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Out next week from @versobooks.bsky.social Hailed as "the only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme."

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“It’s all but I ken well, the bonny lass of Benwell / She’s long legged and mother-like, see her raking up the dyke” is an astonishing first verse, not to mention the Tyneside tour we get afterwards. An incredible, touching song lost with Maureen Craik’s subsequent obscurity & lack of later versions

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Courtesy of @redfells.bsky.social, just been introduced far too late in life to this absolutely entrancing oddity www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5cQ...

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Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil

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I’m actually super proud of this little project. The transactions are such a fab resource not just for natural history but for the social and cultural history of the north east! Do have a browse! ✨

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went on a walk up Hedgehope didn't we

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Supposedly the display room of art dealer & artist Jan Snellinck, as painted by Hieronymus Francken whose day is today. Lots of potential customers for his A+ assortment. Nothing by me, of course -- I didn't need a dealer.

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In 1852, Newcastle was afflicted by "swarms", "multitudes", "masses", "plagues of flies" that "filled both eyes and mouth" and left crops looking as though "saturated by a bloody rain". The cause? Abnormal weather events. Our volunteer Sandra takes up the story: www.nhsn.org.uk/bold-encount...

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Found this video of me introducing the archives of the NHSN on our YouTube channel - if you can ignore my face and delivery, it's a decent introduction to some of what's cool in our collections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnon...

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Our historical Transactions - which you can now access free online! - are a fascinating record of scientific, social and regional history. On our blog, heritage researcher Mel Tuckett explores some of the people that this new resource brings back to life: www.nhsn.org.uk/welcoming-th...

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Got so excited about the next @lortburnspecials.bsky.social I printed the flyer as a poster and hung it in pride of place above my Wor Tree shrine and favourite ball of string

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yes i said yes i will yes

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At Newcastle City Council's #CityofSanctuary Forum to see what NHSN can offer to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in the NE

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The sweaty selfies will continue until morale improves. Sponsor me, help refugees. ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/richard-s...

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Did you know that our historical Transactions are now available to read online? In this blog, heritage researcher Rachel Anderson and some of the fabulous volunteers who helped us get to this point reflect on the process of making this landmark development in NHSN's history happen: ow.ly/EiR150W9VTH

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This is such a brilliant piece of writing about Teesside, deindustrialising landscapes and ecologies, birds, shorelines, oilrigs, that sort of thing

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Fascinating #NaturesCure event tonight at Great North Museum: Hancock - Julia Heslop and Sam Fisher talking about North Tyneside's peri-urban edgelands, art, community and ecology in their project 'This Was All Fields'

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Can any of our ornithological brethren confirm

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Six amazing years and counting Pete! 🧡

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In three months' time I'm doing the Great North Run for @actionfdn.bsky.social - their essential work with refugees and asylum seekers in the North East helps make this an island of neighbours, not strangers. Give me (them) your money! ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/peter-mit...

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Really proud today to publish the latest update in our brilliant volunteer Maureen's series on the 'Pitmen Naturalists'. We're making these all into a booklet which should be available in September, and couldn't be more excited: www.nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-n...

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I wouldn't tear down all statues (no-one actually wants to tear down all statues) but, man, this was such a joyous and necessary thing

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I'm running the Great North Run again in September, for @actionfdn.bsky.social. Last year we drummed up over £1000, BUT I was on Twitter then, and now I'm not. WE'RE ON OUR OWN HERE, BLUESKY. Please donate, and RT the living shit out of this. Ta! ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/richard-s...

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Get yourself a flatmate who does a massive poo on the floor of an evening and then makes it up to you by laying a dead mouse at the foot of your bed while you're asleep

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In my other life I help put on the mighty Lort Burn Specials. Come one, come all, Make Newcastle Modern(ist) Again

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‼️FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT NHSN‼️ We've got some great events coming up for everyone interested in natural history in the North East! First up, next Tuesday we're opening up our archive at GNM:Hancock to show some of the fascinating artworks we've got inside: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1345295899...

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I'm putting this on in a couple of weeks and I reckon it's going to be great

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Have just become aware of this miraculous event at @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social and can only recommend that all nature lovers attend www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/queerplanet?...

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Discover details of the 1831–32 cholera outbreak in Gateshead in this letter incl. 6 deaths in Beggars Entry, 2 in Hillgate & 1 Jackson's Chare, displayed in The Origins of Public Statistics in Newcastle case at the Town & Gown on the Tyne exhibition 🔗 www.ncl.ac.uk/library/spec...

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I'm putting this on in a couple of weeks and I reckon it's going to be great

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