Jane Duffus
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Writer, editor, speaker, long-distance runner. Author of 7 books including 3 lots of #TheWomenWhoBuiltBristol. My #SarahRecords book is out now 🍒 📚
https://linktr.ee/janeduffus
https://linktr.ee/janeduffus
Just in time for International Women's Day, my bookette about the Tollemache family of suffragists/suffragettes has arrived back from the printers. There's also a matching greetings card. Click the link for more info and please help spread the word. Thank you! www.janeduffus.com/shop/vote-an...
February 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Just in time for International Women's Day, my bookette about the Tollemache family of suffragists/suffragettes has arrived back from the printers. There's also a matching greetings card. Click the link for more info and please help spread the word. Thank you! www.janeduffus.com/shop/vote-an...
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News of a Heavenly fanzine… (need to read the whole thread)
When I wrote The Big Book of Sarah Records a few years ago, I really wanted to do a whole chapter just about Heavenly (@skepwax.bsky.social) - because they're my absolute favourite Sarah band. But it seemed a bit weird to single them out in a book that also celebrated a lot of other great bands.
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
News of a Heavenly fanzine… (need to read the whole thread)
When I wrote The Big Book of Sarah Records a few years ago, I really wanted to do a whole chapter just about Heavenly (@skepwax.bsky.social) - because they're my absolute favourite Sarah band. But it seemed a bit weird to single them out in a book that also celebrated a lot of other great bands.
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 PM
When I wrote The Big Book of Sarah Records a few years ago, I really wanted to do a whole chapter just about Heavenly (@skepwax.bsky.social) - because they're my absolute favourite Sarah band. But it seemed a bit weird to single them out in a book that also celebrated a lot of other great bands.
Excuse Me, there's a new single out today by Heavenly on @skepwax.bsky.social. See if you can spot me at the 20 seconds mark in the video. Thank you to the band for inviting me to be involved :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAv...
Heavenly – Excuse Me
YouTube video by Skep Wax
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January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Excuse Me, there's a new single out today by Heavenly on @skepwax.bsky.social. See if you can spot me at the 20 seconds mark in the video. Thank you to the band for inviting me to be involved :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAv...
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C'mon everybody ... how's about having a Xmas Sunday matinee with us ? Get yer tickets here for a splendid afternoon ... with @peteastor.bsky.social @darrenhayman.bsky.social Lou Terry and a very special guest ... plus mince pies wegottickets.com/event/683400
CLUB PRECIOUS #3 feat. PETE ASTOR, DARREN HAYMAN and LOU TERRY
A not-to-be-missed Xmas afternoon special featuring a pair of indie legends in Pete Astor (The Loft, Weather Prophets and several others) and Darren Hayman (Hefner) playing intimate sets. Proceedings ...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
C'mon everybody ... how's about having a Xmas Sunday matinee with us ? Get yer tickets here for a splendid afternoon ... with @peteastor.bsky.social @darrenhayman.bsky.social Lou Terry and a very special guest ... plus mince pies wegottickets.com/event/683400
I've been lucky enough to have an early listening copy of Heavenly's brand new album (out at the end of February) and I honestly can't stop playing it. You're gonna love it, pop fans. 100%.
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've been lucky enough to have an early listening copy of Heavenly's brand new album (out at the end of February) and I honestly can't stop playing it. You're gonna love it, pop fans. 100%.
I'm no photographer but I took some festive-ish photos of some of my books to try and persuade people that they would make excellent Christmas presents. Because they really would. Especially if they are signed and dedicated to that special person in your life.
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm no photographer but I took some festive-ish photos of some of my books to try and persuade people that they would make excellent Christmas presents. Because they really would. Especially if they are signed and dedicated to that special person in your life.
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.”
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.”
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.”
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🎁 “Gift the history of Bristol’s extraordinary women.”
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
🎁 “Ideal for your Bristol-loving mum, nan, best friend or colleague.”
🎁 “Perfect for readers of local history, feminism & inspiring true stories.”
'The Women Who Built Bristol' books will make your loved ones' Christmas!
www.janeduffus.com/shop
My new fanzine Zine Things Happen is OUT NOW! Blueboy, Stephen Duffy and Josie interviews, plus features on Silkworm, Tulpa, i-nichi and much more. If jangly guitars, DIY spirit and cult bands are your thing, this is for you.
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
#IndiePop #MusicZines #DIYCulture
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
#IndiePop #MusicZines #DIYCulture
Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus — Jane Duffus
Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus
www.janeduffus.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My new fanzine Zine Things Happen is OUT NOW! Blueboy, Stephen Duffy and Josie interviews, plus features on Silkworm, Tulpa, i-nichi and much more. If jangly guitars, DIY spirit and cult bands are your thing, this is for you.
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
#IndiePop #MusicZines #DIYCulture
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
#IndiePop #MusicZines #DIYCulture
Tomorrow (6 Dec) is Small Business Saturday - and hopefully you have some money left over from splurging with the mesomorphic titans (Amaz*n etc, I'm looking at you) to support the small businesses that Amaz*n etc are squeezing out of existence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Tomorrow (6 Dec) is Small Business Saturday - and hopefully you have some money left over from splurging with the mesomorphic titans (Amaz*n etc, I'm looking at you) to support the small businesses that Amaz*n etc are squeezing out of existence.
