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...
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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!
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Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
Sentencing policy has been in the crosshairs of the RW press for decades. It has been the political lever of choice for successive home secs. Consequently we have more punitive sentences than ever before. But it was always meant for other people, we weren't supposed to lock up people like us...
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sentencing policy has been in the crosshairs of the RW press for decades. It has been the political lever of choice for successive home secs. Consequently we have more punitive sentences than ever before. But it was always meant for other people, we weren't supposed to lock up people like us...
Looking forward to Farage condemning the length of sentences handed down to Just Stop Oil protesters. Surely... surely... he's only interested in the protection of freedom of expression. I can't believe for one second he has other motivations.
August 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Looking forward to Farage condemning the length of sentences handed down to Just Stop Oil protesters. Surely... surely... he's only interested in the protection of freedom of expression. I can't believe for one second he has other motivations.
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
Come to this gig in Allendale! Tickets from Gigantic. There will be very few opportunities to see Frankie at this price again.
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Come to this gig in Allendale! Tickets from Gigantic. There will be very few opportunities to see Frankie at this price again.
A walk around Dipton Mill
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A walk around Dipton Mill
The wistful pigeon of Conwy Castle.
July 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The wistful pigeon of Conwy Castle.
The plaster(ed) animals of Plas Mawr.
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The plaster(ed) animals of Plas Mawr.
Northumbrian North Pennines... quite a storm.
June 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Northumbrian North Pennines... quite a storm.
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This is the sort of thing that will most likely have impacts that cannot be reversed.
"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..."
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is the sort of thing that will most likely have impacts that cannot be reversed.
It was a real pleasure to have Rob in Allendale... fabulous feedback from the audience. Thanks for coming @scribblerrob.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came along to my Allendale Syd and Nick talk last night under a gleaming pink moon and to @thenickpepper.bsky.social for being such a great host. The Q and As are never ever dull at my events.
April 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It was a real pleasure to have Rob in Allendale... fabulous feedback from the audience. Thanks for coming @scribblerrob.bsky.social
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Hurry scurry to the people's republic of Northumbria this Saturday to hear me talk about meta-fictional Syd and Nick.
Come to Allendale and hear @scribblerrob.bsky.social talk about Syd Barrett and Nick Drake... 12 April... Pass it on...
www.gigantic.com/unsung-unsai...
www.gigantic.com/unsung-unsai...
UNSUNG:UNSAID - SYD & NICK IN ABSENTIA Tickets
Buy tickets and see event information for UNSUNG:UNSAID - SYD & NICK IN ABSENTIA .
www.gigantic.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hurry scurry to the people's republic of Northumbria this Saturday to hear me talk about meta-fictional Syd and Nick.
Come to Allendale and hear @scribblerrob.bsky.social talk about Syd Barrett and Nick Drake... 12 April... Pass it on...
www.gigantic.com/unsung-unsai...
www.gigantic.com/unsung-unsai...
UNSUNG:UNSAID - SYD & NICK IN ABSENTIA Tickets
Buy tickets and see event information for UNSUNG:UNSAID - SYD & NICK IN ABSENTIA .
www.gigantic.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
@scribblerrob.bsky.social I've found a tenuous Allendale connection for Unsung. Robert Medley, head of Camberwell School of Art, erstwhile lover of WH Auden. Auden was mildly obsessed with the Allen Valleys and its lead mining legacy, writing several poems about it including one called Allendale.
April 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
@scribblerrob.bsky.social I've found a tenuous Allendale connection for Unsung. Robert Medley, head of Camberwell School of Art, erstwhile lover of WH Auden. Auden was mildly obsessed with the Allen Valleys and its lead mining legacy, writing several poems about it including one called Allendale.
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FWIW, my general assumption is that most of the public has fairly weakly held views on trade policy and fairly strongly held views on cost of living
April 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
FWIW, my general assumption is that most of the public has fairly weakly held views on trade policy and fairly strongly held views on cost of living