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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dig a hole, get in naked, stay up to 12 hours, and sing... Read James Graham's short 1790 treatise on the all-healing qualities of “Earth Bathing” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/e…

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Self-prescribed to heal a lingering lurgy: pecan tart (nostalgic comfort food) and Francis Crawford’s terrific A BAD BAD PLACE. It’s her debut murder mystery set in 1979 Glasgow where 12-year-old Janey finds a murdered woman - and off we go. Full vernacular. Feeling much better.

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 06/09/2026

🚨 Reminder that today is the last day to update your ALCS account before we close the members' area of our website to start processing our distribution 🚨 Here's everything you need to know: www.alcs.co.uk/news/september-2026-…

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Embedded and wistfully contemplative.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The @alcs.co.uk provides authors a much needed, and frankly, amazing service. Do sign up if you haven’t yet.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem In Memoriam Absolute legend.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shanghai Gothic Photographer Lai Fong's Fangguangyan Monastery, 1870s Albumen silver print. The Loewentheil Photography of China Collection

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 27/08/2026

We have weather. S of us 15 minutes ago:

A bolt of lightning crossing the sky above a line of trees.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There’s a light Tim Curry In Memoriam

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I grew up an hour from Nashville when Dolly Parton appeared every week on one of three TV channels, most often at The Grand Ole Opry. In Memoriam Dolly Parton. A talented lady with a heart of gold.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

US sculptor Emma Stebbins, Angel of the Waters,1868 (unveiled 1873) #womensart

Photo featuring a blacl sculture with an angel on a plinth with running wate, sited on a lake in a formal garden or park

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bat Night! If you're in the vicinity of Kentish Town City Farm London they're hosting a free meet and greet (and learn) bat night on Wednesday 19 August. Register here: forms.gle/4UDjW7BMmW8M...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, via the Arts and Crafts movement #womensart

Embroidered book cover with stylised flowering plant design on a white background

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Even when emptied of corpses, some of the stone coffins in the Eastern Crypt at Weychester Cathedral refuse to stop moving. Wooden boards jammed under them cannot prevent them rocking, inching themselves across the floor. Another haunting the Dean can't control. – #MattAdams

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Women’s Press, London, founded in 1977 by New Zealand-born publisher Stephanie Dowrick, was a feminist publishing company. The “iron” icon was created by artist Donna Muir #Womensart

Three images, left with an illustration of an iron on an ironing board, top right, thd book The Color Purple, bottom right a pile of books by the publisher

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Swears and non-swears in the shop, just added the expression we've all used... "Oh shit". www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.html#shit 10% of all sales go to SalivaryGlandCancer.uk

Screenshot from Frank's shop with items of hand carved #lettering on stone. You know you want it.

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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

+++ On this very evening, the 1st August 1893. From the Log of the Demeter, which is travelling from Varna to Whitby +++ " We seem to be drifting towards some terrible doom " The picture is the Dmitry from Narva, wrecked in 1885 which inspired Bram #BramStoker #Dracula #Whitby #GothicHorror #OTD

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s dark and hot and weird outside. I’m feeling witchy. After John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779) Mezzotint by John Dixon (c. 1740-1811)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, painter, poet, genius #WomensArt

Photographic portrait of an older woman clutching a kitten while smiling looking outwards

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For it is St. Lazarus Eve or as we Hooklanders call it, Pale Harvest Eve. It is a night when the dead twitch and the living worry about restless spirits. Some say it is like most nights in the county, but this is more than a little unfair. – #CLNolan

July 28th – St. Lazarus Eve
One of several dates in the Hookland calendar where the worlds of the living and dead are reckoned to be a little too close for comfort. Also known in some villages as Pale Harvest Eve, many communities around the county mark this evening by providing offerings at graveyards to persuade the dead to not leave the ground. Some villages are noted for rituals such as posting guards at the gates of the boneyard or as they do at Old Cossington, making a ring of fire around the church which burns from the gloaming to daybreak.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Happy Publication Day to @emilymidorikawa.bsky.social on the publication of her terrific debut novel. Set in Osaka, ‘A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing’ is an atmospheric thriller about an English teacher in Japan who searches for answers when her friend disappears. Congratulations to Emily!

