Michael Bully
@bleakchesneywold.bsky.social
Based in Worthing, West Sussex, England. #Victorian History/ #Secondempire enthusiast, Listen to #Classicalmusic & #TheFall, Also love #TheArchers This is the bluesky account for 19th century blog https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/
Have updated blog with a post about the sensation novel 'East Lynne' (1861) by Ellen Wood, better known as Mrs Henry Wood. #Victorian, #Victorianwomen, #19thcenturynovels, bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/08/east...
East Lynne by Ellen Wood/Mrs Henry Wood (1817-1887)
1860's Best Seller -Now Forgotten East Lynne, the second novel by Ellen Wood, ( Price), who w...
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One of my favourite electronic acts must be Torusdome from Finland . Bleak & harrowing. #Darkambient, #ambient, #soundscape torusdome.bandcamp.com/album/relics...
Relics of Ancient Voices, by Torus Dome
8 track album
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Getting the weekend into gear with 'Cruisers Creek' #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyKw...
Cruiser's Creek
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Pleased to have found 'The Discovery of the Treasure Isle' by Amelia B Edwards (1865) , which opens the British Library collection 'Roads Of Destiny' @blpublishing.bsky.social #Timeslip,#Parallelworlds, #victorianfiction bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Discovery of the Treasure Isles by Amelia B Edwards (1831-1892 )
The Curse of the Other World Born in London in ...
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Just had to listen to this gem from Brix era Fall. Slang King . #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFYG...
Slang King (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Great podcast about Hortense, queen of Holland during the Napoleonic era, Napoleon's step daughter. Painter and composer of army marching songs. @andnapoleon.bsky.social #Napoleon, #Firstempire, #Secondempire www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVeU...
Queen Hortense of Holland, stepdaughter of Napoleon and mother to Napoleon III
YouTube video by Generals And Napoleon
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Just listening to 'Grotesque (After the Gramme)' . Can only really be one track for #FallFriday 'Gramme Friday' www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73X...
Gramme Friday
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Tom you entitled spoilt brat. How very dare you speak to Kirsty like that. #TheArchers
Getting the weekend underway with 'The Man Who's Head Expanded.' #Fallfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tv7...
The Fall - The Man Whos Head Expanded
YouTube video by PATHWAY 23
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Have updated blog with a review of J.Meade Falkner's 'The Lost Stradivarius' (1895) . Another superb Weird Tale from @blpublishing.bsky.social . #victorian, #weirdtales, #19thcenturynovels, #JMeadeFalkner, bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Lost Stradivarius - by J Meade Falkner (1858-1932)
If the Devil Learnt to Play Violin J.Meade Falkner is probably best known for the novel Moonf...
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Patricia Greene who played Jill Archer has died aged 95. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A remarkable lady and a great actress, she is going to be missed. RIP #TheArchers
Patricia Greene: Longest-serving Archers star dies aged 95
She was best known for playing Jill Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap for nearly 70 years.
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I have updated blog with a post a follow up post about the Battle of Solferino 1859 includes a look at the poetry of #Elizabethbarrettbrowning, #19thcentury, #Italianunification, #Victorian #history bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/07/more...
More on the Battle of Solferino 1859
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Makes a Stand This is a follow up to the previous Battle of Solferino 1859 post f...
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Let's get the #FallFriday party started with 'Elves' . A heavy Iggy influence in the main riff and really wild: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zVI...
Elves
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Vera Brittain was nursing in London on 1st July 1916, and heard Brahms's 'German Requiem' in concert . Later saw newspaper boys with large posters stating " GREAT BRITISH OFFENSIVE BEGINS" . It was the first day of 'The Somme' #Verabrittain, #Worldwar1, www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n-...
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem second movement
YouTube video by Pär Fridberg
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Getting the weekend going with #FallFriday Australians in Europe www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNE...
The Fall - Australians In Europe
YouTube video by Contraflow
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On 24th June 1859 French and Piedmontese forces defeated the Austrian empire at Solferino. The horror of the battlefield led to the start of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Convention. #19thcentury, #NapoleonIII,#BattleofSolferino, bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/06/batt...
Battle of Solferino 1859 -Napoleon III
" What a terrible thing War is " (attributed to) Napoleon III The villag...
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One of my Fall tracks from the 1980's 'Hexen Definitive/ Strife Knot' . From 'Perverted by Language' #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mjI...
Hexen Definitive / Strife Knot
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Oh please ! Someone find Adam's off switch. I can't take much more of that groaning. And his nasty little laugh. #TheArchers
Pleased to have reviewed 'Summoned to the Seance-Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil' , collection from @blpublishing.bsky.social featuring unusual & obscure work from famous authors and not so well known #Seancefiction, #WeirdTales, #Spiritualism, bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/06/summ...
Summoned to the Seance
Spirit Tales From Beyond The Veil -Edited by Emily Vincent Summoned to...
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A must for #FallFriday. I remember watching this at the time. The Fall, the first time on national TV, performing on 'The Tube',1983 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-6...
The Fall - Smile and 2X4 (The Tube 1983)
YouTube video by citizen2
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I find Ambridge a bit creepy with so many characters gone silent, Denise, Jim, Mick, Joy, Freddie, Vince, Elizabeth, Kenton, and m'darling Jolene. What's goin' on ? #TheArchers
Received very informative feedback to blogpost about #WilliamHopeHodgson, #Weirdtales #writerswhodiedinworldwar1 @blpublishing.bsky.social bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...
The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
Serious Treatment of Unreality ' The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson, edited by Xavier Al...
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Starting the weekend with 'How I wrote Elastic Man' . #TheFallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdbJ...
How I Wrote "Elastic Man"
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Discovered a filmed version of Guy de Maupassant's 'Boule de Suif' dubbed in English from 2011. Lasts about an hour with prepaid adverts. Set during the end of #FrancoPrussianwar Worth watching. The short story is sadder. #Guydemaupassant www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sp...
BOULE DE SUIF 🥖 Chez Maupassant | 2011 | Film complet en FRANÇAIS | avec Marilou Berry
YouTube video by Ciné Classics - Films Complets en Français
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Fellow Archers listeners. Does anyone else look up the agricultural terms mentioned in the programme. Or am I the only one? I did a websearch for 'pig wallow' after Rex and Alice's conversation last night. Learnt that pigs have no functional sweat glands. #TheArchers, #Pigwallow,
As Thomas Hardy was born on 2nd June 1840, thought that would share some thoughts about my favourite Hardy novel 'Return of the Native' . #Victorian #19thcentury, #ThomasHardy bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2023/08/thom...
Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native -Egdon Heath
Painting : October (1878) by Jules Bastien-Lepage * 'Ret...
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Did I hear right? Helen wrapped up in cows? #TheArchers
I have been listening to some of the 1980's era tracks by The Fall. One of my favourites is Petty Thief Lout , from This Nations Saving Grace #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwIp...
Petty (Thief) Lout (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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