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Tim Hannigan

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Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom , #TheTravelWritingTribe , Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo

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#TheGraniteKingdom (here with some previous iterations) is out in paperback today - in case you were waiting for a cheaper version! A long, meandering walk through Cornwall, and some musings on history, literature, myth, place and identity... @HoZ_Books

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2 years

I just noticed that something called "Morvah Standing Stones" now features on Google Maps, complete with visitor reviews. I'm rather delighted about this, because the "forgotten people of the past" who built it were Terry Davey and his front-loader, in the late 1990s.

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"I have never stayed there in late January. I’m not sure anyone ever has." How about the people who actually *lived* in it in decades past - and could again if your family didn't feel the need to keep a house to use for a week or two a year?

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Tim Dowling: it’s our first winter visit to Cornwall. Even the dog is despairing

The dog’s lust for life is extinguished by a cold cottage, frozen pipes, decayed wiring and dead moles

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1 year

Would you say the North-South divide line is in the right place?

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1 year

I've been asking people, "Where does #Cornwall begin?" during recent #TheGraniteKingdom events; quite a few mention the "Nearly Home Trees". Just a reminder that there's something very creepy about those trees, and I won't be going back there in a hurry...

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1 year

#TheGraniteKingdom is out in 3 months. It's about place, history, literature, the relationships between ideas from without and identities from within, and about the parameters of "home". It's also about a 300-mile walk through Cornwall during which I ate a *lot* of pasties...

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3 years

A thread on paths: we're told that people "need more green space" & "demand more access to the countryside" (also that Cornwall is "swamped"). In the last month I walked 100s of miles through Cornwall on public footpaths & Access Land. Many of those paths are virtually unused. 1/

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2 years

Obligatory cover reveal tweet! My next one, #TheGraniteKingdom A Cornish Journey, due out from @HoZ_books in May 2023. I'm more excited and nervous about this one that any other I've written, but I'm certainly delighted with the cover illustration from Matt Johnson.

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3 months

What the bleddy hell is he doing? That is NOT how you eat a pasty. This is Sunak's "bacon sandwich moment", surely... (for Cornish voters, anyway.)

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1 year

I haven't seen it yet myself, but #TheGraniteKingdom now exists in physical form. Out 11 May 2023... #Cornwall

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3 years

Whatever the case, Britain has an astonishing network of footpaths and footpath infrastructure. But to be a practical reality rather than a theoretical notion it needs to be used. The only way to keep a path alive is to walk it. So buy a map. And walk. @SlowWaysUK @RamblersGB 5/5

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1 year

This is an enslaved 10-yr-old boy from Papua who Thomas Stamford Raffles obtained in Bali, "emancipated" (in that special way involving no recovery of actual agency), renamed "Dick" & took to England in 1816. I've never found a reference to what became of him - would love to know

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Here, just over the back wall, is a path, marked on no map, kept open by the nightly passage of small feet - none of them human...

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4 years

Passed my viva today for my @Midlands4Cities @UoLEnglish PhD - no corrections, just a promise to fix up a few typos. Also signed a contract for the book version on Monday, so that's a fairly successful week all told. Shame it's the same one as that thing that's happening tomorrow

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#TheGraniteKingdom is out in 2 months from @HoZ_Books . Here's the final cover. It's about Cornwall, but hopefully also wider themes of place, belonging, history, literature and construction of identities. Anyone interested in reviewing, talks, podcasts etc., do drop me a line!

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Two brash students on train from Penzance; tattoos, mockney accents, the plump apple cheeks of prosperity above their scraggy beards. They've been down at the family second home: "Five days of pure rain and one trip to Land's End. Every year it just gets shitter and shitter" 1/

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10 months

I don't customarily bleat about "anti-Cornish prejudice" (because, like, c'mon). But why on earth is this meant to be funny? You're talking about one of the poorest regions in Western Europe, with some particularly grotesque social pressures atop the standard ones. Not funny.

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Londoners! Northerners! Let us cease fighting each other, and focus on our common enemy: the Cornish.

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1 year

#TheGraniteKingdom is out today! A 300-mile walk through #Cornwall , delving into its history and trying to figure out where the *idea* of Cornwall really comes from. Launch events in the coming weeks. If you read and enjoy it, please do leave a review in the usual places. Cheers!

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Cornwall, property and tourism - a thread. Off the back of C4's repulsive #FindingTheCornishDream some will inevitably say that "tourism" is the cause of Cornwall's social crisis around housing. But this needs some nuance. The issue is a specific trend *within* tourism. 1/

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3 years

Takes at face value a writer's claim that accusations of racism in her book were "made up". Ignores several women of colour pointing out exactly what folks are complaining about. Finally replies dismissively, but only when a white woman chips in. Great look. Really, great look.

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@gilly_partridge @ProfSunnySingh @chimenesuleyman @monisha_rajesh @KateClanchy1 @goodreads If you look hard enough, you'll find something to be offended by in every book ever published. A better way of reading is to see the whole picture, the tendency of the entire book. Clanchy's book is humane, warm, decent, generous, and welcoming.

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Re. the government-imposed threat to "low value" university courses in UK, this is the WEF's current "top 10 skills" for work - that's work in general, in any sector. Almost all of them are skills you'd get from an English Literature or other humanities degree.

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1 year

I've a piece in this weekend's FT on walking inland #Cornwall - from Tintagel to Looe via Bodmin Moor (part of the longer journey for #TheGraniteKingdom ) - and about the way travellers haven't always been so positive about Cornish landscapes...

The hidden heart of Cornwall

Turn inland from the celebrated coast path to find wild moors and thickly wooded valleys — an interior landscape disparaged by early visitors and still overlooked today

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2 years

All this love for #TerrysQuoit might open wider debate about authenticity in ancient sites! Within a mile you'll find Mên-an-Tol which may be 4k+ yrs old but has been rearranged since the c18th, & Lanyon Quoit, which is neolithic, but fell down & was put back wrong 200 yrs ago.

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Raffles and colonial whitewashing: a thread. It's 10 yrs since I first worked on the 1811-16 British interregnum in Java, but I'm sometimes still flabbergasted by the extent of the whitewashing of that episode in the biographical discourse about Thomas Stamford Raffles 1/

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Here's the cover art (by Matt Johnson, link in reply below) for my upcoming book, #TheGraniteKingdom : A Cornish Journey ( @HoZ_Books May 2023). This is the full jacket wrap without the text and I absolutely love it! He's captured the ocean-encircled quality of Penwith brilliantly.

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Mount's Bay morning, West Cornwall.

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4 months

The Granite Kingdom

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2 years

@History_Reclaim @M_H_Taylor @goulcher @BeijingPalmer Thanks for your response. Could you just clarify, please: Are you saying that if slavery really was rooted in racism the British would automatically have enslaved *all* the people of colour they encountered? And that the fact that didn't is thus evidence that they weren't racist?

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3 years

Cornish crocodile skin.

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Cover reveal! My next book, #TheTravelWritingTribe , Journeys in Search of a Genre, will be out May 2021, from @HurstPublishers . And a very pretty cover it is too, I think...

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Slievenaglasha on a grey afternoon yesterday - a Neolithic/early Bronze-Age wedge tomb with a c19th(?) hut built hard up against it. I always find a sense of connection in the Burren with Penwith - the same mad jumble of millennia, inscribed on the surface in stone.

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10 months

Most important day of the year tomorrow...

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2 years

Our place in perspective: BBC Radio 4 knocked off the airwaves in Morvah and Zennor today by RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta from across the Celtic Sea. A reminder that in West Cornwall we're closer to Dublin (and indeed Cardiff and Rennes) than London.

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Nice to finish the working week by signing a book contract - next project confirmed! I'll be spending the weekend looking at maps old and new, making a new shelf space and dreaming of dusting off my walking boots and backpack sometime next spring...

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He's playing for laughs, obviously, but that makes it worse - and reveals the monstrous blind-spot. This is pitched to a Guardian readership, who are doubtless editorially assumed to customarily wring their hands about food banks and the need for more rewilding over supper...

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5 months

This was a lovely surprise at the end of a long day - #TheGraniteKingdom in excellent company on the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award shortlist. Thank you!

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The Edward Stanford Award 2024 Shortlist is finally here! Congratulations to all the incredible Authors that are Shortlisted for The Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 🏆👏 @curlewcalls @leonmccarron @parfitt_tom @Tim_Hannigan @GhaithAbdulahad Alice Albinia

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Cornish postcard. That's me on the left, late 80s, Sennen. The beast is David Kemp's "Wooden Whaler" (the other boys is his son, George).

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2 months

#TheGraniteKingdom paperback is on the way - out on 9th May, if you're interested in an armchair odyssey through #Cornwall with a side-order of debunked myths and a whole lot of pasties...

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I have two Ds and one C (upgraded from an E at resit) at A-level. I also have a first-class honours degree and a PhD. One reason for this is the A-levels were in the wrong subjects for me (sciences) and the degrees were in the right ones (journalism and literature). 1/2

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2 years

@john_boyne The very best writers "challenge, disturb, outrage" *themselves*, dig into their own discourses, and would thus have no fear of sensitivity readers. Lesser, more fragile writers jealously guard their own complacent hubris...

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1 year

New development in the Cornish property market - a family of wrens have bought themselves a derelict swallows' nest in one of our sheds, and gone all Grand Designs on it, with a swanky new extension and some plush green fittings...

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@electra_rhodes I do sometimes wonder if the original standing stones were just put up for the craic by bored teenagers. "Look, mum - we made another one!" "Oh for goodness sake! Well someone's going to have to take it down when you're done with it..."

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2 years

"See Your Own Country First": Writing about this one this morning. GWR travel poster, c.1907.

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2 years

It's a good long way off yet, but my next book - #TheGraniteKingdom : A Cornish Journey - has appeared on the far preorder horizon. It's an attempt to write a travel book about the place I'm actually from, due May 2023.

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The Granite Kingdom by Tim Hannigan | Waterstones

Buy The Granite Kingdom by Tim Hannigan from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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10 months

@AyoCaesar I don't customarily bleat about "anti-Cornish prejudice" (because, like, c'mon). But why on earth is this meant to be funny? You're talking about one of the poorest regions in Western Europe, with some particularly grotesque social pressures atop the standard ones. Not funny.

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#TombTuesday - Chûn Quoit, the only wholly intact and unmolested of Penwith's half-dozen huge Neolithic dolmens. I had an uncanny experience there as a child - sitting quietly with my mum and several others on the capstone, we felt the whole thing vibrate, as if to shrug us off!

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Anyway, at least the granite is authentic in all of them (though I did know someone who used to live just down the hill from #TerrysQuoit who had a polystyrene standing stone in his living room, with a sword stuck in it...)

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8 months

Obligatory new job post: very excited to be joining ATU Sligo as Assistant Lecturer in Writing and Literature, teaching on a programme I've admired from a distance for ages. I think my term-time theme tune may soon by "I wish I was NOT on the N17", but delighted nonetheless!

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1 year

I never get tired of looking at this simple reorientation (which comes as a reminder that for most of human history water has been a connecting rather than an isolating element, that any given "centre" is not a natural fact, and that cultural frontiers are both porous and fluid.)

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@CatherineMMunro That's what we'd call a three-peg day (three pegs at each corner, that is). You might appreciate this poem by my dad, Des Hannigan, from a similarly windy spot down at the other end...

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5 months

There's probably still just about time to get a copy if there's anyone you know needs a Christmas present and is into travel writing, history, Cornwall, walking and stuff like that. And pasties - good for anyone who likes pasties too...

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2 years

And while we're at it, here's my artist's impression of the construction of Cornwall's mysterious places of prehistoric earth-energy and pagan magic...

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1 year

Finally got my hands on my own copy of #TheGraniteKingdom , and the reports are true - it is a lovely looking book! Here it is, plus what it looked like at a couple of earlier stages of the composition process... Publishes 3 weeks today, from @HoZ_Books #Cornwall #TravelWriting

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2 years

@History_Reclaim @goulcher @BeijingPalmer Hi History Reclaimed. As you like "facts" and "evidence", here's an 1816 ad from the front page of the British govt. newspaper in Batavia (where the British Lt. Gov. was also served by a large retinue of slaves). None were W.African; they were from Bali, amongst other places.

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3 years

The assault on the NT's engagement with the contexts of its properties surely involves some of the most egregious abuse of language we've seen. Those who literally want certain historical details erased from public view accuse their opponents of "erasing history" and "emotion".

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Corinne Fowler

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3 years

Providing evidence-based information about colonial history that's relevant to heritage sites is not emotionally based, although the history is sensitive & often traumatic. Resisting elements of that information because they cause discomfort is an emotional response.

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4 years

Sometimes it's useful to look at things from a different angle. A subtle reorientation: the Atlantic Edge.

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3 years

Final revisions approved and last copyeditor's queries done and dusted for #TheTravelWritingTribe - the book will be out in May. Right, time to get on with the next one...

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1 year

Attempted recreation of #TheGraniteKingdom cover. Unfortunately there were no compliant choughs of walkers on hand... (Book's out in May.)

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3 years

Apologies if I bang on about this for the next little while, but #TheTravelWritingTribe will be out next month. Currently available for preorder in all the usual places...

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1 year

Final stages... #TheGraniteKingdom

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On home ground: the Granite Kingdom; Penwith in the round...

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5 years

*Obligatory thesis submission photo* Now, time to do some actual work...

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2 years

And that's a draft, folks... #TheGraniteKingdom

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1 year

Hometown launch event for #TheGraniteKingdom coming up on 25 May at the awesome Edge of the World Bookshop...

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Book your spot to see @Tim_Hannigan at @Edgybooks , Penzance? The award-winning Cornish author will take his audience on a journey from the woodlands of the Tamar to the remoteness of Penwith - via the wilderness of Bodmin Moor. Thurs 25th May, 7.30pm

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1 year

A grimly compelling article by @JennyValentish on the influencers and digital nomads swarming to certain parts of Bali - the final description of a manbunned, crypto-trading hellscape called "Parq" is utterly dystopian...

Bali is overrun by influencers. Locals are fighting back

The island is a magnet for twenty-something digital nomads, life coaches and wellnesspreneurs, but their welcome has grown thin.

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3 months

It really is such a privilege to have ended up on this shortlist (though slightly embarrassing to find my modest toddle through Cornwall in the same stack as some of the epic journeys described here...)

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Alison Lear

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These 6 incredible books are my reading life at the moment 📚 All shortlisted for the @StanfordsTravel Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2024🏆 Looking for something to read? It’s these! @curlewcalls @GhaithAbdulahad @parfitt_tom #AliceAlbinia @Tim_Hannigan @leonmccarron

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On the home-cliff earlier in the week. Roaring air above, a secret stillness below; fugitive sunlight on Bosigran.

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2 years

@OnTheMarketCom @Channel4 Full disclosure: "Finding the Cornish Dream is a "branded entertainment partnership [which] aims to build awareness of OnTheMarket’s offering to buyers and sellers" - an "offering" directly exacerbating a chronic social crisis in Cornwall. Is this ethical programming, @Channel4 ?

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6 months

Delighted to see #TheGraniteKingdom make it into the Financial Times' selection of #BestBooks2023 in travel - in the stellar company of @saradwheeler and @noosarowiwa

Best books of 2023 — Travel

Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

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A fine review of #TheGraniteKingdom in this week's TLS from @akennedysmith . "There are shades of Orwell's tramping expeditions as Hannigan sleeps on open moorland, survives on Cornish pasties and is stoic about his blisters and sodden sleeping bag..."

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3 years

An oldie, but a goodie...

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1 year

Morning stroll up the line. Last time I was on this stretch of the #Cornwall coast path was towards the end of a tough day during the walk for #TheGraniteKingdom , with the grim prospect of Newquay ahead. Much more pleasant today, and Newquay looks rather pretty in the distance...

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11 months

My book about Cornwall, #TheGraniteKingdom , is out in the wild. If any reviewers or book bloggers are keen to take a look, drop me a line. And if anyone wants to chat about Cornish history, identity & the weird experience of writing a travel book about "home", give me a shout!

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3 years

A Cornish hedge is a thing built, not grown. These, at Carne, Morvah, are late ones, already there on the 1878 map, but probably built within that century. 5 feet high, 4 feet deep, perfectly crafted. The work that went into them - the labour built into this landscape - is awing.

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1 year

Pennywort, stonecrop, granite - Penwith, West Cornwall.

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5 years

Bandit Saints of Java, picked up from @Periplus_Store the other day, is an absolutely cracking book - based on deep engagement and proper scholarship but delivered in a super-readable popular style. I wish there were more books like this; kudos to @monsoon_books for publishing it

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1 year

First earlies in. Rhubarb already coming on. Half-past seven and there's still plenty of daylight to spare. The year is turning...

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3 years

Book's out today. Haven't actually gotten my hands on a copy myself yet, but my dad has - he's currently searching for typos...

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5 years

Early in #Underland @RobGMacfarlane makes the observation that unlike vertigo, the experience of claustrophobia can readily be prompted by description alone. He's right; the book is fabulous, but it contains passages (that's the word!) that are bringing me out in a cold sweat!

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2 years

@History_Reclaim @M_H_Taylor @goulcher @BeijingPalmer I see. Thanks. Perhaps rather than not enslaving everyone *because they weren't racist*, they simply deployed slavery where specific conditions made it the most practical/cheap system. I mean, there wasn't much of a plantation economy in the Middle East, was there?

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2 years

The Penwith Moors are at their best now. A green-purple-turmeric tartan with a cougar-coloured trim of moor grass.

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1 year

Just to warn you, #TheGraniteKingdom is out this week - I'll try not to be too tiresome about it! Anyway, I'll be talking about the book at Fowey Festival on Sunday if anyone's in the vicinity (more events elsewhere in Cornwall later in the month)...

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Lovely review of #TheGraniteKingdom in today's Irish Times from @clementswriting (who knows a thing or two about travel writing): "Hannigan has captured a portrait of a hidden and often mysterious Cornwall, conveying it with style, tenderness and passion."

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Forget Bait. Forget Straw Dogs. The real apogee of filmic Cornish gothic is Wycliffe. Stumbled on a rerun of "The Scapegoat" from Series 1 the other night. Had forgotten a) how bad the accents were, b) how bonkers it could be.

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Not officially out in paperback until next month, but one small herd has already escaped the warehouse and was spotted in the wild at @RedruthBookFest this weekend, thanks to @Edgybooks .

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A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates, smugglers and evocatively named saints… 🌊 #TheGraniteKingdom is a fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Cornwall by @Tim_Hannigan Coming in PB: @bookshop_org_UK

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Again, I wonder about the editorial sign-off. I'm sure there was some sense of "I think housing's a bit of a sensitive issue in Cornwall". But would the response have been "smirk & publish" for a piece this crass involving a similarly painful social issue in e.g. the "Red Wall"?

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Getting there...

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Publication alert: my piece on travel writing and the Tamar as #Cornwall 's imaginative (imaginary?) border in the excellent @OpenRiversUMN (a great model of what a scholarly journal can be - Open Access, interdisciplinary and with space for storytelling).

A Fluid Border: The River Tamar and Constructed Difference in Travel Writing of Cornwall

The Tamar is a relatively modest river. With a length of just 61 miles, and an average discharge at the upper tidal limit of just 807 cubic feet per second, it is dwarfed by other British rivers su…

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3 years

The onslaught on the NT's @ColonialCountr1 project, & the personal denigration of the academics involved, particularly @corinne_fowler , by the usual array of ultra-fragile bloviators has reached hysterical levels in recent weeks. It needs to be resisted

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I've been unfairly targeted, says academic at heart of National Trust 'woke' row

Professor warns of ‘political agenda’ to discredit researchers exploring slavery links

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9 months

Bracing down Cape tonight...

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4 years

A lovely surprise this morning - #JourneysInSearchOfTravelWriting , done at @UoLEnglish / @Midlands4Cities , has won the thesis award from @SelvaVoyage (which anyone working on anglophone travel lit should join, a great scholarly community). Book version should be out next year.

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The SELVA is proud to announce Tim Hannigan has won the 2020 SELVA Thesis Award for his dissertation "Journeys in Search of Travel Writing. A critical-creative interrogation of contemporary travel writing as a genre" (Leicester U. 2020). Warmest congratulations, @Tim_Hannigan !

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@monisha_rajesh @PhilipPullman @KateClanchy1 @goodreads Bloody hell. So, the author wrote this, the editor read it, at least a couple of other professionals worked through the manuscript before publication. I'm sure all of them would self-construct as "not racist", but none noticed the problem here. Wonder what they all had in common?

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Here ya go - discount code and all. #TheTravelWritingTribe , available this week - a journey that began at the end of a long white track in Cornwall, then journeyed via a @Midlands4Cities studentship, now finally out in book form...

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3 years

Out this week 🎉 ‘The Travel Writing Tribe’ by @Tim_Hannigan is a writer’s journey to find the truth about his own genre, from Orientalism and falsehoods to today’s new voices. Get 25% off with the code 'TTWT25' ➡️

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This is the route I took for the #TheGraniteKingdom (publishes tomorrow) - a very indirect one, from Launceston to Morvah - and a few of the overnight stops along the way. Reckon you can identify any of them? #Cornwall

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@OnTheMarketCom @Channel4 Channel 4 complaint form for anyone wishing to raise concerns about the ethics of this particular "branded entertainment partnership":

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That awkward moment when the socially inept guy at the party tries to insert himself into someone else's conversation and they don't even notice. Guterres and Jokowi having a grown-up chat; Boris Johnson realising "I don't know anyone here..." #COP26

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Just a subtle reminder with today's front pages of exactly *whose* lives matter, as far as UK print media is concerned.

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3 years

*Grumble grumble grumble, Cornwall's been ruined by tourism..." John Betjeman moaning in verse in 1974.

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A thorough review of #TheTravelWritingTribe here from the excellent @_alibhutto in @GuardianBooks , from the posh white men of old to contemporary "writing back"...

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The Travel Writing Tribe by Tim Hannigan review – an elitist genre?

Travel writing used to be dominated by Old Etonians with colonialist tendencies; but this well-researched critique shows that the ‘travellees’ are writing back

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Contract signed! Next book project confirmed... Patrick Leigh Fermor had his "Great Trudge", but what I'm gearing up for is a GEET STANK...

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"Now is the summer of our discount tents"... Take a bow, you nameless @guardian sub handling the letters section for this small gem of genius. (The letter it heads makes some decent points too, as it happens...)

Now is the summer of our discount tents | Letters

Letters: Wild camping poses real danger to the environment, says John Steele, while Judy Evans ended up sleeping in the car

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