Just a heads up - I'm doing my biweekly post office trip tomorrow, so if you're after any music fanzines, indie-pop books or histories of amazing women... please get your orders in swiftly. Thank you for not shopping on Amaz*n! www.janeduffus.com/shop
SHOP — Jane Duffus
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December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just a heads up - I'm doing my biweekly post office trip tomorrow, so if you're after any music fanzines, indie-pop books or histories of amazing women... please get your orders in swiftly. Thank you for not shopping on Amaz*n! www.janeduffus.com/shop
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Another thing I've been mostly doing today is reading the excellent new fanzine – cleverly titled Zine Things Happen - by @janeduffus.bsky.social I'd seriously consider getting a copy if I were you (despite my being in it) www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Another thing I've been mostly doing today is reading the excellent new fanzine – cleverly titled Zine Things Happen - by @janeduffus.bsky.social I'd seriously consider getting a copy if I were you (despite my being in it) www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them.
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
Zine Things Happen – Jane Duffus | Monorail Music
monorailmusic.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them.
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
monorailmusic.com/product/zine...
My next (and final) trip to the post office this week will be on Thursday. So if you'd like a copy of Zine Things Happen #1 (or, indeed, anything else from my website), please order it before Thursday morning. Otherwise I'll be mailing it next week. Thank you :)
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
SHOP — Jane Duffus
www.janeduffus.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My next (and final) trip to the post office this week will be on Thursday. So if you'd like a copy of Zine Things Happen #1 (or, indeed, anything else from my website), please order it before Thursday morning. Otherwise I'll be mailing it next week. Thank you :)
www.janeduffus.com/shop
www.janeduffus.com/shop
There's no other way to say this, but I've been asked to interview Blur's Dave Rowntree about his new photographic book on Sunday, Sunday 23 November. (Yes, the scare quotes around 'in conversation' worry me, too.)
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There's no other way to say this, but I've been asked to interview Blur's Dave Rowntree about his new photographic book on Sunday, Sunday 23 November. (Yes, the scare quotes around 'in conversation' worry me, too.)
International postage for the fanzine has been fixed and amended. And if it's not bloody right this time, well, I'm just going to come round to all your houses (even the houses in Greece and Singapore and Australia) and hand deliver the fanzines. Thank you!
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus — Jane Duffus
Zine Things Happen, a new indie music fanzine from Jane Duffus
www.janeduffus.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
International postage for the fanzine has been fixed and amended. And if it's not bloody right this time, well, I'm just going to come round to all your houses (even the houses in Greece and Singapore and Australia) and hand deliver the fanzines. Thank you!
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
www.janeduffus.com/shop/zinethi...
People ask me what it is I have against bloody AI and why I'm so frustrated that these illiterate robots are putting me out of work. It's so hard to know what to tell them...
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People ask me what it is I have against bloody AI and why I'm so frustrated that these illiterate robots are putting me out of work. It's so hard to know what to tell them...
🍒 Book stockist in America 🍒
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story by Jane Duffus
Sarah Records was a label that signed the acts no major label would touch but who you wanted to hear. Sarah put out a board game, produced cut'n'paste fanzines and stuck two fingers up to the mainstre...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🍒 Book stockist in America 🍒
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
People in the US - this seems like something I should have known before, but I've just found out that @EndofanEar are stocking copies of my book 'These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story' and they are doing mail order around the US.
Here's a piece about 'The Women Who Built 1960s Bristol', which I was commissioned to write for @andrewkelly.bsky.social ahead of the Bristol Ideas special screening of 'The Newcomers' this weekend, which I'm looking forward to attending.
festivalofideas.substack.com/p/the-newcom...
festivalofideas.substack.com/p/the-newcom...
The Newcomers 3: The Women who Built 1960s Bristol
Jane Duffus
festivalofideas.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Here's a piece about 'The Women Who Built 1960s Bristol', which I was commissioned to write for @andrewkelly.bsky.social ahead of the Bristol Ideas special screening of 'The Newcomers' this weekend, which I'm looking forward to attending.
festivalofideas.substack.com/p/the-newcom...
festivalofideas.substack.com/p/the-newcom...
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... and five days before Heavenly's London gig, Blueboy are doing this. It’s almost like the last thirty years never happened. Um – they *did* happen, didn’t they? Absolutely all of them? In order? Because, if they didn’t, I’ve got some photos that really will need a bit of explaining...
#Blueboy
#Blueboy
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
... and five days before Heavenly's London gig, Blueboy are doing this. It’s almost like the last thirty years never happened. Um – they *did* happen, didn’t they? Absolutely all of them? In order? Because, if they didn’t, I’ve got some photos that really will need a bit of explaining...
#Blueboy
#Blueboy
Oh, hello. It's been a while. Just popping in to let you know that I've launched a new indie-pop fanzine - Zine Things Happen (see what I did there).
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh, hello. It's been a while. Just popping in to let you know that I've launched a new indie-pop fanzine - Zine Things Happen (see what I did there).
It's been a long time since M|A|R|R|S had a number one smash hit single (38 years to be precise), but I'm pleased to see that someone in Yeovil is still committed to putting correctly styled M|A|R|R|S graffiti on gateposts.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It's been a long time since M|A|R|R|S had a number one smash hit single (38 years to be precise), but I'm pleased to see that someone in Yeovil is still committed to putting correctly styled M|A|R|R|S graffiti on gateposts.
‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
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‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her work
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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📣 TOMORROW
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📣 TOMORROW
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social
Jane Duffus introduces her new book & more #Women who built Bristol
📖 Tuesday 29th April 7pm ( Doors open 6:45pm )
📖 The Women Who Built Bristol : VOLUME THREE
📖 Jane Duffus
📖 #RedlandLibrary #Bristol
📖 £3 (pay at the door - cash only)
#BristolHistory
@janeduffus.bsky.social