Gill Hughes
@gillhughes.bsky.social
Missing the sea, loving the hills.
Sheffield by way of Liverpool.
(And desperately trying to find all the wonderful people I followed on Twitter since 2009, on here!)
Sheffield by way of Liverpool.
(And desperately trying to find all the wonderful people I followed on Twitter since 2009, on here!)
"Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility"
This is such a wonderful piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. And as a true northerner, I absolutely LOVE #London and pretty much all #cities (although special mention to #Sheffield & #Liverpool ofcourse!)
This is such a wonderful piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. And as a true northerner, I absolutely LOVE #London and pretty much all #cities (although special mention to #Sheffield & #Liverpool ofcourse!)
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility"
This is such a wonderful piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. And as a true northerner, I absolutely LOVE #London and pretty much all #cities (although special mention to #Sheffield & #Liverpool ofcourse!)
This is such a wonderful piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social. And as a true northerner, I absolutely LOVE #London and pretty much all #cities (although special mention to #Sheffield & #Liverpool ofcourse!)
Oh I HAVE enjoyed reading this! #PaulMcCartney #LindaMcCartney #Beatles #Wings #Scotland
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘The world said I was dead - in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles
In 1969, as the band imploded, the singer was 27, depressed and drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows. He hadn’t died, as rumour had it, but he was struggling. He introduces an oral history of ...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Oh I HAVE enjoyed reading this! #PaulMcCartney #LindaMcCartney #Beatles #Wings #Scotland
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Delighted to see how the #BowerSpring #Cementation #Furnace has been exposed and preserved #Industrial #Steel #Heritage #Archaeology #Sheffield @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #KelhamIsland #Museum
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Delighted to see how the #BowerSpring #Cementation #Furnace has been exposed and preserved #Industrial #Steel #Heritage #Archaeology #Sheffield @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #KelhamIsland #Museum
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Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social
🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield
👨🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums
🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield
👨🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums
October 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about Autumn 🍂 William Ibbitt captured the moment the trees began to change colour, with orange foliage shining out against the fading green leaves. @artukdotorg.bsky.social
🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield
👨🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums
🖼️Dam House, Crookesmoor, Sheffield
👨🎨William Ibbitt (1804–1869)
📸Sheffield Museums
Well @petemckee.bsky.social - today I took yet another person to fall in love with your WONDERFUL exhibition @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #WestonPark Here we are near the end and still crowded!This loving homage to your family & #Sheffield deserves to stay forever! Like Liverpool kept the Iron Men!
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Well @petemckee.bsky.social - today I took yet another person to fall in love with your WONDERFUL exhibition @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social #WestonPark Here we are near the end and still crowded!This loving homage to your family & #Sheffield deserves to stay forever! Like Liverpool kept the Iron Men!
This is such a wonderful idea and no better champion than @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social #children #Booker prize. #reading #books
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social)
Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is such a wonderful idea and no better champion than @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social #children #Booker prize. #reading #books
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
What a joy tonight it was @otsfestival.bsky.social #Sheffield for the #poetry celebration of 40 years of #TheNorth from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social. Wonderful poetry, poets and readings and I have my beautiful book from @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social to indulge in.
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What a joy tonight it was @otsfestival.bsky.social #Sheffield for the #poetry celebration of 40 years of #TheNorth from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social. Wonderful poetry, poets and readings and I have my beautiful book from @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social to indulge in.
Another lovely #CountryDiary from @jensoilandpen.bsky.social
@drjhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/country-diary-mountain-plants-take-root-in-a-derelict-chapel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@drjhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/country-diary-mountain-plants-take-root-in-a-derelict-chapel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Country diary: Mountain plants take root in a derelict chapel | Jennifer Jones
Allerton, Merseyside: This cemetery is the resting place for famous names, and home to plants that are far from their preferred cliffs and rocky slopes
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Another lovely #CountryDiary from @jensoilandpen.bsky.social
@drjhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/country-diary-mountain-plants-take-root-in-a-derelict-chapel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@drjhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/country-diary-mountain-plants-take-root-in-a-derelict-chapel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This is the best new musical ever!! Don’t miss this one - premiering in #Sheffield this week @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
This riotous new musical is inspired by the stories of members and customers of Gwenda's Garage - a lesbian-run car repair workshop in 1980s Sheffield.
Gwenda's Garage | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 30 October - 29 November
📸 Chris Saunders
Gwenda's Garage | Southwark Playhouse Borough | 30 October - 29 November
📸 Chris Saunders
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is the best new musical ever!! Don’t miss this one - premiering in #Sheffield this week @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
Well last night at the #Crucible #Theatre turned out to be a brand new #Sheffield showpiece of a #musical! Absolutely stunning acting, choreography, script writing, songs, staging! A total joy #GwendasGarage @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social it’s @swkplay.bsky.social #London next - do not miss this!
Sheffield Theatres (@sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social)
Our four theatres belong to this brilliant city. If it’s a great night out you’re after, you’ve come to right place.
sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Well last night at the #Crucible #Theatre turned out to be a brand new #Sheffield showpiece of a #musical! Absolutely stunning acting, choreography, script writing, songs, staging! A total joy #GwendasGarage @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social it’s @swkplay.bsky.social #London next - do not miss this!
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There's a small number of tickets avaiable for this Sunday's tour of the city centre's street art: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/street-art...
