I've started a new Substack series on the 10 Dickens children. In this one; meet Charley. substack.com/@lucindahawk...?
Lucinda Hawksley
@lucindahawksley.bsky.social
Author, broadcaster, lecturer & travel writer. Art historian, literature lover, Dickens expert (& descendant). Goldster podcast presenter. President of the International Dickens Fellowship.
I've started a new Substack series on the 10 Dickens children. In this one; meet Charley. substack.com/@lucindahawk...?
If you’re into Jane Austen, discover what’s happening in Chawton, at the Persuasion Festival next month - including my event! janeaustens.house/visit/whats-...
Persuasion Festival | Jane Austen's House
Visit Jane Austen's House - the Hampshire cottage at which Jane Austen lived and penned her novels, including the timeless Pride and Prejudice.
janeaustens.house
The Ten Dickens Children, Their parents and early influences, by Lucinda Hawksley lucindahawksley.substack.com/p/the-ten-di... @lucindahawksley.bsky.social #Writers
This is Bruce. He prefers his sticks with a little pizazz. 13/10 (IG: brucewaynethegoldenboy)
The start of my upcoming Substack series was published today. open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...?
The Ten Dickens Children
Their parents and early influences
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Keep your eye out for Whitby Lit Fest details - it's happening again this November (first one last year) & I'm so looking forward to it. As I don't have a new book out this year (one has been written and another one is being written) I'm interviewing and being on a panel. Watch this space! #LitFest
2 golden retrievers in my train carriage. Today has started well!
Useful short piece on how new research often forces us to change our minds about the past — I learned this the hard way, having to rewrite my kids’ book about the Stone Age (cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social) 5 times in 9 months due to new discoveries! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on ancient DNA: a female shaman exposes our flawed assumptions about the past | Editorial
Editorial: Thanks to new technology we are are acquiring insights into earlier times, and realising how little we truly know
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Everywhere I look, people are raving about "The Odyssey", but apparently studying the humanities is a waste of time..... 🤔 I really appreciate the two brilliant Classics teachers I had for A Level, Ms Kent and Ms Barrett. Inspirational teachers.
Some great authors in this series: @jamesclarkewriter.bsky.social tomorrow (1 July), then Derek Owusu, CL Taylor, Marsha O Mahoney, Liz John and @lucindahawksley.bsky.social #Booksky
The WEA@weaadulted.bsky.social · 3mo agoPublic events, talks and lectures have been part of the WEA story for generations. With our new Purpose to Pen series, we’re building on that legacy in a fresh way. Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/cc/purpose-t...
At Gentofte Library in Copenhagen to give my first talk of the week: "The Women in Dickens's Novels". This is such a stunning library, full of light and space. I would love to sit and write here. It was designed by the architect Henning Larsen. #Denmark #Copenhagen #travel #author
My new Substack. Inspired by a lecture I gave this week. open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...
Ellen Terry: from child bride to ‘cougar’
A Victorian Woman with 21st-century attitudes
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Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.
Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 4mo ago"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
It's a beautiful day to #VOTE! Make your voice count, and be heard. Vote tactically if you need to, but PLEASE don't let the UK end up in the same mess as the USA. Vote and be counted! #PollingDay #DeedsNotWords #YourVoteCounts
At least 32,000 gallons of jet fuel has leaked from a military base into Maryland watersheds. The Defense Department refused to disclose the spill for at least 3 months.
On Thursday I'll be doing a free talk on Mamie Dickens at the Charles Dickens Museum in London - you can book to come along in person or to watch online. dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev...
Exhibition Talk - Lucinda Dickens Hawksley on Mamie Dickens
The Charles Dickens Museum offers a rotation of temporary exhibitions and event in addition to the opportunity to visit this historic literary home.
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I've been writing a series of articles about Dickens's year in Italy and this is the latest one. open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...
Charles Dickens’s everyday life in Italy
Travelling with Dickens
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This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.
Yesterday was so confusing. At times I genuinely couldn't tell which articles were April Fools jokes & which were simply more rambling dispatches from an increasingly mad world.
My next free talk for the Charles Dickens Museum is on 7 May, about my great great great aunt, Mamie Dickens. You can register to come along in person (limited places) or to watch online from anywhere in the world. And did I mention it is free….? dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev...?
Exhibition Talk - Lucinda Dickens Hawksley on Mamie Dickens
The Charles Dickens Museum offers a rotation of temporary exhibitions and event in addition to the opportunity to visit this historic literary home.
dickensmuseum.com
Finally, some dream blurbs from the likes of @luketurner.bsky.social, @poetclare.bsky.social, @jennashworth.bsky.social, @sophiehaydock.bsky.social and @lucindahawksley.bsky.social 🐈⬛
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."