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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I like it. An interesting new artwork for Enfield library inspired by #johnkeats. ttps://enfielddispatch.co.uk/colourful-new-mural-now-adorns-enfield-town-library/

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Colourful new mural now adorns Enfield Town Library

The artwork by artist Agwa was inspired by former Enfield poet John Keats

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And if you can recommend book/writing/bookshop accounts to follow I'd be grateful. #Booksky @framlinghambooks.bsky.social

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I haven't posted on here for ages - my daughter is getting married and it's a BIG THING. Please follow @framlinghambooks.bsky.social I'll be there posting about books and bookshop news. Many of you are here for that anyway 😄

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I just dont seem to get much traction on here - something im not doing I expect. On Substack people have loved our little secondhand bookshop. So im writing about it! open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

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Old books, new homes: secondhand bookshops are precious. Ours especially so...

Shall I tell you more tales of secondhand bookselling?

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RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

#OTD 1742 the Incorporation of Surgeon-Apothecaries of #Edinburgh ordered notices to be placed “on Church Doors, City-Gates, Coffee-houses or other public places” to “show the World the sentiments of this Society” in opposition to body snatching, “a Monstrous Crime”.

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In 1890 Robert Koch claimed he had discovered a cure for tuberculosis. However, this cure is often referred to as Koch's greatest failure. This is one of the earliest specimens of Koch's original tuberculin to be received in Edinburgh.

A glass vial with some string wrapped round the neck of the bottle. The string has a wax seal hanging from it. There is a label on the bottle that reads: "fertig gestellt 19.2.91'

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In which I get caught up in a tricky issue on a lovely walk. Complete with dogs and ice cream. open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

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Scars on the landscape - environmental or emotional?

Inspiration strikes, but has more questions than I can answer

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I love #wildflowerhour , without having a clue when it is. Have some violets. John Keats’s favourite flower.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

And some of the people applauded the emperor, for although they knew he was naked and feared reprisal, others (because their worship was so deep, and their minds so owned) saw clothes where there were none. #BodyLanguageExpert #BehaviorAnalysis

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In which I once again ruminate on my great grandfather's role in the incarceration of his wife and two daughters... victim of a tragedy, or villain? Family history can ask and answer many questions... open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

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Sarah's Story - an update. Researching mental health in family history

Who are the victims? Transgenerational trauma in a family tree

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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Sarah's Story - an update. Researching mental health in family history

Who are the victims? Transgenerational trauma in a family tree

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Harkin's Heroes 💚♿️ @sitting42long.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you’d like to support me during this overwhelming time, whether it’s through kind words, sharing my page, or a small donation, I’d be incredibly grateful. 💙 Every little bit helps.

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Anxiety Overload

Chelsea Gerow published a post on Ko-fi

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just watched ‘Agatha Christie’s’ The Pale Horse on iplayer . Terrific acting (Bertie Carvel was an heroically awful character) but WHY BOTHER? Barely a scrap of the original left. Bonkers.

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a man looks at a statue of jesus in a hallway with the words @tvresidence above him

ALT: a man looks at a statue of jesus in a hallway with the words @tvresidence above him

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Evening in the Woods by Worthington Whittredge 1876 Oil on Canvas (The Metropolitan Museum, NY)

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We lived in France for 5 years under Macron. The French always dislike their presidents but Macron is a treat for Brits - a real Statesman who knows his stuff. Trump is a sulky kid who shouldn’t be allowed to end a conversation like that. God he’s scary.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/02/2025

Three years ago today, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine, and Russian aircraft began bombing the country. Trump is lying. Russia started the war, not Ukraine. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky.

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Celebrations in order! I've just submitted the completed manuscript 1st draft of a book about this strange man. Friedrich Nietzsche was, it seems, a prophet. There's some difficult stuff to read but he predicted the mess we're in, that's for certain.

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It's the anniversary of Keats' death and the end of my first week on Substack. This post was my contribution to dispelling the myth of Romantic weakness. It's also the anniversary of my book on Keats coming out mid-pandemic 😔 suziegrogan.substack.com/p/the-death-... #poetry #BookSky

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The death of John Keats: ending the myth of 'weakness'

Written on the anniversary of his death on the 23rd February 1821

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My latest Substack post. Shall I upload my radio show as a podcast or am I making this too complicated? #booksky Talking Books - a podcast? open.substack.com/pub/suziegro...

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Talking Books - a podcast?

Almost as soon as I published my last post, I noticed that the date Substack used for it was the day I first logged into the platform, rather than the actual day I posted it.

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The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🧠 Celebrate International Women's Day a little early this year with a talk at the Old Operating Theatre Museum! 🗓️ 3rd March 🕰️ Doors open 5:45pm 🎟️ Book now: buff.ly/412qipU . . . . . #InternationalWomensDay #OldOpEvents #MedHist #Neuroscience #OldOpTheatre #CharityEvents #LondonEvents

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am sick of people demonising being nice. I am writing a book about Nietzsche at the moment and I feel victimised - he has a big problem with compassion - BEING NICE IS NICE and not just for the nice person.

