Pete Mitchell

So Little Happened For So Long YouTube video by nev clay

OK that's me out! Here's a nice song about dinosaurs and the deep time of natural history. Bye bye www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-Q...

The lads at @neheritagelib.bsky.social do excellent work and I'm very chuffed to be representing @nenature.bsky.social in this year's NE History Compendium

I'm finishing my contract at @nenature.bsky.social this week, so this account will be going the way of all digital flesh on Thursday - I'll still be on Bluesky at @pdkmitchell.bsky.social though (and also on the Other Website, although that's currently full of nazis so I wouldn't recommend it)

Gutted that I missed both Space Penguins and Great Auks - two of my principal interests - last night. NHSN's Monday night talks program is great though, and also free and open to all: www.nhsn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

One for the Real Moss Heads here. You know who you are

Absolutely bonkers that the Hancock used to have its own Andean condor. All available accounts suggest that it was extremely annoyed at being kidnapped from Chile and shipped to Newcastle and put in a cage, and spent the rest of its life trying to bite people's fingers off. As you would, to be fair

Heads up: this is no longer happening, pals, I'm afraid. So if you wish to hear my trenchant views on books, birds, the north, fascists, espresso and/or anything else, you will simply have to befriend me in real life.

Correct your maps: Newcastle is Mitteleuropa

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3 happened and it was great

keep yr eyes peeled for LORT BURN SPECIALS: 4

UNWHOLESOME TREASURE

Watching @rach-anderson.bsky.social being a legend as we launch our new Archives and Historical Research course at @nenature.bsky.social

I'm going to miss working at @nenature.bsky.social

Richard Smyth: A Nature Writer at Large An evening with nature writer Richard Smyth in the NHSN Council Room

And four days after that I'll be in the Hancock Museum, talking to @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social about his many books on natural history and the natural world, why North East nature is just better, and his new project on the political history of conservationism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-sm...

This month in Newcastle I'm going to be in conversation with two of my favourite writers! First with Owen Hatherley, discussing his new book, a history of how British culture was transformed by the exodus of artists and intellectuals from Central Europe in the 20th century: bsky.app/profile/lort...

In my other life I do this and it's excellent and you should come

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An Introduction to Archive Research Skills Join Heritage Researchers Dr Peter Mitchell and Dr Rachel Anderson for a practical, two-part course on mastering archival research skills.

Have you ever wanted to do historical research, but not been sure how to go about it? Join our heritage researchers @rach-anderson.bsky.social and @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social in Oct for a specially curated course on finding your way through the archival maze: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...

Changing The Record How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Newcastle is antifascist

Thomas Bewick & the History of Quadrupeds Ian Bower revisits a landmark book in the history of nature writing Thomas Bewick 1753 – 1828 In my recent blog I considered the life and work of Gilbert White and his hugely influential eighteenth-ce...

Really chuffed with this new article on our blog, from Ian Bower, about Geordie legend and champion animal-drawer Thomas Bewick: www.nhsn.org.uk/thomas-bewic...

This is cool:

This guy called Robert used to ring my grandads house to try to talk to him. We all thought he was just an annoying guy, and would tell him to go away Robert and hang up on him. Lots of people made annoying calls to grandad, so we just continued, till grandad said, it's that bloody actor again.

Cool! Yeah I guess it must be hard to simultaneously care about both the vast breathing organism of all that is and a small child

If you tell me who your granda was I'll tell you who my granda was (he was just a dude who worked for the Coal Board and liked fishing)

Tyneside Totenkopf Paralleling scenes across Britain, a summer of far-right phase shift culminated in a stand-off in Newcastle this weekend, as ‘stop the boats’ marchers were opposed by campaigners defending the North E...

This, by @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social, is very good if very upsetting

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Peace, friendship and stories of nature at Gosforth Nature Reserve Nature’s Cure welcomes the women of the Angelou Centre In recent weeks the Nature’s Cure project has been so excited to welcome the Angelou Centre Walking Group. The Angelou Centre is in the West End

As part of our #NaturesCure project, we've been inviting clients of the Angelou Centre in Newcastle to Gosforth Nature Reserve for guided walks and to talk about what nature means to them. Our heritage researcher Mel picks up the story: www.nhsn.org.uk/peace-friend...

pissing like a champ

his little pipes were all wrong and he couldn't do a wee :(

This is going to be good and if you're in the NE you should come to it

Don't get too excited, I haven't written it yet, lol

fruits @frultsofmylabor Follow Source? It was revealed to me on a walk 10:33 PM • 8/30/25 • 2.5M Views • 122- L, 24K 116K

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)