Jane Duffus
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Writer, editor, speaker, long-distance runner. Author of 7 books including 3 lots of #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol. My #SarahRecords book is out now 🍒 📚
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The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them.
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Zine Things Happen – Jane Duffus | Monorail Music
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November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them.
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
My next (and final) trip to the post office this week will be on Thursday. So if you'd like a copy of Zine Things Happen #1 (or, indeed, anything else from my website), please order it before Thursday morning. Otherwise I'll be mailing it next week. Thank you :)
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
SHOP — Jane Duffus
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November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My next (and final) trip to the post office this week will be on Thursday. So if you'd like a copy of Zine Things Happen #1 (or, indeed, anything else from my website), please order it before Thursday morning. Otherwise I'll be mailing it next week. Thank you :)
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
There's no other way to say this, but I've been asked to interview Blur's Dave Rowntree about his new photographic book on Sunday, Sunday 23 November. (Yes, the scare quotes around 'in conversation' worry me, too.)
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There's no other way to say this, but I've been asked to interview Blur's Dave Rowntree about his new photographic book on Sunday, Sunday 23 November. (Yes, the scare quotes around 'in conversation' worry me, too.)
International postage for the fanzine has been fixed and amended. And if it's not bloody right this time, well, I'm just going to come round to all your houses (even the houses in Greece and Singapore and Australia) and hand deliver the fanzines. Thank you!
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Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus — Jane Duffus
Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus
www.janeduffus.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
International postage for the fanzine has been fixed and amended. And if it's not bloody right this time, well, I'm just going to come round to all your houses (even the houses in Greece and Singapore and Australia) and hand deliver the fanzines. Thank you!
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
People ask me what it is I have against bloody AI and why I'm so frustrated that these illiterate robots are putting me out of work. It's so hard to know what to tell them...
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People ask me what it is I have against bloody AI and why I'm so frustrated that these illiterate robots are putting me out of work. It's so hard to know what to tell them...
🍒 Book stockist in America 🍒
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story by Jane Duffus
Sarah Records was a label that signed the acts no major label would touch but who you wanted to hear. Sarah put out a board game, produced cut'n'paste fanzines and stuck two fingers up to the mainstre...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🍒 Book stockist in America 🍒
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
Here's a piece about 'The Women Who Built 1960s Bristol', which I was commissioned to write for @andrewkelly.bsky.social ahead of the Bristol Ideas special screening of 'The Newcomers' this weekend, which I'm looking forward to attending.
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The Newcomers 3: The Women who Built 1960s Bristol
Jane Duffus
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October 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Here's a piece about 'The Women Who Built 1960s Bristol', which I was commissioned to write for @andrewkelly.bsky.social ahead of the Bristol Ideas special screening of 'The Newcomers' this weekend, which I'm looking forward to attending.
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... and five days before Heavenly's London gig, Blueboy are doing this. It’s almost like the last thirty years never happened. Um – they *did* happen, didn’t they? Absolutely all of them? In order? Because, if they didn’t, I’ve got some photos that really will need a bit of explaining...
#Blueboy
#Blueboy
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
... and five days before Heavenly's London gig, Blueboy are doing this. It’s almost like the last thirty years never happened. Um – they *did* happen, didn’t they? Absolutely all of them? In order? Because, if they didn’t, I’ve got some photos that really will need a bit of explaining...
#Blueboy
#Blueboy
Oh, hello. It's been a while. Just popping in to let you know that I've launched a new indie-pop fanzine - Zine Things Happen (see what I did there).
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh, hello. It's been a while. Just popping in to let you know that I've launched a new indie-pop fanzine - Zine Things Happen (see what I did there).
It's been a long time since M|A|R|R|S had a number one smash hit single (38 years to be precise), but I'm pleased to see that someone in Yeovil is still committed to putting correctly styled M|A|R|R|S graffiti on gateposts.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's been a long time since M|A|R|R|S had a number one smash hit single (38 years to be precise), but I'm pleased to see that someone in Yeovil is still committed to putting correctly styled M|A|R|R|S graffiti on gateposts.
‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
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‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her work
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May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
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📣 TOMORROW
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📣 TOMORROW
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Looking for something to do this afternoon? Come to Thornbury Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2pm and lasts one hour. £5 from EventBrite with all ticket money going straight to support the library. Books will be on sale & can be signed.
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Looking for something to do this afternoon? Come to Thornbury Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2pm and lasts one hour. £5 from EventBrite with all ticket money going straight to support the library. Books will be on sale & can be signed.
Looking for something to do this lunchtime? Come to Southmead Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2.30pm and lasts one hour. Entry is free, just turn up. Books will be on sale and can be signed.
April 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Looking for something to do this lunchtime? Come to Southmead Library to hear my brand new talk about #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The talk is at 2.30pm and lasts one hour. Entry is free, just turn up. Books will be on sale and can be signed.
Stealing the idea from someone else, I asked ChatGPT to put together everything it knew about me and create an 'action figure'. And here's what we ended up with. Of course, 'action' is not really the word I'd use to describe my writerly days spent faffing about on social media but... y'know.
