We’re on our travels again this morning (in this weather?)! We’re off to Queen Street Mill in Burnley today, then at #LICAF@selfmadehero.bsky.social all weekend. Say HELLO if you’re there too - and if you’re very lucky you might get to meet a Rickard brother…

Frank Owen at the Labour Party conference 📣 (From our graphic novel of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, available from all good bookshops, some dodgy ones, or direct from us rickardsisters.com/product/the-...)

The (metaphorical) out-of-office is on, and we’re both on the road today, looking forward to a weekend of thrills and spills in Brigg and Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

Who’s coming to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next weekend? Wouldn’t it be great if we could all find each other on here as well as in Bowness on Windermere? We’ll be lurking at @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social’s table in the Marketplace and talking about making adaptations on the Sunday

Layers of London has tons of fascinating map overlays including, for example, World War II bomb damage. And you can fade the overlay in and out to see modern-day street patterns. www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

131 years ago today: in 1893 New Zealand achieved universal suffrage (a lot sooner than the ‘British subjects’ in Britain)

Hello! We’re bringing our brother to Windermere for the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival in couple of weeks, and he’s never been to the Lake District before. We obvs want to show him a good time! Any suggestions of interesting, quirky, fun places to go (which don’t involve climbing hills ♿️)?

This episode includes a brilliant conversation about adapting Lord of the Flies between graphic novelist Aimee de Jong, TV writer Jack Thorne and William Golding’s daughter, Judy. So warm and generous www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Open Book - Matt Haig - BBC Sounds

Matt Haig speaks to Johny Pitts about his new book, The Life Impossible.

I have just learnt a new fact, and I need to share it. The standard girth of a British hedgehog is 170mm (for the purposes of making a hedgehog-sized hole) 🦔

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