Cold News

All the old news that's fit to reprint. Freshly mined from the British Newspaper Archive of periodicals from the 1700s to the present day. @BNArchive

[Garry Jenkins @garryj123]

@brianstelter Cloud seeding conspiracies aren’t new! Imagine how this would play out today! https://t.co/hpPCZwfNf9 #rainmaker #cloudseeding #weathermanipulation #texasfloods

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

Set in a unique period when London was a seething, city of beasts, The Devil's Menagerie is gripping lovers of twisty, dark historical fiction. https://t.co/gfUa8hmhvK

#writerslift #BooksWorthReading #Bookboost #writersoftwitter #RSPCA

[BookTop10 @booktop10list]

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What an interesting and informative video. Bravo.

[Cold News @ThatsColdNews]

Fascinating!

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

Draught dogs - St Bernards, Bernese mountain dogs, Bouvier de Flandres and Newfoundlands - filled the streets of Georgian London until they were banned in 1840. The Devil's Menagerie features a giant draught dog, Belgo that transports protagonist Charles Wheeler around London.

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

London in the Spring & Summer of 1822 is the engine room of an Empire, a raucous metropolis of one and a half million souls, but also, as poet William Wordsworth observed, a city of “beasts. Of every nature… convened, From every clime.” #Halloween

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[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

The residents of Mayfair keep mongeese and marmosets, cassowaries & crocodiles. Elephants and tigers are on show at menageries & travelling circuses while fighting bears, dogs & monkeys are still baited and bet upon in London’s bloody cockpits. #Halloween https://t.co/JRS1PO6CEo

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

Most sinister of all, the capturing and importing of ever more spectacular and fantastical new creatures from India and south America, Africa and Australia has become a lucrative - and ruthless - trade. #Halloween #DevilsMenagerie https://t.co/JRS1PO6CEo

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

An MP, Richard Martin, passes the world’s 1st animal rights Act, to protect “the brute creation”. With no constabulary to police the law, Martin forges a unique, new force. Only a few are devoted - or desperate - enough to risk death & enlist. #Halloween https://t.co/JRS1PO6CEo

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

1820s London was alive with exotic menageries, all - as here - advertising previously unseen wonders like the “horned horse or Nilghau”. (Probably a large Indian antelope!) Unscrupulous menagerie owners stopped at nothing to acquire #FantasticBeasts. #Kindle ##HistoricalFiction

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

And here is a contemporary report on the meeting in 1822 that gave birth to their movement. @RSPCA_official

[Caleb Brown @DevilsMenagerie]

The Exeter Change, on The Strand circa 1820 - once home to London’s most notorious menagerie, its most infamous attraction, Chunee the elephant, and the setting for one of the darkest moments in The Devil’s Menagerie. #KindleUnlimited #ScaryTales

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[Cold News @ThatsColdNews]

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[Cold News @ThatsColdNews]

Two hundred and two years ago - the birth of the animal rights movement and - eventually - the @RSPCA_official. Now the bloody beginnings are brought to fictional life in a thrilling new book.

https://t.co/28yA0Auz41

[Garry Jenkins @garryj123]

Some Monday morning news. @HodderBooks @TheVirtualPubQ1 📚😀

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Available to pre-order here:
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[BookTop10 @booktop10list]

Discover the best biographies of 'Ol Blue Eyes, #FrankSinatra. Books by Gay Talese, James Kaplan, @NancySinatra & others. https://t.co/wujceoqp38

[StreetCat Bob @StreetCatBob]

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[BookTop10 @booktop10list]

Get ready for @Sir_RidleyScott's epic new movie #Napoleon with these brilliant biographies and histories. @aroberts_andrew @CharlesEsdaile https://t.co/HuyHdf4xrr

[BookTop10 @booktop10list]

Prepare for @Sir_RidleyScott's epic new #Napoleon by exploring our list of the best biographical and historical books on Bonaparte. 📚📚 Discover masterworks by @aroberts_andrew, Michael Broers and @CharlesEsdaile & more. https://t.co/HuyHdf4xrr

[Chris the Bald @Wiseworlduk]

#OTD 1784 The first successful balloon ascent to be made in England was made by an Italian, Vincenzo Lunardi before a crowd of onlookers in London that included the Prince of Wales and other eminent statesmen.
His dog, cat and two pigeons flew with him.

[BookTop10 @booktop10list]

Discover our classic memoirs of homelessness, from Orwell's Down & Out in Paris & London, to @BriannaKarp's powerful A Girl's Guide to Homelessness & the uplifting @streetcatbob, about how a recovering addict found hope with his feline companion Bob. https://t.co/83BgYVLWHD