Pete Mitchell
@petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social
Heritage at @nenature.bsky.social
'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Writing stuff is over here: @pdkmitchell.bsky.social
'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Writing stuff is over here: @pdkmitchell.bsky.social
UNWHOLESOME TREASURE
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
UNWHOLESOME TREASURE
Watching @rach-anderson.bsky.social being a legend as we launch our new Archives and Historical Research course at @nenature.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Watching @rach-anderson.bsky.social being a legend as we launch our new Archives and Historical Research course at @nenature.bsky.social
I'm going to miss working at @nenature.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I'm going to miss working at @nenature.bsky.social
My boy! I thought he was going to die again! He didn't again! Now he's back and no longer ill and getting in the way of me working and he smells *terrible*
August 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My boy! I thought he was going to die again! He didn't again! Now he's back and no longer ill and getting in the way of me working and he smells *terrible*
here you go. you're welcome
August 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
here you go. you're welcome
Our archive at @nenature.bsky.social has this: a still-palpable vertigo at the expansion of what can be seen and known - geological time, the microscopic world, the surface of the earth, the cosmos - that you find in things like Albany Hancock's drawings of nudibranchs
August 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Our archive at @nenature.bsky.social has this: a still-palpable vertigo at the expansion of what can be seen and known - geological time, the microscopic world, the surface of the earth, the cosmos - that you find in things like Albany Hancock's drawings of nudibranchs
From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: geological maps of Northumberland, 1923
August 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: geological maps of Northumberland, 1923
From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: Richard Howse's Catalogue of the Fossils of the Permian System of Northumberland and Durham, previously belonging to the Darlington & Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club, and annotated (with drawings) by an unknown enthusiast
August 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
From the @nenature.bsky.social collections: Richard Howse's Catalogue of the Fossils of the Permian System of Northumberland and Durham, previously belonging to the Darlington & Teesdale Naturalists' Field Club, and annotated (with drawings) by an unknown enthusiast
In the office today. We used to be a country
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In the office today. We used to be a country
Oi mista! You me dad?
July 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Oi mista! You me dad?
Had a great time at the @litandphil.bsky.social 's celebration of the bicentennial of their incredible library - featuring local telly celeb Alexander Armstrong, jazz from Top Banana, and a special appearance from the ghostly spectre of Mrs Affleck, charlady of the Society in the 19th century
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Had a great time at the @litandphil.bsky.social 's celebration of the bicentennial of their incredible library - featuring local telly celeb Alexander Armstrong, jazz from Top Banana, and a special appearance from the ghostly spectre of Mrs Affleck, charlady of the Society in the 19th century
Going to the Big Meeting tomorrow and a mate sent me this (from Ken & Jean Smith, 'Splendour of the Gala'): what I like about it is that Edwards' second (I think) grandchild would've been two months old that week, and I ate soup with her last night because she's my mam. Mams + trade unions 4 EVA ❤️🌹✊
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Going to the Big Meeting tomorrow and a mate sent me this (from Ken & Jean Smith, 'Splendour of the Gala'): what I like about it is that Edwards' second (I think) grandchild would've been two months old that week, and I ate soup with her last night because she's my mam. Mams + trade unions 4 EVA ❤️🌹✊
Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil
June 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil
went on a walk up Hedgehope didn't we
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
went on a walk up Hedgehope didn't we
yes i said yes i will yes
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
yes i said yes i will yes
At Newcastle City Council's #CityofSanctuary Forum to see what NHSN can offer to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in the NE
June 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
At Newcastle City Council's #CityofSanctuary Forum to see what NHSN can offer to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in the NE
This is such a brilliant piece of writing about Teesside, deindustrialising landscapes and ecologies, birds, shorelines, oilrigs, that sort of thing
June 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is such a brilliant piece of writing about Teesside, deindustrialising landscapes and ecologies, birds, shorelines, oilrigs, that sort of thing
Fascinating #NaturesCure event tonight at Great North Museum: Hancock - Julia Heslop and Sam Fisher talking about North Tyneside's peri-urban edgelands, art, community and ecology in their project 'This Was All Fields'
June 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Fascinating #NaturesCure event tonight at Great North Museum: Hancock - Julia Heslop and Sam Fisher talking about North Tyneside's peri-urban edgelands, art, community and ecology in their project 'This Was All Fields'
Also supplied me with probably the only good epigraph to a book I'll ever come up with. Thanks Edward! Enjoy it down there!
June 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Also supplied me with probably the only good epigraph to a book I'll ever come up with. Thanks Edward! Enjoy it down there!
Get yourself a flatmate who does a massive poo on the floor of an evening and then makes it up to you by laying a dead mouse at the foot of your bed while you're asleep
June 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Get yourself a flatmate who does a massive poo on the floor of an evening and then makes it up to you by laying a dead mouse at the foot of your bed while you're asleep
I should like to introduce my very good friend and associate The Whitley Large Ox
May 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I should like to introduce my very good friend and associate The Whitley Large Ox
These elephants have a very Bewickian twinkle about them (portrait of T.B. himself, by unknown artist, included for comparison)
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
These elephants have a very Bewickian twinkle about them (portrait of T.B. himself, by unknown artist, included for comparison)
Some pretty radgie-looking cats
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Some pretty radgie-looking cats
Unclear whether a whale can correctly be categorised as a quadruped since it's actually a very big fish.* Someone should have told Thomas Bewick this.
* @natewolff.bsky.social can u confirm if this is correct plz
* @natewolff.bsky.social can u confirm if this is correct plz
May 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Unclear whether a whale can correctly be categorised as a quadruped since it's actually a very big fish.* Someone should have told Thomas Bewick this.
* @natewolff.bsky.social can u confirm if this is correct plz
* @natewolff.bsky.social can u confirm if this is correct plz
I'm a particularly big fan of the seal
May 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm a particularly big fan of the seal