Caroline Scott
cscottbooks.bsky.social
Caroline Scott
@cscottbooks.bsky.social
Here for books, history, dogs and photographs of ginnels. #ThePhotographeroftheLost was a BBC book club pick. #WhenIComeHomeAgain was a @TheTimes book of the year. #TheBestofIntentions is coming in 2025... #amwriting
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading The Best of Intentions by @cscottbooks.bsky.social this month.
Sharing my 5⭐️ review today www.instagram.com/p/DMvhemYgta...
July 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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On VE Day I think about Doreen Yarwood who, as a 7-year-old, was pulled with her mother from the wreckage of a school basement shelter in which 166 were killed. A German parachute mine collapsed the shelter in Durning Road, Liverpool, on the night of 29 November 1940. 1/4
May 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Thinking about my grandad – and other #FEPOW - this morning. In Ube-Sanyo Fukuoka camp, Japan, he wouldn’t hear that #WW2 was over until 20/08/45. At the start of May he was listing fantasy foods (being Lancastrian, it was mostly pies.) #VEDay80 #VEDay
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Happened upon this Pathé film... The commentary is pure Cholmondley-Warner. #WW2 #gardening
www.britishpathe.com/asset/55750
GARDENS (aka BOMB CRATER, BLITZED GARDENS) (issue title - WHAT GOES ON?)
A+bomb+crater+is+turned+into+a+garden%2C+and+blitzed+areas+are+rebuilt+as+vegetable+patches.
www.britishpathe.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Liverpool Echo, 27 December 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine
www.roseraiebarth.com/fr/rosiers-a...
(I might have to order one).
April 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
From the Daily Express, 22 November 1938, @BNArchive #WW2 #roses #LigneMaginot #MaginotLine
April 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’m thrilled to be able to share the cover of my next novel. I love this image and hope you do too. #TheBestofIntentions will be out in June and you can pre-order it now. Please support your local bookshop, if you can.🙏 @simonschusteruk.bsky.social #coverreveal #historicalfiction #histfic #amwriting
March 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Just seen my new cover for the first time… Yay!!! 🍾 Can’t wait to share it. #thebestofintentions #amwriting #histfic #historicalfiction
January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Late to the party (as usual), but I finished watching #AlmasNotNormal last night. This series has made me belly laugh and sob. I loved it so much. Fabulous! 💗 @bbciplayer
January 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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This weekend I've spent alot of time re-reading this wonderful book by @cscottbooks.bsky.social . I've read all her books but this is my favourite. It makes you really think about the psychological issues that soldiers and their families had to cope with post 1918. Beautifully written.
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A cautionary tale from my publisher. Avoid a family implosion this #Christmas and buy them a book. It’s still not too late. #BuyBooks #GiveBooks (👏@simonschusterUK) 🎄
December 19, 2024 at 2:07 PM
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950) publicdomainreview.org/collection/p... #photography @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
More than forty images of the ephemeral snowman, frozen eternally in the photograph.
publicdomainreview.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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If you have any interest in history and particularly World War 1, please follow @greatwarhuts.bsky.social and enjoy the Hutvent calendar daily in the lead up to Christmas.
HutVent 2024 - Day 1

Taff opens the batting with an original newspaper announcing the declaration of war:

youtu.be/fI30WuBD_n0

#HutVent
#HutVent2024
December 1, 2024 at 9:43 AM
And so starts the last week of checking page proofs. Nearly there… #thebestofintentions #amwriting
December 2, 2024 at 9:43 AM
(Okay, 2nd of December... it's acceptable to dress the shop window now, isn't it?)
Give books this #Christmas. Here are some examples. 😉 And please support your local bookshop.🎄
December 2, 2024 at 9:40 AM
An IMPORTANT MESSAGE from my publisher. (Nice one, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social 👍) #buybooks #theyrebetterthaneverythingelse 🎄
December 2, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Nice one, @BBCFour. 👍 (But FORTY years? Seriously?) #thewolvesarerunning www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/b...
The Box of Delights 40th anniversary airing confirmed by BBC Four
The wolves are running again this Christmas.
www.radiotimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Want to read more about those who lived during the #FWW, in all their complexity & diversity? INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 😊 Discount codes: UK (GLR 9XUUK), Canada (GLR 9XUCA), rest of Americas (GLR 9XUUS), Australia/NZealand (GLR 9XUAU) www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...
International Poetry of the First World War
Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 9, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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107 years ago, my great-grandfather's tank, D51 'Deborah' was destroyed at Cambrai. To him fell the awful task of writing to the families of the men he commanded. The most eloquent tribute I can offer today . "All finer fellows than I shall ever be." #cambrai #cambraiday
November 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
‘The Ruins of Ypres’ by W. L. Wyllie. Watercolour of bi-planes over #Ypres, dated 1915, in original annotated frame. (He lost two of his sons during #WW1 - Robert, at Ypres, and Bill. His eldest son, Harold, served with the #RoyalFlyingCorps.) Coming up for #auction with @GWauction @thesaleroom.
November 21, 2024 at 9:32 AM