Hunter S. Thompson’s Prescient 9/11 Column Still Holds True Today
When the self-invented gonzo and sports journalist's career was allegedly in a terminal nose dive he wrote this piece for his Hey Rube column in the couple of days after the planes hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, because as he says 'even ESPN were broadcasting war news'....
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Common, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
A 1996 poem by Nikki Wordsmith that demonstrates her prowess on how to use common, comparative and superlative adjectives. Sort of.
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Ever Wondered How George Clymer’s Columbian Letterpress Worked?
A Guest Blog by Mike Haigh, Printroom Custodian at the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, Yorkshire, tells us how. The Columbian Letterpress Double Demi Revealed This hand printing press was invented by George Clymer, an engineer from Philadelphia, USA, in 1813. The design was the first all metal lever...
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How My Nana – Kathleen Earlam – Helped Me Become A Writer
Or How One Adoption Played A Crucial Role In Three Generations Of My Family Kathleen’s arm rests on an old printing press at the Beck Isle Museum in Pickering, Yorkshire. She possibly worked this exact machine – a Colombian Letterpress Double Demi – when she was a young woman...
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Dyslexia & The Reading Room: In Manchester Central Library With Jules Styles At An Interactive Literary Event by Quarantine Theatre Company
As it’s National Dyslexia Week, here’s a blog from the Nikki Wordsmith archives that touches on this topic in a celebratory neurodivergent way with the help of professional dog walker Jules Styles....
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