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've just reposted one of my posts from yesterday. Is that a done thing? Or lazy? I mean, it is lazy, but no one paid it any attention and I felt sorry for it...

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've re-started my popular but much neglected (by me) old WordPress blog on Substack and I'd love it if you would subscribe. No Wriggling Out of Writing made me friends, got me writing and got me publishing deals. Forever grateful. suziegrogan.substack.com?r=1mlp5h&utm...

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No Wriggling Out of Writing | Suzie Grogan | Substack

Suzie Grogan reimagines her lovely old WordPress blog on life, writing, and living life and writing... It made her friends, soothed her soul and got her writing! Click to read No Wriggling Out of Writ...

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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No Wriggling Out of Writing | Suzie Grogan | Substack

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social is a joy every day. For a bookseller he has elaborated on an eternal truth, one we need to cling to, as we do that rolling ladder.

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John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Dusk on the Southbank by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson 2016 Oil on Canvas

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Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Will you join me for my online #HouseHistory talk next month for Society of Genealogists: The Census and House History. FREE to Gold members, or £10. More details 👇https://members.sog.org.uk/events/67ab611b7acf770008ea0af4/description?ticket=67ab611b7acf770008ea0af8

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The first hollow hypodermic needle was invented by Alexander Wood in 1853. It allowed drugs to be injected in the body under the skin. Accompanied by different length needles, this example is made from silver with a glass barrel. It works by turning the screw at the top to inject the liquid.

A photo of the needle in the foreground. In the background is a case lined in purple velvet.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Two figures walk along a corridor lined with complex machinery.

The worker says "Congratulations, sir! The most intelligent machine ever created is ready to change the world. Ten billion dollars well spent... What shall we ask it to do? "

The billionaire replies "That's my business, not yours. Close the door on your way out."

Now alone with the machine, the billionaire asteps closer and asks quietly "Can you Make people like me?"
it says "No"

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A great piece by @luciennewrite.bsky.social about biography and writing women’s lives. I talk of my biography of Harriet Martineau which is ticking over as I write commissions. open.substack.com/pub/lucienne...

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Writing Women's Lives

With Suzie Grogan and Karen Hunt

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’ll leave this here to raise a smile or two. My grand puppy Bailey. Yes, a maltipoo in a beret. Got an easel and some brushes anyone? #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fabulous winter walk at Thorpeness. Teddy the dog taking us on a long, winding and very beautiful journey across heathland, through trees and along the seashore. Suffolk is beautiful.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My new year’s resolution generator for @theguardian.com. Let me know what you get!

Title: Still haven't made a new year's resolution? Let us help you generate one!

Image: a diagram which asks you to input “The year of your birth added to the number of pets in your home”, “The number of days in the current month plus your shoe size” and “The sum of the first three digits in your telephone number” which will seemingly make a random resolution but actually always* makes “support your local bookshop”.

*Unless you have size 68 shoes or a negative number of pets or some other nonsense in which case you will get the silly outcome you deserve.

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Mind @mind.org.uk · 29/01/2025

Just a lil reminder today 🩵

A soft, pink watercolor circle labeled “Your Life,” with a small dot near its edge labeled “this moment.”

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Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉 Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present. It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s... #skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy

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Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain

Abstract. The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother’s recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family o

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@rachelchurcher.bsky.social Hi Rachel. Suzie from Framlingham Bookshop here. Thanks for the suggestion I’m trying to gauge interest in bookshops here 😀

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Any thoughts about bookshops starting on here? We’ve come off Meta/x but didn’t know if people would want bookshop talk? Glad of your thoughts.

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.

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Other Events

As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Call off the angry mob! My shop and art-for-sale are open again. This and other prints, badges, zines and original drawings are available now: www.tomgauld.com/shop

Title: The Angry Mob

Image:
A group of angry blob-like figures, each in a bright colour.

A key explains their feelings with seven colours:

Boiling with rage
Very angry.
Angry but not sure why.
A tiny bit angry.
Not sure.
Pretending to be angry.
Just likes being in a mob.

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We love @tomgauld.bsky.social in Fram Books. His cartoons are a dream for the bookseller/writer/reader/anyone.

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The bookshop was busy today, but I still finished a proofread and Nietzsche notes for the next book. ‘Strategy on the part of the good writer of prose consists of choosing his means for stepping close to poetry but never stepping into it…’ #booksky

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Suzie Grogan @keatsbabe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Cormac the Irish Terrier visited Framlingham Books today. #dogsinbookshops is always fun. Our stock of dog treats for literary pups is always topped up 🦮

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