#beingtheother
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Did you find some friends for Jane? @mrrickygervais.bsky.social
Composite image showing 12 books. The top row (l-r) The Wrath to Come by Sarah Churchwell, Proto by Laura Spinney, How to Survive a Plague by David France, Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick, The Patient Assassin by Anita Anand. The bottom row (l-r) The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller, Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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In 2026, were exploring 12 critically acclaimed books (6 nonfiction, 6 fiction). Meeting are online every other month. Its free to sign up and open to all histfest.org/history-book...
A bunny with a feather pen is about to sign a long-form contract, in a spiral booklet held by another bunny on a desk. They are in a fancy office, with certificates on the walls.
Daily bunny no.3175 is reading the fine print
"If the safeguarding principles of professional curiosity and challenge are lost to the white noise of such a zealot-like approach, we have truly lost our way." Hackney safeguarding chair Jim Gamble lambasts DfE's school behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett. chscp.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Shocking, but sadly unsurprising. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social needs to get to grips with this bullying culture, which is fashionable in far too many schools. It's nothing short of abusive.
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'The report by Sir Alan Wood...found that staff at Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy (MVPA) routinely used measures “designed to humiliate pupils”, frequently shouting at them and isolating them in corridors as part of “a harsh and damaging disciplinary culture”. 1/2
In 2023 Ofsted rated Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy Outstanding in all areas. This week it suddenly discovers the "inflexible" behaviour policies, which it has encouraged and praised for years, harm children - as many of us have repeatedly pointed out. This dreadful organisation needs to go. NOW.
Image promoting a talk. The text reads “Sceptred Isle : Online Talk With Helen Carr” There is an image of Helen Carr and a king praying.
📣 ONLINE TALK
SCEPTRED ISLE WITH HELEN CARR
7PM, THURS 11 DEC
Join bestselling author Helen Carr as she delves into the turbulent fourteenth century, exploring one of the most transformative periods in English history. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1749981093...
Have you got your tickets for Six Queens: Peril and Passion at the Court of Henry VIII? @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social
24 January 2026. bit.ly/3X4zY1K Third speaker is @enortonhistory.bsky.social on Jane Seymour.
Nice to see Father Christmas busily giving presents in Puritan England. Looks like someone’s getting a copy of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy, which is surely top of everyone’s Christmas list. Available in all good booksellers (& also from Santa 😉) #womenwhoruledtheworld
Enjoying this book a lot ! Just got to this part and had to share it @janelondon.bsky.social
It's war!
Episode 3 of our brand new podcast, UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS, is out now!
Produced by HistFest Productions for the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast and hosted by historian @rebeccarideal.bsky.social.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
Book covers Regeneration by Pat Barker Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
We have selected two titans for November’s History Book Club!
NONFICTION – Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
FICTION – Regeneration by Pat Barker
Meetings are early in December to give you more time to read. The book club is free and open to all. Sign up histfest.org/history-book...
Nice to see that Pola Negri was determined to get into character as Catherine the Great in the 1924 silent film Forbidden Paradise. In a plot centred on revolutions, rebellions & romance she turned to Women Who ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy for source material #womenwhoruledtheworld
Two bunnies are on a stone bridge, looking down at a family of ducks floating in the water below. The ducks are about to go under the bridge. It is an early spring day, with clumps of snow still on the ground.
Daily bunny no.3126 hasn't any birdseed
A bunny on a gray, rainy day looks down a storm drain, where a clown bunny with a red nose and ears looks out at him from below. It is a bunny Pennywise, from the Stephen King novel, and it offers the other bunny a red balloon through the grate on the drain
Daily bunny no.3124 offers you a balloon
Have to confess @histfest.bsky.social that I've not finished the excellent non fiction book for this month's reading group , but will try.
This is something to look forward to , as is the course on @histfest about the Plantagenets which I got my ticket for last night!
Queen Victoria’s coronation roll, with the gold embellished copy of her oath that she signed during her coronation service. I viewed this wonderful document this evening after being invited to the unveiling of Charles III’s coronation roll at the National Archives #victoria #queenvictoria #crown
A bunny sits on the branch of a tree at night, sipping tea and looking at the full moon. On the moon, another small bunny is visible, also drinking tea while looking back at the bunny on the tree branch
Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away
Book club titles. Left - An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi. Right - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
*HISTORY BOOK CLUB*
We’re looking forward to continuing our reading journey with you. New members very welcome! Our titles for October are:
NONFICTION - An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi
FICTION - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Having burned her 3 closest towns Boudicca realised -too late - that she hadn’t picked up Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy from the bookshop. Luckily, she could download the audiobook which she listened to while driving her chariot into the Roman lines. #womenwhoruledtheworld
My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything
Your book is now on my shelf waiting for me ! Looks fascinating.
A bunch of mysterious bunnies are walking in a line, carrying candles and wearing black robes. They go through a bunch of ruined columns at night, one of which has a statue of a similar hooded figure, pointing. The last bunny in the line looks as if noticing the viewer
Daily bunny no.3079 is sworn to secrecy
