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Filey bay rainbow.

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Changing trains at a golden hour Newark. The walk between the Castle and Northgate station was surprisingly picturesque

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The beautiful Trent Bridge, England v Zimbabwe test match

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Derby’s railway village. Built by the Midland Railway. Partially saved by the Derby Civic Society. I used to live in a Midland Railway house at Hellifield at the southern end of the Settle-Carlisle Railway, a long way from Derby, but linked by the parallel rails of the Midland Railway.

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There seems to be a theme emerging here. Another Derby beer garden oddity. This time the Alex, fittingly near the station.

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It’s test match eve in the sunny East Midlands. I’m staying in Derby and bumped into this beauty in the Exeter Arms beer garden.

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A short extract from my forthcoming book 'On the Tracks of the Flying Scotsman', published by Great Northern Books. Released on 12 June, you can receive a 25% discount by using the link in the article! I'm available for talks and events the length of the land. #FlyingScotsman #RailwayHistory

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Preproduction copy of my forthcoming book has arrived. Out 12 June, but you can save by preordering from Great Northern Books.

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A look back at a fabulous weekend. Filey Literature Festival 2025 was a complete triumph. Forgive us, as we bask in the glory.

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Quick pint before a talk in a temperance hall! I’m giving a presentation about the German minefield laid off Scarborough in 1914. 7pm start if you happen to be in Scalby this evening.

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The Past, Present and Future, together in one wild moment. My reflections on Bradford City's last gasp promotion and the 40th anniversary of the Valley Parade disaster.

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Super Sunday at Filey Literature Festival. From Withernsea's second best poet to Flixton's mysterious prehistoric lake, struggles of a Spurn bird colony to the invention of the Mile High Club. Culminating with the headscarf revolutionaries of Hull's Hessle Road fishing community.

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Saturday at Filey Literature Festival! From Yorkshire’s greatest novelist to fishermen at war, the Brontë sisters at the Yorkshire coast, to the Great British Sewing Bee. You can pay on the door for most of the events.

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This evening’s Filey Literature Festival event moves to the atmospheric Sea Cadets Hall. #NauticalHistory fans are in for a treat as the former director of the National Maritime Museum Professor Roger Knight, gives a talk on his latest book Convoys. Pay on the day £10 cash only. 7pm, doors 6.30pm

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It starts this evening. The opening event of the 2025 Filey Literature Festival The history of women's swimwear, complete with props. 7pm at the White The White Lodge Hotel Filey you can pay on the day. £12 which includes a glass of Pimms! We do like to spoil you.

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Hoist the mainsail, raise the anchor, Filey Literature Festival is set to launch. All aboard me hearties. Adventure awaits. Splice the mainbrace, keelhaul deserters, come and join the drunken sailors.

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Well why not wait until the 96th minute and win promotion with a deflected goal. Then have two pitch invasions … the most Bradford City end to a season #bcafc

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The 2025 vintage bus trip around a Germanic Bradford has sold out in less than 24 hours! There’s seemingly an insatiable demand out there for a cemeteries, cricket and warehouses.

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We're excited to announce our second keynote this year will be Professor Joann Fletcher. Jo is a British Egyptologist and BAFTA-winning TV personality, and has gained recognition in both the field of archaeology, and for her tv programmes. Find out more about Jo at www.immortalegypt.co.uk/about

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Margaret Kilyon returned to the Record Cafe to talk about the journeys and stories behind her Dad's diverse collection of signatures and sporting curiosities contained in his scrapbook, collected from the 1930s, into World War Two and beyond. It was a fascinating, and at times deeply personal, talk.

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Silver Fox Trophy victory for Bowling Old Lane at a sun drenched Scarborough Cricket Club.

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Jimmy Speirs. On this day in 1911 he was City’s Captain and goalscorer in the FA Cup final. He showed the cup to 100,000 fans when team returned to Bradford. 6 years later he was killed at the Battle of Passchndaele. #bcafc

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On this day in 1911 Bradford City won the FA Cup, becoming the first winners of the current trophy. Which by coincidence, was designed in Bradford by Italian emigrant jewellers Fattorini’s #bcafc #sporthistory

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Filey's fabled 'Roman' jetty has intrigued historians for decades. New bathymetric survey images offer a chance to reevaluate the structure. Is it a medieval quarry harbour? Or was it really the Roman's who built what is probably Filey's oldest man made structure?

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Listen to this podcast hosted by the Ridings of Yorkshire Society, where I talk about the project to discover the ships and men lost to the German minefield laid during the bombardment of Scarborough in 1914. #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory

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Thoroughly enjoyed chatting #MaritimeHistory with @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social for the @roysociety.bsky.social podcast. We covered quite a bit of ground as you will hear!

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We're delighted to announce that David Pendleton will be one of two keynotes for ROYS 2025. David recently recorded an episode of ROYSCast, which you can now listen to here: shows.acast.com/royscast/epi... We'll update you all with details of our second keynote, and ticketing information, shortly.

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A ship from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, carrying North Eastern coal, aground in Filey Bay. Never rename a ship, the story of a shipwreck on a Yorkshire beach.

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We've decided to postpone Paul Norcross's sporting lunchtime lecture that was due to take place at the Record Cafe on Sat 3 May. Bradford is likely to be frantic as City's season reaches, what we hope, will be its final game! Paul will open the 2025/26 season of sporting lunchtime lectures.

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3 Hull trawlers sank in the frozen Arctic Seas in 1968. 58 men died. A campaign launched by local women took on the trawler owners & the government. The 'headscarf revolutionaries' would change maritime safety laws. Their story is the closing event of Filey Literature Festival. #MaritimeHistory

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Deflating gas bags, plunging necklines, the Mile High Club. Letitia Sage's balloon show of 1785 was headline grabbing and scandalising. Sharon Wright brings this eye-popping tale to Filey Literature Festival. As you might imagine, tickets are soaring for this event!

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February's sporting lunchtime lecture at Bradford's Record Cafe was a double act featuring @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social and Dr Pete Watson. 'The Referee is a Gringo', the unlikely appearance of British referees in 1950s South American football. #FootballHistory #SouthAmericanFootball

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Spurn Point. A narrow spit of land reaching out into the Humber estuary. Vulnerable to storm and tide. It is home to a bird colony that is precariously 'clinging to the edge'. Richard Boon's book is a window on a little world whose existence is threatened by tide, predators and man.

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A vanished 11,000 year old house, a vast lake that disappeared into the landscape. The Ghost Lake. @wendypratt.bsky.social brings to Filey Literature Festival her memoir of life, love and loss. #Filey #LiteratureFestivalUK #BookFestival

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Watery sun, tide racing out on a breezy day in the Humber #Hull #Humber

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One of the best town halls in Europe. So good they built it twice … #bradford

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Withernsea's second best poet makes a much anticipated debut at Filey Literature Festival. Dean Wilson's daily beach finds, his 'pebble of the day', has become something of an internet sensation. Tickets are moving faster than the cliffs at Holderness.

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The Saturday night headliner at Filey Literature Festival is the star of C4's Great British Sewing Bee Stuart Hillard. Tickets are flying for this one, get them in person from Filey Post Office or online via the link in the story.

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Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I've updated the story of one of the ship's officers who was at the heart of the 'Night to Remember'. Scarborough-born James Moody, one of the heroes of a tragedy that resonates down the years. #Titanic #MaritimeHistory

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The Brontë sisters are always associated with the wild and windy Yorkshire moors. But, Charlotte Brontë was a regular visitor to Filey and Anne Brontë died at Scarborough. Saturday 10 May the Anne Brontë Association give a talk on the famous sisters and the Yorkshire coast.

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Only a few tickets left for my talk at Filey Literature Festival. Join me on a journey from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, on the tracks of the Flying Scotsman. Previewing my forthcoming book (out in June).

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The war at sea is portrayed as clashes between battleships, or submarines stalking convoys, throughout the Great War fishermen manned minesweepers and patrol vessels, they kept Britain's sea lanes open. In May @robb51.bsky.social comes to Filey Literature Festival to tell an often overlooked tale.

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15 April is the 113rd anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the fabled ‘Night to Remember’. An event commemorated by books, films and plays. At Scarborough you have the opportunity to remember one of the true heroes of the loss of the most famous ship in history. #MaritimeHistory #Titanic

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High noon, Saturday 10 May, the Filey Literature Festival hears about Yorkshire's greatest author, Bradford-born J.B. Priestley. Details and tickets in the link below.

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Friday 9 May and Filey Literature Festival is hosted at the atmospheric Filey Sea Cadets Hall. The former director of the National Maritime Museum, Professor Roger Knight, gives a talk on his latest book Convoys. An unmissable evening. Details below! #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

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The opening event of the 2025 Filey Literature Festival dips its toe into the history of women's swimwear. Historian Janet Stain brings her trunk of swimwear for an unmissable evening of props and laughter. #Filey #BookFestival #LiteratureFestivalUK

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It's nearly here. In the Merry Month of May Filey's annual literature festival takes place. Coastal, communal and a little crackers, four days of books and talks. Diaries at the ready. Here's a peek at the line up. #YorkshireCoast #BookFestival #LiteratureFestivalUK

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What a day at Valley Parade. 22,000 for a fourth tier game. #bcafc

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Aground beneath towering cliffs. The dramatic story of the Hull trawler the Diamond ... today a rusting boiler in Filey Bay. #MaritimeHistory #Hull #Fishing

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