A successful launch for my novel last week at my local library. All the copies that I took along were sold! But you can still buy from your local bookshop or online. #historicalfiction #publiclibraries
Dr Alison Baxter
@alisonrbaxter.bsky.social
Reader, writer, historian. Author of A Fatal Choice https://geni.us/FatalChoice A Cornish Cargo https://amzn.eu/d/82n7ovn and Another Song at Sunset https://amzn.eu/d/8G3915h Home Library volunteer and Trustee of Asylum Welcome.
My latest post dips into art history for a change. #victorianhistory #arthistory#cornishartists open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
Edith Hume, a Cornish artist ...
... and a Victorian working woman
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Asylum Welcome has launched an urgent appeal to support people held in Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre near Kidlington, as the Home Office has announced its proposal to expand the centre from 160 to 400 places.
Help support Asylum Welcome’s Campsfield Visiting Service
Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre has reopened, and people are once again being detained in Oxfordshire. Asylum Welcome's visiting service provides support, solidarity and human connection to peop...
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My article about the inspiration for my novel is now out. #familyhistory #victorianhistory #historicalfiction
Historia – the HWA@historia-hwa.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlison Baxter writes about the tragedy in her own family history that inspired her first novel, A Fatal Choice. Her research uncovered a strange story of secrets and lies, as she reveals at historiamag.com/secrets-lies-family-history Three women made a desperate decision @alisonrbaxter.bsky.social
To mark publication day, I’ve written about the books that influenced my novel #victorianhistory #historicalfiction #classicfiction substack.com/@alisonrbaxt...
A Victorian novel for today
My tribute to Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell
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Congratulations to Alison Baxter on the release of A Fatal Choice! Disaster strikes a Victorian household, but three women deny the truth. Their choices, shaped by fear, love and convention, affect their lives until the cost of silence can't be ignored. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX9NVXD9
For anyone in the Oxford area, here’s a date for your diary. Launch of my historical novel at Cowley library on Weds 1 July. #historicalfiction #victorianhistory #womenshistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-literary...
A literary evening with Alison Baxter
Join Alison for a sneak preview of 'A Fatal Choice'
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A new article inspired by research for my novel #victorianhistory #womenshistory open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
A Victorian asylum
Longwood House
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I just signed this petition, remembering the happy years I spent in Vanuatu secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Don't let Trump drown our future
He’s trying to force governments to reject a key climate proposal. Speak up now!
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open.substack.com/pub/writingf... A short post from the journals of engineer Ernest Dupen, thinking about the thousands of seafarers trapped by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
For those in peril on the sea
Further extracts from the logbook of Ernest Dupen
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A short article about where the idea for my novel came from. #familyhistory #womenshistory #historicalfiction open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
A Fatal Choice
My first historical novel!
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I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
Very excited that my first historical novel is now available to pre-order on Amazon via this link geni.us/FatalChoice This is the digital edition but if you wait till June you can order the paperback. #historicalfiction
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating the courage, resilience and solidarity of the women we support at Asylum Welcome. ♀️💪🌍 Our latest blog shares reflections from staff working alongside them. #IWD 👉 Read more: www.asylum-welcome.org/women-seekin...
Supporting women seeking safety - Asylum Welcome
Please help us support more refugees, like Hira, who built a community in her asylum centre, when we helped fund her an art class.
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I've already made my feelings about this abhorrent policy clear but one antidote is to repost this piece I wrote last year about one refugee's story open.substack.com/pub/christin...
The path to citizenship the UK has choked off - to our detriment
A story of hope and anger and one man called B.
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Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 5mo agoAbysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My latest article is the first of two (possibly more) about emigration to Canada. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
Roughing it in the bush
Part 1 - Arriving in Quebec
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My latest post should be of interest to maritime historians. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
Travelling through the Suez Canal
Stories from a Victorian ship's engineer
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Today, we join forces with other creator-led organisations to co-launch Brave New World?, a groundbreaking report that shows the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. Here's the link to the report, and to email your MP buff.ly/vIuLqfn
open.substack.com/pub/writingf... A Christmas read with added guinea pigs.
Who do we count as family?
Remembering our pets
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A Christmas present for all lovers of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Sunset Song. My biography of my grandmother, the dedicatee of Sunset Song, is available for just 99p on Kindle between now and December 25th. amzn.eu/d/fIHPuPA
Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Another Song at Sunset: Jean Baxter, Scots poet and friend of Lewis Grassic Gibbon eBook : Baxter, Alison: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Applying the changes to settlement to refugees already here would be particularly cruel and will create so much anxiety. @stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
Sonia L@sonial77.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here. I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
The week of COP 30 seems a good time to republish something I wrote a couple of years ago about the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
My South Sea Bubble
Climate change and the islands of the Pacific
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In Trieste, city of literature, for a few days. Museums closed for a general strike in support of Gaza (and why can’t we do the same?), but here are Italo Svevo, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba.
To mark ten years of Sanctuary Hosting, I wrote about migration. With thanks to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social for the fact checker. open.substack.com/pub/writingf...
'Don’t think your boys, far away as they are, ever forget'
A story of migration
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This Sept, we're celebrating 10 years of Sanctuary Hosting! www.asylum-welcome.org/services/san... 300 guests helped, 40,000 nights of safe sleep & countless acts of kindness - thanks to our wonderful hosts 💙 🎧 Listen to the story on our podcast #Welcomecast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
"We sat in stunned silence… wondering: what will this mean for the people we support now & those who will need us in future?" — Dr Hari Reed, our Co-CEO. For many refugees, reunion is the only hope they have left. Suspending that right puts women & children at risk, @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social.
