Lucy Munro
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Lucy Munro
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Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her

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Hello, Bluesky! I've had an account for a bit but haven't posted, so here's a bit of current research. This is the signature of Margaret Brend Zinzan, from a deposition in the Court of Chancery in April 1626 (TNA, C 24/521). (1/3)

A early appearance of Orient F.C. in the pages of Sporting Life, 9 February 1895, as the first team take on Hampsted “on own ground at Clapton”, with a line-up featuring such luminaries as E.A. “Teddie” Wiggins and R.P. “Pomp” Haines. #lofc #lofcpress

There was a journal in the 1920s called The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News - than might be one place to start!

1926! I am very tired.

"A game which bored and irritated most of the 12,000 spectators at the Lea Bridge ground" is detailed in The Athletic News for 8 February 1826. Orient draw 0-0 with Hull despite the best efforts of Shea, "brainy as usual", and goalie Wood, "who once more gave a capital display". #lofc #lofcpress

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This is entirely correct / back in the day I was picked to ask Kermit a question at a Thing (all the questions were scripted but askers were allowed to embellish a little) and in the moment I was absolutely talking to Kermit, who is real.
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
MY KIDS: so why are there muppets in the AUDIENCE

ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!

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Voting for new Trustees closes on February 15! Make your voice heard by voting today: shakespeareassociation.org/2026-ballot/

Ha! I couldn’t resist it but did wonder - I might have a root around and see if I can find anything. Wood sounds amazing.
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

According to The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club, 1904-2002 (archive.org/details/menw...), Wood wore “tent-like” shorts with a large pocket sewn into them in which he kept fruit to eat during a match: “it was nothing to see him whip out an apple when the home players were upfield”. (2/2)
The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club, 1904-2002 (The Men Who Made) : Neil Kaufman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Legendary Orient goalie Arthur Wood in action during a 0-0 draw against Hull at Millfields Road, published in the Sunday Mirror on 7 February 1926. (1/2) #lofc #lofcpress

The Orient appear not to have missed him, to be fair, as they won 0-1, with McFadden getting the goal.

I was trying not to give away your secret identity.

Or that they should be making a lot of money from the Orient team, who are not capable of getting themselves out of bed and onto trains in time?

I think it’s a reference to this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl..., the implication being that he overslept!
Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain
As the clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time, many of us will rue the loss of an hour in bed. But how did people get to work on time before alarm clocks?
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Reports of a logistical nightmare in The Star Green ‘Un, 6 February 1915, as Steel misses his train ahead of the Orient’s away game at Leeds. #lofc #lofcpress

@uncharteredstreets.bsky.social is now calling me a radioboffin.

In which @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, Laurence Publicover and I did a thing... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Sounds
Shakespeare's powerful exploration of power and succession with Hotspur, Hal and Falstaff.
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"THE SECRETS OF TRAINING REVEALED BY FAMOUS ATHLETES" in the pages of Sporting Life, 5 February 1912, as Fred Bevan joins colleagues from Brentford, QPR, Millwall, Woolwich Arsenal and Chelsea to laud the benefits of Sandow’s Health and Strength Cocoa. #lofc #lofcpress

But lo! A transformation! (3/3)

In The Holloway Press, “Norseman” is likewise pessimistic about the Os’ capacity to turn their form around. “To write of Clapton Orient is but to fall in line with the wave of disappointment down their way", he opines. He also has advice for those inclined to engage in transfer speculation. (2/3)

4 February 1928, and The Star Green ‘Un turns to visual art in a perplexing and frankly disturbing commentary on the Orient’s chances in their upcoming game against Barnsley. (1/3) #lofc #lofcpress

Reports of a new goalie and a new - to me at least - nickname for the Orient in the Star Green ’Un, 3 February 1912 "Pearlies’ New Goalie": "Clapton Orient are trotting out a new goalkeeper named Hugall, who is a sound deputy for the big-fisted Bower". #lofc #lofcpress

2 February! My brain is clearly scrambled at this point.

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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353

3 February 1903, and the Orient play Wandsworth in the London League in a game in which the pitch is “on the soft side”, the Orient are “most prominent” in “give and take play”, and a “burst by Wandsworth’s left wing pair” poses “danger to Ward’s citadel”. #lofc #lofcpress

Moody photographic proof of the fog that descended on the cup-tied between Clapton Orient v. Arsenal on 14 January 1911, courtesy of The Illustrated Police Budget. #lofc #lofcpress #oldfootballphotos

Answers to readers’ questions in the Hull Daily Mail, 1 February 1909. D.D. “cannot prevent their marriage”, Dr Walford Bodie has appeared at the Hull Empire, and J.B. has an apparently unsolvable query about the Orient’s goalie, Walter Whittaker - "Why not write to him direct"? #lofcpress

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1 February 1583: an important new publication in the Stationers' Register today: 'A booke declaringe diuers approved remedies to take owt spottes and staines in silkes veluettes and wollen Clothes with diuers cullors howe to die silkes &c'. 1/
#earlymodern

Important environmental news from Millfields Road, reported in the Morning Post on 31 January 1912: “Good ice to the extent of several acres is to be found near the ground of the Clapton Orient Football Club”. #lofcpress

Making a list with @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social of things mislaid and unlocated in pop songs: good times; young soul rebels; heart (in San Francisco); spiders (from Mars)…