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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 23h

BIG NEWS! I have rebooted my newsletter as TEA NO SUGAR for people who like the 18th/19th/early 20th centuries w/o saccharine. To kick off: a giveaway of 3 copies of the audio of my Victorian historical crime mystery 13 Park Lane. subscribepage.io/13-park-lane...
#historicalfiction

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · 1d

Relaunching my newsletter as TEA NO SUGAR. Watch out for details in tomorrow's feed. There'll be a chance to win an audio version of my historical crime novel 13 Park Lane.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8d

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN

They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King.

So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO

Location: Windsor High Street, UK

#trump #epstein

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 26d

FINALLY.

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is how to turn off AI search for Firefox! Hit the hamburger menu, open settings, and select "Search." Scroll all the way down and add a new search engine. Make it look like this (copy this for URL: www.google.com/search?udm=1...). Then select it as your default search engine.

Edit Search Engine box
Search engine name: GoogleNoAI
URL with %s in place of search term: https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 6

How an 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis was recovered 80 years later in Argentina

Painting was spotted online by Dutch journalists when the daughter of a former Nazi official put her house up for sale in Mar del Plata

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Re-upping this in light of the $1.5 billion settlement. Authors, make sure you register your details (see thread)👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just a shout out to #skystorians #academicsky #historians #historyteacher #18c #c18 #georgians #history of #Caribbean #slavery people that my new book #Heiresses is out now. You can read more about it here: www.heiresses.co.uk/about-heires...

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

the peace of the morning with the hell of the night before. During Sept and Oct half the revenues from Under Fire will go to Ukraine & Gaza medical charities.
*Please share widely*
Links to buying platforms are on my website: www.naomiclifford.com/where-to-buy...

Cover of the book Under Fire by Naomi Clifford, showing a young woman in 1940s service uniform and cap in front of a destroyed building.

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

June went to the ambulance station and listened to the screaming of the bombs. That night 843 incidents were declared. Over 850 people were dead, 130 of them children. In the morning, with the calm of a new day, many found it difficult to reconcile.. ⬇️

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

an inferno. "The fire was tremendous. One half of the sky was black smoke." At 8.35pm the sirens were going again - it was the second wave. "The sky was bright scarlet and remained so all night. The windows of the houses were brilliant with reflected light." ⬇️

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

85 years on Sunday since Black Saturday, 7 September 1940. June, a 25yo diarist and volunteer ambulance driver, who is the subject of my book UNDER FIRE, was sunbathing in a garden in Chelsea and saw "hundreds of planes in the sky, no bigger than pinpricks". By 5.30 the docks in East London was.. 🧵

Mono photograph of London on 7 September 1940, showing the River Thames and Tower Bridge with huge black clouds from that afternoon's bombing of the docks area

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

UK ppl: “don’t panic!!!”

Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · Sep 2

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...

LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert.

Pls share

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Sep 1

Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver - to mark the 85th anniversary of the #Blitz I will be donating 50% of sales revenues to medical charities for #Ukraine and #Gaza. Available in paperback or ebook. www.naomiclifford.com/where-to-buy...

Where to buy Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver - Naomi Clifford

Available in paperback and ebook. Don’t forget – you can order the paperback through your favourite bricks and mortar bookshop.

www.naomiclifford.com

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Aug 29

My next upcoming talk:
UGLY AS SIN: Women, looks and criminality in the Park Lane Murder
Tue 9 Sep 2025, 7pm at the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, London SE24 0DG
It's free but you should book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naomi-clif...
It's part Lambeth Heritage Month
#localhistory #historicalcrime

vintage photo from 19th century showing woman's head and shoulders - with text about the talk

Cover of 13 Park Lane by Naomi Clifford, showing back of a victorian woman in a green gown, with white lace trim.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks for the information.

Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social · Aug 23

Can someone in the US please explain the cracker barrel controversy to me. I’m a a bit lost. Thanks - your UK cousin

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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wills

Shakespeare will that sparked family row found in archives

The row was over William Shakespeare's grand Stratford-upon-Avon home in Warwickshire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 20

Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading

Culture minister says government will propose ending the 25% rate, the highest in the world, in its budget bill Denmark is to stop charging VAT on books in an attempt to get more people reading. At 25%, the country’s tax rate on books is the highest in the world, a policy the government believes is contributing to a growing “reading crisis”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · Aug 17

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

www.theguardian.com

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · Aug 14

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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