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Jul 5, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Panel on flash historical fiction with 2 @FlashBackFic flashbackfiction.com editors and Jude Higgins at #FlashHistories
They get sent a lot of stories about witches, cowboys, nuns, and "a lot of gadzookery"
And also lots of very good historical fiction, max 500 words. The best emphasise emotion, story, characters, and wear their history lightly, e.g. use of one word, "musket", can take you straight to a particular period.
Q: How much can you make up?
A: It depends on the contract you make with the reader.

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NAM Rodger says in @LRB that there are “scarcely more than a score” of memoirs by ordinary sailors, in a review of Stephen Taylor’s “Sons of the Waves”, covering 1740-1840. Hmm, I thought. Book cover of Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the He
He’s talking about autobiography published in book form ... but in 19C most historical writing, inc memoir, was not to be found in books, but in magazines and newspapers, as @lesliehowsam has established.
I haven’t read the book, nor those of Prof Rodger & don’t know anything about #maritimehistory or #navalhistory. But 30 mins searching in @BNArchive, which contains less than 10% of British/Irish newspapers, found a dozen memoirs, not in Stephen Taylor's book.
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Sep 14, 2020
@HerHandsMyHands Same thread, now with alt text, which I should have added originally. I bought this scrapbook on eBay because I'm interested in the history of newspaper cuttings agencies (you pay them to gather cuttings on particular topics, people, organisations). 1/6 Front cover of old scrapboo...Inside page of scrapbook, s...
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Sep 13, 2020
More eBay treasure ... I bought this scrapbook because its newspaper cuttings were provided by an agency (you pay them to gather cuttings on particular topics, people, organisations) and I'm interested in the history of newspaper cuttings agencies. 1/6 ImageImage
But really it's of interest to #middlebrow scholars, as it seems to have been the property of early Mills & Boon novelist Louise Gerard (1878-1970) , and has cuttings from her first success in 1910 to the 1920s. 2/6
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Sep 10, 2020
45 minutes before the first event of the @RS4VP digital salon, a conversation between Prof Brian Maidment and @thomassmits, winner of this year's Colby Prize for best book on Victorian newspapers and periodicals. Get the Zoom link by registering here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-soc…
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The judges said that this study of ‘visual news culture across European, UK, and Australian newspapers is an outstanding book that both points the way forward for more research, and ...
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Jun 19, 2020
Another new book repeats the nonsense that the Daily Telegraph was the first penny daily in the UK, and that the Press Association was launched in 1868.

Even the @galecengage @Telegraph Historical Archive repeats this false claim. Image
The Telegraph was launched in June 1855, but only halved its price to a penny on 17 Sept 1855. Here’s the last issue at 2d. Image
Many other dailies had been selling for a penny since June 1855, including an older established (by a few days) Daily Telegraph in Sheffield, the Daily Post in Liverpool (pic below) and the Manchester Examiner. Image
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"Politics and the Press in Inter-war Britain", seminar led by James Brennan of @NewmanHistory at
University of Central Lancashire (Preston), Livesey House LH326, tomorrow (Wed 5 Feb), 4.30-5.30pm, all welcome
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In this period of mass democracy political appeals needed to include millions of newly enfranchised voters, both male and female. It is usually believed that these years witnessed the rising influence of the press barons and national papers while the provincial declined
... Recent scholarship however questions the extent to which the national press lived up to its name in this period, and emphasises that provincial newspapers remained an important part of local political cultures ...
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