Amy Gray
@amygraywrites.bsky.social
Red Duchess, my biog of the Duchess of Atholl MP, OUT NOW from The History Press. Freelance public affairs, small person wrangling, incurable reader, always trying to write. Also on IG.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there is new Frozen content.
Jk, I know *exactly* who needs to hear this.
Jk, I know *exactly* who needs to hear this.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there is new Frozen content.
Jk, I know *exactly* who needs to hear this.
Jk, I know *exactly* who needs to hear this.
Put a message on a local WA group asking if anyone wanted 6 back issues of BBC History magazine. At least 8 replies within 2 hours saying yes please. Never throwing them out again.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Put a message on a local WA group asking if anyone wanted 6 back issues of BBC History magazine. At least 8 replies within 2 hours saying yes please. Never throwing them out again.
That we should live to see such times
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That we should live to see such times
How will this ambition join up with schools? How are they going to equip teachers to promote these careers?
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How will this ambition join up with schools? How are they going to equip teachers to promote these careers?
This one? It was the bestselling Penguin Special to that point - 300k copies sold
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This one? It was the bestselling Penguin Special to that point - 300k copies sold
First Scottish event for #RedDuchess at the matchless Blair Castle in #Perthshire on 27th October. I spent many happy days in Duchess Kitty’s archive there, so I’m thrilled to be reading from my book and answering questions. @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social @perthandkinross.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
First Scottish event for #RedDuchess at the matchless Blair Castle in #Perthshire on 27th October. I spent many happy days in Duchess Kitty’s archive there, so I’m thrilled to be reading from my book and answering questions. @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social @perthandkinross.bsky.social
1 in 8 children in the UK does not own a book of their own. Over 1 million children have no bedtime story. Heartbreaking.
#GetBritainReading
#GetBritainReading
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
1 in 8 children in the UK does not own a book of their own. Over 1 million children have no bedtime story. Heartbreaking.
#GetBritainReading
#GetBritainReading
Social media was better when it was pinnipeds with buckets
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Social media was better when it was pinnipeds with buckets
Before the Iron Lady there was the Red Duchess.
40 years before Margaret Thatcher got into a tank, the Duchess of Atholl took on communist hecklers in the streets of Aberdeen.
I wrote Red Duchess partly to restore this forgotten Conservative pioneer to her rightful place in the memory of her party.
40 years before Margaret Thatcher got into a tank, the Duchess of Atholl took on communist hecklers in the streets of Aberdeen.
I wrote Red Duchess partly to restore this forgotten Conservative pioneer to her rightful place in the memory of her party.
October 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Before the Iron Lady there was the Red Duchess.
40 years before Margaret Thatcher got into a tank, the Duchess of Atholl took on communist hecklers in the streets of Aberdeen.
I wrote Red Duchess partly to restore this forgotten Conservative pioneer to her rightful place in the memory of her party.
40 years before Margaret Thatcher got into a tank, the Duchess of Atholl took on communist hecklers in the streets of Aberdeen.
I wrote Red Duchess partly to restore this forgotten Conservative pioneer to her rightful place in the memory of her party.
Oh this is too too sad. She added so much to the jollity of life.
October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Oh this is too too sad. She added so much to the jollity of life.
There’s also this brilliant anecdote about hastily rewriting the preamble so that the DUP could sign up.
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There’s also this brilliant anecdote about hastily rewriting the preamble so that the DUP could sign up.
Oliver Letwin writes about the origins of the Climate Change Act in his book Hearts and Minds. He believed that cross-party agreement was vital, particularly to provide long term policy stability for investors.
October 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Oliver Letwin writes about the origins of the Climate Change Act in his book Hearts and Minds. He believed that cross-party agreement was vital, particularly to provide long term policy stability for investors.
Among the biggest taxpayers in the country and a donor to education and medical research. Not something you can say about the Trumps….
September 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Among the biggest taxpayers in the country and a donor to education and medical research. Not something you can say about the Trumps….
Great turnout of lovely people for the launch of Red Duchess tonight. I made empire biscuits topped with the cover to celebrate.
September 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Great turnout of lovely people for the launch of Red Duchess tonight. I made empire biscuits topped with the cover to celebrate.
My 6yo asked me to explain this cartoon so I played him the song it’s based on and I think I have a musicals convert.
September 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My 6yo asked me to explain this cartoon so I played him the song it’s based on and I think I have a musicals convert.
That is…quite a career
September 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That is…quite a career
Excuse me, WHERE?
September 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Excuse me, WHERE?
Just me, at the BBC for Woman’s Hour this morning…
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Just me, at the BBC for Woman’s Hour this morning…
This is the cargo bike parking area at Cambridge station. It’s very clearly labelled as ‘CARGO BIKES ONLY’. And yet. In my glorious rule the owners of all of these bikes will be placed in the stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables.
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This is the cargo bike parking area at Cambridge station. It’s very clearly labelled as ‘CARGO BIKES ONLY’. And yet. In my glorious rule the owners of all of these bikes will be placed in the stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables.
She’s out today! The remarkable and unfairly forgotten Duchess of Atholl, Scotland’s first woman MP and the Conservatives’ first woman minister, turned the most unlikely rebel in British politics.
August 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
She’s out today! The remarkable and unfairly forgotten Duchess of Atholl, Scotland’s first woman MP and the Conservatives’ first woman minister, turned the most unlikely rebel in British politics.
Can someone explain why Steve Rosenberg is standing by the side of an A road in West London on the 10?
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Can someone explain why Steve Rosenberg is standing by the side of an A road in West London on the 10?
The aliens want the magic potion, the Gauls have no idea what gravity and space travel are, many Romans get biffed and thankfully everyone’s memories are erased at the end. It is absolutely insane.
August 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The aliens want the magic potion, the Gauls have no idea what gravity and space travel are, many Romans get biffed and thankfully everyone’s memories are erased at the end. It is absolutely insane.
So far, so normal. Asterix and Obelix are out hunting boar comme toujours
August 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
So far, so normal. Asterix and Obelix are out hunting boar comme toujours
We’ve been reading a lot of Asterix this summer. 6yo loves them - nicely formulaic, lots of visual gags, violence. But we picked this one up at the library this week and it’s *insane*.
August 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We’ve been reading a lot of Asterix this summer. 6yo loves them - nicely formulaic, lots of visual gags, violence. But we picked this one up at the library this week and it’s *insane*.