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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone got any recommendations for 48 hrs in Valencia? I hear it’s chucking it down. So thinking museums rather than bike tour… #travelsky

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To Spain visiting a pal next week. Short trips Alicante, Valencia & Madrid. I haven’t been abroad since b4 Covid. Daunted, mainly as I don’t do swimsuits & pal insisting on beach. On a tight budget. Any tips for quieter places? (particularly Madrid. Want to go to Prado etc). #travelsky

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Listening to the Backlisted Summer special, strikes me that it’s about different kinds of male/female relationships. The comedian bits are perhaps the heart and the rest-the person that shaped. I do need to read it again. I don’t think audio would work as well. Nothing like C Chambers. #thepalmhouse

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working on a small piece of research/writing at the moment which is critical of AI in history/humanities research/writing/teaching. Keen to hear of any experience/knowledge which might feed in and of any place where the output might be welcomed. 🗃️

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Listening to this (as a reread) in preparation for visit to Torquay & the International Agatha Christie festival next week. I’d love to write about the festival, if there is an outlet for such a thing.

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very much looking forward to interviewing @jonnelledge.bsky.social in Nottingham tomorrow. His new book really is fantastic and contains many great facts, particularly about buses. Hope to see you there. Tickets available below - www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ll be interviewing @jonnelledge.bsky.social at Waterstones Nottingham next Thursday, discusssing his fantastic new book - 31 Inventions That Built Our World. Tickets available below. See you there! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Amol’s tick of saying “Well Done” (which I keep hearing in the voice of Derek Jameson) every time they get one right is even more annoying than when he asks them if they’ve enjoyed themselves. #universitychallenge

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✨John Ruskin described Lincoln Cathedral as “out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles.” Its grandeur is unmatched, but the medieval Romanesque details - like the west front door - feel truly otherworldly, as if from another planet. 🪐

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Finally updated my iPhone os- what is this bubble text hell?

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do I have any friends of friends in San Fransisco / Bay Area? My brother is over there and could use some recommendations. @nedraggett.bsky.social

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Unable to take Darkest Hour seriously post Slow Horses, so playing Wentworth Woodhouse location bingo.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a great collection that deserves a home (my own institution not able to take it unfortunately)

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Keep shooing those reanimated prehistoric beasts off the Pevsners.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh they want you to buy the rights to make an AI clone of yourself! Doomed.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Well Big Brother is indeed watching me. I just got a (poorly written- AI generated?) invitation to Delphi AI - well, at least I think that’s what it is, the grammar is so bad it’s unintelligible.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

No Meta, I don’t want to monetise my content. I want to promote my events. But that would mean ppl putting their phones down for more than 5 minutes. I’m starting to feel very stuck.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I sometimes wonder if I’d be better off making videos of me doing running repairs on my clothes (fpund myself narrating debobbling some keks just now) Anyway. Tours! Nottingham! Architecture as entertainment! Watsonfothergillwalk.com

Confused tour guide in red anorak wondering where her audience has gone

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I know I probably say this every year but Art Fund should do Art Pass for 3 months for £20 even if you’ve been a member before! If you don’t live in London it’s too expensive for a year. Paying double for exhibitions on top of train fare =tax on provincial art lovers!

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also what are the odds that the first day it’s actually chilly enough for a jacket I’m at an outdoor show in a draft. #maso

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It always bothers me at a gig when the sound desk person decides to play a stone cold classic as the warm up (Carol King’s Tapestry in full?!) doesn’t this put terrible pressure on the artists? Like, “follow THAT!”

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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Event Alert! Join John as he talks about LGBTQ+ in the suburbs.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ok I’ve not tested the search much but the article saving function is mostly Ok once you get the hang of it. Harumph.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh fantastic! The crappest interface in research (Find My Past) has been integrated into the main British Newspaper Archive site. Balls!

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Early walk - still pretty warm

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Great chamber of a great woman: throne, tapestry, & A++ plasterwork w/ wild animals paying tribute to goddess Diana. For Bess of Hardwick, who was born OTD in 1527.

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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Want to join IHN? You can now sign up as a member for just £10 a year! You'll get our newsletter, access to free online events with experts, invites to our meet-ups and access to online resources. The more of us, the better! Do join up! membermojo.co.uk/independenth...

Group of wooden people with the words "membership has arrived (hurray)"

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Rob Newman’s early 1990s character Ray- the man with the sarcastic tone of voice. “Oh no, what a personal disaster.”

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Can any readers recommend lesser-known novels with female protagonists / authors set in England / UK (rather than USA etc) in late Victorian period 1870-1890s? #booksky

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thought the guy in Oxfam was chancing it with the mark up on these Virago Barbara Comyns editions that I found today, but just looked up the going rate on abebooks! Wtf.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ponlo en la bolsa de las cebollas. 🥅

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As mentioned in reference to Nottingham’s Emett Clock in my episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour (available wherever you get your podcasts)

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m currently at the staring despairingly at social media stage of looking for paid work- historical research, writing, editing, talking about buildings, training tour guides- if anyone knows of anything I can do remotely, please pass it on. 🙏🏻

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wonder if Dr Hannah Fry will ever get around to telling us how Greggs manage to get a cup of tea so right when all their competitors get it so wrong and charge you twice as much for it.

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A ludicrous piece (moaning about Tour Guides) in my parents’ semi-ironically purchased copy of The Oldie has made me so irate that I’m considering submitting a rebuttal. Is that a stupid idea? Or am I just angry about entitled red trouser-wearing toffs?

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Previews of my Edinburgh spoken word show - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - are taking place next week in Nottingham, Liverpool and London. Tickets are just £3 (£5 in London). Hope to see some of you there - fixr.co/organiser/62...

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Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Palm House- one of those novels where you just can’t see how the author made so much out of seemingly so little, to such astonishing effect. I also spent some of the early 1990s queuing for comedians’ autographs, thankfully not involved in the other comedian-related incidents related within.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

STOP SAYING “PICKY BITS” YOU TWEE IDIOTS

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