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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9h

What Are My Top 5 UK Festivals?

We caught up with Traitors star Jack Marriner-Brown at the Humber Street Sesh and he gave his rundown of his personal best fests.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9h

What Are My Top 5 UK Festivals?

We caught up with Traitors star Jack Marriner-Brown at the Humber Street Sesh and he gave his rundown of his personal best fests.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 1d

Which Is Our Favourite Local Folly?

Our purposeless structures correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social uses a ‘research’ trip to Risby as an excuse to eat cake. Typical.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 2d

What Is The Role Of A Document Production Specialist?

Catherine, of solicitors Wilkin, Chapman Rollits, outlines what her job entails, and it sounds like the place would collapse without her.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 2d

What Is The Role Of A Document Production Specialist?

Catherine, of solicitors Wilkin, Chapman Rollits, outlines what her job entails, and it sounds like the place would collapse without her.

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Ally-mai @typicallymai.bsky.social · 2d

How well will a writer of non-fiction do when faced with a general knowledge quiz? Find out here:

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 3d

Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?

Troublingly bewigged author and cartoonist @mikebarfield.bsky.social attempts our Big Malarkey quiz, with @typicallymai.bsky.social acting as judge and jury.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 3d

Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?

Troublingly bewigged author and cartoonist @mikebarfield.bsky.social attempts our Big Malarkey quiz, with @typicallymai.bsky.social acting as judge and jury.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 4d

Did Hull Once Have Its Own Circus?

Another story from the ‘Well I Never Knew That!’ file from our bygone entertainment correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 5d

What Is My Favourite View In Hull?

Marianne Lewsley-Stier heads to the waterfront to explain the influence of the confluence.

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 6d

The long-awaited return of the mythbusters!

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 6d

Is That Really Mary Pickford At The Top Of The Tower?

Our Urban Mythbuster ‘Storm’ Amy Thompson blows back into @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social to solve the mystery of the identity of the lass atop the tower.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 6d

Is That Really Mary Pickford At The Top Of The Tower?

Our Urban Mythbuster ‘Storm’ Amy Thompson blows back into @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social to solve the mystery of the identity of the lass atop the tower.

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 7d

A National Poetry Day post from "the most poetic city in England"

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 7d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 7d

Two great E Yorks poets in one post here.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 7d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 7d

Who Is Douglas Dunn?

Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 8d

Which Hull Street Is Associated With England’s Fattest Vicar?

Our stout clergyman correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social gets perilously close to fat-shaming in this cautionary tale of street names and scale busting.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 8d

Which Hull Street Is Associated With England’s Fattest Vicar?

Our stout clergyman correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social gets perilously close to fat-shaming in this cautionary tale of street names and scale busting.

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Nick Quantrill @nickquantrill.bsky.social · 9d

Been out and about making some more short music films about #hull with @curiosityhull.bsky.social 👇

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

Which Punk Anthem Was Written On A Bench On Cottingham Road?

Author and aging Britpopper @nickquantrill.bsky.social goes the Whole Wide World to end up on a (probably) different bench to Eric Goulden.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

It’s already been pointed out that ageing has been spelled the American way in this post. As punishment, the person responsible will be sent to whatever the US equivalent of Coventry is.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

Which Punk Anthem Was Written On A Bench On Cottingham Road?

Author and aging Britpopper @nickquantrill.bsky.social goes the Whole Wide World to end up on a (probably) different bench to Eric Goulden.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 9d

Which Punk Anthem Was Written On A Bench On Cottingham Road?

Author and aging Britpopper @nickquantrill.bsky.social goes the Whole Wide World to end up on a (probably) different bench to Eric Goulden.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 10d

What Are My Top 5 Films?

Bex is the general manager at Artlink and a movie fan. Here are her five favourite flicks.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 11d

If you saw Alan Johnson on the Laura Keunssberg show this morning, you’re very probably wondering why she didn’t ask him what his favourite street in Hull is. Well, luckily for you, we did.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 12d

What Is My Favourite Street In Hull?

Ex top politician turned novelist Alan Johnson takes a trip back to a familiar and undeniably gorgeous thoroughfare.

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 11d

The public consultation mentioned in the article is the perfect opportunity to record your concerns, Lesley. Dive in.

Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 11d

What’s Happening With The Derelict Land Next To The River Hull?

The East bank of the river has long been a mess, but now you have your chance to say how it’s put right, reports our dilapidated riverside correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 12d

What Is My Favourite Street In Hull?

Ex top politician turned novelist Alan Johnson takes a trip back to a familiar and undeniably gorgeous thoroughfare.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/2hc9a6n6

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Curiosity @curiosityhull.bsky.social · 12d

What Is My Favourite Street In Hull?

Ex top politician turned novelist Alan Johnson takes a trip back to a familiar and undeniably gorgeous thoroughfare.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/2hc9a6n6

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