Amy Binns

Biographer of sci-fi master John Wyndham, loves maps and built heritage, hangs upside down for fun.

[Amy Binns @AmyB_writer]

As an #indieauthor and publisher, I am proud beyond measure of this full page review in @TheTLS for biography Hidden Wyndham. Thanks to @goldipipschmidt and @StigAbell Glad you liked it! #scifi #biography

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

This woman should not be given ONE SECOND of airtime or attention from the media - whatever has led her to this is besides the point. She is causing endless harm and needs to be ignored and driven out of polite society:
https://t.co/TakdrLRmlE

[Fairer Disputations @FairerSexFD]

"We have built a technological environment that takes the rough edges of male and female psychology, sharpens them, and then expresses surprise at the result." @jo_bartosch

https://t.co/MW9NkCHiWU

[Sugabelly 🌕 @sugabelly]

Almost all immigration related problems can be solved or at least reduced by over 90% by making immigration extremely easy for female immigrants, and extremely difficult for adult male immigrants.

Virtually every immigration related problem in most countries is caused by MALES.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.

[Fin Taylor @FinTaylorcomedy]

Some news:

[Lucy Shaw @guildofstclare]

Big milestone for me today: I have submitted my final piece of embroidery for my Diploma at @RoyalNeedlework . This is my Whitework (Broderie Anglaise & Richelieu), inspired by medieval manuscript illumination.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Members of the Women Courage Movement in Afghanistan continue to raise their voices despite threats, writing on walls against child marriage.

Child marriage is a violation of human dignity and a threat to the future of children. The world must not stay silent. Where is the UN?

[Amy Binns @AmyB_writer]

@hongkonggraeme @johnrobb It's a great book and really does an interesting job of thinking about who most benefits from a longer life

[lu @hilosfemi2]

wow the girl that have to grow up with boys showing them porn and moaning in class at 13,calling girl with glasses Mia Kalifa and being asked for nudes at 14 and expected to want to be chocked and slapped in bed are against porn,i wonder why

[St. Edmund’s Falinge 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @StEdmundsRoch]

#IconsOnAmmoBoxes icons from #Ukraine Icons on Ammo Boxes #StEdmundsRoch 11th of May until the 29th of May Entry Free Donations Welcome 11am / 6pm

[ʙʏ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ ʜᴀɴᴅ @bymortalhand]

Did you know the UK has its own “Sistine Chapel”?

The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in London contains 40,000 sqft of hand-painted artwork by Sir James Thornhill, completed between 1707-26.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Whoever ends up leading Birmingham has a stark choice. Let Glenbrook Property demolish what was the UK’s oldest working cinema for a cheap tower

Or support Flatpack Festivals’ fully costed plans to create a UK leading historic cinema fit for the future

We say Empower Brummies!

[Jake Walker @jake_doubleyoo]

I think an ideal exhibit would have these base-layer reconstructions accompanied by multiple artistic interpretations of a fully painted version. That would communicate the limitations of our knowledge, while still giving people a more plausible idea of what things looked like.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Half a million views.
People just want to be able to enjoy their civic treasures. People are fed up of watching them rot for a decade while developers sit on them.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

How the ruins are displayed in Serbia.

[Amy Binns @AmyB_writer]

@LDR_JohnG Who has won in this ward? Sarah Courtney?

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Arts Council-funded magazine cancelled poet over her anti-porn views.
https://t.co/S1yLy2tHHQ

[Luke Daly @LukeDaly99]

Self-publishing still sits uneasily alongside traditional academic and commercial publishing. Nevertheless, today I learned that my self-published book 'Medieval Latin: A Beginner's Self-Taught Guide' has surpassed 500 copies sold, across the UK and internationally.

By most commercial standards, this is modest. Yet within the world of self-publishing, it carries a different weight for it is often noted, somewhat soberingly, that:

Around 90% of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies in their lifetime.

Against that backdrop, 500 feels significant as a reminder that readership, however small or dispersed, is real. In some ways, this is especially rewarding as, unlike traditional publishing, I am not only the author but also the editor, proofreader, marketer, and publicist.

More than sales, however, this book has opened doors. It has led to conversations, invitations, and opportunities that would have been difficult to access otherwise. In that sense, its value cannot be measured in numbers alone. It allows ideas to circulate, voices to emerge, and careers, in some cases, to take shape in unexpected ways.

I remain deeply grateful to those who have read, shared, or supported the book, and to the possibility that self-published work can, indeed, find its place.

#Publishing #SelfPublishing #Books #AcademicWriting #HistoryBooks #MedievalHistory #WritingCommunity #BookMilestone #NonFiction

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

A whole view of life is captured in the Old English word dūstsċēawung, which meant ‘dust-watching’ or ‘contemplation of dust’. People would watch motes of dust float in the sunlight, and think about how the dust used to be other things. A book, a tree, the walls of a city—a people, when it ceases to love itself—all will fade like the shouts of children on a summer day, or vanish like the memory of a dream. (IPA: [ˈduːstˌʃæɑ̯.wʊŋɡ])

[Dr Deborah Albon @albon_deborah]

It's out! 😁Thrilled to see my latest book - First Helpings: A History of Children and Food - co-authored with @HistoryAmy in print! Thanks @reaktionbooks for all your support. #foodhistory #childhood #histchild