#SheffEvents #Sheffield #StreetArt
#SheffEvents #Sheffield #StreetArt
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There's a small number of tickets avaiable for this Sunday's tour of the city centre's street art: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/street-art...
#SheffEvents #Sheffield #StreetArt
#SheffEvents #Sheffield #StreetArt
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Stories of community solidarity, stars, activism and empowerment. There’s still lots to come in our @otsfestival.bsky.social highlights > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...
Off the Shelf picks → Our Favourite Places – Sheffield Culture Guide
A celebration of books, words and ideas. With thought-provoking events from some of the best-known and rising stars in writing, arts and media. See our writer Rae's top picks from the festival's packe...
ourfaveplaces.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Stories of community solidarity, stars, activism and empowerment. There’s still lots to come in our @otsfestival.bsky.social highlights > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...
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I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...
Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors
On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)
someflowerssoon.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...
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Lots of technical things covered today; tremolando, pizzicato, quadruple stops, harmonics... Sounding great! Next workshop Sunday 9th November www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com/first-positi... #adultbeginnerstrings @classicalsheffield.bsky.social
First Position Strings
Ensemble-playing workshop for adult beginners
www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lots of technical things covered today; tremolando, pizzicato, quadruple stops, harmonics... Sounding great! Next workshop Sunday 9th November www.jennyjacksoncomposer.com/first-positi... #adultbeginnerstrings @classicalsheffield.bsky.social
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Sheffield looking exceptionally lovely today. I was speaking at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. Incredibly well organised and well attended. I can heartily recommend this Octoberfest to writers and readers alike.
October 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sheffield looking exceptionally lovely today. I was speaking at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. Incredibly well organised and well attended. I can heartily recommend this Octoberfest to writers and readers alike.
#Sheffield looking very swish around @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social and @sitegallery.bsky.social this weekend in the sun. @visitsheffield.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
#Sheffield looking very swish around @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social and @sitegallery.bsky.social this weekend in the sun. @visitsheffield.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
Loved #SwitchRoom #installations at #NoBounds #Sheffield #Festival today at both great venues - especially great to be inside #CastleHouse basement again #art @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social @nowthenmag.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Loved #SwitchRoom #installations at #NoBounds #Sheffield #Festival today at both great venues - especially great to be inside #CastleHouse basement again #art @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social @nowthenmag.bsky.social
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A celebration of books, words and ideas, @otsfestival.bsky.social is back this week, 10 October–10 November. Our writer Rae has put together their top 10 picks for the festival – on star spotting, solidarity, 80s Sheffield pop music, disability activism and more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...
October 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A celebration of books, words and ideas, @otsfestival.bsky.social is back this week, 10 October–10 November. Our writer Rae has put together their top 10 picks for the festival – on star spotting, solidarity, 80s Sheffield pop music, disability activism and more > ourfaveplaces.co.uk/our-picks/of...
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Explore Africa’s long and complex history of slavery with @martinplaut.bsky.social.
In this powerful talk, the former BBC World Service Africa Editor examines the lasting impact of enslavement across the continent.
Book here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/unbro...
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
In this powerful talk, the former BBC World Service Africa Editor examines the lasting impact of enslavement across the continent.
Book here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/unbro...
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Explore Africa’s long and complex history of slavery with @martinplaut.bsky.social.
In this powerful talk, the former BBC World Service Africa Editor examines the lasting impact of enslavement across the continent.
Book here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/unbro...
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
In this powerful talk, the former BBC World Service Africa Editor examines the lasting impact of enslavement across the continent.
Book here: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/unbro...
@hurstpublishers.bsky.social
Ooo this will be a treat - my first @otsfestival.bsky.social event of 2025 and an old favourite #AHardDaysNight #Beatles on the big screen this afternoon - dare I admit i saw it on first release in Liverpool as a teenager! #film #literary #festival #Sheffield offtheshelf.org.uk/events/a-har...
Dir. Richard Lester / 1964 / 87 mins. / English language / Starring The Beatles and Wilfred Bramble.
offtheshelf.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ooo this will be a treat - my first @otsfestival.bsky.social event of 2025 and an old favourite #AHardDaysNight #Beatles on the big screen this afternoon - dare I admit i saw it on first release in Liverpool as a teenager! #film #literary #festival #Sheffield offtheshelf.org.uk/events/a-har...
Only just read this amazing book by @kitdewaal.com but savoured every page and didn’t want it to end. Now I want to devour all her writings #books #KitDeWaal #writers
October 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Only just read this amazing book by @kitdewaal.com but savoured every page and didn’t want it to end. Now I want to devour all her writings #books #KitDeWaal #writers
Oh really try not to miss #Consumed on now at the #Crucible #Theatre #Sheffield @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social. Absolutely loved it. Energised, sharply darkly funny, relevant and totally brilliant
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/consu...
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/consu...
Sheffield Theatres (@sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social)
Our four theatres belong to this brilliant city. If it’s a great night out you’re after, you’ve come to right place.
sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Oh really try not to miss #Consumed on now at the #Crucible #Theatre #Sheffield @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social. Absolutely loved it. Energised, sharply darkly funny, relevant and totally brilliant
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/consu...
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/consu...
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We're delighted to be entering a new relationship with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social as an Associate Company, alongside @rootsmbili, @sbc_theatre and @_thebareproject.
September 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We're delighted to be entering a new relationship with @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social as an Associate Company, alongside @rootsmbili, @sbc_theatre and @_thebareproject.