Philip Marsden
@philipmarsden.bsky.social
Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.
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Philip Marsden
@philipmarsden.bsky.social
· Dec 27
Just arrived in the Christmas post…publication 13 February
Good to be involved in this… a brilliant series. I learnt a lot.
Today @helenczerski.bsky.social and I have turned metal heads with the help of @iolahughes.bsky.social @britgeosurvey.bsky.social Pierre Josso and
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June 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Good to be involved in this… a brilliant series. I learnt a lot.
Radium was initially considered a miraculous substance, health-giving… then its dangers became clear. The Radium Girls were among the first victims.
May 29, 1925: Five women have died from ingesting radium while at their factory job in New Jersey painting watch dials to give them a luminous glow. Deaths among the “Radium Girls” from illnesses including cancer, anemia and bone necrosis will reach a minimum of 38. 1/8
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Radium was initially considered a miraculous substance, health-giving… then its dangers became clear. The Radium Girls were among the first victims.
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VIDEO: Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Al Mughayyir rush to harvest what remains of the wheat crop they planted as Israeli settlers try to burn their fields. For days, settlers have been setting fire to the crop from a new settlement outpost on a mountain near the village
May 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
VIDEO: Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Al Mughayyir rush to harvest what remains of the wheat crop they planted as Israeli settlers try to burn their fields. For days, settlers have been setting fire to the crop from a new settlement outpost on a mountain near the village
Looking forward to this event - the incomparable Stone Club!
Philip Marsden will be one of our guests at @thesociallondon.bsky.social on June 2nd.
Speaking about his new book Under a Metal Sky as well as his Stone Club classic Rising Ground
Tickets stoneclub.rocks/events/stone...
Speaking about his new book Under a Metal Sky as well as his Stone Club classic Rising Ground
Tickets stoneclub.rocks/events/stone...
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Looking forward to this event - the incomparable Stone Club!
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Just finished this beautifully written book by @philipmarsden.bsky.social , a wonderful exploration of our relationship with metals and a tour around the mineral hotspots of Europe. Superb. 💙📚#booksky
April 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just finished this beautifully written book by @philipmarsden.bsky.social , a wonderful exploration of our relationship with metals and a tour around the mineral hotspots of Europe. Superb. 💙📚#booksky
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'Mining, metals and metallurgy have fired the imagination as much as they have modified the landscape.'
Louise Fabiani: A history of metal working and humanity
Louise Fabiani: A history of metal working and humanity
Under a Metal Sky by Philip Marsden | Book review | The TLS
www.the-tls.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
'Mining, metals and metallurgy have fired the imagination as much as they have modified the landscape.'
Louise Fabiani: A history of metal working and humanity
Louise Fabiani: A history of metal working and humanity
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This is happening in one week! @philipmarsden.bsky.social at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in London on Thurs 20 March. He'll be talking about the remarkable UNDER A METAL SKY and the ticket includes a glass of wine/soft drink 🍷
www.stanfords.co.uk/event-under-...
www.stanfords.co.uk/event-under-...
March 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is happening in one week! @philipmarsden.bsky.social at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social in London on Thurs 20 March. He'll be talking about the remarkable UNDER A METAL SKY and the ticket includes a glass of wine/soft drink 🍷
www.stanfords.co.uk/event-under-...
www.stanfords.co.uk/event-under-...
Advance piece in the Big Issue about Under a Metal Sky - book is out on 13 Feb.
“I’ve spent the last few years researching and travelling for a book about rocks and metals. It’s driven by the notion that what we discovered in the ground beneath our feet has altered our species forever.”
Author, Philip Marsden, writes. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3CD561q
Author, Philip Marsden, writes. ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3CD561q
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Advance piece in the Big Issue about Under a Metal Sky - book is out on 13 Feb.
Just arrived in the Christmas post…publication 13 February
December 27, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Just arrived in the Christmas post…publication 13 February
It comes as no surprise that Dartmoor should reveal more linked sacred sites like this - v exciting! amp.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Two newly discovered stone circles on Dartmoor boost ‘sacred arc’ theory | Archaeology | The Guardian
Archaeologist Alan Endacott says area may have been site of henge monument similar to ‘earlier phase of Stonehenge’
amp.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM
It comes as no surprise that Dartmoor should reveal more linked sacred sites like this - v exciting! amp.theguardian.com/science/2024...