Historian & Heritage & proud Yorkshire lass, 19/20thC 'history from below', feminism, books, archives & public history. Own opinions. https://nitter.cf/t.co/BJJtjzjbIH
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Dr Janette Martin retweeted
Am SO desolate to hear of wonderful Patrick Stewart's death! We became friends over the last decade or so though I never saw enough of him - but his glorious daily online readings of the Shakespeare Sonnets were the best antidote to the miserable isolation of Covid imaginable - and knowing there was another brilliant impassioned role around the corner was a kind of heartening kinship. His Macbeth and Antony were stupendous and his Hirst taking it to Ian McKellen's Spooner in Pinter 's No Man's Land unforgettable. Patrick could do menace to make you shiver. But the thing about the greatest actors is, their voice lives in your head for good - and in Patrick's case that laugh too!
Why is there no 18.30 train between Manchester Picc and York today. I regularly commute on this train and it has entirely vanished. Not on departure board. How do I get compensation on my season ticket if it doesn't exist? There next Thursday &last week but not today?
@TPEassist
Dr Janette Martin retweeted
1/ The banner of the Moor Pool Estate's Harborne Tenants Junior Guild, made by Julia Jephson in 1909. The estate, designed on Garden City lines (photos in next post), was established in 1907 by John Sutton Nettlefold.
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Huddersfield’s textile researchers and training specialists have signed agreements with partners in India, including a partnership that could lead to a new skills hub.
huddersfieldhub.co.uk/hudder…
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I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
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Margaret Macdonald ( 1864 – 1933) artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s. ##WomensArt #GlasgowGirls
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Another day, another Iranian woman gets sentenced to death for fighting for basic rights.
Her name is Najmeh Amini.
P.S. Imagine the outrage if Israel was doing this.
Can you tell me if there are trains between Marsden and Piccadilly on Saturday 10 October
@TPEassist
Dr Janette Martin retweeted
90 years ago, the Jarrow Crusaders marched nearly 300 miles to London in protest at unemployment and poverty. Thomas Cantrell Dugdale’s 1936 painting captures their arrival from a Piccadilly interior (possibly the Ritz).
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An interesting example of municipalisation - the blocks were renovated and converted into council flats
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Waste Land, Tredegar, south Wales, 1951, painting by Nan Youngman, English artist, 1906-95 (Manchester Art Gallery).
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‘Leaning Etc’ was first exhibited at Peter Brook’s London agent, Agnew’s, in 1969. With its areas of strong colour it is less daunting than the ‘dark satanic mills’ portrayed by Lowry and his contemporary Northern artists. (From the James Mason Collection sold by Bonhams in 2010)
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A story published in the July 1924 magazine of what is now the Town and Country Planning Association on the impact of the London County Council on its residents (and claimed as definitely true):
ALT Text reads; On August 2, 1914, a young Londoner who had never seen the sea went to a camp on the coast between Lowestoft and Yarmouth. His eyes dilated with wonder, as he gazed along the ten miles of sandy shore and out on the dappled sea. He was asked what he thought of it, and he replied “Gaw! Fancy the L.C.C. puttin’ all that sand down ’ere.” He had played in a sandpit in a London park: the L.C.C. was his Providence.
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📢 well this is lovely: my paperback book launch event at Pankhurst centre in Manchester on Oct 10th is sold-out, so there will be a 2nd session at 3pm. Please come along, i promise interesting discussion, is an honour to speak in this iconic location:
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Huddersfield had built 7400 new council homes by 1951. My second post on the housing (and civic) history of the town tells the story from 1919 to 1951:
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Girl minding a baby, Splott, Cardiff, Wales, 1974, photo by Robin Weaver.
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Judith Kerr (1923-2019) UK writer and illustrator who created the 'Mog' series and 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea', also acclaimed novels such as the semi-autobiographical 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit' inspired by her own Jewish family's escape from Nazi Germany #womensart