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Stealing the idea from someone else, I asked ChatGPT to put together everything it knew about me and create an 'action figure'. And here's what we ended up with. Of course, 'action' is not really the word I'd use to describe my writerly days spent faffing about on social media but... y'know.
I'm doing two library talks this week about some of the amazing but forgotten women in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The second one will be at Thornbury Library this Saturday (12 April) at 2pm (lasting up to one hour). £5 via EventBrite and all money goes directly to the library.
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I'm doing two library talks this week about some of the amazing but forgotten women in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. The second one will be at Thornbury Library this Saturday (12 April) at 2pm (lasting up to one hour). £5 via EventBrite and all money goes directly to the library.
I'm doing two library talks this week with my brand new talk about some of the amazing but forgotten women who are included in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. As such, you are invited to join me at Southmead Library this Friday (11 April) at 2.30pm for a FREE talk (lasting up to one hour).
April 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I'm doing two library talks this week with my brand new talk about some of the amazing but forgotten women who are included in #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol Volume Three. As such, you are invited to join me at Southmead Library this Friday (11 April) at 2.30pm for a FREE talk (lasting up to one hour).
So - fans of Sarah Records might recall that in the writing of 'These Things Happen' I got to speak to the elusive Christine Grant of Christine's Cat fame. Not only that but she gave me her first ever interview... I know!
April 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So - fans of Sarah Records might recall that in the writing of 'These Things Happen' I got to speak to the elusive Christine Grant of Christine's Cat fame. Not only that but she gave me her first ever interview... I know!
Yes. This from @glosswitch.bsky.social sums up the feminist frustration at the response to 'Adolescence'. Feminists have been saying all this stuff for DECADES and we've been ignored because, urm, we're women. *face palm*
April 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yes. This from @glosswitch.bsky.social sums up the feminist frustration at the response to 'Adolescence'. Feminists have been saying all this stuff for DECADES and we've been ignored because, urm, we're women. *face palm*
TODAY! For those in the Bristol area, today I'll be at the Makers' Market at the Hanham Community Centre, selling and signing copies of all three volumes of 'The Women Who Built Bristol'. There will also be lots of other stalls from local creatives. Entry is free, 10am to 2pm.
March 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
TODAY! For those in the Bristol area, today I'll be at the Makers' Market at the Hanham Community Centre, selling and signing copies of all three volumes of 'The Women Who Built Bristol'. There will also be lots of other stalls from local creatives. Entry is free, 10am to 2pm.
Tonight I'll be catching up with Simon Barber (The Chesterfields) and Nick Godfrey (@precrecs.bsky.social). Which reminds me I am long overdue to share this Precious 10" of The Chesties' 1987 Janice Long session (released last month)... for which I wrote the sleeve notes ❤️ Two of my fave gents.
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Tonight I'll be catching up with Simon Barber (The Chesterfields) and Nick Godfrey (@precrecs.bsky.social). Which reminds me I am long overdue to share this Precious 10" of The Chesties' 1987 Janice Long session (released last month)... for which I wrote the sleeve notes ❤️ Two of my fave gents.
Running until 29 March, check out 'Playfight' at Bristol Old Vic. It's got the thumbs up from no lesser mortal than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which is surely a ringing endorsement.
Playfight | Bristol Old Vic
A BLINDING, SUCKER-PUNCH OF A PLAY – HONEST, HILARIOUS, HEARTFELT PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE “I’ve been thinking about time. Every second. The ugly bits, the…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Running until 29 March, check out 'Playfight' at Bristol Old Vic. It's got the thumbs up from no lesser mortal than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which is surely a ringing endorsement.
Next Thursday I'll be giving a free talk at Bristol Central Library about 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Vol Three'. This is a brand new talk featuring only women from book three. Oh, and I'll have copies of all three volumes with me for sale (cash or card welcome) and will of course sign them.
March 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Next Thursday I'll be giving a free talk at Bristol Central Library about 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Vol Three'. This is a brand new talk featuring only women from book three. Oh, and I'll have copies of all three volumes with me for sale (cash or card welcome) and will of course sign them.
This Thursday evening (March 20 - aka tomorrow!), I'll be joining Bristol Feminist Book Club where their book of the month is 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Three'. More info in the pics here, and tickets available from this link. All welcome!
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March 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This Thursday evening (March 20 - aka tomorrow!), I'll be joining Bristol Feminist Book Club where their book of the month is 'The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume Three'. More info in the pics here, and tickets available from this link. All welcome!
share.thecliq.app/event/bfbc-m...
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For those in the Bristol area, this Saturday (22 March) I'll be at the Makers' Market at the Hanham Community Centre, selling and signing copies of all three volumes of 'The Women Who Built Bristol'. There will also be lots of other stalls from local creatives. Entry is free, 10am to 2pm.
March 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
For those in the Bristol area, this Saturday (22 March) I'll be at the Makers' Market at the Hanham Community Centre, selling and signing copies of all three volumes of 'The Women Who Built Bristol'. There will also be lots of other stalls from local creatives. Entry is free, 10am to 2pm.