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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 1d

Two days at BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Reading, working with wonderful archivists to go through Malachi's contributions to The Listener in 1930s and 40s; and hunting for BBC Radio 4 scripts. BBC aired 50+ broadcasts of Malachi's stories but sadly, all correspondence seems to be lost.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 11d

Opening March 2026, our new family exhibition will explore the enchanting world of fairy tales! ✨ 🏰

Read more about what 2026 has in store: bit.ly/BL-Exhibitio...

Two young children stand in an exhibition space in front of a moon and stars on the wall. Spotted lights shine down, and the children are looking up in wonder shining their own torch.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 5d

Wise words from EM Forster

Postcard @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 6d

Rocks at Night (1939)
by Paul Klee

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 5d

The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilling to see that in Italy, Malachi Whitaker's 'And So Did I' is available for online orders & delivery from La Feltrinelli

Light, dark & witty, this 1939 memoir is a book for our times

www.lafeltrinelli.it/so-did-i-lib...

And So Did I - Malachi Whitaker - Libro in lingua inglese - UEA Publishing Project - | Feltrinelli

And So Did I è un libro di Malachi WhitakerUEA Publishing Project : acquista su Feltrinelli a 26.40€!

www.lafeltrinelli.it

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 8d

"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention."

Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman

tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The Quiet Visionary From Yorkshire

Book Review: "And So Did I " by Malachi Whitaker (Recovered Books/Boiler House Press, 2025 ISBN: 9781915812759

tosh.substack.com

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 11d

Back in 2019, I told my UEA tutor that Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I was one of the books I most wanted to reissue if I ever had a chance.

And six years later, with the help of Valerie Waterhouse, Catherine Taylor, and @bhousepress.bsky.social, we have.

(One reason to be cheerful today.)

bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 11d

“And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social

“Tea, like death, is a great leveller.” @neglectedbooks @bhousepress #malachiwhitaker

Over the last few years, I’ve been happy to champion the Recovered Books imprint from Boiler House Press; since their initial release, “Gentleman Overboard” in 2021, they’ve…

kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 9d

Me trying to talk about neglected books with pretty much any man in real life.
"So, it's been out of print for how long?"
"Decades."
"Must not have been any good. [Pause.] D'you ever read Tom Clancy? He's good. The Missiles of October. Great book. You should read that."

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 8d

"Her work combines tension and keen observation in a uniquely captivating way. I love the book, and we owe thanks to Recovered Books/Boiler House Press for bringing [her] to our attention."

Review of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I. By Tosh Berman

tosh.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The Quiet Visionary From Yorkshire

Book Review: "And So Did I " by Malachi Whitaker (Recovered Books/Boiler House Press, 2025 ISBN: 9781915812759

tosh.substack.com

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 11d

Final review of the month on the Ramblings today, and it's another marvellous reissue from @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social "AndSo Did I" by #malachiwhitaker with a foreword by Catherine Taylor - a wonderful read!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 11d

“And So Did I is an engrossing, often moving, beautifully written and contemplative work.” @kaggsy59.bsky.social offers an enthusiastic assessment of Malachi Whitaker's unique memoir, out today in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press. Available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social

“Tea, like death, is a great leveller.” @neglectedbooks @bhousepress #malachiwhitaker

Over the last few years, I’ve been happy to champion the Recovered Books imprint from Boiler House Press; since their initial release, “Gentleman Overboard” in 2021, they’ve…

kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11d

We have LIFT OFF!!!

Bradford author Malachi Whitaker's 1939 light dark n witty 1939 memoir is relaunched by @bhousepress.bsky.social for the first time since the 1980s.

@bradford2025.co.uk
@bradfordtanda.bsky.social
@ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

With a big thanks to @neglectedbooks.com

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11d

Still a few spaces left for Malachi Whitaker workshop/lecture with @litcamb.bsky.social on 25/10.

Celebrating 130 years of Malachi Whitaker and Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 @bradford2025.co.uk

Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social · 11d

Just booked! She’s a new writer to me - heard of her through @litcamb.bsky.social & have just started reading her short stories, which are fascinating. I’m hoping to book your lecture & look forward to learning more.

Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11d

Ooh thank you Deborah. I look forward to hearing what you and the other participants think of the stories! Valerie

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11d

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker

Join us for the launch of And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, a memoir decades ahead of its time, from Boiler House Press

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 11d

"Life has been perfect in parts, and..I am and always shall be grateful and glad that I was ever born."

Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939.

Republished #OTD by @bhousepress after an absence of 38 years

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bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social · 11d

Available tomorrow, 30 September, from the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press: @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social's unique memoir, And So Did I, recovered with the help of @neglectedbooks.com, Valerie Waterhouse, and Catherine Taylor.

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 12d

"I am one of the teeming millions who do not want either Fascism or Communism. We will be neither led nor driven because we..don't want to have our thoughts broken into & rifled. But we are here as the grass is here"

M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939

2 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Bolton" (1937) by Julian Trevelyan. Collage shows mills and chimneys of Bolton, with the Pennines behind. Incorporated are newspaper and magazine cuttings of Spanish Civil War and rise of fascism across Europe, warning it could come to this Lancashire town. Bolton Art Gallery

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Sep 10

Live online course on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, with Lisa Mullen, Cambridge.

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Homage to Catalonia
• Coming up for Air
• Animal Farm
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tuesdays, 18 November to 16 December 2025.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/orwell-2025 #orwell

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · Sep 1

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker

Guest Post:
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/whitaker

On Malachi Whitaker's remarkable 1939 memoir, And So Did I.

@litcamb.bsky.social

New edition out 30 Sept. From

@bhousepress.bsky.social

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker — Literature Cambridge

Guest post by Valerie Waterhouse about Malachi Whitaker’s remarkable memoir of 1939, And So Did I , republished in September 2025 by Recovered Books

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 18d

130 years old today and she's got a book coming out next week! How does Malachi Whitaker do it?

Whitaker's funny, moving, ironic memoir, And So Did I, is available now from @bhousepress.bsky.social and @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

Cover of the new Boiler House Press edition of Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 12d

"I am one of the teeming millions who do not want either Fascism or Communism. We will be neither led nor driven because we..don't want to have our thoughts broken into & rifled. But we are here as the grass is here"

M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939

2 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Bolton" (1937) by Julian Trevelyan. Collage shows mills and chimneys of Bolton, with the Pennines behind. Incorporated are newspaper and magazine cuttings of Spanish Civil War and rise of fascism across Europe, warning it could come to this Lancashire town. Bolton Art Gallery

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 13d

"We can live in several kinds of confusion..& I am like the child in the fairy tale, & will still cry out that the king has no clothes on."

Malachi Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939

3 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · May 14

'The Emperor Has No Clothes', a tale by Hans Christian Andersen where a vain emperor is tricked by two swindlers who promise to make him a set of clothes that are invisible to anyone who is unfit to hold their office or is stupid... 1/

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · 14d

I like Everybody's Weekly..Surely there are times when most of us want to read some straightforward thrilling fact such as 'Only Had PenKnife but fought Man-Eating Tiger' or 'He Exhibited a Red Nose at the Flower Show'

M. Whitaker, And So Did I, 1939

4 days to publication @bhousepress.bsky.social

Quite Uninteresting @quiteuninteresting.bsky.social · Jan 9

Tipoo's Tiger is a life-size automaton of a tiger mauling a European soldier. It was made for a sultan in South India who had a thing for tigers and decolonization. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/tip...

Tippoo's Tiger · V&A

This life-sized, semi-automaton of a tiger mauling a man is one of the V&A’s most famous and fascinating objects

www.vam.ac.uk

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