Piston,Pen & Press ⛏️⚙️✍️📚
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Piston, Pen & Press is an AHRC funded project exploring literary cultures in the industrial workplace from the Factory Acts to the First World War.
Scotland / North of England
Joined August 2018
Registration details for online attendance here👇 https://t.co/Gpgww6rl5x
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A conference dedicated to discussion and reflection about the cultural activities engaged in by industrial workers in the 19th century.
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A masterful sail across the currents of Victorian periodical poetry with @alisonfchapman at the wheel 🌊⚓️ 🛳️ (see @poetry_digital) — very enthused by the argument to “unknow Victorian poetry” in order to make anew #RSVP23 #WolffLecture
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Further details of the Workers Playtime exhibition here: https://t.co/ponA9SiN2V
@bronterre1 will be offering a curator's tour on August 3rd.
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Lovely review of the Workers' Playtime exhibition currently on display @TheJohnRylands by @coopnews The exhibition draws, in part, on research undertaken as part of this project and it runs until September 9th so you still have time to see it. https://t.co/MBBzPj2bt3
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@VerdantWorks .@jenniferballads is quite a coup. I heard her sing in a pub in Manchester to @PistonPen & Press project people.
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Pleased to say that the Introduction to our special issue of @JofVictCulture has now been published - details at the link below. https://t.co/q21IUPdR0C
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Until relatively recently, working-class literature has occupied a minimal role within Victorian Studies, exciting only intermittent interest in the discip
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Still time to apply for a fully funded PhD with the National Mining Museum, Scotland, and the University of Stirling on how 'coal famine' was represented in the press: https://t.co/1CLOuQfAMu
@RS4VP
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Another chance to hear @bronterre1 of this parish talking about work which has emerged out of this project.
Did industrial workers in Victorian Lancashire have time to enjoy literary culture and leisure pursuits? Drop into a free tour led by Professor Michael Sanders to explore our ‘Workers’ Playtime’ exhibition. 📆Thursday 4 May at 2pm. No booking required.
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One of our creative partners - coming to your screens soon!
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Also a reminder that there's a great exhibition celebrating the work of Sam Fitton @GalleryOldham and @bronterre1 will be talking about Sam's plays at GalleryOldham on Weds 19 April at 2pm. https://t.co/xMC5pY44eK
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As we head towards the weekend - a reminder that #WorkersPlaytime exhibition is still on @TheJohnRylands details here: https://t.co/ponA9SiN2V Also, there's a lovely review of the exhibition here: https://t.co/iYs5CoRi9R
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Workers’ Playtime: community and culture in industrial Lancashire
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Superb new collection of labour movement banners now on display at the People’s History Museum @PHMMcr
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25 January 1893 the Blyth Poets and Pipers Club met at the Mason’s Arms Blyth to celebrate the birthday of Robert Burns. Nip on over to our FaceBook page to find out more. Happy #BurnsNight!
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And you can also check out the other 60+ people with entries for Burns, plus of course the amazing songs and recitations of Burns-influenced lyrics on our front page! https://t.co/G4hjzXTJN7 6/6
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Almost all the poets we include were influenced by Burns. One of the most striking in his use of Scots is Duncan Campbell of Carlisle, a cotton-spinner and perhaps the earliest factory poet in the database: https://t.co/rMwRjtoKkt 5/6
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