Eleanor Thom
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
#Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023), The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), and Sea Legs (Penguin Fig Tree, forthcoming 2027)
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Eleanor Thom
@eleanorthom.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Hello new followers 👋
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
I'm excited to share that the book I'm co-authoring with my daughter, 'Sea Legs' (coming 2027), has been shortlisted for the #sustainablestoryaward from World of Books. The Award highlights authors whose work speaks to urgent themes of social justice and sustainable futures.
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I'm excited to share that the book I'm co-authoring with my daughter, 'Sea Legs' (coming 2027), has been shortlisted for the #sustainablestoryaward from World of Books. The Award highlights authors whose work speaks to urgent themes of social justice and sustainable futures.
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Today former Thornton's Books colleague @eleanorthom.bsky.social was passing through Richmond in #Yorkshire and couldn't resist popping by a couple of Alice Thornton's old haunts and taking some photos. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/3
June 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Today former Thornton's Books colleague @eleanorthom.bsky.social was passing through Richmond in #Yorkshire and couldn't resist popping by a couple of Alice Thornton's old haunts and taking some photos. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/3
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In a wonderful collaboration with the National Museum of Flight, writer @eleanorthom.bsky.social led a series of writing workshops at the East Fortune museum for local pupils. Details about the project and examples of their work is here: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/local-school...
Supported by Tesco
Supported by Tesco
Local schoolchildren write poems inspired by aviation artefacts - Tyne & Esk Writers
Find out about our workshop at the Museum of Flight, where local schoolchildren wrote poems inspried by the artefacts there. Read more.
tyneandeskwriters.org.uk
April 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In a wonderful collaboration with the National Museum of Flight, writer @eleanorthom.bsky.social led a series of writing workshops at the East Fortune museum for local pupils. Details about the project and examples of their work is here: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/local-school...
Supported by Tesco
Supported by Tesco
Congratulations to all of the Thornton's Books team. I loved being part of this wonderful and fascinating project and discovering the 17th-century life wrintings of Alice Thornton. #writers #authors I highly recommend delving into this fantastic free resource.
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
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#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
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Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
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March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Watching last night's Up Helly Aa with my dad. He has held onto the memory of this from when he was a boy, and his dad George being one of the Vikings carrying the galley.
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Live from Shetland: Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 torchlit procession and galley burning
YouTube video by Promote Shetland
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January 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Watching last night's Up Helly Aa with my dad. He has held onto the memory of this from when he was a boy, and his dad George being one of the Vikings carrying the galley.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVi...
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We're nearing the end of our top 12 most viewed blogs countdown. At number 2, it's @eleanorthom.bsky.social's stocking filler of interesting passages picked from our partial release of Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Read more below. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
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Digital Edition: Where will our new release take you?
Blog article - 15 September 2023
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
December 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM
We're nearing the end of our top 12 most viewed blogs countdown. At number 2, it's @eleanorthom.bsky.social's stocking filler of interesting passages picked from our partial release of Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Read more below. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Today was my last day working with P6/P7 classes at the National Museum of Flight for Tyne and Esk Writers. Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for supporting these sessions through the Live Literature Programme.
December 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Today was my last day working with P6/P7 classes at the National Museum of Flight for Tyne and Esk Writers. Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for supporting these sessions through the Live Literature Programme.
My son and my mum at the same age. Aren’t genes just amazing!
November 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
My son and my mum at the same age. Aren’t genes just amazing!
Lovely to work with two more classes of young learners on creative writing inspired by WW2 items - today at the National Museum of Flight.
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Lovely to work with two more classes of young learners on creative writing inspired by WW2 items - today at the National Museum of Flight.
Birds of Paradise. Dec 3. Writer, Karis Williamson: "The film... examines how society’s ableism can disable all people to varying extents and raises questions around this. I had Classical references... attitudes towards disability haven’t changed that much in all that time." tinyurl.com/ye2zbub4
Dollhouse Premiere
Join us for the digital premiere of Dollhouse, a new film by BOP Young Artists.
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November 26, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Birds of Paradise. Dec 3. Writer, Karis Williamson: "The film... examines how society’s ableism can disable all people to varying extents and raises questions around this. I had Classical references... attitudes towards disability haven’t changed that much in all that time." tinyurl.com/ye2zbub4
Delighted to say I'm now represented by the wonderful Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. With my daughter, Oona, I'm currently working on a memoir about #caring for each other, #paraswimming and disabled sea mammals. 💙
November 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Delighted to say I'm now represented by the wonderful Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. With my daughter, Oona, I'm currently working on a memoir about #caring for each other, #paraswimming and disabled sea mammals. 💙
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Fully funded Live Literature sessions for schools based in a bunch of Scottish LAs open now - FAO teachers, or writers who'd like to share the opportunity with schools they know! Author visits are magic.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Apply for Live Literature Funding – Spring 2025
Live Literature brings reading and writing to the heart of communities by funding author events for schools across Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Fully funded Live Literature sessions for schools based in a bunch of Scottish LAs open now - FAO teachers, or writers who'd like to share the opportunity with schools they know! Author visits are magic.
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
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Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...
