Ghee Bowman
@gheebowman.bsky.social
Historian, story-teller, Woodcraft Folk leader, Quaker chaplain at Exeter University.
Writer of 'The Indian Contingent' and 'The Great Epinal Escape'
Writer of 'The Indian Contingent' and 'The Great Epinal Escape'
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Ghee Bowman
@gheebowman.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Ten million like Mobeen? - Blog - Force K6
I recently watched a great documentary on Channel 4, called ‘The Soldiers that Saved Britain’, made by British journalist Mobeen Azhar. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-soldiers-that-saved-brit...
www.forcek6.org.uk
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Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?)
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
March 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hello history of print folk! Is there something called a 'Faux printer' (or does 'Faux' belong to the place name before?)
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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The Blue Vanguard is a monthly jazz club dedicated to bringing the finest national and international guests to our home town of Exeter. The club has run successfully since September 2011 and has a loyal following.
📅 27th March 2025
🕐 19:30pm
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
#exeter#jazz #music
📅 27th March 2025
🕐 19:30pm
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
#exeter#jazz #music
March 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The Blue Vanguard is a monthly jazz club dedicated to bringing the finest national and international guests to our home town of Exeter. The club has run successfully since September 2011 and has a loyal following.
📅 27th March 2025
🕐 19:30pm
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
#exeter#jazz #music
📅 27th March 2025
🕐 19:30pm
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
#exeter#jazz #music
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New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3
Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives
The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3
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I'm trying to decide which is funnier:
• System of a County Down
• The Blarney Stone Roses
• System of a County Down
• The Blarney Stone Roses
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I'm trying to decide which is funnier:
• System of a County Down
• The Blarney Stone Roses
• System of a County Down
• The Blarney Stone Roses
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My poetry collection about teaching/education as English teacher and examiner over 40 years. Joys and despairs as poignant then as now, latter probably more for so many these days. An eclectic poetry mix, available at Wrecking Ball Press.
March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My poetry collection about teaching/education as English teacher and examiner over 40 years. Joys and despairs as poignant then as now, latter probably more for so many these days. An eclectic poetry mix, available at Wrecking Ball Press.
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Naughty Japanese Badgers - Artemis Storytelling double bill
📅 4th April 2025
🕐 7:30PM
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre
"Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell
#exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling
📅 4th April 2025
🕐 7:30PM
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre
"Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell
#exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling
March 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Naughty Japanese Badgers - Artemis Storytelling double bill
📅 4th April 2025
🕐 7:30PM
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre
"Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell
#exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling
📅 4th April 2025
🕐 7:30PM
🎟 www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre
"Very funny, very entertaining. Two completely different shows, same storyteller" - Katy Cawkwell
#exeter #devon #cygnettheatre #theatre #visitexeter #fyp #storytelling
Thoroughly enjoyed watching @CountessLuann @swxbristol last night
She’s camp, she’s loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative
An extraordinary presence
And don’t forget her great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...
She’s camp, she’s loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative
An extraordinary presence
And don’t forget her great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...
Countess Luann - Chic, C'est La Vie (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ultra Records
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed watching @CountessLuann @swxbristol last night
She’s camp, she’s loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative
An extraordinary presence
And don’t forget her great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...
She’s camp, she’s loud & proud, the audience were adoring, participative
An extraordinary presence
And don’t forget her great band!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgz...
If you're near #Bristol , come and join me this afternoon, to watch this great show swxbristol.com/events/count...
which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!
which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!
Countess Luann - SWX Bristol
swxbristol.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
If you're near #Bristol , come and join me this afternoon, to watch this great show swxbristol.com/events/count...
which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!
which features my talented cousin Daniel Glass!
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Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubel’s new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
February 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubel’s new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Everyone knows it was originally 'a norange' and 'a nuncle', but did you also know that it was originally 'a ninkjet printer'?
February 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Everyone knows it was originally 'a norange' and 'a nuncle', but did you also know that it was originally 'a ninkjet printer'?
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
New podcast now out, on the largest successful POW escape of the Second World War - the Great Epinal Escape.
You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts.
'Well that aged well'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...
You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts.
