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Eleanor Knight
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Eleanor Knight
@EleanorMKnight
Cold hands warm heart. On continent. Views incontinent. Words and music. Instagram @eeyeapplepie Mastadon [email protected] - look, I'm giving it a go.
Utrecht, The Netherlands Katılım Şubat 2012
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I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):
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'Time...looks for bodies and uses them as its magic lantern.' Hearing Derek Jacobi read these words in Timberlake Wertenbaker's wonderful adaptation is a revelation. I have loved every minute. Listen to In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust on Audible. audible.co.uk/pd/B09RXTNWD3?…
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Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 Fabulous news and richly deserved.
Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023@AfroriBooks
We won bookseller of the year! Thank you @thebookseller and @penguinrandom and a massive thank you to our amazing team, and every black author that has braved this industry and put their creativity out in the world for us all to enjoy. We owe this win to you!
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Just to be clear, so you know it's not a personal remark.
Fuck off, #NationalConservatives
Sincerely
Ellie Knight
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Gosh, higher education just so financially burdensome for women. Better to keep us at home and give us medals for producing nice, British children.
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Well done, Mum!
Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum@FICMuseum
ATS women were attached to @Int_Corps in WW2 & entitled to wear the cap badge. Pictured here Sgt Susan Lustig who worked at the eavesdropping sites, Latimer House & Wilton Park #OurHistory @DrHelenFry @womenknowintel @robinlustig
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'Sinkhole at Shardeloes' has to be a newly discovered Agatha Christie novel, no?
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@LaurenElkin Just throw it away. The whole 'training' thing is a misnomer anyway. Win some, lose some.
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On state-sanctioned sadism. @GeorgeMonbiot spot on here.
George Monbiot@GeorgeMonbiot
1. I've long wondered how nations slide into authoritarianism. Why do people accept the loss of their freedoms? Why do they not rise up together against oppression? Now that it's happening in the UK, I think I have an answer. Thread/
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@implausibleblog One thing often missed about the Nazi regime is that they never broke any laws. They just changed the law. This is hanging in the imperial war museum.
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@MarieGardiner Fraid so. The law was changed a couple of weeks ago and now this can be an offence. Police can arrest without evidence of any wrongdoing.
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Does anyone else remember when SATS were to measure the performance of the school, not individual pupils? theguardian.com/education/2023…
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@nfmusic @MaryCBevan @BevanDaisy @SignumRecords @BevanFamConsort Love the idea of critics having to go out into the fields as metaphor-detectorists . As for the nasty throat condition - isn't that thrush?
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@MaryCBevan @BevanDaisy @SignumRecords @BevanFamConsort Please otherwise we end up with this sort of stuff
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I’m getting @BevanDaisy to write all my biographies from now on for concert programmes @SignumRecords @BevanFamConsort
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These things stress me out…do you think I should I have included the fire hydrant shadow? Well, the machine did. It mage me do it again with a traffic light!
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