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Before we announce the winner of #HowManyHorses, we need to honour some wonderful runners and riders…
November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Three people have guessed within 25 horses of the correct number, and one of you is the closest: on Instagram @clairejspear, @Sean_prentice and on Bluesky @mrwent.bsky.social #HowManyHorses
Jip the collie weeing on the gateposts of a grand house, with Rachel watching
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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As of 9 this morning we had loads entries across BlueSky, TikTok and Instagram. Here you can see a wide distribution of #HowManyHorses suggestions ranging from 29 to 1065. Next slide please…
A distribution graph that looks like Matterhorn
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Have you sent in your guess yet? Tell us #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN this signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & submit your estimate - the closest guess wins!
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Lots of the horses in This Slavery have jobs, but only one has a name and rank. This is Dobson, the trusty steed of Sergeant O’Neil #HowManyHorses
A scene from This Slavery graphic novel: a demonstration being broken up, in the background a mounted police officer is ordering a female speaker to leave a makeshift platform. The crowd shout FREE SPEECH! A panel from the same scene, in which the officer shouts “This meeting cannot go on” from his horseback position, while the female speaker looks determined and her dog growls and snarls from beneath the table upon which she stands to address the crowd A scene from This Slavery, showing a dark and lonely street hosting some police aggression a la Orgreave. A picketer is about to be smashed around the head with a passing truncheon, wielded by a mounted policeman In a rare moment of humility, O’Neil and Dobson look at what they’ve done, and wonder if they’ve gone too far…
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Guess #HowManyHorses in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy!

Just follow us, share & tell us how many horses you reckon Scarlett drew in the book - the closest guess wins!
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel showing a woman walking alone up a quiet road in the moonlight. There is a tiny horse outside a nearby farmhouse Another panel from This Slavery: a bird’s eye view of an impending riot! Mounted police gather in the shadow of the mill chimney, while around the terraced street corner, striking workers are amassing with signs and banners
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Have you seen our giveaway competition? You can WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery graphic novel by guessing #HowManyHorses
Tell us the number of equines Scarlett drew in the book - follow us, share &
reply with your figure - closest wins! 🐎
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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There’s a cock, a pheasant, an owl and a parrot #HowManyHorses
A close up of the Cock Inn 🐓 A close up of a stuffed pheasant in a glass box An owl which forms part of a William Morris fever dream Back yards, where a parrot sits in a cage (and a cat is gazing at pigeons in the next yard)
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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If you are trying to work out #HowManyHorses there might be in This Slavery,
you may remember we played this game years ago, with The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. The answer for that book was 87 - but this time could there be more?
A scene from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists graphic novel showing Bert the apprentice taking a delivery from a horse-driven dray A book cover: on a bottle green background a man is painting an ornate sign which reads Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. A young lad sits by his feet and is passing him a cup of tea in a tin mug. An older man in a painty bowler hat is reading a comic.
October 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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For those of you who are counting #HowManyHorses in your own copy, here’s a tip: We count each drawing as a fresh horse, so if you see the same horse three times on a page, that’s three horses for #HowManyHorses
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting a cobbled street at night, with light coming from the windows of terraced houses. We can see the back of a woman as she walks up the hill, thinking “But I don't belong to neither of 'em. It's like a death sentence.” A policeman on a horse comes down the hill towards them, in a looming threatening kind of way. A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting a cobbled street at night. A policeman rides a horse down the hill towards us, saying “Late to be out alone, Miss Martin.” A young woman is walking up the hill away from us, saying “I'm on my way home from robbing the bank, Mr O’Neill”. In other words, Hester Martin is giving Sergeant O’Neill cheek A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting the same woman, from the front. Her blonde hair escapes her shawl in the wind and rain. She looks back over her shoulder at the policeman and his horse retreating into the night
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Guess #HowManyHorses in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & tell us how many horses you think Scarlett might have squeezed into 368 pages of the book - the closest guess
wins!
A scene from This Slavery graphic novel, showing a drunk man staggering up a cobbled street at night, towards a mounted policeman A crowd of workers spill out of a mill at the end of a working day. A man is up a ladder lighting the streetlights. One of the workers seems to be a little horse
October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Are you hoping to win the signed and illustrated copy of This Slavery by guessing #HowManyHorses it contains? Perhaps it would help if you happened to know that she also drew five donkeys? Careful not to count them as horses!
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel in which a young woman walks towards us with her shawl up, looking tired and fed up. Behind her in the cobbled back alleys, a donkey pulls a wooden cart
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Can you believe we counted 441 birds in This Slavery? To be fair 343 of them are wallpaper based - from William Morris’s Strawberry Thief #HowManyHorses
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, showing Stephen sitting up in bed asking “And what about you?” Behind him you can see the bonkers wallpaper in question, with birdies on it
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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WIN a signed & illustrated copy of This Slavery graphic novel! Scarlett loves to draw horses, and we are giving this drawn-all-over copy to
whoever gets the closest estimate of #HowManyHorses she drew in the book - follow, share & reply with your best guess to be in with a chance to
win!
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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If you are looking through This Slavery to assess #HowManyHorses while enjoying a Friday night chippy tea, you might notice the extraordinary amount of tea-swilling that goes on in this book. There are an epic 124 teacups to enjoy…
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, showing Jip the dog sniffing a paper wrapped parcel of chip shop chips in a woman’s arms A scene from This Slavery in which Mother offers her girls a cup of tea and tries to cheer them up A mug of tea being put down with a CLUNK and spilling all over
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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#HowManyHorses ? I reckon - using a very sound scientific method* - that there are 153 gee-gees.

