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19/20C provincial print cultures Open-access book Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist 1865-87 https://t.co/pM9bQ0y1SR

Jul 5, 2019, 5 tweets

#FlashHistories Camille Ralphs, poet: we're proud of English language, but its colonising history is horrific, when we look at etymologies

And male domination encoded into it

Geoffrey Hill: poets should acknowledge these histories and make it more innocent

Camille wrote poems in imagined voices of Pendle Witches -- "Malkin"

A plea for etymological awareness

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