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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 8d

That good?

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 8d

Did you catch the show?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely ... historians will reinterpret the apocalypse given half a chance ...

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 12d

From this day hence, if any should ask of thee why no one buys your books, simply refer them to 1668, when a theologian commented thus on some blow hard or other 'The invincible Obscurity of his Writings will prevent his being over-popular.'

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 14d

I'm plumping for magic ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 15d

A marvellous piece of work!

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Paul Thomas @paulthomasuk.bsky.social · 15d

You can get it from Westwood Books and there are even a couple of 1st Edition signed hardbacks that I had put aside but forgot if you search it on the site

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, Nadine Akkerman & Pete Langman

New Paperback A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a...

www.westwoodbooks.co.uk

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 15d

I always wonder how they shelved their books in this manner yet still knew which book was which ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 15d

Wanted: Spycraft from @YaleBooks has escaped from the Tower disguised as a paperback ... track it down at a bookseller near you today!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 15d

On the day the paperback edition of Spycraft @YaleBooks is released from close confinement in the Tower, here's an extract to whet the appetite ... www.the-emigre.com/column/the-c...

The Counterfeiting of Robert Gray — The Emigre

An extract from Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, out this week in paperback.

www.the-emigre.com

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 16d

I suspect that Trump et al have decided that autism is more prevalent in left-wing households (or that autism tends to make people lean to the left, for obvious reasons) ... thus making a 'cure' a way to increase their voter base (while allowing them to further demonise people who cry 'bollocks')...

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 21d

As in 'He's in a right state of Oxfordshire'?

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 22d

So the analogy is unwittingly perfect, then? Reform are not going to solve 'the crisis' because they are the crisis ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 29d

So ... is it a coincidence that EEBO only thinks I might be a robot when I'm summoning something by William Perkins?

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Sep 6

Will the $3,000 per book Anthropic ruling lead to a plethora of authors complaing that their book wasn't stolen to train AI models? It is, after all, not the most lucrative of professions ... authoring, that is.

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tssk. You experts and your pesky evidence-based interpretations! What's wrong with believing every spittle-coated lump of bile that drops from the various orifices of a hypocritical grifter with the intellect of a gnat? After all, he only has mankind's best interests at heart ...

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers.

#womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Sep 3

Delightful to find the pinky, or little finger, described in beautifully practical fashion as the 'eare-finger' (1644)!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now there's a defamation suit waiting to happen ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 28

Did I say JFK? RFU? KRF? Ah, KLF, of course ...

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 28

'The way of JFK'?

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 21

The real question is how much more likely are they to reject pieces that don't!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here's what happened when I was forced to bat left-handed one-handed due to a shoulder injury ... with apologies to Chris Woakes! www.petelangman.com/lefty-langman/

Lefty Langman | pete langman

www.petelangman.com

Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 7

Gets ever more pricey!

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oooh, very nice ...

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