Antonia Charlesworth

Editor, writer and activist 👓 ✊ ✍️ 🪑 @HOWBPL

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

https://t.co/why7vQ0Yiz

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Request for help. If you have any pictures or video of this weeks far right riots, or you have concrete details of anyone you know was involved please email us at [email protected]

[Kevin Gopal @kevingopal]

'Yesterday was not just about Blackpool but it would be untrue to say it’s not about Blackpool at all.' Strong piece on @bpoolsocialclub https://t.co/trgG8ocp1e

[Chris Webb MP @ChrisWebbMP]

My heartfelt thanks goes to every single person who turned up to the polls today. You have put your faith in me and I won’t let you down.

Tonight the politics of equality, integrity and compassion have prevailed over the politics of division.

Tonight we have taken the first steps towards building a better Britain and a better Blackpool.

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

Just 24 hours after allegations were made against Fylde MP Mark Menzies, Chair of Fylde Conservatives (@fyldeca) David Jones was questioned over his knowledge of what happened. 🧵 (1/2)

#Menzies #Blackpool #BlackpoolSouth #LocalElections2024 #ByElection

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

@CelineHWyatt @clancym123 @librarychampion @lemanieclaire @BarbaraMezes @h_chatterjee @jacquiohanlon @EricaWhyman Oh yes, this is on my list. Thanks for the rec x

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

“Our worry was that 200 skinheads and far-right activists would be drawn to the area and cause disorder,” said @lowles_nick of @hopenothate

How was a far-right festival farce averted in Blackpool? @antonia_mcs reports 👇
https://t.co/IiP7T76BaV

[Ed Walker @ed_walker86]

The Backlot cinema is big news in Blackpool, @antonia_mcs has taken a look at how cinema has played a part in the town over the decades in our latest edition of The Blackpool Lead @theleaduk https://t.co/JsJMUV44cd #blackpool #Cinema

[Ed Walker @ed_walker86]

And @antonia_mcs focused on the ceramics industry in Stoke-on-Trent, and the calls for @UNESCO amongst others to recognise the city's heritage and importance on this topic https://t.co/KjTKPATIAm

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

🧵 Catch up on some of our #BestRead stories in March

Starting with @antonia_mcs from #TheBlackpoolLead who speaks to residents of housing estate Grange Park https://t.co/xyjEaB7O7r

For more like this 👇
https://t.co/vUuPJNaUqH #Blackpool #Lancashire

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

Good news for Blackpool South tonight. Follow @theleaduk for all the latest on the recall petition.

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

🚨Breaking: Blackpool @ScottBentonMP suspended for 35 days, after falling for @billykenber lobbying sting. MPs approved suspension without need for a vote 🥲
Next step is recall petition. It needs to get to 10%.
Sign up to be told the minute it goes live🍿https://t.co/1bdYKd06yA

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

https://t.co/why7vQ0Yiz

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

The South Shore #Romany were central to the development of #Blackpool but as the town grew they were forced off the land they occupied for generations.

Thanks to @theleaduk and interviewees who helped assess past persecution how it presents itself in the present.

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

@Jessica_E_Brown @Hilary_W Is enough being done to recognise the contribution of South Shore Romany Gypsies to the development of Blackpool as a tourist town?

✍️ @antonia_mcs https://t.co/zB4tkZKdpI

#TheBlackpoolLead #Blackpool

https://t.co/zB4tkZKdpI

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

We are funding 56 new projects across England through the next round of our Everyday Heritage grants which tell the stories of our nation’s working class heritage. 👏

Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/wIqNSEeUSW

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

BLACKPOOL, LET'S BOOT BENTON. WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.

Now is the time to send him a message he can’t ignore. If he wants a recall petition, let's give it to him in spades.

Read the latest from ✍️@antonia_mcs
https://t.co/AwyOT6j8Nx

[theleaduk.bsky.social | theleaduk.substack.com @theleaduk]

Grange Park is one of hundreds of housing estates built after the Second World War. How has life changed in the decades since?

Catch up on the latest feature from The Blackpool Lead 👇
https://t.co/xyjEaB7O7r

✍️ @antonia_mcs

#Blackpool #TheBlackpoolLead

[The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine]

❛ Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

📚 Author Angela Carter, who died #OTD in 1992.

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

@MunicipalDreams Too kind! That’s a wonderful compliment and means a lot.

[Antonia Charlesworth @antonia_mcs]

Thank you John 🙏

[Municipal Dreams @MunicipalDreams]

This is an excellent piece by @antonia_mcs on 'The Changing Face of Blackpool's Grange Park' - of interest to locals but of wider interest and a model of how council housing should be written about.
https://t.co/HUH6loIEeh

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

Really enjoyed chatting to @iburrell at @theipaper about @theleaduk and our plans, together w @ed_walker86 & @Nmozz! Great to see the team's work getting noticed by UK's top media column 😌✌️+shout-outs to the work of @jm0ses, @KatharineQ, @antonia_mcs.. https://t.co/OlxuddDTKM