Nick Pepper
@thenickpepper.bsky.social
PhD, late 20th / early 21st century national parks history, Hadrian's Wall Wetlands Landscape Recovery engagement officer, organiser of Allen Valleys Folk Festival. All views my own.
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Nick Pepper
@thenickpepper.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If you're into folk in the round... music, crafts, storytelling, written word, dance, co-creation, lore, please give our festival a follow and a share! It's not easy rebuilding on a new platform... @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
Here are some photos from this year's event...
Here are some photos from this year's event...
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Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Furness Book Fair, 2026
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
Open to an indie authors and indie bookshops in the South Lakes area. Contact me for more details.
The FIFA peace prize 🤣
Who knew?
Who knew?
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The FIFA peace prize 🤣
Who knew?
Who knew?
Crikey Farage has really lost the plot today... Bernard Manning? He isn't really cut out for the kind of politics where he isn't controlling the agenda, is he?
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Crikey Farage has really lost the plot today... Bernard Manning? He isn't really cut out for the kind of politics where he isn't controlling the agenda, is he?
People of Prudhoe poetry
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
People of Prudhoe poetry
'Cleaning to the back of the cupboard' - heard this for the first time in a political interview today. Is this the new 'straining every sinew', the new 'rolling up our sleeves'?
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
'Cleaning to the back of the cupboard' - heard this for the first time in a political interview today. Is this the new 'straining every sinew', the new 'rolling up our sleeves'?
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
"Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike..."
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike..."
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This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.
heckle.scot
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur.
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...
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Meanwhile, if anyone thinks there are are many Reform voters who think "I have zero trust in Labour on immigration, the small boats are still arriving, but *this* latest gesture at hardline policy is the one that will make me look again" I have a bridge to sell you. So who is this policy for?
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Meanwhile, if anyone thinks there are are many Reform voters who think "I have zero trust in Labour on immigration, the small boats are still arriving, but *this* latest gesture at hardline policy is the one that will make me look again" I have a bridge to sell you. So who is this policy for?
Fungi and mold earlier today... (Greenlee and Stonefolds, Northumberland National Park)
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Fungi and mold earlier today... (Greenlee and Stonefolds, Northumberland National Park)
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Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
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Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations to new Dr Nick Pepper (@thenickpepper.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Preserving Thirlwall Castle: Policy, Practice, and the History of Northumberland National Park, 1956-2002" on Friday!
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This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
Reminder that back in July Katie Lam wrote an article for the Sun on Indefinite Leave to Remain and the Conservatives' proposals.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
Allendale today... glorious afternoon
October 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Allendale today... glorious afternoon
When everyone has gone home, and I've turned out the lights, after the last gig on a Saturday night... what a day @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
When everyone has gone home, and I've turned out the lights, after the last gig on a Saturday night... what a day @allenvalleysfolk.bsky.social
Our Allen Valleys Folk Festival decorations team have done us proud with their Land of Lead and Silver themed stage and auditorium dressing... brilliant.
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Our Allen Valleys Folk Festival decorations team have done us proud with their Land of Lead and Silver themed stage and auditorium dressing... brilliant.
Gulls and graffiti
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Gulls and graffiti
Go @marina-purkiss.bsky.social! Excellent challenging of the Ferrari obsession with Angela Rayner. He doesn't like it up him!
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Go @marina-purkiss.bsky.social! Excellent challenging of the Ferrari obsession with Angela Rayner. He doesn't like it up him!
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Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
Sentencing policy has been in the crosshairs of the RW press for decades. It has been the political lever of choice for successive home secs. Consequently we have more punitive sentences than ever before. But it was always meant for other people, we weren't supposed to lock up people like us...
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sentencing policy has been in the crosshairs of the RW press for decades. It has been the political lever of choice for successive home secs. Consequently we have more punitive sentences than ever before. But it was always meant for other people, we weren't supposed to lock up people like us...
Looking forward to Farage condemning the length of sentences handed down to Just Stop Oil protesters. Surely... surely... he's only interested in the protection of freedom of expression. I can't believe for one second he has other motivations.
August 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Looking forward to Farage condemning the length of sentences handed down to Just Stop Oil protesters. Surely... surely... he's only interested in the protection of freedom of expression. I can't believe for one second he has other motivations.
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
Come to this gig in Allendale! Tickets from Gigantic. There will be very few opportunities to see Frankie at this price again.
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Come to this gig in Allendale! Tickets from Gigantic. There will be very few opportunities to see Frankie at this price again.
A walk around Dipton Mill
July 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A walk around Dipton Mill
The wistful pigeon of Conwy Castle.
July 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The wistful pigeon of Conwy Castle.