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

To write the dead into living, breathing reality is haunting, mysterious and beautiful.

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17/07/2026

We want to give you plenty of notice that the deadline for adding articles and journals to your ALCS account has changed - these need to be added by 31 Oct. Make sure you don't miss out & please share with your colleagues! www.alcs.co.uk/how-it-works/tell-us…

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 16/07/2026

Hummingbird hawk moth, very small, very fast, on the verbena just now:

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 12/07/2026

To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?

Hand carved #lettering on High Moor limestone from Tadcaster. Text in a reducing spiral, "To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?" 42 x 42 x 5 cms.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a...

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 26/06/2026

SalivaryGlandCancer.uk is having a fancy fundraising soirée in London next month. There will be an auction. Four of my pieces will be on offer. Stiff drinks all round please. It is invite only I'm afraid so it's too glitzy for the likes of you 😆 but 10% of ALL sales through the shop go to SGC UK 👍

Hand carved #lettering on limestone and Welsh slate. fuckfuckfuckfuck, ARSE, FECK and IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.

For carvings in their take-away cases, ready for the auction.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Vegetarian vampires, 1962 By Spanish Surrealist painter Remedios Varo #WomensArt

Painting featuring three figures in orange sitting around a table sucking red foods, such as tomato and water melon through a straw

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter" - Frida Kahlo #WomensArt (Photo c.1939 by N. Muray)

Head and shoulders photographic portrait of artist Frida Kahlo with hair up and wearing a pink dress with dark pink shawl, large earings, no particular expression, all against an orange wall background

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Been a bit of week. Anyway. Before he was changed by war. Before he was changed by family. Before he became an undertaker. #fathersday

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17/06/2026

📣📣Do you write articles for magazines or journals? The deadline to add these to your ALCS account has changed to 31 October. Make sure you log in and submit your eligible articles before this date to ensure you're paid what you're owed in March 2027.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Image of a tartan design with a cross in red abd green thread lines against a dark background

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My outrageous peonies and equally outrageous book pile. #tbr

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Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland. This is the jetty at Kiltoon from which the ashes of writer George Moore were taken to Castle Island to be interred after his death in 1933. #BelieveInFilm @ilfordphoto.com

Black and white photograph of Lough Carra, horizon at the top third and a jetty on the right. Photographed with #IlfordDelta100 film on an Intrepid 4x5 camera.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Astonishing non-fiction. Miranda Kaufmann’s impressive research and narrative of the roles of 9 women in plantation slavery. These are predominantly newly recovered accounts and include the lives of those enslaved. #TheHeiresses

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Witch's cat, 16th-century woodcut. Featured in Jon Crabb's essay "Woodcuts and Witches" about the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone so familiar today: buff.ly/32N2LMt

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Having a quiet weekend. Polish thriller. Thirst. Read. Thinking fiction.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Born #onthisday in Edinburgh in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watch a rare filmed interview with him from 1927 in which he speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and his work in spiritualism: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s… #OTD

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 22/05/2026

In the shop now: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...

Hand carved #lettering on High Moor limestone from Yorkshire. The same stone used to build York Minster in 1220 AD. The lettering runs in a spiral: part of the To be or not to be speech from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. "To die, to sleep..." 42 x 42 x 5 cms.

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Kate Mayfield @katemayfield.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’m in 1930s London at the fictional publishing house of Barnabas Ltd, established 1810, where a not so cosy murder mystery has occurred. Imagine that.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 20/05/2026

The final stages - rubbing down, washing off, drying, and the shop photo: youtu.be/bekDAButKrg

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To sleep, perchance to dream

YouTube video by Frank Raw

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