Of Lost Time

Uncovering the stories hidden in historical correspondence 🖊️

Visit our website & order the Letters for the Ages books from the Linktree below ⬇️

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That's a wrap on 2024 🎄

This year we've published 3 books - that's a mighty 246 letters!!

Support an indie bookshop this Christmas & grab your #LettersfortheAges books from @bookshop_org_UK
🎁Behind Bars: https://t.co/QU1LXvpJnt
🎁Great Scientists: https://t.co/n66ydRaKzd
🎁Churchill: https://t.co/NnEt3TfrTS

#2024Wrapped #wrapped #books #publishing #history

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#OTD in 1899, notorious American gangster Alphonse 'Al' Capone was born in New York, US.

Capone dominated the organized crime circuit in Prohibition-era Chicago, running gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets and orchestrating some of the city's bloodiest attacks on rival gangs

After lengthy FBI operations to catch the gangster, Capone was eventually arrested and imprisoned on charges of tax evasion and contempt of court in 1931

He was eventually sent to Alcatraz Penitentiary, where he passed his sentence by playing the banjo in the band he had formed with his fellow inmates - the 'Rock Islanders'

Read Al Capone's letter to his son about music behind bars in our book Letters for the Ages: Behind Bars - out now: https://t.co/MNgobZpeki

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#OTD in 1706, polymath and Founding Father #BenjaminFranklin was born

Though he is often remembered as a diplomat & one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, Franklin was also a great scientist, and his inventions & discoveries included:
⚡️The lightning rod
⚡️bifocal lenses
⚡️the Franklin stove
⚡️that lightning was made of electricity
⚡️ & much more!

Read about Franklin's experiments with electricity in #LettersfortheAges Great Scientists: https://t.co/eJjA5VOiPE

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly" - MLK Jr., 1963

#OnThisDay in 1929, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, US.

King was a Baptist minister and prominent political & social activist at the forefront of the civil rights movement. He is remembered as one of the most important figures of the 20th Century, and certainly one of the most influential activists of all time

#MartinLutherKingJr #martinlutherkingjrday

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#2024Wrapped #wrapped #books #publishing #history

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That's a wrap on 2024 🎄

This year we've published 3 books - that's a mighty 246 letters!!

Support an indie bookshop this Christmas & grab your #LettersfortheAges books from @bookshop_org_UK
🎁Behind Bars: https://t.co/QU1LXvpJnt
🎁Great Scientists: https://t.co/n66ydRaKzd
🎁Churchill: https://t.co/NnEt3TfrTS

#2024Wrapped #wrapped #books #publishing #history

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Read their stories in Letters for the Ages: Great Scientists✍️

Bloomsbury: https://t.co/orkehrzCc3
Bookshops. org: https://t.co/Pj6k0hcyJu
Waterstones: https://t.co/io6EmExKTG

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(1/6) Ever wondered what songs the #GreatScientists would have in their #SpotifyWrapped? We think it would go a little something like this:

Isaac Newton - had the best #bratsummer of his life🍏

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Albert Einstein - big tunes for a big thinker 🌌
#SpotifyWrapped

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@Calv31 @letterappsoc Amazing to hear, thanks Calvin! Hope you enjoy it 😀📚

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Thank you @letterappsoc for this lovely post! We're so glad you like the books📚

For anyone interested, our #LettersfortheAges books are currently in @BloomsburyBooks Festive Sale for only £14 each!

Great Scientists: https://t.co/orkehrzCc3
Behind Bars: https://t.co/XEBck4MtRj

[Handwritten Letter @letterappsoc]

Thanks so much to @Of_Lost_Time for generously donating these amazing books for the THLAS library. And helping to prove my argument! Like you say they really are “handwritten portals to the minds of people in the past.” ☺️📚✉️

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@letterappsoc We're so glad to hear you like the books! Letters are our passion & we're always excited to share the stories uncovered in our Letters for the Ages books with those who appreciate the power of handwritten correspondence as much as we do!! 😀🖊️📚

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Behind Bars is now only £14 in Bloomsbury's Festive Sale! 🎄🎁❄️

Order your copy here: https://t.co/MNgobZpeki

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The @BloomsburyBooks Christmas Sale is on 🎄🎁❄️

Grab your copy of #GreatScientists for only £14 !!

https://t.co/orkehrzCc3

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🎄 🎁 📚 The Bloomsbury Christmas sale is now on! Get 30% off hundreds of fiction, non-fiction and cookery books.

Browse here: https://t.co/0RPyCMUwmJ

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From Copernicus to Stephen Hawking, Letters for the Ages: Great Scientists offers a unique window into the minds of history's greatest innovators and thinkers.

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From Copernicus to Stephen Hawking, Letters for the Ages: Great Scientists offers a unique window into the minds of history's greatest innovators and thinkers.

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(4/4) Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 1969

"In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood"
- Bill Safire to Harry Haldeman (for President Nixon)

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(1/4) #WorldSpaceWeek celebrating 67 years since the launch of #Sputnik1 , 4 Oct 1957🛰️

Discover the history of space exploration in Letters for the Ages: Great Scientists, featuring the stories of
🪐 Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler
🔭 Newton, Herschel & Herschel
🚀 Apollo 11, Einstein, Hawking, modern-day NASA

https://t.co/eJjA5VOiPE

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(3/4) Discovery of the planet Uranus, 1783

"It appears that the new star, which I had the honour of pointing out, is a Primary Planet of our Solar System. A body so nearly related to us by its similar condition and situation in the unbounded expanse of the starry heavens"
- William Herschel to Sir Joseph Banks