Posting something about AI in my Craft Notes at davidhewson.com tomorrow. Bracing for the kickback.
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Stories from around the world since 1995
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Books n stuff. Venice, Rome, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dover. In 2025... back to Venice. Stay tuned. www.davidhewson.com
After a lotto player in southern Italy mistakenly dumped a €1 million ticket, refuse workers searched through trash overnight to save the life-changing win.
Italian family's €1 million lottery ticket rescued from trash
A family in southern Italy lost, then miraculously recovered, a winning instant lottery ticket worth €1 million after it ended up in the household rubbish.
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Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Available to preorder The Great Unwatched A collection of must sees that don’t get enough love (and yes I’m writing about The Big Bus) @plumeriapics.bsky.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...
The Great Unwatched (Paperback)
🚨 OUT NOVEMBER 2 🚨 PRE-ORDER NOW 🚨 A Must-Have Collection of 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed. Chosen by Critics. Edited by David Hughes. Chosen by some of the best film critics working today, ...
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In spite of the drought most of the garden flowers are doing ok.
VENICE NOIR launches davidhewson.com/venice-noir-... Great authors, plenty of debate and chat, free sessions 12-15 November 2026 via @davidhewson.com @patsyirwin.bsky.social
Venice Noir launches at Harrogate
Left to right: Suzy Lishman, Philip Gwynne Jones, Erin Kelly, Anna Mazzola, me, Catherine Fletcher, and Tim Rideout Just back from a surprisingly warm and sunny Theakstons Crimewriting festival at …
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Great admiration for writers who manage to work in a hot climate. Once it’s 23 my brain turns to scrambled egg. 15 and rain… perfect writing weather.
Funny how Trump likes to announce an imminent peace deal on Sunday ahead of the markets opening on Monday. Coincidence I'm sure. Peace would be nice but we have been here rather too often before.
A quick guide to the best events and things to do in the Eternal City during August.
Best things to do in Rome in August 2026
A quick guide to the best events and top things to do in Rome this August, from cultural festivals and free museums to exhibitions and open-air concerts.
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@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
A miracle of survival in the Domus Aurea. This precarious #Ganymede floats in the darkness, painted on a narrow surviving bridge of a false ceiling that has otherwise completely fallen away. A delicate Neronian illusion suspended over a cavernous void. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky 🏺
On the blog a review of #ASeasonForTheDead the first in @davidhewson.com #NicCosta series set in Rome. I listened to the audiobook (I've had for 10 years) narrated by Sean Baker. A murder in the Vatican and the flayed skin from a man confront Nic Costa peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/a...
A Season for the Dead by David Hewson – a Nic Costa investigation
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” By David Hewson Narrated by Sean Baker Published by WF Howes Ltd 12 hours 37minutes ASIN B002SQ9CY4 Publication date 10 December 2007 A Season f…
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Write About What You Don’t Know Here's a wonderful myth, one you'll hear retold from writing class to university up and down the land: 'Write about what you know.' I almost fall off my chair laughing typing those words. Shakespeare never set foot in Denmark but he wrote Hamlet. He almost certainly…
Write About What You Don’t Know
Here's a wonderful myth, one you'll hear retold from writing class to university up and down the land: 'Write about what you know.' I almost fall off my chair laughing typing those words. Shakespeare never set foot in Denmark but he wrote Hamlet. He almost certainly never visited Italy, yet he wrote Othello, The Merchant of Venice, …
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Do come along and say hello if you’re in London on 12 August!
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️@outsidewrite.bsky.social · last wk.What are you doing on 12 Aug? Come and meet @richhall80.bsky.social, @rickhough.bsky.social, Chris Willis (The Calcio Blog), @markgordonmedia.bsky.social and me at The Volley in Old Street, London. It's free! But you'll need a ticket 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gentle...
He'd have my vote on the basis of 11 alone! (I also quite like number 16).
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · last wk.Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
Venice Noir launches at Harrogate Left to right: Suzy Lishman, Philip Gwynne Jones, Erin Kelly, Anna Mazzola, me, Catherine Fletcher, and Tim Rideout Just back from a surprisingly warm and sunny Theakstons Crimewriting festival at Harrogate where we launched the international edition of Venice…
Venice Noir launches at Harrogate
Left to right: Suzy Lishman, Philip Gwynne Jones, Erin Kelly, Anna Mazzola, me, Catherine Fletcher, and Tim Rideout Just back from a surprisingly warm and sunny Theakstons Crimewriting festival at Harrogate where we launched the international edition of Venice Noir 2026. Here are some of my co-conspirators after the event — Suzy Lishman, our resident super pathologist who has a fantastic panel on her hands this year; Philip Gwynne Jones, Erin Kelly, historian Catherine Fletcher and fiction expert Tim Rideout.
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The Venice Noir signup link for coming news is now live. Just scroll down the page at www.venicenoir.com and you'll find it. Sorry we didn't manage to get it up there for Harrogate.
Venice Noir – The International Festival of Noir Literature
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Been years since this happened but I’m now in hotel with someone in next room who thinks it’s mandatory to have the tv on full blast every waking hour. 🤷
Thanks so much to all of you who came to our Venice Noir event at Harrogate. If you need any advice before you book your tickets just ask 😁
Thanks so much to all of you who came to our Venice Noir event at Harrogate. If you need any advice before you book your tickets just ask 😁
Tell people you’re in Yorkshire without saying you’re in Yorkshire.
Haddock, chips and mushy peas and vinegar. Perfect Yorkshire supper. Loved the Coach and Horses when I first discovered it 20 years ago. Still my favourite Harrogate pub today.