Jewish Literary Links - Erika Dreifus
News about Jewish Book Month, the National Book Awards, and more.
www.erikadreifus.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...
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Our latest post by @eleanorthom.bsky.social was inspired by a question posed by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social about #EarlyModern weather resources. It also demonstrates, with a video, how to use the new text search function on our #DigitalEdition. 🗃️
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Breezing through Alice Thornton's Books with our Text Search Function
Blog article - 20 November 2024
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Our latest post by @eleanorthom.bsky.social was inspired by a question posed by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social about #EarlyModern weather resources. It also demonstrates, with a video, how to use the new text search function on our #DigitalEdition. 🗃️
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
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If you're going to post a picture about a book, *say something* about it. I hate these "post a book, say nothing" challenges. "This is a book" is not discourse.
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
If you're going to post a picture about a book, *say something* about it. I hate these "post a book, say nothing" challenges. "This is a book" is not discourse.
Hello new followers 👋
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Hello new followers 👋
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities
For anyone looking for life writing folk, here's the starter pack: go.bsky.app/27hdHdG & the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... Please share. Thanks!
#writingcommunity #memoir #autobiography #biography
#writingcommunity #memoir #autobiography #biography
November 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Seal pups today on Inchkeith Island (at a distance with a very long lens). My daughter thought the pups’ calls carrying over the water sounded like owls. My son said a zombie apocalypse.
November 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Seal pups today on Inchkeith Island (at a distance with a very long lens). My daughter thought the pups’ calls carrying over the water sounded like owls. My son said a zombie apocalypse.
This will be a great event with @alisonirvine.bsky.social in Cumbernauld next weekend. I'll be taking my brutalist-architecture-mad teenage son with me. See you there?
Discover the Rise and Fall of Cumbernauld Town Centre at the book launch of Concrete Dreams in #CumbernauldLib during #BookWeekScotland. Saturday 23 November, 5pm.
Book a place here: https://bit.ly/40hia6a
Book a place here: https://bit.ly/40hia6a
November 16, 2024 at 7:37 PM
This will be a great event with @alisonirvine.bsky.social in Cumbernauld next weekend. I'll be taking my brutalist-architecture-mad teenage son with me. See you there?
My daughter Oona is ten. She swims laps while I sit by the pool on a folded towel and write. When I was ten, I hated swimming lessons, but now I love the smell of chlorine. I sniff out local leisure centres when I need to focus on my writing. #Writers, where are the weirdest places you go to work?
November 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
My daughter Oona is ten. She swims laps while I sit by the pool on a folded towel and write. When I was ten, I hated swimming lessons, but now I love the smell of chlorine. I sniff out local leisure centres when I need to focus on my writing. #Writers, where are the weirdest places you go to work?
November 1942. The British decided that my grandmother was no longer an 'enemy alien'. In June 2021, my research on my grandmother's life was presented in the Bundestag, helping amend Germany's citizenship law. The historical chapters in my novel 'Connective Tissue' tell the story of her family.
November 14, 2024 at 8:56 PM
November 1942. The British decided that my grandmother was no longer an 'enemy alien'. In June 2021, my research on my grandmother's life was presented in the Bundestag, helping amend Germany's citizenship law. The historical chapters in my novel 'Connective Tissue' tell the story of her family.
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Really enjoyed talking with people from various creative writing groups tonight about @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social and Alice's deliverances from death. We get to see the illustrations of the writers' own deliverances next week. 📚 #17thCentury With thanks to @eleanorthom.bsky.social for organising.
Project team to give talk to Local Writers and Illustrators
News article - 21 November 2023
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November 21, 2023 at 9:37 PM
Really enjoyed talking with people from various creative writing groups tonight about @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social and Alice's deliverances from death. We get to see the illustrations of the writers' own deliverances next week. 📚 #17thCentury With thanks to @eleanorthom.bsky.social for organising.
Looking forward to reading from Connective Tissue alongside fellow #authors @chitgrrl.bsky.social and Jean Barr at Portobello Book Festival this weekend.
October 5, 2023 at 7:29 PM
Looking forward to reading from Connective Tissue alongside fellow #authors @chitgrrl.bsky.social and Jean Barr at Portobello Book Festival this weekend.
As well as being an #author, I am lucky enough to also have a job supporting #authors. Did you know the oldest writer I support was born in 1626? Yes really! Find out all about Alice Thornton and her work at @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social 📚🗃️
October 2, 2023 at 8:23 PM
As well as being an #author, I am lucky enough to also have a job supporting #authors. Did you know the oldest writer I support was born in 1626? Yes really! Find out all about Alice Thornton and her work at @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social 📚🗃️
If you are in Irvine on Saturday, please come! This will be a great conversation and I love to meet people afterwards if you want to hang about to chat about family history /writing /being an air traffic controller (ok, I can't speak from experience there). tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets...
September 21, 2023 at 6:24 PM
If you are in Irvine on Saturday, please come! This will be a great conversation and I love to meet people afterwards if you want to hang about to chat about family history /writing /being an air traffic controller (ok, I can't speak from experience there). tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets...