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Suzanne Fagence Cooper

@suzannefagence.bsky.social

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Writer. Lecturer. Curator: Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Ruskin, Dickens, Victorian women. Books & more: linktr.ee/Suzannefagence

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · Nov 14

Planning my lectures and tours for next year - with lots of requests for talks on Jane & William Morris, and my new research on 'The Beauty of the Earth'.

'Oh how I long to keep the world from narrowing on me, & to look at the world bigly & kindly'.

Copies of book 'How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris'

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · 1d

On the trail of #JaneAusten this week with ACE Cultural Tours.

We've been to her birthplace in Steventon & her gravestone in Winchester. Yesterday was #Bath, today Lyme Regis (& 'Persuasion'). And tomorrow, her last home & @chawtonhouse.bsky.social .

I do love my work!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 3d

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 5d

By way of context, that's more than 50% bigger than the Lib Dems.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

If this is what ICE agents do when they’re being recorded and confronting an elected official in a public place, just imagine what they do to vulnerable children and adults when no one is there to see.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10d

UK energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband will today announce a “total ban” on fracking in the UK

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ed Miliband to announce total ban on fracking – UK politics live

There is not currently a permanent ban in law, just a temporary moratorium

www.theguardian.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 11d

wait no I mean: so much Shakira Law in London

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 12d

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · 14d

Last day in Bern & the sky has cleared. The high Alps finally seen - just.
Visit to @zentrumpaulklee.bsky.social before we turn for home.

As Klee says, 'Art does not reproduce the visible. Rather, it makes visible.'

Which is apt. We knew the peaks were there. But couldn't see them until today.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 18d

Once again one has to wonder what it is about Sadiq Khan, out of the wide panoply of European social democratic and socialist big city mayors, that causes Mr Trump to have such an obsession with him?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

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Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social · 18d

Can anyone show me a scarier #mermaid?
Bocklin's 'Still Water' - once seen, never forgotten. Is it her heavy eyeliner? Her terrifying friend in the sea beneath?

She's one of the stunning pictures on show @kunstmuseumbern.bsky.social - our first gallery on this #Swiss tour.

Painting of a substantial red haired mermaid reclining on a weedy rock, with her glistening tail sliding into the still sea. Her eyes are ringed with black eyeliner, and she shares the rock with three black headed gulls (not ornithologically correct).
Beneath the water, upside down is the leering face of a second monstrous merperson with webbed fingers.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 18d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 19d

The Equinox had fallen on a day of such beauty and unexpected sunshine, that Old Fox had set up the long trestle table in the garden for an early supper. It was draped with the old green velvet tablecloth and there were vases of Michaelmas daisies & decanters of blackberry wine and village apple juice, artichoke soup with fine white bread & bowls of buttered potatoes & golden pies with elaborate crusts, a quince pudding with rich hot custard and a cinnamon plum cake with yellow cream. The light was golden and not quite of this world. It was the colour of old buried treasure hoards, of earth-dimmed torques and Gaulish coins, and a little breeze sent leaves pattering from the trees. To dear Autumn, toasted Old Fox, raising his cider cup to his friends, may She be a merry and gentle one!

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 20d

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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 20d

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23d

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.

He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · 22d

Impressed by the way the person signing conveys the emotion and intensity of the speaker.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23d

Zack Polanski, "We must condemn Tommy Robinson, we must condemn Reform UK MPs"

"But we must not condemn those people in the country who are feeling scared right now, who are not feeling listened to, who have suffered the consequences of decades of austerity and have been left behind"

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