick Bull)
Lightning at Stonehenge in a photograph taken by Nick Bull.
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