'Well that aged well'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...
The Great Epinal Escape! Part 2. With Ghee Bowman
YouTube video by Well That Aged Well
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New podcast now out, on the largest successful POW escape of the Second World War - the Great Epinal Escape.
You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts.
'Well that aged well'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...
You can find it on youtube, spoitfy and everywhere you find podcasts.
'Well that aged well'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4g...
This should be fascinating...
Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...
Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...
Keynote: Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South
Visiting Researcher Professor Nivedita Menon delivers this keynote lecture, hosted by the South Asia Centre and SCI.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This should be fascinating...
Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...
Nivedita Menon at Exeter uni in 2 weeks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynote-se...
This is gonna be brilliant!
Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course
'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...
Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course
'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...
Arts & Culture Exeter | Nurturing Creativity
An exhibition of art in a variety of creative mediums by undergraduate nursing students at the University of Exeter, created as part of the module 'The Art and History of Nursing'.
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This is gonna be brilliant!
Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course
'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...
Student nurses at Exeter have been making artworks as part of their course
'Nurturing Creativity', this Friday 14th
www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/5TvTX...
A Friend read this poem at our #Quaker Meeting for Worship at Exeter University yesterday.
Spot on, in my opinion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...
Spot on, in my opinion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...
"Holy Holy Holy"- Jay Hulme | King Julez
YouTube video by King Julez
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A Friend read this poem at our #Quaker Meeting for Worship at Exeter University yesterday.
Spot on, in my opinion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...
Spot on, in my opinion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu...
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ITV1, 9pm: 'Ayres & Graces'. This week our intrepid trio of Pam Ayres, Grace Jones & Grace Slick go down the Colorado River in a canoe
February 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
ITV1, 9pm: 'Ayres & Graces'. This week our intrepid trio of Pam Ayres, Grace Jones & Grace Slick go down the Colorado River in a canoe
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A print journalist had once asked me if there were enough English translators of Indian language literature. I had told her the real question ought to be whether there were enough resources for existing translators. They didn't publish that interview 😂
February 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A print journalist had once asked me if there were enough English translators of Indian language literature. I had told her the real question ought to be whether there were enough resources for existing translators. They didn't publish that interview 😂
New podcast (1 of 2) has just gone live on youtube and spotify and elsewhere.
Hosted by Erlend Hedegart
Please check it out and do give me your feedback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...
Hosted by Erlend Hedegart
Please check it out and do give me your feedback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...
The Indian Contigent. Part 1. With Ghee Bowman
YouTube video by Well That Aged Well
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New podcast (1 of 2) has just gone live on youtube and spotify and elsewhere.
Hosted by Erlend Hedegart
Please check it out and do give me your feedback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...
Hosted by Erlend Hedegart
Please check it out and do give me your feedback
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFn...
You're most welcome, Laura! It's a great space, at the heart of the university of Exeter. Do come and visit
Many thanks to @gheebowman.bsky.social for welcoming me too and showing me around the new Multifaith Centre on Streatham campus today. Keep an eye out for opening events next month!
www.exeter.ac.uk/about/vision...
www.exeter.ac.uk/about/vision...
February 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You're most welcome, Laura! It's a great space, at the heart of the university of Exeter. Do come and visit
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PERSON OF THE DAY. 3 February 1924. Leading historian Edward Palmer (“EP”) Thompson was born in Oxford. He’s best known for his seminal historical work on British radical movements, in the early 19th century, most notably, his landmark book The Making of the English Working Class.
February 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 3 February 1924. Leading historian Edward Palmer (“EP”) Thompson was born in Oxford. He’s best known for his seminal historical work on British radical movements, in the early 19th century, most notably, his landmark book The Making of the English Working Class.
A good friend found these pages in a book in a street market in Chinatown in Singapore Can anyone identify what they might be, and indeed the language?
February 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A good friend found these pages in a book in a street market in Chinatown in Singapore Can anyone identify what they might be, and indeed the language?
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See our latest book review by Dominic Alessio on Krishan Kumar's Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (2021): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Empires. A Historical and Political Sociology
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
See our latest book review by Dominic Alessio on Krishan Kumar's Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology (2021): doi.org/10.1080/0308...