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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harebells on the driveway. #BlueSkyMonday

Steely blue Harebell flowers against a blurred grey brown background.

Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whaddya mean? This is how I'm indexing Volume IV of Godwin's letters – though so far it has not been necessary to strip to the waist.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Joseph Wright, ‘Matlock Tor by Moonlight’ (c. 1777-80).

Joseph Wright of Derby, ‘Matlock Tor by Moonlight’ (c. 1777-80), Yale Center for British Art.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Clare Leighton, Ploughing: November (1932). Seen today at Pallant House Gallery.

Engraving of figure guiding plough pulled by two horses.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The asters never last long, but I’m always glad to see them, end of summer

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you – that's very kind and encouraging. I haven’t written anything more about Chathill – despite the temptation – but have published a second memoir of another place, at a later stage, and hope to post it online before long.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lovely memoir piece from Pamela Clemit.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you, Henry - that is most kind.

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pamela's account of the steam/diesel-electric transition is a recommended read.

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27th September 2026 06.26

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you so much! That is very encouraging and kind.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Chilly Autumn Morning. 6°C and a heavy dew. Rooks.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Final proof (let’s hope) has arrived for indexing (620 pages). Thanks to all those waiting & watching. #AmIndexing #TheLongestJourney

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kirklees and Calderdale boast some of the finest rural landscapes in Yorkshire. Together, they form a vast green sanctuary where dramatic topography meets historic countryside. Calderdale is dominated by open spaces, with its western two-thirds framed by sweeping high moorlands,

Shibden Valley: This stunning rural landscape features a patchwork of lush green hills, rolling pastures and thick woodlands. While it appears purely pastoral today, the area historically hosted thriving local wool, coal, and flagstone industries. Image Tim Green CC BY 4.0

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ancient wooded dales, and protected valleys like Shibden and Cragg Vale. Over 60% of the district is designated Green Belt land. Neighbouring Kirklees matches this grandeur, where roughly 70% of the district consists of countryside and Green Belt area. Rolling agricultural pastures merge

View from Marsden Gate an area that straddles the boundary between Kirklees and Calderdale. Image: Tim Green CC BY 4.0

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

seamlessly into the Peak District's northern fringes. These twin boroughs, areas that historically hosted thriving local industry are now part of Yorkshire's magnificent rural heartland.

East Lee Lane, Eastwood, Todmorden, Image Tim Green CC BY 4,0

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a lovely post - thank you.

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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big Donegal skies.

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Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yesterday we published Mary Ann Lund’s new edition in the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - a project known far and wide for its editorial rigour and immaculate presentation, under the general editorship of @mcculloughp.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD in 1750. A fearless satirist and poetic innovator in Scots language and tradition, he is one of the most erudite and influential Scottish writers. Watch this space for my new edition of his works, out with Edinburgh University Press in February!

Bronze sculpture of Robert Fergusson by David Annand, outside Edinburgh's Canongate Kirkyard. He is looking up and out with a book in his hand.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 04/09/2026

Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the #C19. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets #BookHistory www.nls.uk/collections/...

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Reading by touch: Scotland's early tactile reading systems | National Library

Explore the history of reading by touch for blind readers in nineteenth century Scotland.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Perhaps what I said was misleading – if so, apologies. I meant that in his letters he appears preoccupied with the national tale. In the preface to Mandeville, as you probably know, he acknowledges our old friend Charles Brockden Brown as one source of inspiration.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you for the timely encouragement, Dale – I'm about to start indexing. There's a passing reference to Radcliffe in 1816, in relation to the Scottish landscape, but Godwin seems to have been more interested in the national tale by then.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV (OUP, forthcoming), includes 34 letters to his daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (b. OTD 1797), author of Frankenstein (1818), five more full-length novels, & pioneering editor of P. B. Shelley's poems. Posthumous 19c. miniature by Reginald Easton.

Posthumous nineteenth-century miniature of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, by Reginald Easton. Bodleian Library Shelley relics (d). This watercolour portrait is mounted in a frame of open-work gilt metal incorporating a monogram ‘MW’ at the top. It depicts Mary Shelley as a young woman gazing to the right, with plaited hair and a light shawl draped over the back of her head. She is wearing pansies at her breast.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The autumn issue of the DRB will appear on Monday. Essays and reviews will include Michael Ignatieff on Avisha Margalit’s ‘Captive Minds’, Emer Nolan on Frank Callanan’s ‘James Joyce: A Portrait’, Graham McCann on Marilyn Monroe at 100 and Maurice Earls on Daniel O’Connell’s liberal Catholicism.

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: scholarly editing is an advanced skill; it's not for everyone. Knowing the literature of a field does not itself equip you to be an editor. If you don't have highly developed textual accuracy skills then it's not for you.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Congratulations to the wonderful Mary Ann Lund (Leicester) on publication of her second (!) vol. in the Oxford Donne Sermons edition. Fantastic textual and critical scholarship on his mid-career at St Paul's.

Looking down into a box of author's copies of volume 13 in the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626-1628, in their trademark Oxford English Texts light blue dust jackets.

Tondo portrait in gold frame of John Donne when Dean of St Paul's; thick dark hair and beard and draped in what looks like a very un-clerical black satin toga, channeling Roman orator (latter day preacher). V&A and a contemporary copy in St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've just submitted the manuscript for my next book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY. It's about the loss of England's chalk downland - a tale of flowers, fertility, fascism and freedom. Published by William Collins on 22nd April 2027; pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Photo shows the printed manuscript for my book, The Ghosts of Chalk Country, by Guy Shrubsole. Background shows a cork board covered in old postcards, photos and paintings of chalk landscapes, including some Eric Ravilious watercolours, and a postcard of the Cerne Giant wearing underpants.

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 24/08/2026

Just finished a week of research in Berlin on anti-Nazi resistance networks. Many discoveries but easily the most moving was this: A small paper flower a resistance organiser crafted in Luckau prison and included in a letter to his daughter – 1936

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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Slightly obsessed with Marsh Gentian at the moment, and (in the words of Depeche Mode) I just can't get enough! So took the opportunity to indulge in a visit to another local heathland this weekend - just glorious. 💙 #wildflowerhour

Marsh Gentian, on Dorset Heathland.
Colour of flowers was blue, but the evening light and my phone camera showing them more purple.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Still life pictures (what Manet called 'the touchstone of the painter,') became very fashionable in the early years of the 20thC - Elizabeth Okie Paxton painted what one critic called 'ravishing still lifes of moments in time.' This work is from 1916.

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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today is the Feast of St Rognvald, our dynamic, poetic, adventurous, handsome, cathedral-building Norwegian Earl of Orkney. Skål!

Wooden carving of a man standing holding a model of a church

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

La Place de l'Europe (Rue de Paris), temps de pluie, 1877, by Gustave Caillebotte, born #OTD 1848, innovative French Impressionist artist, and art collector, who owned Renoir’s Bal du Moulin de la Galette (1876). The Art Institute of Chicago

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Imagine when most of Ireland looked something like this. Now consider that only around 1% remains, almost all wrecked. Few – if any – other places on Earth are in such dire need of rewilding.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (b. OTD 1771), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt, by Sir Edwin Landseer, c.1824. This oil painting depicts Scott seated at his desk, looking up from the act of writing. He is surrounded by books and papers. The sword of Montrose, one of his most treasured historical relics, is lying over the manuscript sheets in the foreground.

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

15th August 2026 06.07

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