Linda Maynard
@lindamaynard.bsky.social
Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
Amazing launch event for This is Slavery - by @rickardsisters.com at Queen's Mill in Burnley. A real celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Amazing launch event for This is Slavery - by @rickardsisters.com at Queen's Mill in Burnley. A real celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
YouTube video by ReutersLC
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October 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
To be fair, this is my standard reaction to most things.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...
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Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!
It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.
It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it
It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.
It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!
It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.
It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it
It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.
It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it
Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Best homecoming present. A community response to the threat to my beloved Walshaw Moor.
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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 🗃️🎙️
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 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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 🗃️🎙️
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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Book your place!
🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥
Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks
RickardSisters.com/trouble
🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥
Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks
RickardSisters.com/trouble
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Book your place!
🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥
Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks
RickardSisters.com/trouble
🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥
Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks
RickardSisters.com/trouble
Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory
September 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Microfilm Monday #archives #localhistory
One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today #Heptonstall
September 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One of the gems that turned up at our village history research group today #Heptonstall
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Good morning.
Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book
The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.
40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.
You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk
Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book
The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.
40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.
You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Good morning.
Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book
The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.
40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.
You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk
Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book
The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.
40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.
You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk
One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One of those times when the exterior is more interesting than the interior.
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I know, I know but still:
Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers
Nearly 20 years an Indie.
Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers
Nearly 20 years an Indie.
August 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I know, I know but still:
Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers
Nearly 20 years an Indie.
Thank you to all our authors, readers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers
Nearly 20 years an Indie.
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Bank Holiday ahead!
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)
August 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Bank Holiday ahead!
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(We Like to Help, 1965)
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Some Barbara Hepworth for your Monday morning (and for your pocketbook, since the Hepworth Wakefield is fundraising to keep it in the UK: link at bottom of article). 📜🎨
The campaign to save a very British sculpture | The Observer
A unique Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by the tension of wartime London and the comfort of the Cornish coast could soon leave the country. But a pu...
observer.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Some Barbara Hepworth for your Monday morning (and for your pocketbook, since the Hepworth Wakefield is fundraising to keep it in the UK: link at bottom of article). 📜🎨
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An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the 'biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Vintage postcard fair coming to Bishop Burton College
Organisers claim the event at Bishop Burton is the largest of its kind in the north of England.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
An East Yorkshire college will host what organisers say is the 'biggest fair of vintage postcards in the North of England'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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August 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
www.lse.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages
Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Durham Brass festival
Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages
northeastbylines.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Poet laureate Simon Armitage joins LYR and Easington Colliery Brass Band at Durham festival to honour lost mining villages
Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral
July 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Marquette of Pity of War memorial at Chester Cathedral
Fantastic card index at #Chestermuseum
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Fantastic card index at #Chestermuseum
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Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
July 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Embroidered art by York-based artist Chloe Giordano. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.
CBCP workshop: Re-vision: On re-publishing & re-design, 1 July 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This workshop brings together creatives and practitioners involved in the art and business of republishing to explore the social, artistic, political and economic dynamics of bringing previously publi...
research.reading.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Sign up for a fabulous University of Reading event on book republishing and redesign, 1st July, launches for four new Ethel Carnie Holdsworth reissues + a look forward to this year’s graphic novel adaptation of This Slavery by the excellent Rickard Sisters. Carnie Holdsworth sessions also online.