My latest book cover embroidery. The plan is to embroider all the covers of books I have loved (or recently written), using materials I already own:
My York Festival of Ideas 2024 session is on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=XyPY...@foxlanebooks.bsky.socialwww.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...
Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. Historian Emily Cockayne, author of Penning Poison, turned sleuth to trace the stori...
'I see conspiracy fictions as a form of reassurance ... Climate breakdown? Itâs a hoax. Covid? All fake. Power? Just a tiny cabal of Jews. In other words, our deepest fears are unfounded.' www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset ⌠Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? Thereâs only one way to find out: ask a believer
Book recommendation! Penning Poison, A History of Anonymous Letters by Emily Cockayne. Focuses on threatening letters, obscene messages & celebrity hate mail sent between 1760 & 1939. An entertaining & thought-provoking read.
Saw the film #WickedLittleLetters & it called to mind my painting from a few years ago Laughing While Addressing 2016 Oil on Linen 50 x 50 cm Private Collection The poison pen or ransom reference was emblematic, it's so potent a signifier of transgression.
If you're looking for the answer to the question why QMUL is in the dire state it is in, then I don't think management could have been more clear than with its evasive non-answer and refusal to interact even with a key journalist in a national newspaper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Even Scrooge would marvel at Queen Maryâs pay-docking over a marking boycott. No wonder higher education is in turmoil, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
Not content with being philistines, the UK government is now going the full vandal, planning to destroy all wills and associated documents held since 1800. Please please please take a moment to email what a loss this would be to history. Consultation closes 23 Feb.
Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).
⌠those words might well work a way into the film (Wicked Little Letters), due out early next year ⌠Thank you for the review!
I reviewed @rummage.bsky.socialâs excellent "Penning Poison" for the Washington Post. Sadly the phrase "foxy ass piss country whore" didn't make it past the editors. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
âPenning Poisonâ chronicles the fascinating history of the anonymous letter.