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Mike Sanders

@bronterre1.bsky.social

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# Chartism #C19th Radicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY "In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 4d

This edition of @BBCRadio4 #LastWord includes my tribute to the great poet Tony Harrison:
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Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching John Clare later today & these lines from ‘The Fallen Elm’ have just leapt off the page:
“Thou’st heard the knave abusing those in power,/Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free;”
Hoping my students will be able to draw the parallels with their own times.

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Wraith Games @wraith.games · 2d

October is National Co-op Month AND 2025 is the UN "International Year of Cooperatives"!

Since Wraith Games is a worker co-op, we figured the best way to celebrate would be to share some info about co-ops and why they're rad!

Ya'll ready for a thread?

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 4d

If you are in USA or Canada, please ask for This Slavery in your local independent bookstore or public library! And if you see it in the wild, please share photos with us!

Publication date for North America is this Tuesday, and it’s gone down well in the month it’s been out in Britain & Ireland.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 6d

That’s great - real progress! Give it time & he’ll come see you when you’re awake! A bit further down the line, he’ll probably start waking you up!

Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 6d

@leftypawprints.bsky.social just wondered how things are going with your cat? Is he venturing out from behind the sofa yet?

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 11d

Very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Harrison, a truly great #working-class poet. Probably best known for ‘V’ but fwiw I think his ‘School of Eloquence’ & ‘Continuous’ collections are outstanding.

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'V' by Tony Harrison

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 13d

Here at Kamera at Lloyd and Platt to see John McKay’s Reactor. Got my pick of where to stand!

Photo shows empty stage with drum kit, guitars, microphones, speakers etc all ready for the gig.

Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 13d

A bit behind with my podcast listening, so have only just heard this totally joyous episode of ‘Oh! Brother’ with the inimitable Pete Wylie. Many thanks to Pete Wylie & @ohbrothershow.bsky.social for 76.5 minutes of delight. I hope Pete returns for another episode.
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PETE WYLIE - How I Didn't Get Where I Am Today | Oh! Brother

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 14d

Book your place!

🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥

Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks

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Event poster for TROUBLE AT MILL: The Radical World of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. The illustration is of a huge cotton mill on fire, with the townspeople watching. Launch of THIS SLAVERY graphic novel by the RICKARD SISTERS featuring THE COMMONERS' CHOIR JENNIFER REID • BURNLEY YOUTH THEATRE CLARION CHOIR • JULES GIBB • JENNY HARPER
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER
ENGINE IN STEAM FROM 12 NOON • PERFORMANCES 1pm & 2•30pm
QUEEN ST MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM
Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BBIO 2HF
Tickets £ 12

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 15d

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.

They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.

We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 15d

Just deleted my academia edu account. Does anybody have any suggestions for an alternative not for profit platform where academics retain control over their work?

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 17d

Drawing the title page of This Slavery graphic novel

It’s a story about wage slavery, marriage, working life, family life - all of it in the shadows of Lancashire cotton mills, yet uncomfortably relevant to our modern lives

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 20d

Arrived in the post today, the ‘hard’ copy of the ‘Transnational Working-Class Literatures’ collection. Check out the wide range of contributions. Order a copy for/from your library! #WorkingClassLiterature #WorkingClassStudies

Image shows the cover of ‘Transnational Working-Class Literatures’

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 24d

Fantastic time at the Erik Satie exhibition at the Eugene Boudin museum in Honfleur - well worth a visit! #museesdehonfleur

Showing me stood behind a display case showing Satie’s trademark bowler hat, collar and cane

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 25d

It can take time; one of my neighbours (and an experienced cat dad) had one feral rescue which took almost 6 months before he was sufficiently comfortable to be brushed. But they repay the love you show them in so many ways!

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 26d

Stay patient, he’ll be sitting on your lap before too long!

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 27d

How’s your cat getting along? Is he venturing out from his safe space yet?

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just give him time and a lot of love. A covered hiding place can be helpful. He’ll come out when he’s ready.

Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Sep 2

Will do!

Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Sep 2

This rather splendid volume produced by the @rickardsisters.com arrived in my local bookstore today. Looking forward to reading this & what a great way to introduce people to Ethel Carrie Holdsworth

Illustrated book cover showing 2 working-class women set against an industrial landscape of the early 20th century.

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · Sep 2

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THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . .

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Sep 2

Glad to have been of some assistance - only disappointed that I didn’t get a chance to supervise the project! So pleased that you did get funding though and I hope you are justifiably proud of your book!

Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · Sep 1

@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Hi Daniel a quick message to offer belated congratulations on the publication of ‘The Rise of Office Literature’! So pleased to see this project come to fruition - well done!

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