AMAZING AWARD NEWS!
This year marks the first ever Book of the Year: Graphic Novel category at the #BritishBookAwards, and we're delighted to announce that #ThisSlavery by @rickardsisters.com has been shortlisted!
Congrats to the shortlisters, and fingers crossed for May 11th!
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War crimes update.
I hope This Slavery wins the award (obviously). Very chuffed for you.
The cover of This Slavery graphic novel on a black background, with the British Book Awards Logo and the text Shortlisted Book of the Year Graphic Novel
A photo of the six shortlisted books in the graphic novel category: InvestΓGators by John Patrick Green, Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey, Bunny v Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business, Who Killed Nessie by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith, This Slavery by us and Ginseng Roots Craig Thompson
Weβre flabbergasted to see This Slavery shortlisted for Book of the Year: Graphic Novel at the Nibbies!
What an incredible list to appear on, and isnβt it great to have a graphic novel category
... and rich colours ensure the story is even more relevant today than it was a century ago." - @thebookseller.com
Congratulations to @rickardsisters.com, @selfmadehero.bsky.social and all involved.
www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
Well deserved recognition β¬οΈ
Sophie's "words pack as much of a punch as the original from pioneer Holdsworth (commonly regarded as the first female working-class British novelist), while Scarlettβs line work...
A book cover: on a dark inky blue background a five women stand together holding up an ornate protest banner which reads Constance Maudβs No Surrender, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. They are dressed in Edwardian clothing and VOTES FOR WOMEN sashes. The girl in the centre, who wears the shawl of a working woman, holds a loud-hailer
A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTHβS THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a manβs coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. Itβs all very βmills & doomβ
Looking for something to read during Womenβs History Month?
Both these graphic novels explore authentic experiences of womenβs place in early 20th C Britain - and told in pictures.
No Surrender is about civil rights and This Slavery is about industrial capitalism. Enjoy!
In Sheffield tomorrow night, and then every night through to Saturday. β¬οΈ
Great radical theatre! β¬οΈ
"Melania seemed to regard the [election] victory as her own as much as her husbandβs..." β¬οΈ
UNISON's re-ballot for members in certain universities opens today - voting papers must be received by 27 March AT THE LATEST so if your workplace is being balloted make sure you send a clear message to your employer that 1.4% is not good enough! Find out more at unsn.uk/3ZrKJwu
π The show is on the road! β¬οΈ
Respect to your dad! βπ»
Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory ποΈ
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Image description: Graph of median pay relative to 2018 adjusted for inflation shows it decreasing almost every year to 2025, where it is nearly 10% lower than in 2018. Picture of Unison, Unite, and UCU union members on picket lines with banners.
We can win a better pay offer in 2026!
We've suffered a 9% pay cut in real terms since 2018.
Management imposed another real-terms cut last year - insisting that a 2% increase was all they could afford - and then refused to negotiate with the unions. 2026 pay negotiations begin in April.
The NUJ has called for stricter legislation to prevent corporate surveillance of journalists and an independent inquiry into allegations Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate numerous reporters and their sources.
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
Echoing solidarity from Lincoln!
Ooh! This sounds great. β¬οΈ
I'd not come across @reformerofpeterloo.bsky.social before.
See peterloo-in-rock.com/about-us/
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, in which Rachel (our hero) and Jip (a very good boy) stand listening at an internal door. They both look unimpressed by what they hear
A panel from This Slavery graphic novel, showing a very fancy bedroom (four poster bed, William Morris prints, pre-raphaelite art on the walls). In the foreground a blonde woman lies face down alongside a dropped violin and bow. She is barefoot and wearing a nightie. There is blood on her right hand
The book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTHβS THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a manβs coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. Itβs all very βmills & doomβ
What are you up to this evening, fancy coming out for a drink?
Weβll be in The Walrus in Brighton talking to @cartooncounty.bsky.social about making This Slavery graphic novel
WE START TOURING THIS EXCEPTIONAL PIECE OF THEATRE THIS WEEK. 'THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS' ADAPTED & PERFORMED BY Neil Gore DIRECTED BY Louise Townsend DESIGNED BY Elizabeth Wright LIGHTING DESIGN by Daniella Beattie
@followers The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Sands Films Music Room
World Day of Social Justice highlights global action on poverty, exclusion, unemployment, gender inequality, and human rights βοΈ
We commit to work together at home and abroad - as union members and members of our community π
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UK unis: we need to pay mid-six figure salaries to the people in charge, because it is imperative we get the best and brightest to lead us.
Also UK unis: It isn't reasonable to expect us to do anything to solve any of our problems, or even to check whether a new problem might be brewing.
I read 'The Amistad Rebellion' some time ago. Now delighted to see this news. β¬οΈ
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Marc...
'relational practices are rarely used. βWe arenβt trained, we donβt have that expertise,β a deputy headteacher explained. βSo even if we had time for it, we canβt necessarily implement it because we donβt know what weβre doing if Iβm honest.β' ‡οΈ
I'm not surprised. We should all be alarmed. β¬οΈ
Another 200 job losses have been announced at the University of Dundee.
Read our response here news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
Caught up with this interview with @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social today. β¬οΈ
Very interesting and some reasons for a little optimism.
So much support from @northumbriauni.bsky.social students yesterday for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social strikers - they have sent 1000s of emails to the university and SU, and one lad wanted to give us the free coffee vouchers βhe got from the uni when his classes were cancelled! Solidarity! π«Ά
400+ redundancies, Southend campus closed, the foundation year department closed, other departments decimated...
...not a popular plan, it seems! Our tireless picketers have been chatting to hundreds of staff and students a day, and we've secured loads of new UCU and Unison members and supporters β
