Alison Brackenbury
@abrackenbury.bsky.social
Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
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Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
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ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Good night! (I am tempted to add, like my Buckinghamshire Great-Aunts, 'my duck'... More birds soon!)
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Good night! (I am tempted to add, like my Buckinghamshire Great-Aunts, 'my duck'... More birds soon!)
'No Home Without a Stereoscope!' declared an optimistic advert in @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge. Does your home have one? I would like to have seen the cutting-edge show given by Mr Weatherhogg, our village saddler, in the early 1900s.Magic lantern slides!
Here they are, still glowing...
Here they are, still glowing...
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
'No Home Without a Stereoscope!' declared an optimistic advert in @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge. Does your home have one? I would like to have seen the cutting-edge show given by Mr Weatherhogg, our village saddler, in the early 1900s.Magic lantern slides!
Here they are, still glowing...
Here they are, still glowing...
The Aldeburgh gulls politely but firmly requested their own post. How could I refuse? Have you met an Aldeburgh gull?!! Veterans of Poetry in Aldeburgh will recognise the pale brown youngster, now full-sized but hopefully & plaintively still pursuing a parent!
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Aldeburgh gulls politely but firmly requested their own post. How could I refuse? Have you met an Aldeburgh gull?!! Veterans of Poetry in Aldeburgh will recognise the pale brown youngster, now full-sized but hopefully & plaintively still pursuing a parent!
With Storm Claudia doing its worst inland, I thought I'd return - in pictures and memory! - to brighter days last week at Poetry inAldeburgh. First, the sea itself...
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
With Storm Claudia doing its worst inland, I thought I'd return - in pictures and memory! - to brighter days last week at Poetry inAldeburgh. First, the sea itself...
Aldeburgh old & new! A finial by Poetry in Aldeburgh's venue, the Jubilee Hall. And a North Sea windfarm! I see these as successors to Lincolnshire's old windpower. Mrs Rudkin,the archaeologist in my new non-fiction prose book 'Village' had her own bold storage solution. Rent a disused windmill!
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Aldeburgh old & new! A finial by Poetry in Aldeburgh's venue, the Jubilee Hall. And a North Sea windfarm! I see these as successors to Lincolnshire's old windpower. Mrs Rudkin,the archaeologist in my new non-fiction prose book 'Village' had her own bold storage solution. Rent a disused windmill!
Back home from Poetry in Aldeburgh, in what I hope is fruitful semi-chaos, I realise why Aldeburgh's productive fishing clutter seemed instantly familiar!
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Back home from Poetry in Aldeburgh, in what I hope is fruitful semi-chaos, I realise why Aldeburgh's productive fishing clutter seemed instantly familiar!
Today's item from @whipplemuseum.bsky.social, Cambridge! A 1781 science textbook aimed at young men AND women. It would be fascinating to know who read this. A 'common' book, apparently. I wonder if I know everything it contains! Still catching up with the science of 1781...
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today's item from @whipplemuseum.bsky.social, Cambridge! A 1781 science textbook aimed at young men AND women. It would be fascinating to know who read this. A 'common' book, apparently. I wonder if I know everything it contains! Still catching up with the science of 1781...
No, not false teeth for horses!Any hungry nag would be disgusted with these French papier-mâché models, @whipplemuseum.bsky.social, Cambridge,showing marks of behaviour like crib-biting: bored chewing of stable wood. I know people who could interpret these! I must apologise for NOT being able to...
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
No, not false teeth for horses!Any hungry nag would be disgusted with these French papier-mâché models, @whipplemuseum.bsky.social, Cambridge,showing marks of behaviour like crib-biting: bored chewing of stable wood. I know people who could interpret these! I must apologise for NOT being able to...
'Immeasurable beauty
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Immeasurable beauty
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
Finally, a young Stephen Hawking's vision of a black hole... & part of the pioneering mechanical computer, the 'Difference Engine' of Charles Babbage. All @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Finally, a young Stephen Hawking's vision of a black hole... & part of the pioneering mechanical computer, the 'Difference Engine' of Charles Babbage. All @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
These are exquisite. Glass models of fungi @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
These are exquisite. Glass models of fungi @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
Our tiny world... @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Our tiny world... @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
More about the medieval clock whose fine replica rings out @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
More about the medieval clock whose fine replica rings out @whipplemuseum.bsky.social Cambridge!
