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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Latest Substack post. What was in Houdini's Trunk No. 8? And does it have a Leeds connection? penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/trunk-numb...

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It started with the dead Romans by our garden wall... open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Brilliant stuff. Really worth your time

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Jason King (look him up!) or Baphomet. Who wins? You decide. penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/the-devils...

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The Devil's Prayer Book

Part 2 The Devil Rides Out - Again. This time, in tarot.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A look at York’s 15th century devils. penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/the-devils...

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In case yous missed it... Want to know what an American arriving in England in 1839 with 8 tonnes of cargo (including two grizzly bears) has to do with Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'? Latest piece is out. Do read! yorkshirebylines.co.uk/.../whitewas...

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Weird XVIII Moon card in the 17th century Viéville tarot. Why's she there and what's she doing? And why spinning by moonlight was lunacy. open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

Image from 1650s' Viéville tarot. Woman handspinning using distaff.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

In 1839, a ship docked at Liverpool with an 8 ton cargo including 500 paintings & 2 grizzly bears . Find out what this has to do with whitewashing Heathcliff, here: yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/whit... #yorkshirebylines #wutheringheights

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Whitewashing in Wuthering Heights: the Heathcliff question

Emily Brontë’s novel did not spring only from her imagination: her own experiences and the times she lived through were influential

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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Whitewashing in Wuthering Heights: the Heathcliff question

Emily Brontë’s novel did not spring only from her imagination: her own experiences and the times she lived through were influential

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/12/2025

Loneliness, algorithms and incel culture: how boys get drawn in Boys aren’t seeking out incel culture; algorithms, loneliness and confusion pull them in long before they understand it @eastangliabylines.co.uk #Newsnight

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Loneliness, algorithms and incel culture: how boys get drawn in

Boys aren’t seeking out incel culture; algorithms, loneliness and confusion pull them in long before they understand it

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/12/2025

'On “X”, Doyle followed Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate, and a random small time, seemingly right wing commentor, as well as several cryptocurrency accounts. He only followed 11 accounts, half of which were far right.' @penhemingway.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk

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The Liverpool Victory Parade – Paul Doyle sentenced

The day 'family man' and 'ex Royal Marine' Paul Doyle lost it during the Liverpool Victory Parade will stay with us forever

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Latest piece. My kids were on Dale Street that day. A bit of discourse analysis into the right wing press's curiously flowery and flattering language, when mentioning the perpetrator and the far right's "blame the victims" response to the crime: northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/sp...

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The Liverpool Victory Parade – Paul Doyle sentenced

The day 'family man' and 'ex Royal Marine' Paul Doyle lost it during the Liverpool Victory Parade will stay with us forever

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason Booing the national anthem was not only about protesting the spectacle of royalty and patriotism – it was also about justice for the Hillsborough 97 @penhemingway.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk

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Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason

Booing the national anthem was not only about protesting the spectacle of royalty and patriotism – it was also about justice for the Hillsborough 97

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/12/2025

Jonathan Gullis just defected to Reform. Awkward.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Found on eBay, sold by someone flipping random tat. The only extant miniature spinning wheel by Hardys of York, 1824 - 1843, now fully restored. Knew it was good when I saw it but didn't realise it was so important to wheel history. Restoration write-up in 'The Spinning Wheel Sleuth', October, 2025.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Liverpool parade incident: from dreamland to disaster northwestbylines.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"There has been spittle-flecked hysteria from the right wing press every day this week. The terror is now theirs. Even with such a modest EU deal, they know they have lost."

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Pecksniff: EU deal: Glass half full, but Starmer’s chance to fill it to the brim

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Watch my nerdery hit critical mass and disappear over the event horizon. open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

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The Oeconomies on Lamb's Hill

In Which we Visit the Moravian settlement, at Fulneck, Leeds.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

11 years on, I revisit Mr Antis and his Contrivance. Taking a look at a US born inventor, musician and Man For All Seasons, who lived in Leeds. His "contrivance" was an add-on widget that turbo-charged ordinary spinning wheels. penelopehemingway.substack.com/p/mr-antis-a...

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This week our little table-top spinning wheel - a very rare wheel found randomly on eBay - went to the restorers'. open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

Cover of substack post showing 1820s-40s' spinning wheel

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

There's bees on the blackthorn (sloe)! And a beautiful blue sky, earlier this afternoon. It's been a long winter. Spring, soon.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Colour and Light, York Minster, last night. Dragons on the Minster!

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

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‘Woke’ National Trust SLAMMED for 'Head of Inclusivity' job - 40k a year for THREE days a week, huge pension, 32 days off and more

The ultra-progressive institution saw membership drop last year as it pursued various woke policies including mandatory vegan food quotas in cafes and slavery reports

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests

The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Check out today's Substack. I am not a Jane Austen fan. So was pleased to stumble on the contemporaneous diaries of a no bullshit Regency mill owner who was too busy making money in the wool industry, to sit around eating cucumber sandwiches. He's no Mr Darcy... open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

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No Mr Darcy

He's a Prosperous Regency Man. But he's No Mr Darcy. Inside a Scribbling Mill - Taking A Look into the Journals of Forthright Leeds Mill Owner, Joseph Rogerson.

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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

this new Tesla speedometer looks awful

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/01/2025

Egg prices are up 37% and rising. It’s day 4.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/01/2025

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Even more relevant now…

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We all need some escapism from this future dystopia we find ourselves living in, so how about some 18th and 19th century escapees? Check out my new Substack and subscribe if you can. It's free! open.substack.com/pub/penelope...

Cover art for Their Darkest Materials, book about textile history.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

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Stop Billionaires Meddling in UK Politics ❌

Foreign billionaires like Elon Musk shouldn’t have the power to shape our democracy. Let’s change the law.

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/12/2024

With Nigel Farage once more gracing our TV screens on BBC Question Time, it's time to revisit this excellent article by Dr Russ Jackson which has had over 230k reads! At least this time Farage is an elected MP and party leader. Not so his previous 35+ times 😡 @docrussjackson.bsky.social

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An open letter to the BBC

Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Yesterday, tried my hand at wildlife photography. In the new M & S food shop which just opened in Selby. It didn't see me, right? Tell me it didn't see me.

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Pen The Writer @penhemingway.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here's summat I wrote about George Mallory, a while back. 'Was A Suffragist Ally First To Summit Everest?' Also published a piece about the knitted items found on George, for 'The Knitter' 204 (back copies still available). My research is ongoing. : northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

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Was a suffragist ally first to summit Everest?

On the centenary year of the 1924 Everest expedition, we look at George Mallory, the climber, the teacher, the socialist, and the northerner

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The Heart Nebula

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Appalling. Remote controlled drones being used to hover over, look at, and then cynically shoot children ranks amongst the sickest cowardice ever. Best not highlight who is doing it though, hey BBC?

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