Dr Alison Baxter
@alisonrbaxter.bsky.social
Reader, writer, historian. Author of A Cornish Cargo https://amzn.eu/d/82n7ovn and Another Song at Sunset https://amzn.eu/d/8G3915h Home Library volunteer and Trustee of Asylum Welcome.
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Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Amazon.co.uk: Baxter, Alison: 9798340910509: Books
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Just published - my new book! Available in paperback and kindle editions. For anyone interested in Scottish history, the Scots language, or the work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon amzn.eu/d/heuqCJU
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Applying the changes to settlement to refugees already here would be particularly cruel and will create so much anxiety.
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Applying the changes to settlement to refugees already here would be particularly cruel and will create so much anxiety.
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
The week of COP 30 seems a good time to republish something I wrote a couple of years ago about the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
My South Sea Bubble
Climate change and the islands of the Pacific
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November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The week of COP 30 seems a good time to republish something I wrote a couple of years ago about the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
In Trieste, city of literature, for a few days. Museums closed for a general strike in support of Gaza (and why can’t we do the same?), but here are Italo Svevo, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba.
September 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In Trieste, city of literature, for a few days. Museums closed for a general strike in support of Gaza (and why can’t we do the same?), but here are Italo Svevo, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba.
To mark ten years of Sanctuary Hosting, I wrote about migration. With thanks to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social for the fact checker.
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'Don’t think your boys, far away as they are, ever forget'
A story of migration
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September 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
To mark ten years of Sanctuary Hosting, I wrote about migration. With thanks to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social for the fact checker.
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This Sept, we're celebrating 10 years of Sanctuary Hosting!
www.asylum-welcome.org/services/san...
300 guests helped, 40,000 nights of safe sleep & countless acts of kindness - thanks to our wonderful hosts 💙
🎧 Listen to the story on our podcast #Welcomecast:
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300 guests helped, 40,000 nights of safe sleep & countless acts of kindness - thanks to our wonderful hosts 💙
🎧 Listen to the story on our podcast #Welcomecast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This Sept, we're celebrating 10 years of Sanctuary Hosting!
www.asylum-welcome.org/services/san...
300 guests helped, 40,000 nights of safe sleep & countless acts of kindness - thanks to our wonderful hosts 💙
🎧 Listen to the story on our podcast #Welcomecast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
www.asylum-welcome.org/services/san...
300 guests helped, 40,000 nights of safe sleep & countless acts of kindness - thanks to our wonderful hosts 💙
🎧 Listen to the story on our podcast #Welcomecast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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"We sat in stunned silence… wondering: what will this mean for the people we support now & those who will need us in future?" — Dr Hari Reed, our Co-CEO.
For many refugees, reunion is the only hope they have left. Suspending that right puts women & children at risk, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social.
For many refugees, reunion is the only hope they have left. Suspending that right puts women & children at risk, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social.
September 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"We sat in stunned silence… wondering: what will this mean for the people we support now & those who will need us in future?" — Dr Hari Reed, our Co-CEO.
For many refugees, reunion is the only hope they have left. Suspending that right puts women & children at risk, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social.
For many refugees, reunion is the only hope they have left. Suspending that right puts women & children at risk, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social.
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Reposted by Dr Alison Baxter
Today, Nigel Farage used Oxfordshire to launch plans for “mass deportations” of people seeking asylum if he becomes Prime Minister.
We believe in a different vision: one rooted in dignity, safety, and welcome. Please add your name to our open letter: tinyurl.com/aw-letter
We believe in a different vision: one rooted in dignity, safety, and welcome. Please add your name to our open letter: tinyurl.com/aw-letter
A call for Unity and Compassion in Oxfordshire (and beyond)
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August 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Today, Nigel Farage used Oxfordshire to launch plans for “mass deportations” of people seeking asylum if he becomes Prime Minister.
We believe in a different vision: one rooted in dignity, safety, and welcome. Please add your name to our open letter: tinyurl.com/aw-letter
We believe in a different vision: one rooted in dignity, safety, and welcome. Please add your name to our open letter: tinyurl.com/aw-letter
A piece of Scottish family history to mark a significant date in the sporting calendar.
