Jenny Harper
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SWWDTP/AHRC PhD researcher studying the radical working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, env. humanities/American Romanticism/British ethical socialism.
Joined May 2015
RT @TheGreenParty: 🚨 BREAKING: Customers to bail out water companies for failing to properly use the money we've already paid them 💸 https…
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Can any archivist or researcher help me to decipher this writing? From the 1911 census and I suspect a Lancashire tramp weaving shop. I can read 'Please note a difficulty getting their names and a greater one their occupations,' but I can't make out the rest.
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I am giving an online zoom talk about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth for Heptonstall Museum on Thur 9th Jan, 7-8.30pm. A rare example of a working class female writer, she was an ethical socialist who fought for social justice. From free-£3, link below:
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Over on Bluesky as jennyharper@bsky.social. Seems a nice place and a positive non-Musky community. 🙂
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@SWWDTP placement at Butser Ancient Farm, gaining experience in working within the heritage sector and delivering a family workshop on spooky bones. 💀💀
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@TristanCorkPost Might include my great great great great grandfather William Whitbread Harper, he died in 1891 at Stapleton Workhouse but don’t have a burial record for him.
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RT @thesugarb0wl: I’m so excited to share the CfP for the annual @RRRJournal conference at @UniKent in January!
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A blustery Sunday volunteering at Butser Ancient Farm’s first book festival as part of my @SWWDTP placement . Poetry and historic fiction in a Saxon mead hall around a warming fire.
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@Tom_H_Oliver @NatureRecovery Excellent talk this evening on inner change and the environmental crisis and great to hear your views on the rights of nature movement and ‘new animism.’ Thank you.
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RT @ruthannereads: Did I mention it's a two-part event? 😱 Join me, Jayran, @GriotGabriel, and @srennie12 for a free panel at @RochdaleTH o…
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Interesting article on the working classes and barriers to achievement:
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Upcoming book release on working class history from an alumni of the SWW DTP, important work. ✊
As this week marked the end of coal power in Britain it feels timely to announce that my book MINING MEN, will be out on 13 Feb '25 @ChattoBooks You can preorder it at: It has been a labour of love, and I hope it does the miners & their communities justice
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