Sue Wilkes
@suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
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Sue Wilkes
@suewilkesauthor.bsky.social
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Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Amazon.co.uk: Sue Wilkes: 9781036113834: Books
Buy Young Workers of the Industrial Age: Child Labour in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Sue Wilkes (ISBN: 9781036113834) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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A reminder that my latest release is now in stock on Amazon, too! www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Worker... #childlabour
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From the Archive: The Female Weavers – Documentation of 18th & 19th century double interlocked tapestries (1100 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/th...
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
From the Archive: The Female Weavers – Documentation of 18th & 19th century double interlocked tapestries (1100 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/th...
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Viewing objects in isolation allows a deeper understanding of its structure. This mid 18th century bodice would have had an equally sumptuous skirt but without it we can appreciate its shape, construction and even its lining #MuseodelTraje #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Viewing objects in isolation allows a deeper understanding of its structure. This mid 18th century bodice would have had an equally sumptuous skirt but without it we can appreciate its shape, construction and even its lining #MuseodelTraje #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Someone really had fun with metal threads and wire here. Not content with a shiny dress, crown and sceptre, this very regal Esther has two attendants holding up her train and a parasol in a c. 1640 embroidery at The Holburne Museum, Bath.
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
#textilehistory
#fashionhistory
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Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
Colder than a polar bear's wotsits this evening.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Colder than a polar bear's wotsits this evening.
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#AncestryHour New arrival to my TBR pile from Pen & Sword, (from the monthly ebook sale pages):
Using Gravestones to Trace Your Ancestors (eBook)
Pen & Sword have Black Friday deals too, of course.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Using-Graves...
Using Gravestones to Trace Your Ancestors (eBook)
Pen & Sword have Black Friday deals too, of course.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Using-Graves...
Using Gravestones to Trace Your Ancestors
Everyone dies, it’s the one certainty in life. Whilst burials have been taking place for thousands of years, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#AncestryHour New arrival to my TBR pile from Pen & Sword, (from the monthly ebook sale pages):
Using Gravestones to Trace Your Ancestors (eBook)
Pen & Sword have Black Friday deals too, of course.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Using-Graves...
Using Gravestones to Trace Your Ancestors (eBook)
Pen & Sword have Black Friday deals too, of course.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Using-Graves...
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Where do you imagine those "young people" will be educated, given what you are doing to the university sector?
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Where do you imagine those "young people" will be educated, given what you are doing to the university sector?
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Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gove has been an extremely poisonous influence on our politics. Undermining expert consensus on Brexit [had enough of experts, etc] and lying his way through the whole process in the aftermath of the Referendum. A travesty that he is on this panel of judges assessing political writing.
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Why Was This Pharaoh Buried in Another King’s Tomb? New Tanis Evidence Uncovers a Royal Cover-Up - Arkeonews
arkeonews.net/why-was-this...
arkeonews.net/why-was-this...
Why Was This Pharaoh Buried in Another King’s Tomb? New Tanis Evidence Uncovers a Royal Cover-Up - Arkeonews
New evidence from Tanis reveals that Pharaoh Shoshenq III was secretly buried in Osorkon II’s tomb, exposing a possible royal cover-up in
arkeonews.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Why Was This Pharaoh Buried in Another King’s Tomb? New Tanis Evidence Uncovers a Royal Cover-Up - Arkeonews
arkeonews.net/why-was-this...
arkeonews.net/why-was-this...
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Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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📜 A Flower Drawing, 19th Century
"Since she likened the flavour of her lips to ruby,
We crushed the sugarcane’s head to savour that sweetness."
✏️ Nigârî Haydar Çelebi, 16th Century
"Since she likened the flavour of her lips to ruby,
We crushed the sugarcane’s head to savour that sweetness."
✏️ Nigârî Haydar Çelebi, 16th Century
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📜 A Flower Drawing, 19th Century
"Since she likened the flavour of her lips to ruby,
We crushed the sugarcane’s head to savour that sweetness."
✏️ Nigârî Haydar Çelebi, 16th Century
"Since she likened the flavour of her lips to ruby,
We crushed the sugarcane’s head to savour that sweetness."
✏️ Nigârî Haydar Çelebi, 16th Century
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The Police Museum holds this copy of the George Medal issued to WPS Ethel Bush for plain-clothes decoy duty against a Croydon sex attacker in 1955 & some of the press coverage of its award at Buckingham Palace, whilst the Crime Museum holds the log used to attack her. #danger #Museum30 #VAWG #CM150
![Round silver medal with an image of the young Queen Elizabeth II in a crown, inscribed round the edge "ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F.D." (Elizabeth II, by the grace of God Queen [and] Defender of the Faith). It hangs from a mainly red ribbon with five equidistant narrow light blue stripes.
Bush and WPC Kay Parrott were jointly the first women to be awarded the medal, both for decoy duty against the same attacker. Despite severe injuries, they both hold onto him long enough to describe him to a jury and gain his conviction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfhf44tj2dhltodlzdvcpgqh/bafkreidcak6desxrvhqdmtuqiosoddioofthqtwyset6lazmndzne3mhei@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum - BBC News share.google/7Qv94t3X2q9K...
Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum
Anthony Pratt's daughter explains how evenings performing at country hotels inspired the murder-mystery game.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum - BBC News share.google/7Qv94t3X2q9K...
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Our Royal Charter arguably saved the Society from extinction in the mid-eighteenth century. Before this time, the Society existed without a permanent meeting place with inconsistent attendance.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Our Royal Charter arguably saved the Society from extinction in the mid-eighteenth century. Before this time, the Society existed without a permanent meeting place with inconsistent attendance.
Intriguing! www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-2026/b #orkney
Back on site tomorrow for another seven-week excavation season
Where has the time gone! We’re back on site tomorrow with archaeologists and students from all over the world gathering for another seven weeks of fieldwork. As always, our first task is to remove …
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Intriguing! www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-2026/b #orkney
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‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
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Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Emanuel de Witte of Alkmaar. Painter of churches, markets, portraits. All-around great artist! Here, Nieuwe Kerk in Delft w/ tomb of William the Silent, 1656.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Emanuel de Witte of Alkmaar. Painter of churches, markets, portraits. All-around great artist! Here, Nieuwe Kerk in Delft w/ tomb of William the Silent, 1656.
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This is a really important review which found serious failings under the last Conservative Government.
I’m glad the government are rectifying this injustice.
It also shows the problems that can emerge from means testing... 1/2
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I’m glad the government are rectifying this injustice.
It also shows the problems that can emerge from means testing... 1/2
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is a really important review which found serious failings under the last Conservative Government.
I’m glad the government are rectifying this injustice.
It also shows the problems that can emerge from means testing... 1/2
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I’m glad the government are rectifying this injustice.
It also shows the problems that can emerge from means testing... 1/2
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.
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There's real concern this Budget could be very bad for nature (and do little to actually deliver more homes) www.businessgreen.com/news/4522276...
'Perfect storm': RSPB and Wildlife Trusts warn Budget could push nature into 'freefall'
Conservation groups warn Planning and Infrastructure Bill and proposals to water down Biodiversity Net Gain scheme are set to badly undermine Labour's pre-election promises to drive nature recovery ef...
www.businessgreen.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
There's real concern this Budget could be very bad for nature (and do little to actually deliver more homes) www.businessgreen.com/news/4522276...
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Engraving of the three Cherokee Indians who visited London in 1762 to meet King George III. Read about this remarkable trip in the memoirs of the Anglo-American colonial officer Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, who travelled with them as their emissary: http://bit.ly/1OeLGKd
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Engraving of the three Cherokee Indians who visited London in 1762 to meet King George III. Read about this remarkable trip in the memoirs of the Anglo-American colonial officer Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, who travelled with them as their emissary: http://bit.ly/1OeLGKd
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Depending on what it sees, the odds of collision could drastically increase
Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon may rise to 30 per cent
In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Depending on what it sees, the odds of collision could drastically increase
www.newscientist.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Depending on what it sees, the odds of collision could drastically increase
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Part of the interior of Unstan Neolithic Chambered Cairn on Orkney. Some 30 bowl fragments were discovered during excavation which gave rise to the pottery type ‘Unstan Ware’. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Part of the interior of Unstan Neolithic Chambered Cairn on Orkney. Some 30 bowl fragments were discovered during excavation which gave rise to the pottery type ‘Unstan Ware’. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney