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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

OK that's me out! Here's a nice song about dinosaurs and the deep time of natural history. Bye bye www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-Q...

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So Little Happened For So Long

YouTube video by nev clay

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The lads at @neheritagelib.bsky.social do excellent work and I'm very chuffed to be representing @nenature.bsky.social in this year's NE History Compendium

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I'm finishing my contract at @nenature.bsky.social this week, so this account will be going the way of all digital flesh on Thursday - I'll still be on Bluesky at @pdkmitchell.bsky.social though (and also on the Other Website, although that's currently full of nazis so I wouldn't recommend it)

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Gutted that I missed both Space Penguins and Great Auks - two of my principal interests - last night. NHSN's Monday night talks program is great though, and also free and open to all: www.nhsn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One for the Real Moss Heads here. You know who you are

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Absolutely bonkers that the Hancock used to have its own Andean condor. All available accounts suggest that it was extremely annoyed at being kidnapped from Chile and shipped to Newcastle and put in a cage, and spent the rest of its life trying to bite people's fingers off. As you would, to be fair

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Heads up: this is no longer happening, pals, I'm afraid. So if you wish to hear my trenchant views on books, birds, the north, fascists, espresso and/or anything else, you will simply have to befriend me in real life.

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Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Correct your maps: Newcastle is Mitteleuropa LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 happened and it was great keep yr eyes peeled for LORT BURN SPECIALS: 4

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Watching @rach-anderson.bsky.social being a legend as we launch our new Archives and Historical Research course at @nenature.bsky.social

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This month in Newcastle I'm going to be in conversation with two of my favourite writers! First with Owen Hatherley, discussing his new book, a history of how British culture was transformed by the exodus of artists and intellectuals from Central Europe in the 20th century: bsky.app/profile/lort...

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

In my other life I do this and it's excellent and you should come

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 30/09/2025

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive? In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

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Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Newcastle is antifascist

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This guy called Robert used to ring my grandads house to try to talk to him. We all thought he was just an annoying guy, and would tell him to go away Robert and hang up on him. Lots of people made annoying calls to grandad, so we just continued, till grandad said, it's that bloody actor again.

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is going to be good and if you're in the NE you should come to it

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)

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Kieran - North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

It’s day 3 of the pre-order window, which means there’s 4 days left to grab a copy at a discounted early bird price 🐥 A big fat thank you to everyone who’s already grabbed their copy. It means you’ll get yours first an all! www.northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/category/nor...

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Really chuffed to be in this, with an essay about @nenature.bsky.social in the 19th and early 20th century, field naturalism, imperial science, museums, civic identity and lads with big muttonchop whiskers and giant watch chains dissecting sea slugs

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Do you want to see @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social read from one of his excellent bird books? Do you want to hear about how all your favourite old-time nature writers were weirdos and nazis? Do you want to see him to do the smouldery face from his headshot? Then come to @nenature.bsky.social next month

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Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large

An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council Room

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is going to be good and if you're in the NE you should come to it

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My boy! I thought he was going to die again! He didn't again! Now he's back and no longer ill and getting in the way of me working and he smells *terrible*

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Bonus running content, apologies: I wrote this for @actionfdn.bsky.social about my terrible friend Pete and my Forrest Gump running strategy.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Read this very nice thing by my mate Richard about why he's doing the Great North Run for @actionfdn.bsky.social, and then give him some money. Better still, give *me* some money actionfoundation.org.uk/running-comm...

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Running Commentary with Richard Smyth - Action Foundation

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Rachel Anderson @rach-anderson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I’m actually super proud of this little project. The transactions are such a fab resource not just for natural history but for the social and cultural history of the north east! Do have a browse! ✨

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Found this video of me introducing the archives of the NHSN on our YouTube channel - if you can ignore my face and delivery, it's a decent introduction to some of what's cool in our collections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnon...

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Discover the North East Nature Archive

YouTube video by Natural History Society of Northumbria

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is such a brilliant piece of writing about Teesside, deindustrialising landscapes and ecologies, birds, shorelines, oilrigs, that sort of thing

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My friend Ed is doing the Great North Run for Medical Aid for Palestinians: please give generously to alleviate the unimaginable suffering in Gaza and inflict some on Ed, who actually deserves it ajbellgreatnorth5k2025.enthuse.com/pf/edward-an...

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Running and raising money for Palestinians

I'm running two races this September in order to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians: the Great North 5km on 5 Sept, and the Great North Run Half Marathon (21km) on 7 Sept. We all know about

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

In Nazi Germany, the museums knuckled under early. In 1933, at a conference in Mainz, museum professionals agreed that their duty was to "co-operate in the great task and with all their powers contribute to the shaping of an amorphous mass of population into a nation."

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This year - for the sixth time - I'm doing the Great North Run for @actionfdn.bsky.social, a North East charity who persist in treating refugees and asylum seekers like people instead of problems. Please give generously, if you've cash to spare! ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/peter-mit...

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Pete runs for refugees, round six

For the sixth time, I'm hustling the rickle of bone and hair I'm ashamed to call my body around the 13.1 miles of the Great North Run for the benefit of Action Foundation - a top-notch charity who do

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Master of the Arundel Sketchbook, Flemish A Perch (Perca Fluviatilis) 17th century (Harvard University)

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Odd request: I'm looking for someone with knowledge of carboniferous paleontology (and maybe its histories) who can help me identify some species from 19thc names, many of which which are now obsolete. Any takers?

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: geological maps of Northumberland, 1923

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: Richard Howse's Catalogue of the Fossils of the Permian System of Northumberland and Durham, previously belonging to the Darlington & Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club, and annotated (with drawings) by an unknown enthusiast

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Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In the office today. We used to be a country

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