Three-book author! Live in hilly Yorkshire with happy collie. Love outdoors, singing, writing & genealogy. Copyeditor. Trustee.
Holmfirth, Yorkshire UK
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Only a week to go until my latest @penswordbooks book hits the shelves. Shaping a Nation uncovers the extraordinary influence women have through being the prime movers & shakers in education. I'm awaiting my author copies with excited anticipation! pen-and-sword.co.uk/Shaping-…
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The reactions to this post are quite amusing. Am not sure whether the OP doesn't understand that complimentary is correct (as in free), or just making a joke about lockers being polite. But so many think it should be 'complementary'. 😅🙄
I posted this from the airport yesterday and since nobody got it, I am going to give it another go because it really is quite funny and I know you can do better.
COMPLIMENTARYLOCKERS:
“Oh well done, sir. Nice choice of luggage. And might I add, for someone who is out and about this early in the morning you are looking absolutely fabulous.“
Come on now people, don’t let me down.
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Was #DenisHowell the best politician for getting the job done? Only a few days after his appointment as Minister for Drought in 1976, it rained. And rained. And rained. I think we need him now!!
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I weep when I think of the girls in Afghanistan now being denied the education they deserve. At least Victorian British men were supportive of their womenfolk's endeavours to ensure girls were educated & could fulfil their potential. #women'shistory
#RecommendedRead 📖 Shaping a Nation – A History of Women as Educators and Education Influencers by @GaynorHaliday ✨
❓ Has this one made it onto your TBR yet?
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For those of you who like to read on a device, my book is available to download. Of course, if, like me, you prefer to hold a book in your hand, it's available as a lovely hardback book too 📕 🥰
🔉 Shaping a Nation by @GaynorHaliday is now available in eBook edition 🔉
Download your copy here ➡️ buff.ly/baTiRbn
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I love the responses to this. I can really identify with them. Made me giggle, which is a nice change from the usual Twitter stuff 🥰
Hi Jack, I’m 65, and two nights ago I realised, yet again, that I had done no revision whatsoever for the imminent physics A Level I never even took in the first place.
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Thanks @PSHistory for inviting me to write a blog about the first headmistress of the school I attended 🥰
💜 #WomensHistoryMonth blog takeover 💜
Miss Mary Eliza Porter: Pioneer of Secondary Education for Girls 💪🏻
Take a look at our guest post from @GaynorHaliday 🔗➡️ buff.ly/dVq89vY
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Where would we be without women who campaigned for girls to be educated? They started schools, raised money for them, & taught both girls & boys, shaping them for future life. Education wasn't 'a given' in 19th-century Britain #InternationalWomensDay
pen-and-sword.co.uk/Shaping-…
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Just started listening to/watching a video by @Miss_Snuffy & was struck by the similarities of her struggle to open a school with those women who pushed for good education over 150 yrs ago! Some things never change! pen-and-sword.co.uk/Shaping-…
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Gaynor Haliday retweeted
#MeetTheAuthor 👋 Say hello to @GaynorHaliday, with her recent release:
📖 #TrailblazingWomen Shaping a Nation: A History of Women as Educators and Education Influencers
🔗 buff.ly/VPDbgqJ
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It's a fab book! I am, of course, biased 😅
A new book by @GaynorHaliday Shaping a Nation - A History of Women as Educators & Education influences looks at the work of women who strived for improvement including 2 of her own ancestors in Huddersfield. 👇
huddersfieldhub.co.uk/hudder…
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Well, I can recommend 3rd & 4th in pile. One I edited, one I wrote 😄🙃🥰
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥
📚 New #History titles are here! Check out what's new and take advantage of the introductory discount, here 👉 buff.ly/ahHFqkX
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The moment an author says 'Yay' is when she finally gets to see her book in print! My author copies have just landed & I'm doing a celebratory jig round the kitchen (impossible to do a selfie🤣). Available to purchase via @penswordbooks and the perfect Christmas present 📖📚
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So many hours of research, distilling that research & then writing about the incredible trailblazing women who made girls' education something we now take for granted went into this book. It was a labour of love & I'm delighted to be able to share it at last! #WomensHistory
#RecommendedRead 📖 Shaping a Nation – A History of Women as Educators and Education Influencers by @GaynorHaliday ✨
❓ Has this one made it onto your TBR yet?
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#OTD in 1835 the amazing Mary Eliza Porter was born. She studied at Queen's College London before taking over a school for governesses in Tiverton in late 1850s. From there she opened a school in Gateshead, then was 1st head at Keighley, then Chelsea, then @BGGSchool #herstory
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#OTD 150 yrs ago, @BGGSchool was officially opened by Lady Lucy Cavendish. The local MP wisely noted that the happiness & success of men depended on women & asked, 'was there a subject more interesting to the advancement & prosperity of the nation, than the education of women?'
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#OTD 150 yrs ago, Bradford Girls' Grammar School @BGGSchool opened its doors to 112 girls, excited at the prospect of receiving a 1st-class secondary education for the 1st time. They'd only expected 60 to enrol, so had to recruit more trained schoolmistresses.
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104 yrs ago this week, Margaret Wintringham (née Longbottom) became the 1st British-born woman to be elected as an MP. She was born in 1879 in W. Yorks, trained as a teacher, became head of a primary school in Grimsby, but had to give up teaching on marriage in 1903 #HERstory
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You have to laugh at some of the nonsense posted on X! Woman who criticises Prince Harry's (correct) spelling can barely spell herself & is a complete stranger to punctuation. 😅🤣
Goood god he cannot spell his name correctly can anyone please show him how many Rs are in the abeveation of Henry thank god William was born first can you imagine what Henry the X would be like as a monarch he could choose beheading or divorce for the wife ethers fine by me👎
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Following our well-received performances in Paisley & Edinburgh, here's a chance to hear us perform this glorious work a bit nearer to home! Tickets still available 🎶
Martyn Brabbins tells us more about The Dream of Gerontius and what to expect for the spring concert here! ⤵️
youtube.com/watch?v=9-a5SIN5…
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