I have realised (this is terribly specific) that every time I see LLM, I think automatically first of Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Hello everyone! A quick note to say that I am taking bookings for visits / lectures / collabs for the second half of this year and into 2027 and I'd love you to be a part of that! Here's an what I do and here's how to contact me: didyoueverstoptothink.com/hire_me/ #edusky #booksky #academicsky

Hello everyone! A quick note to say that I am taking bookings for visits / lectures / collabs for the second half of this year and into 2027 and I'd love you to be a part of that! Here's an what I do and here's how to contact me: didyoueverstoptothink.com/hire_me/ #edusky #booksky #academicsky

Good morning! Today's read is Pernel Wins by Elsie J Oxenham. Whisper it, but I'm rather enjoying it. Pernel is grappling with the arrival of a modern holiday camp next to her beloved home, and there's a Young Man Destined To Be A Hottie on the scene already. Excellent stuff!

It's time for a new substack and this one's all about film: "On My Old Ass (2024) and Alice, Darling (2022)" open.substack.com/pub/daisymay...

My Old Ass (2024) and Alice, Darling (2022)

In which we talk film

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It's time for a new substack and this one's all about film: "On My Old Ass (2024) and Alice, Darling (2022)" open.substack.com/pub/daisymay...

My Old Ass (2024) and Alice, Darling (2022)

In which we talk film

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I have watched two brilliant lady-led films this weekend - "Alice, Darling" and "My Old Ass" - and they have reminded me of how brilliant films can be.

We are watching the final Derry Girls so if you hear sobbing in the next thirty minutes it's gonna be me.

Good afternoon! Today, I wish you all the confidence of Christine Pullein-Thompson and her chapter openers

Just in case anybody's after a discount code for a Byway holiday....

Good morning! Today's (re)read is Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing by Elisabeth Luard #booksky

Good morning. Today's read is a bit more of A Spoonful Of Jam by Michelle Magorian and then it's down to some writing on the old work in progress. #booksky

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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UK-based BAED scholars: ⏰Time is ticking! Just 3 days left to apply for the 2026 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. Apply👉 https://bit.ly/4pd67Bs Don't miss your chance to receive 1:1 mentorship and resources to get your book idea publication-ready. cc @writersandartists.bsky.social

I *have* to add to this, because Wilson didn't even talk about the choice to disfigure Helen of Troy: sarahsunfire.substack.com/p/why-cant-t...

Why Can't The Women Eat Anything?

The Unrelenting Testosterone of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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"Gosh, I love this period in children’s literature where the kids all have legitimate gripes and the adults just go ‘my dude, get a grip’ and move on." It's time to review The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends by Elsie J. Oxenham didyoueverstoptothink.com/2026/07/27/t...

The Girl Who Wouldn’t Make Friends by Elsie J. Oxenham

My rating: 4 of 5 starsI had driven for several hours to visit a town in which I used to live. It was there that, with a few minutes to spare, I popped into the second hand bookshop and came out wi…

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Ai: your character should meet a hot doctor and fall in love Ai: and also maybe fall off a mountain Ai: but you'll never know what I was trained on!!!!

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New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...

"Gosh, I love this period in children’s literature where the kids all have legitimate gripes and the adults just go ‘my dude, get a grip’ and move on." It's time to review The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends by Elsie J. Oxenham didyoueverstoptothink.com/2026/07/27/t...

The Girl Who Wouldn’t Make Friends by Elsie J. Oxenham

My rating: 4 of 5 starsI had driven for several hours to visit a town in which I used to live. It was there that, with a few minutes to spare, I popped into the second hand bookshop and came out wi…

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I will take my eccentric little TV script not winning but still getting to the top 5% of 1500+ applicants, thank you very much, that's a very nice thing to be told. ❤️

Good afternoon! Today's read is A Spoonful Of Jam by Michelle Magorian, a sequel to her A Cuckoo In The Nest. #booksky

I have had the phrase "forward the eggs" stuck in my head for a couple of days now and I know it's from a book but I can't remember which please help, thank you.

Recently updated on our site: Authors, illustrators and poets who visit schools in the UK & Ireland. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/au... #kidlit Browse our UK and Ireland directory of children’s authors, poets and illustrators for school visits, with trusted recommendations, virtual o...

Authors, illustrators and poets who visit schools in the UK & Ireland

Discover children’s authors, poets and illustrators who offer school visits across the UK and Ireland, plus useful planning advice.

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It's time to review Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls didyoueverstoptothink.com/2026/07/24/w...

Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

I have an enormous amount of time for what Sally Nicholls does. I’ve just gone through my previous reviews of hers and there’s not a one that I haven’t found something incredibly …

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It's time to review Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls didyoueverstoptothink.com/2026/07/24/w...

Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

I have an enormous amount of time for what Sally Nicholls does. I’ve just gone through my previous reviews of hers and there’s not a one that I haven’t found something incredibly …

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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Good afternoon! Today's read is The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends by Elsie J. Oxenham. I'm about halfway through and it is EJO meets Famous Five meets a slightly hysterical moment where one girl drives a car at several other young people and essentially tries to run them off the road (1909 drama!!)

On our tenth blogiversary, we wrote a post thanking our readers for making us better people. On our 20th (today), we wrote a much more defiant essay about what it's taken for us to survive this long when so much of the digital landscape has been decimated: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/07/it-w...

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today - Tom + Lorenzo

“Today’s the twentieth anniversary.” “Of what?” “Our blog, of course.” “Oh, wow.” “I wanted to write something about it, but I’ve been working on

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On this day in 2017, I was writing about How Famous The Famous Five Might Have Been (and demonstrating some very haphazard maths in the process...thank you to those who helped me sort them out!). didyoueverstoptothink.com/2017/07/23/h... (I still need to work out How Secret Were The Secret Seven).

How famous were the Famous Five?

My thanks to Nikesh Shukla for the tweet that unknowingly prompted this pleasant and super nerdly distraction from my thesis … The Famous Five are Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the Dog…

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If any Norfolk teachers, librarians or school support staff are interested, I'm restarting the East Norfolk Teachers' Reading Group in September. Please get in touch for further details and do share with colleagues.