*Ok, it was a random guess.
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I know we’ve been counting horses all week for #HowManyHorses, but let’s
take a moment to appreciate the *real* main character of This Slavery - the scene stealer Jip, the collie-cross
A busy kitchen scene. Hester is spoon feeding Grandma in the foreground, closely monitored by Jip the dog. In the background, Jack and Rachel are reading Marx at the table Jack says “Rachel, I was coming to find you, I —“ Jip greets him enthusiastically Rachel is outside the grand gates of Barstock’s house. Jip is pissing on the gatepost Jip is having his toes dried by Mother, who’s telling him to hold still
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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But there can only be one winner! Congratulations to @Sean_prentice of Instagram, who submitted a guess of 188 horses! That is within 4 nags of the
correct number of horses in This Slavery (184) and the signed & illustrated copy is yours, Sean - DM us your address, you are a #HowManyHorses champion
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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If you are counting #HowManyHorses you have to include this one from the Daily Mail, being used to pack up poor old Grandma’s bones in her coffin
A panel from This Slavery, in which the coffin maker is packing Grandma’s coffin with scrunched up newspaper, while her granddaughters watch in dismay/horror. Grandma has coins on her eyes which makes her body look really spooky A close up of the newspaper in the previous image. It’s the Daily Mail, and there’s a horse on the front page
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I think I managed to dodge the donkeys, but a couple might have slipped in. #HowManyHorses
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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If we look at #HowManyHorses guesses we can see that TikTok users tend to estimate low (126 and below) and Instagram users go high (everything 300+ came from there)

Read into this what you will - it’s only a measure of what other people have suggested and there is only one right answer...
A policeman on a horse in a dark cobbled street
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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If you want to get the number right for #HowManyHorses you absolutely mustn’t leave out this horse in a painting on Barstock’s wall - it’s probably a reproduction Stubbs, don’t you think?
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, in which our hero barges into the boss’ fancy house and gapes at the art. Among other paintings, you can see the rear end of a horse in a gold frame
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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This Slavery graphic novel has 368 pages. Some pages have no horses at all, others are crawling with them (you might want to zoom in on this one) #HowManyHorses
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, depicting the town from above with the mill on fire and huge crowds in a panic
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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And there are three magpies on the back cover (one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl…) and look at his little toes on the barcode #HowManyHorses
A photo of the back cover of This Slavery graphic novel
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM