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Clare Qualmann
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Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
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February 14, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Just thinking quickly, they probably would do well at the sifting screen as those are usually hip height and need some strong arms to disperse the dirt.

This group probably would be the best to ask: disabledarchnetwork.weebly.com
This also might be helpful: www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...
THE DISABLED ARCHAEOLOGISTS NETWORK
The Disabled Archaeologists Network is an international community of archaeologists with disabilities, working for accessibility and equity in the discipline of archaeology.
disabledarchnetwork.weebly.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Pre Valentine's day scenes in #hackney... Would love to know the story behind this?! The steak is best before the 17th? Why why is it in the street? And with the Viagra? Maybe it's the opening scene of a novel?
February 13, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Today's adventure in transporting stuff by bike... A free eames chair off the local what's app group (!) brought home in my trailer #carfree #hackney #cycling #urbantravel 🚶‍♀️🏙️🚲
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Great to see another WalkCreate article out: 'Cripping Desire Lines' discusses the impact of Covid-19 on disabled people’s experiences of walking in the UK. Our data comes from covid times, but with loads of ongoing, pressing relevance! and it's open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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Absolute hell: Irishman with valid US work permit held by ICE since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for five months despite having no criminal record
Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, wife Tiffany Smyth is a US citizen
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Very moving vigil for Irene Leardini by side of A2 in New Cross Gate tonight. She was cycling here two weeks ago. RIP.

Sad we are still gathering at the side of busy roads asking why nothing has been done to make them safe.

Thanks to all at @lewishamcyclists.bsky.social for organising the vigil.
February 6, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water
The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
tinyurl.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Tonight! 6pm UK time @livingmaps.bsky.social 'Mapping Fluid Worlds' seminar series continues with The Waterways Collective multi-disciplinary mapping of Atlantic Salmon migration, tickets here: tinyurl.com/yfh8a9ar 🐟🌊🗺️ #fish #ocean #mapping #water
The Waterways Collective: Multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon
Join us to explore multidisciplinary mapping of Atlantic salmon migration and ideas of interconnectedness
tinyurl.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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£500 given out to a working class writer every month.

Details in link.

Please share :)
The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
thewhitepube.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
The neighbourhood what's app is going off tonight with LTN v anti LTN chat, plus a wholesome dose of random requests for hand me down football kit and thrush treatment thrown in 🧐😅🍿🏙️🚶‍♀️#hackney #ltn
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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guests: Alisa Oleva, Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Cathy Turner, Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social, Dee Heddon @deeheddon.bsky.social Elspeth Penfold @threadandword.bsky.social Helen Stratford, Keira Chapman, Sarah Benjamins,Saffron Swansborough
Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.

He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.

(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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My new post on Substack tells the story of Clay Cross council's famous 1972 rents rebellion against the Conservative Government's plans to raise council house rents: ‘Doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation'
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/clay-cross...
January 17, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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You can donate to Omar’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1400...
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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More of London's roads will have safer speed limits because there's irrefutable evidence it save lives:

📉 25% fewer main road collisions
📉 34% fewer people killed or serious injured on local roads
📉75% fall in children killed on local roads

@itvnews.bsky.social

itv.com/news/london/...
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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A rare victory for artistic freedom and common sense. Proof that everything could be different.
January 15, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Pavement parking ban for Birmingham to end 'completely out of control' danger in huge change:

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
January 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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I have walked to work for 2.5 years, a little under a mile each way: it has changed my life
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Just heard an AI ethicist talk about how important it is that we say ‘MEN are using Grok to undress images of babies, children and women’ not ‘Grok is….’. Grok isn’t responsible for the action, the men enabling & using it for this repulsive purpose are. Small but important bit of linguistic accuracy
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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A year late to the party, just as enthusiastic! I just bought the ebook version, which was on sale on the Routledge site (because I don’t have access to a library where I am.) i’m excited to read 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Free on our open library. All the works we undertook in an attempt to find somewhere to build the new visitor facilities at Stonehenge.
wessexarchaeologylibrary.org/plugins/book...
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I wrote about some very strong feelings I have about the royal family.

open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
I love Prince Harry
possibly my most controversial opinion that I am very sure of and which I think could not publish like this in the UK press (plus, under the line: a great documentary, podcast and parrot news)
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Counterpoints Arts has been selected by The Observer as the beneficiary of their Christmas Appeal 2025.

A new article by Philippe Sands on how migrants enrich our cultural life, and why this work matters.

🔗 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

#ObserverAppeal #CounterpointsArts
Christmas appeal: Migrants enrich our culture from the fo...
The Observer’s Christmas appeal is raising money for Counterpoints Arts. The writer and lawyer explains why its support of creative work by and about migrants resonates with him
observer.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM