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Claire Squires
@clairesquires.bsky.social
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Director of SGSAH. Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
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Very much enjoyed reading @isanchezprado.bsky.social’s TACO during a very cold week in Scotland - took me straight back to these ones* from Villa’s Tacos in Grand Central Market on a hot summer’s day in LA

*no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!
A hand holding a copy of the book Taco by Ignacio P Sanchez Prado, which features a stylised image of a taco stand and stools on its cover A box filled with three colourful tacos topped with guacamole, with a green juice drink and various tasty condiments on the side
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Ginger just turned up the sound on the radio - time for the weekend, she thinks?
A ginger cat next to remote controls and a large glass of G&T
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Wonderful to see @sgsah.bsky.social alum Tim Craven winning the debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards tonight for Good Sons - congrats Tim!
Tim Craven during an acceptance speech at the Saltire Society Book Awards
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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SIXTEEN YEARS A (Ginger Rogers) SQUIRES
A ginger and white cat sitting to attention on a coffee table table next to a pink martini, with a wood stove burning in the background
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Yes this was the greatest Halloween 🎃 outfit of all time (me; as Marmite)
Three people at a Halloween party, one as a ghost sporting a sheet with mouth and eye holes cut out; one as a corpse bride; and one (me) as a jar of Marmite
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Reminded me that several years ago on the Carlisle-Settle line I had my most viral ever tweet - featuring an enormous marrow in a hat
An enormous marrow wearing a blue woolly hat, on a train seat
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Excellent trolley inc merch on the Carlisle-Settle railway
A train catering trolley including caps, fridge magnets and calendars (plus Hula Hoops)
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Fantastic to meet the new @sgsah.bsky.social PhD cohort today at @vadundee.bsky.social, including a talk about the Thread Memory exhibition of Palestinian embroidery by SGSAH PhD researcher Leena Nammari, who has work included
V&A Dundee from outside The Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine exhibition (viewed by SGSAH researchers) Leena Nammari’s work Absence does not mean forgetting; with each clay tablet representing a destroyed Palestinian village, with a cypress tree motif
October 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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A great evening at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social hearing about The Two Roberts as fabulously told by @damianbarr.bsky.social - here signing with their portrait @canongate.co.uk
The book cover of The Two Roberts by Damian Barr Damian Barr signing books, with a portrait of the two Roberts in the background
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Deeply saddened to hear of the death of book historian, librarian and bibliographile (is that a word?) extraordinaire Ian Willison, as circulated today by Simon Eliot via @sharpweb.org list serv (see list.iu.edu/sympa/arc/sh...) 1/
A screenshot of text which reads: I have to report the death of Ian Willison (1926-2025) on the 27 August, just a few days after he had celebrated his 99th birthday. Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and University College London, Ian had a long and distinguished career in librarianship, bibliography, and book history. He worked in the Library of the British Museum (1955-74) and then in the British Library (1974-87), finally becoming its Head of English Language (British). He was Visiting Professor of Historical Bibliography, University of Chicago (1959); and Cline Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin (1989). He was editor of volume 4 of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1972), and was one of the three General Editors of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (1999-2019). He was awarded a CBE for his services to the history of the book in 2005. Ian was the founder and benefactor of the Willison Foundation Charitable Trust, which was set up in 2016 to offer grants to those involved in research in book history. It has since supported many members of SHARP. Ian’s intellectual enthusiasm and support benefitted many individuals and organisations. He was chair of the UK Book Trade History Group (1985–98), and helped to found the Institute of English Studies in the University of London in 1999, of which he was one of its first senior research fellows. He was also a keen supporter of SHARP in its formative years. Those who knew him will remember Ian not just as scholar, but also as an enthusiastic, generous, kindly, and congenial man. He will be greatly missed. Simon Eliot
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Best boat best band
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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When the @sgsah.bsky.social #SGSAHmillport25 cohort get piped off the Waverley ⛴️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😍
August 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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On the way to Great Cumbrae for the @sgsah.bsky.social residential! Boats will feature heavily…
The Loch Shira waiting to offload passengers at Largs
August 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Route to the best beach
A sandy path between fields leading to the sea, with a view of Arran behind, and blue skies
August 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Much appreciated airport signage in California for the Freed Between the Lines campaign, ‘Did you know books banned elsewhere are free in LA?’ - courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library and LAX
Signage (for text see post) above an airport travelator)
July 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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And here’s a video of our article…
July 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Excited to have an article with @bethdriscoll.bsky.social in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social’s Container issue, on ‘Points, Pincers and Paper Play: The Containing and Uncontaining Work of Chatterboxes’.

Online version here: inscriptionjournal.com/issue-5-cont...
The deconstructed contents of a journal, with postcards, posters and a LP A page of the journal with an image of a folded out chatterbox
July 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Problems with your PhD? The @sgsah.bsky.social Doctor-in-Residence will see you this afternoon at #SGSAHSummer25
A poster advertising the SGSAH Doctor in Residence - appointments performance) available this afternoon A green screen in front of a chair, with a handwritten sign reading ‘Another Useless Dr’
June 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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(Irish) ice cream of (yester)day
A delicious ice cream with a flake and harbour behind
June 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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(Irish) Boat of the Day
A sailing boat in the sunset off a pier, with a lighthouse flying the Irish flag behind
June 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Today @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social hosts the 4th AHRC World Making Words event Feminism, Publishing, Futures led by Madeline Clements & Rachel Carroll (Teeside Uni) - here, a reading group discussion of Kali for Women’s book Shareer Ki Jankari (1989; Know Your Body) with publisher Urvashi Butalia
A group of people (largely women) sitting down talking, with a screenshot behind showing the cover of Know Your Body
June 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Here, read an endorsement from reviewer Ginger R Squires, who acclaims it as ‘A charming tale of graffiti and carnival, with the warmth of a true moral compass’ 4/
A ginger cat scrutinising the back cover of a book
May 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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What’s this?

A print copy of Tante Fran’s May 68 Book Club: Choose Your Own Revolution, no less, 57 years precisely after the events! 👠 🪧 🇫🇷

For more information see @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social’s website ullapoolism.wordpress.com/blaire-squis... 1/
A hand holding a copy of book entitled Tante Fran’s May 68 Book Club: Choose Your Revolution, with a ginger cat approaching from the background
May 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Me being very pleased at the top of Ben Lomond with an enormous goat’s cheese sandwich
Me standing on a rock smiling, with big Scottish views behind A hand holding a very large sandwich (bigger than hand) with mountain views behind
May 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hospitalfield Mess
A large bowl filled with soft fruit, meringue, cream and mint mmmmmmm
May 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM