paulclammer.bsky.social
Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol
https://paulclammer.com/
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Nice!
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I dunno man, when @galleybeggars.bsky.social published James Clammer's novel Insignificance, they did these rad promotional bookmarks... (Full disclosure: the novelist might also be my brother)
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Do you ship to the UK? I just looked on your website and it said I should contact you direct. Thanks – your stuff is great!
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Ha ha! I was on the stall..
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This is great. You'll be pleased to know that Paul Smith's talk on Hartcliffe was packed out at last weekend's Bristol Radical History Festival, and his book one of the best sellers!
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And music! Listening to some old faves for the first time in forever recently, and I kept being struck how certain songs just hit different in my 50s than my 20s. Amazing (and wonderful) how our relationship with art changes.
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Super interesting – thank you.
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The earliest reference I've found so far to any film screenings in Tangier (and by implication, in Morocco) are of a performance of "the Cronophoto-Cinematograph-Gaumont" at a theatre in March 1898.
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The Telegraph is going to freak out when they discover that the official name for Shackleton's Endurance misadventure was the British IMPERIAL Antarctic Expedition.
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I had exactly this conversation at work last week! Me (50s) to colleague (20s) saying how you always got bugs in your mouth if the car window was open when you'd drive off on summer holidays.
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Congratulations – this looks like a wonderful book!
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I feel like Bob Bartlett is a lot of people's famous dead emotional support guy (ploar edition). Him, Bill and Cherry.
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Thanks - one down, 499 to go...
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If you're welcoming self-nominations, might I put my hand up for my biography of Henry Christophe, which takes the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution up to 1820, via the Kingdom of Haiti? www.hurstpublishers.com/book/black-c...
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I read it being a take on Quentin Crisp, he seemed to be on the telly quite a bit back then as I remember it.
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Oh wow - I just looked this up and it's less than 10 minutes walk from my old apartment! It looks amazing - especially your aunt's cakes.
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This looks so cool. I tried to go to the Seaport Museum when I was in NYC last April, but the plan fell through at the last minute, grrr.
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Official archive pond!
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Checks out. Especially now Reviewer 2 is doing pre-bedtime zoomies.
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Zeppelin Nights by Jerry White has a really excellent bibliography with lots of potential leads, though Reviewer 2 has thoughts.
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That's too kind, thanks. Enjoy the tour!
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This was a great listen – looking forward to reading your book!
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Depending on your browser, there are various extensions you can use, such as 'Hide Google AI Overviews' for Firefox. I've been using this for a while and it seems to work fine.
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My grandfather was a tank instructor at Bovington Camp during the War, so it's depressing at hell to see this Reich fetishisation on display there today.
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He's 13 if you ask ChatGPT.
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I shocked that a tobacco billionaire giving LP to his 24 year old wedding photographer to run could ever have ended badly.
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On the plus side, I hear that dodo eggs are going cheap at the grocery store these days.
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And all that epic swapping over to the CMS to build what was then probably the biggest commercial database of ground-truthed travel information!
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It'll never stop being sad, will it?
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And with the actual link... archive.ph/2025.04.05-1...