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The Glorious Twelfth
Grouse shooting - a controversial sport
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August 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A piece of Scottish family history to mark a significant date in the sporting calendar.
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This week’s story is about bad behaviour at the Royal Aircraft Establishment open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
The case of the illegal pigs
The Royal Aircraft Establishment in wartime
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July 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
This week’s story is about bad behaviour at the Royal Aircraft Establishment open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
I’m sure my grandmother would have been dismayed at this threat to the burial place of her friend Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
This is an important story for anybody interested in arts and heritage. Vivien Heilbron, who played Chris Guthrie in “Sunset Song”, is among those campaigning to save Arbuthnott Church! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6788...
Sunset Song: 'Our fight to save the Aberdeenshire church that inspired famous Scots novel'
Arbuthnott Church which inspired Sunset Song is being sold off by the Church of Scotland but campaigners are fighting to save it.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I’m sure my grandmother would have been dismayed at this threat to the burial place of her friend Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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A new post that may be familiar to readers of A Cornish Cargo!
A new post that may be familiar to readers of A Cornish Cargo!
A cargo of broccoli
Or how to encourage your children to eat their greens
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July 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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A new post that may be familiar to readers of A Cornish Cargo!
A new post that may be familiar to readers of A Cornish Cargo!
An example of transferable skills? How a sea captain who learnt his trade on square riggers became a pilot in World War 1.
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From sea to air
Walter Price, master mariner turned pilot
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June 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
An example of transferable skills? How a sea captain who learnt his trade on square riggers became a pilot in World War 1.
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Delighted to get my copy of this superb biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. With a couple of my family photos included!
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History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Amazon.co.uk: Malcolm, William K.: 9781910858387: Books
Buy History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon by Malcolm, William K. (ISBN: 9781910858387) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligi...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Delighted to get my copy of this superb biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. With a couple of my family photos included!
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Back to maritine history for my latest family story
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Sailing to the Gold Coast
Captain Perceval Pennefather Dupen
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June 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Back to maritine history for my latest family story
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A more personal substack post today about the first refugee I hosted through @refugeesathome.bsky.social .
It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees.
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It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees.
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The path to citizenship the UK has choked off - to our detriment
A story of hope and anger and one man called B.
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May 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A more personal substack post today about the first refugee I hosted through @refugeesathome.bsky.social .
It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-path-t...
It's not something I talk about much but I felt I needed to write something in response to the increasingly hostile environment for refugees.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-path-t...
Very sad. And in the same week that the definitive biography of Grassic Gibbon by Bill Malcolm is published.
I'm in the Mail on Sunday, of all places, lamenting the proposed closure of Arbuthnott Church, where Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song, is laid to rest.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Church that inspired famous Scots novel to be sold off by Kirk
Arbuthnott Church - the real-world inspiration for the setting of Sunset Song and the final resting place of its author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon - is to be sold off.
www.dailymail.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Very sad. And in the same week that the definitive biography of Grassic Gibbon by Bill Malcolm is published.
New Substack post, of special interest to anyone with ancestors in the north east of England open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
'Like a mole groping in the dark'
Coal miners of Northumberland and Durham
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April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New Substack post, of special interest to anyone with ancestors in the north east of England open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
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Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
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RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It was not a natural death.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Fuckity bye
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It wasn't a natural death.
The biggest journalistic bloodletting in a generation.
Rest in power ✊
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Asylum Welcome is looking for new trustees. If you’re based in the Oxfordshire area, do consider joining us.
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We are looking for new trustees! - Asylum Welcome
We are looking for two new trustees to join our board - a treasurer and a trustee with lived experience.
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April 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Asylum Welcome is looking for new trustees. If you’re based in the Oxfordshire area, do consider joining us.
www.asylum-welcome.org/trustee-recr...
www.asylum-welcome.org/trustee-recr...
This has turned out to be one of my most commented on posts on Substack so far.
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My uncle the bomber pilot
Dealing with problematic family history
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April 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This has turned out to be one of my most commented on posts on Substack so far.
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I can’t get to London today but I’m still supporting the day of action by @societyofauthors.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I can’t get to London today but I’m still supporting the day of action by @societyofauthors.bsky.social