Nick Pepper
@thenickpepper.bsky.social
PhD, late 20th / early 21st century national parks history, Hadrian's Wall Wetlands Landscape Recovery engagement officer, organiser of Allen Valleys Folk Festival. All views my own.
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Nick Pepper
@thenickpepper.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If you're into folk in the round... music, crafts, storytelling, written word, dance, co-creation, lore, please give our festival a follow and a share! It's not easy rebuilding on a new platform... @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
Here are some photos from this year's event...
Here are some photos from this year's event...
Honest Bob really rates himself, doesn't he? What a nauseating "you're lucky to have a man like me what with my profound insights" Reform UK speech he's giving. It's almost as if he was a bystander when the Tories made policy.
January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Honest Bob really rates himself, doesn't he? What a nauseating "you're lucky to have a man like me what with my profound insights" Reform UK speech he's giving. It's almost as if he was a bystander when the Tories made policy.
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A new @exeter.ac.uk project, Past Harvests, will use 600 years of data to explore how historic farming systems coped with change. The team will assess sustainability from 1250 to 1850, offering insights to inform future land-use decisions. More info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/pastharvests/ #FoodStudies
The Past Harvests Project
Informing contemporary UK land use policy through a sustainability assessment of farming systems in the medieval and early modern period The Past Harvests Project is a research project combining histo...
sites.exeter.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A new @exeter.ac.uk project, Past Harvests, will use 600 years of data to explore how historic farming systems coped with change. The team will assess sustainability from 1250 to 1850, offering insights to inform future land-use decisions. More info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/pastharvests/ #FoodStudies
@lewisgoodall.com this pastor you're talking to reminds of interviews with Russian diplomats that I have heard on LBC. Remarkable.
January 11, 2026 at 11:16 AM
@lewisgoodall.com this pastor you're talking to reminds of interviews with Russian diplomats that I have heard on LBC. Remarkable.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Recipient of the Fifa peace prize strikes again.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Recipient of the Fifa peace prize strikes again.
Sitting in a Chislehurst pub listening to the barman tell someone how he's mistaken for a celebrity all the time. "Don't have the heart to tell them I'm not them, they all want to know how I'm getting on. Got recognised in a bar in Alicante once". Nope. Still don't know who his doppelganger is.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sitting in a Chislehurst pub listening to the barman tell someone how he's mistaken for a celebrity all the time. "Don't have the heart to tell them I'm not them, they all want to know how I'm getting on. Got recognised in a bar in Alicante once". Nope. Still don't know who his doppelganger is.
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Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
The FIFA peace prize 🤣
Who knew?
Who knew?
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The FIFA peace prize 🤣
Who knew?
Who knew?
Crikey Farage has really lost the plot today... Bernard Manning? He isn't really cut out for the kind of politics where he isn't controlling the agenda, is he?
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Crikey Farage has really lost the plot today... Bernard Manning? He isn't really cut out for the kind of politics where he isn't controlling the agenda, is he?
People of Prudhoe poetry
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
People of Prudhoe poetry
'Cleaning to the back of the cupboard' - heard this for the first time in a political interview today. Is this the new 'straining every sinew', the new 'rolling up our sleeves'?
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
'Cleaning to the back of the cupboard' - heard this for the first time in a political interview today. Is this the new 'straining every sinew', the new 'rolling up our sleeves'?
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
"Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike..."
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike..."
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This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
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Meanwhile, if anyone thinks there are are many Reform voters who think "I have zero trust in Labour on immigration, the small boats are still arriving, but *this* latest gesture at hardline policy is the one that will make me look again" I have a bridge to sell you. So who is this policy for?
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Meanwhile, if anyone thinks there are are many Reform voters who think "I have zero trust in Labour on immigration, the small boats are still arriving, but *this* latest gesture at hardline policy is the one that will make me look again" I have a bridge to sell you. So who is this policy for?
Fungi and mold earlier today... (Greenlee and Stonefolds, Northumberland National Park)
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Fungi and mold earlier today... (Greenlee and Stonefolds, Northumberland National Park)
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Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
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Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
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This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
Reminder that back in July Katie Lam wrote an article for the Sun on Indefinite Leave to Remain and the Conservatives' proposals.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
Allendale today... glorious afternoon
October 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Allendale today... glorious afternoon
When everyone has gone home, and I've turned out the lights, after the last gig on a Saturday night... what a day @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
When everyone has gone home, and I've turned out the lights, after the last gig on a Saturday night... what a day @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
Our Allen Valleys Folk Festival decorations team have done us proud with their Land of Lead and Silver themed stage and auditorium dressing... brilliant.
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Our Allen Valleys Folk Festival decorations team have done us proud with their Land of Lead and Silver themed stage and auditorium dressing... brilliant.
Gulls and graffiti
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Gulls and graffiti
Go @marina-purkiss.bsky.social! Excellent challenging of the Ferrari obsession with Angela Rayner. He doesn't like it up him!
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Go @marina-purkiss.bsky.social! Excellent challenging of the Ferrari obsession with Angela Rayner. He doesn't like it up him!