Lucienne Boyce
@luciennewrite.bsky.social
I write historical fiction (To The Fair Land, The Dan Foster Mysteries) and non-fiction (The Bristol Suffragettes). I blog about women's history, the eighteenth century, women's suffrage, books and writing etc. https://lucienneboyce.com/
Rereading Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, and Priestley’s When We Are Married at the Donmar in my latest Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
A Writer's Journal
November to December 2025
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December 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Rereading Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, and Priestley’s When We Are Married at the Donmar in my latest Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
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If you enjoy secrets, lies & twists, you'll love my psychological #thrillers. Read in ebook, paperback, large print or dyslexia-friendly print. And there's still time to buy #books as #Christmasgifts!🎁🎄📚
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#Christmas #Christmas2025 #ChristmasGiftIdeas #booksky #readers
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December 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
If you enjoy secrets, lies & twists, you'll love my psychological #thrillers. Read in ebook, paperback, large print or dyslexia-friendly print. And there's still time to buy #books as #Christmasgifts!🎁🎄📚
amazon.co.uk/stores/AA-Ab...
#Christmas #Christmas2025 #ChristmasGiftIdeas #booksky #readers
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#Christmas #Christmas2025 #ChristmasGiftIdeas #booksky #readers
One of the things I enjoy most about Christmas is listening to or reading favourite Christmas poems and prose. I've listed some of my favourites on my blog. What are yours? lucienneboyce.com/1971-2/ #christmas
Favourite Christmas Readings 2025 | Lucienne Boyce
I was at the Hawkesbury Literary Festival Christmas special on 6 December 2025, for a day of Christmas-themed readings, stories and talks. Gerard Boyce selected and read some wonderful pieces: ‘What t...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One of the things I enjoy most about Christmas is listening to or reading favourite Christmas poems and prose. I've listed some of my favourites on my blog. What are yours? lucienneboyce.com/1971-2/ #christmas
A young man has been saved from drowning but has no memory of who he is. When the man who rescued him is murdered on Christmas Eve, Bow Street Runner Dan Foster has to decide if the young man is a murderer, or a victim? A free Dan Foster short story for Christmas. lucienneboyce.com/free-dan-fos...
Free Dan Foster Short Stories | Lucienne Boyce
Hearth and Home: A Dan Foster Mystery – free short story A young man has been saved from drowning in the Thames but has no memory of who he is or where he came from. When the man who rescued him is mu...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A young man has been saved from drowning but has no memory of who he is. When the man who rescued him is murdered on Christmas Eve, Bow Street Runner Dan Foster has to decide if the young man is a murderer, or a victim? A free Dan Foster short story for Christmas. lucienneboyce.com/free-dan-fos...
Can you over-research, visiting Ancient Egyptians, and one of the best books I’ve ever read in the latest Writer’s Journal. (No I can’t keep a secret – it’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.) lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
A Writer's Journal
October/November 2025
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November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can you over-research, visiting Ancient Egyptians, and one of the best books I’ve ever read in the latest Writer’s Journal. (No I can’t keep a secret – it’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.) lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
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Distant echoes: small lives on the fringes of great events in #HistoricalFiction :
Distant Echoes: Small Lives on the Fringes of Great Events - Historical Novel Society
As writers of historical fiction we have so many choices to make: era, character, point of view, voice, whether to stick religiously to the facts or play with alternative interpretations and what-ifs....
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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Distant echoes: small lives on the fringes of great events in #HistoricalFiction :
I've just posted my "Three Favourite Reads of 2025" at the Shepherd book discovery website! What are they? And what would yours be? shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fa...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I've just posted my "Three Favourite Reads of 2025" at the Shepherd book discovery website! What are they? And what would yours be? shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fa...
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William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
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November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
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First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted
More than half of the 49 saplings grown from the illegally felled tree will be planted in a week.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"A fantastic #book"📖
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Clever & twisty"🥨
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Gripping #PsychologicalThriller"🔎
NEW 'Lies Between Friends' is getting great reviews! Buy the ebook now for £1.99, or borrow via #KindleUnlimited or your #library.
Start #reading now! mybook.to/LiesBetweenF...
#booksky💙📚
#readerscommunity
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Clever & twisty"🥨
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Gripping #PsychologicalThriller"🔎
NEW 'Lies Between Friends' is getting great reviews! Buy the ebook now for £1.99, or borrow via #KindleUnlimited or your #library.
Start #reading now! mybook.to/LiesBetweenF...
#booksky💙📚
#readerscommunity
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"A fantastic #book"📖
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Clever & twisty"🥨
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Gripping #PsychologicalThriller"🔎
NEW 'Lies Between Friends' is getting great reviews! Buy the ebook now for £1.99, or borrow via #KindleUnlimited or your #library.
Start #reading now! mybook.to/LiesBetweenF...
#booksky💙📚
#readerscommunity
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Clever & twisty"🥨
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Gripping #PsychologicalThriller"🔎
NEW 'Lies Between Friends' is getting great reviews! Buy the ebook now for £1.99, or borrow via #KindleUnlimited or your #library.
Start #reading now! mybook.to/LiesBetweenF...
#booksky💙📚
#readerscommunity
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After 41 years of selling books etc by & about women - here is my closing-down catalogue - Number 214. womanandhersphere.com/2025/10/16/f... More books will be added - so do check. Writing continues - new book from Bloomsbury in 2026 - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects
For Sale: Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 214. Closing Down Sale
Catalogue 214 LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP [email protected] I am now shutting up shop. It is 41 year…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
After 41 years of selling books etc by & about women - here is my closing-down catalogue - Number 214. womanandhersphere.com/2025/10/16/f... More books will be added - so do check. Writing continues - new book from Bloomsbury in 2026 - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects
Even if you don’t read Charles Dickens, you’ve probably heard of some of his characters – eg Scrooge. But who was his greatest creation? I ponder the question in a recent talk at HULF – The Human Interest Brothers: Dickens and Character lucienneboyce.com/the-human-in... #CharlesDickens #HULF
The Human Interest Brothers: Dickens & Character | Lucienne Boyce
Even if you don’t read Charles Dickens, you’ve probably heard of some of his characters – Scrooge, for example. But who was his greatest creation? This was the theme of a talk I gave at Hawkesbury Upt...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Even if you don’t read Charles Dickens, you’ve probably heard of some of his characters – eg Scrooge. But who was his greatest creation? I ponder the question in a recent talk at HULF – The Human Interest Brothers: Dickens and Character lucienneboyce.com/the-human-in... #CharlesDickens #HULF
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Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
October 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
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Join me to launch 'LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS'!
Online - Tues 14 October, 8pm*- book free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lies-betwe...
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Shirehampton #Library - Weds 15 October, 7pm, FREE! No need to book.
"A gripping psychological thriller that's hard to put down"
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- Readers' Favorite
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Online - Tues 14 October, 8pm*- book free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lies-betwe...
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Shirehampton #Library - Weds 15 October, 7pm, FREE! No need to book.
"A gripping psychological thriller that's hard to put down"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Readers' Favorite
*UK time
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Join me to launch 'LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS'!
Online - Tues 14 October, 8pm*- book free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lies-betwe...
.
Shirehampton #Library - Weds 15 October, 7pm, FREE! No need to book.
"A gripping psychological thriller that's hard to put down"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Readers' Favorite
*UK time
Online - Tues 14 October, 8pm*- book free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lies-betwe...
.
Shirehampton #Library - Weds 15 October, 7pm, FREE! No need to book.
"A gripping psychological thriller that's hard to put down"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Readers' Favorite
*UK time
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The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
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www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon!
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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On the blog: “A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930–2000” by Olivia Mason. An important read on overlooked contributions to Britain’s healthcare system.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist
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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist
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A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930-2000 by Olivia Mason
In a standout piece from Olivia Mason of the Young Historians Project, we hear about the latest project of the group: A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930-2000. The …
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October 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
On the blog: “A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930–2000” by Olivia Mason. An important read on overlooked contributions to Britain’s healthcare system.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist
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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist
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Vera Wentworth and Outstories, sculpted vegetables, and women in the archives in the August/September issue of A Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
A Writer's Journal
August/September 2025
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September 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Vera Wentworth and Outstories, sculpted vegetables, and women in the archives in the August/September issue of A Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
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Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.
