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History writing, history, and writing #15
Mistaken etymology, miniature portraits, old books, superstition, and time travel.
Apr 1
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #14
Tudor treasure, historical crossovers, lavish houses, and writing ‘banging narrative histories’.
Mar 1
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Amy Freeborn
6
2
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History writing, history, and writing #13
Bromance, punk, archives, trees, and typewriters.
Feb 1
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #12
Believing women’s stories, embracing native languages, dictionaries, unicorns, and time machines.
Jan 1
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Amy Freeborn
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Favourite sentences and paragraphs from stories I read this year (2025)
Artistic revolutions, first drafts of history, and waiting for ideas to bloom; sedimentary records, object-based problem-solving, and cruel choices…
Dec 26, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #11
Social history, women’s education, typewriters, woodsmen, and war.
Dec 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #10
The art of naming women, working-class computer pioneers, literary forgeries, ruins, and ghost signs.
Nov 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
2
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History writing, history, and writing #9
Historic pubs, white horses, teaching women’s history, and lusting after ruins.
Oct 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
7
History writing, history, and writing #8
Re-writing one woman’s history, a woman who wrote her own history, a sorceress' kit, and a printer’s devil.
Sep 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #7
Women’s journals, positive plague outcomes, history detectives, and printing silk maps.
Aug 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #6
Handbags, manuscripts, Night Witches, and another London relic revisited.
Jul 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
2
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History writing, history, and writing #5
Digital archives, bone music, purple dye, and textile design.
Jun 1, 2025
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Amy Freeborn
2
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