Sarah Elizabeth Cox
@oispooky.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 PR @britsciassoc.bsky.social
🥊 1880s boxing + wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR (Duckworth, Oct 2026)
✍🏻 Moscow, Munroe, Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
🤜🏻 Advisor #AThousandBlows
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea 🖤
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
🥊 1880s boxing + wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR (Duckworth, Oct 2026)
✍🏻 Moscow, Munroe, Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
🤜🏻 Advisor #AThousandBlows
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea 🖤
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Pinned
Seconds out! Round one!
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
Hercules Cock, Son of Hercules.
[He was actually a Cox, but still - very good!]
[He was actually a Cox, but still - very good!]
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hercules Cock, Son of Hercules.
[He was actually a Cox, but still - very good!]
[He was actually a Cox, but still - very good!]
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GEORGIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
GEORGIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Clacton in 2025 is very different to 1912.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Clacton in 2025 is very different to 1912.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
We stood down half a million carrier pigeons and got on with our lives just fine using other communication methods. But some people can't even quit twitter? I repeat: a pigeon never paid Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
Easy to laugh at a headline like this from the era of Chamberlainite appeasement, but the feathery little heroes ended up doing a really important job and saving a lot of lives...
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We stood down half a million carrier pigeons and got on with our lives just fine using other communication methods. But some people can't even quit twitter? I repeat: a pigeon never paid Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
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Horst P. Horst
Two models in Schiaparelli dresses
Vogue, October 1947
The painting is "Booth of La Goulue at the Foire du Trone", an 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painting in the Jeu de Paume.
Two models in Schiaparelli dresses
Vogue, October 1947
The painting is "Booth of La Goulue at the Foire du Trone", an 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painting in the Jeu de Paume.
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Horst P. Horst
Two models in Schiaparelli dresses
Vogue, October 1947
The painting is "Booth of La Goulue at the Foire du Trone", an 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painting in the Jeu de Paume.
Two models in Schiaparelli dresses
Vogue, October 1947
The painting is "Booth of La Goulue at the Foire du Trone", an 1895 Toulouse-Lautrec painting in the Jeu de Paume.
I can't WAIT to turn 40 next year. Genuinely excited. Going to have the flat re-carpeted, maybe get braces for the third time, and publish my first book!!! 💪🏻
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I can't WAIT to turn 40 next year. Genuinely excited. Going to have the flat re-carpeted, maybe get braces for the third time, and publish my first book!!! 💪🏻
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What a way to go 😱 🐟
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a way to go 😱 🐟
Eight years waitressing and bartending, moved in with a rock band drummer who dumped me for a blonde, signed up with a recruitment agency, borrowed a male housemate's suit, Googled 'how do you write a press release?' then blagged a job in PR. There were only three candidates, one didn't show up.
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Eight years waitressing and bartending, moved in with a rock band drummer who dumped me for a blonde, signed up with a recruitment agency, borrowed a male housemate's suit, Googled 'how do you write a press release?' then blagged a job in PR. There were only three candidates, one didn't show up.
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I don't doubt that some women feel unsafe walking in the dark, but this article would have been much improved if the writer had included the information that most violence against women is committed by people we know and not by randoms on the street.
'Dark winter nights feel like an unspoken curfew for women'
Women in the north west of England speak of how they have to be more cautious as nights turn dark.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I don't doubt that some women feel unsafe walking in the dark, but this article would have been much improved if the writer had included the information that most violence against women is committed by people we know and not by randoms on the street.
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Next Saturday marks the two year anniversary of my son inadvertently (or deliberately, who knows for sure) killing Henry Kissinger after 100 years by virtue of being born. One in, one out, that's how it works. Or, erm, one out, one out (down?) more accurately.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Next Saturday marks the two year anniversary of my son inadvertently (or deliberately, who knows for sure) killing Henry Kissinger after 100 years by virtue of being born. One in, one out, that's how it works. Or, erm, one out, one out (down?) more accurately.
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they should invent movies that are shorter
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
they should invent movies that are shorter
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I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I can’t bring myself to read this, but one day I hope there is as much time and energy devoted to the problem of the online radicalisation of vulnerable pregnant people and parents, as there is to the online radicalisation of young white men.
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One for the South East Londoners. The 1890 New Cross Boxing and Wrestling Club. Photograph possibly taken outside what was then the Lord Derby, Woodpecker Rd. Or original New Cross House. Wrestler/boxer, club founder, Jack Wannop (1854-1923) is in the centre of the men standing, with walking cane.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
One for the South East Londoners. The 1890 New Cross Boxing and Wrestling Club. Photograph possibly taken outside what was then the Lord Derby, Woodpecker Rd. Or original New Cross House. Wrestler/boxer, club founder, Jack Wannop (1854-1923) is in the centre of the men standing, with walking cane.
My whole block of flats is being driven mad by a) a broken garage door swinging and banging loudly in strong winds and b) someone dumping loads of boxes by the skips instead of in them.
Just go ahead and call me one of the world's (well, Clacton's) great scientific minds... 😂🤷🏻♀️
Just go ahead and call me one of the world's (well, Clacton's) great scientific minds... 😂🤷🏻♀️
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My whole block of flats is being driven mad by a) a broken garage door swinging and banging loudly in strong winds and b) someone dumping loads of boxes by the skips instead of in them.
Just go ahead and call me one of the world's (well, Clacton's) great scientific minds... 😂🤷🏻♀️
Just go ahead and call me one of the world's (well, Clacton's) great scientific minds... 😂🤷🏻♀️
If you're planning on robbing a B&M soon, please try not to run into a 6ft inflatable light-up reindeer and snowman in your haste out the doors, pulling the power cord, tripping over, falling flat on your face and almost landing on a woman and her toddler outside reading a dinosaur colouring book.
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you're planning on robbing a B&M soon, please try not to run into a 6ft inflatable light-up reindeer and snowman in your haste out the doors, pulling the power cord, tripping over, falling flat on your face and almost landing on a woman and her toddler outside reading a dinosaur colouring book.
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I’m a breastfeeding mother and I think this is horrendous especially when you actually watch the videos and it’s kids talking about breast milk being “natural,” making brains “stronger” and keeping baby “happy and close.
Fuck offffff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fuck offffff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children's voices used to promote breastfeeding in Hull - BBC News
A series of videos to encourage breastfeeding have been narrated by Hull primary school children.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I’m a breastfeeding mother and I think this is horrendous especially when you actually watch the videos and it’s kids talking about breast milk being “natural,” making brains “stronger” and keeping baby “happy and close.
Fuck offffff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fuck offffff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One for the South East Londoners. The 1890 New Cross Boxing and Wrestling Club. Photograph possibly taken outside what was then the Lord Derby, Woodpecker Rd. Or original New Cross House. Wrestler/boxer, club founder, Jack Wannop (1854-1923) is in the centre of the men standing, with walking cane.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
One for the South East Londoners. The 1890 New Cross Boxing and Wrestling Club. Photograph possibly taken outside what was then the Lord Derby, Woodpecker Rd. Or original New Cross House. Wrestler/boxer, club founder, Jack Wannop (1854-1923) is in the centre of the men standing, with walking cane.
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Polanski: "That isn’t just a surge; it’s a huge opportunity. People are flocking to the Greens because they are tired of a politics that denies their hopes and protects the powerful. They want courage, honesty and real change, and they want a party that knows what it stands for."
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Polanski: "That isn’t just a surge; it’s a huge opportunity. People are flocking to the Greens because they are tired of a politics that denies their hopes and protects the powerful. They want courage, honesty and real change, and they want a party that knows what it stands for."
There's a boxing historian with 50yrs experience who wrote something for Boxing News last year and it has some incorrect bits about two boxers - Felix Scott and Jack Davenport - which could have been corrected via 'quick Google, find Sarah's website'. But he DIDN'T. I can't get my head around it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There's a boxing historian with 50yrs experience who wrote something for Boxing News last year and it has some incorrect bits about two boxers - Felix Scott and Jack Davenport - which could have been corrected via 'quick Google, find Sarah's website'. But he DIDN'T. I can't get my head around it.
The thing I still can't get my head around while following this story, is what he was willing to do, and risk (TEN YEARS in prison now...) for such relatively tiny sums of money? Farage's bins in Frinton are probably worth more than 40k.
This should be a much, much bigger story than it is playing as so far. Is it the 'Wales' bit that's distracting? Just because it's a devolved administration is hardly the point. This is a corrupt operator that Reform embraced.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The thing I still can't get my head around while following this story, is what he was willing to do, and risk (TEN YEARS in prison now...) for such relatively tiny sums of money? Farage's bins in Frinton are probably worth more than 40k.
Google Photos is completely incapable of telling the difference between mine and my brother's children, grouping them all into the same person folder on the basis they are... all blonde? Children? There's two boys and a girl. Different ages etc. Not the greatest indicator that AI can be trusted 😂
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Google Photos is completely incapable of telling the difference between mine and my brother's children, grouping them all into the same person folder on the basis they are... all blonde? Children? There's two boys and a girl. Different ages etc. Not the greatest indicator that AI can be trusted 😂
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THAT ENTIRE PARTY NEEDS TO REFORM THEMSELVES INTO SOMETHING USEFUL LIKE MULCH
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
THAT ENTIRE PARTY NEEDS TO REFORM THEMSELVES INTO SOMETHING USEFUL LIKE MULCH
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...