Mudlarking, ankhs and ushabti, visiting suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s grave,in the latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
September 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Mudlarking, ankhs and ushabti, visiting suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s grave,in the latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
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1st of the month, which means my monthly Thoughts From A Devonshire Farmhouse post... the theme for #September? #Time #Devon #UK
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September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
1st of the month, which means my monthly Thoughts From A Devonshire Farmhouse post... the theme for #September? #Time #Devon #UK
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In the latest Suffrage Spotlight, I look at the career of Gertrude Baillie-Weaver (author Gertrude Colmore), anti-vivisectionist, suffrage campaigner, and theosophist. lucienneboyce.com/gertrude-bai... #votesforwomen #suffragettes
Gertrude Baillie-Weaver: anti-vivisectionist, suffrage campaigner, theosophist | Lucienne Boyce
If she is remembered at all Gertrude Baillie-Weaver is best known as the author G Colmore (George or Gertrude Colmore) whose 1911 novel Suffragette Sally was republished by Pandora Press as Suffragett...
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August 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In the latest Suffrage Spotlight, I look at the career of Gertrude Baillie-Weaver (author Gertrude Colmore), anti-vivisectionist, suffrage campaigner, and theosophist. lucienneboyce.com/gertrude-bai... #votesforwomen #suffragettes
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Time to book for this year’s Women’s History Network Annual Conference!
Join us to explore diverse histories, connect with fellow researchers, and celebrate women’s contributions across time.
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#WomensHistory #WHNConference #GenderHist #Archives #Libraries
Join us to explore diverse histories, connect with fellow researchers, and celebrate women’s contributions across time.
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #WHNConference #GenderHist #Archives #Libraries
July 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Time to book for this year’s Women’s History Network Annual Conference!
Join us to explore diverse histories, connect with fellow researchers, and celebrate women’s contributions across time.
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #WHNConference #GenderHist #Archives #Libraries
Join us to explore diverse histories, connect with fellow researchers, and celebrate women’s contributions across time.
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #WHNConference #GenderHist #Archives #Libraries
An evening with Jack Reacher (well, Andrew Child); plotting and planning; and being Living History, in my latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. (And a picture of Gromit.) lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
July 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
An evening with Jack Reacher (well, Andrew Child); plotting and planning; and being Living History, in my latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. (And a picture of Gromit.) lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...
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It’s UK National Marine Week! 🐟 We’re celebrating with rare fish prints from our collections by Hiroshige: the last great master of ukiyo-e woodblock printing, whose work even inspired Van Gogh. In his 'Grand series of fishes', they pair marine life with seasonal plants.
Read more: buff.ly/OYoIF6y
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July 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s UK National Marine Week! 🐟 We’re celebrating with rare fish prints from our collections by Hiroshige: the last great master of ukiyo-e woodblock printing, whose work even inspired Van Gogh. In his 'Grand series of fishes', they pair marine life with seasonal plants.
Read more: buff.ly/OYoIF6y
Read more: buff.ly/OYoIF6y
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Happy Birthday Ada Salter (nee Brown) born OTD 1866.
Bermondsey Icon.
- Social Reformer
- Trade unionist
- Environmentalist
- Pacifist
- First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909
- First woman mayor in London 1922
- First labour woman mayor in UK
Bermondsey Icon.
- Social Reformer
- Trade unionist
- Environmentalist
- Pacifist
- First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909
- First woman mayor in London 1922
- First labour woman mayor in UK
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Happy Birthday Ada Salter (nee Brown) born OTD 1866.
Bermondsey Icon.
- Social Reformer
- Trade unionist
- Environmentalist
- Pacifist
- First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909
- First woman mayor in London 1922
- First labour woman mayor in UK
Bermondsey Icon.
- Social Reformer
- Trade unionist
- Environmentalist
- Pacifist
- First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909
- First woman mayor in London 1922
- First labour woman mayor in UK