A replica of a 14th century clock... which nearly bankrupted an Abbey, and whose modern successor still bashes a brass bell heartily @whipplemuseum.bsky.social !
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A replica of a 14th century clock... which nearly bankrupted an Abbey, and whose modern successor still bashes a brass bell heartily @whipplemuseum.bsky.social !
What did I find in Cambridge on a wet Monday afternoon? The Whipple Museum, of objects given to the University by Robert Whipple, who ran a firm making scientific instruments & collected... & collected!
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
What did I find in Cambridge on a wet Monday afternoon? The Whipple Museum, of objects given to the University by Robert Whipple, who ran a firm making scientific instruments & collected... & collected!
'But nobody promised me
that the water would be warm'....
Hanna Komar, who writes of Belarus, which she was forced to leave, of Ukraine, of life, love.. and water. Hanna read her poems recently at Poetry in Aldeburgh... yards from the North Sea!
that the water would be warm'....
Hanna Komar, who writes of Belarus, which she was forced to leave, of Ukraine, of life, love.. and water. Hanna read her poems recently at Poetry in Aldeburgh... yards from the North Sea!
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
'But nobody promised me
that the water would be warm'....
Hanna Komar, who writes of Belarus, which she was forced to leave, of Ukraine, of life, love.. and water. Hanna read her poems recently at Poetry in Aldeburgh... yards from the North Sea!
that the water would be warm'....
Hanna Komar, who writes of Belarus, which she was forced to leave, of Ukraine, of life, love.. and water. Hanna read her poems recently at Poetry in Aldeburgh... yards from the North Sea!
'Yes, I would like a fish. And I'd like to go to Poetry in Aldeburgh next year, too, please!'
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
'Yes, I would like a fish. And I'd like to go to Poetry in Aldeburgh next year, too, please!'
Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!
Goodnight,Poetry in Aldeburgh, and everyone else! (Till tomorrow!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Goodnight,Poetry in Aldeburgh, and everyone else! (Till tomorrow!)
Finally, a lightening of the air and a benign moon, by which chips could be devoured in the sea wind before dashing back for a second great evening of Poetry in Aldeburgh!
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Finally, a lightening of the air and a benign moon, by which chips could be devoured in the sea wind before dashing back for a second great evening of Poetry in Aldeburgh!
24 hours in Aldeburgh! Thursday's ominous moon after the first day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Then a pure white line above Friday's morning sea with a passing ship..
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
24 hours in Aldeburgh! Thursday's ominous moon after the first day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Then a pure white line above Friday's morning sea with a passing ship..
The excellent Poetry in Aldeburgh festival is this way...
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The excellent Poetry in Aldeburgh festival is this way...
Where is Poetry in Aldeburgh? I hear it's very good...
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Where is Poetry in Aldeburgh? I hear it's very good...
Made in Ancient Egypt' -a few glimpses of the rich & informative exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which I visited on my way to Poetry in Aldeburgh!
tiny gold-streaked frogs and Taweret, a goddess new to me, often depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus. Blending the strange & familiar..
tiny gold-streaked frogs and Taweret, a goddess new to me, often depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus. Blending the strange & familiar..
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Made in Ancient Egypt' -a few glimpses of the rich & informative exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which I visited on my way to Poetry in Aldeburgh!
tiny gold-streaked frogs and Taweret, a goddess new to me, often depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus. Blending the strange & familiar..
tiny gold-streaked frogs and Taweret, a goddess new to me, often depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus. Blending the strange & familiar..
Made in Ancient Egypt' - just a few glimpses of the rich and informative exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which I visited on my way to Poetry in Aldeburgh!
A worker for the next world, a waterbird from a book of spells..
A worker for the next world, a waterbird from a book of spells..
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Made in Ancient Egypt' - just a few glimpses of the rich and informative exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which I visited on my way to Poetry in Aldeburgh!
A worker for the next world, a waterbird from a book of spells..
A worker for the next world, a waterbird from a book of spells..