@nickhand

Interested, but not quite understanding / Director @deptsmallworks and @letterpresscoll / Photofilms https://xitter.cf/t.co/OsHh88wRdh / New book 👇🏽

 Bristol, England
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Welcome to all our #OnePortwallSquare cyclists. Dedicated cycle entrance, bike store, end of journey amenities and bicycle repair station #Bristol #Bristolcycling #cyclinglife
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If you're interested letterpress print / poems / bikes, come letterpress print a poem on a bike with me, @nickhand and the @DeptSmallWorks Printing Bike on the Bristol to Bath Cycle Path later this month 🚲✨
A poster showing a silhouette of Nick Hand and the Printing Bike. The text reads "A rearrangement of a poem by Holly Corfield Carr. Printing on the Printing Bike by Nick Hand. 11am-2pm. Sunday 26th March 2023. Mangotsfield Railway Station platform. All welcome, print your own postcard poem. www.mangotsfieldfolly.uk A partnership project with Sustrans & funded by Arts Council England & Emersons Green Town Council."

ALT A poster showing a silhouette of Nick Hand and the Printing Bike. The text reads "A rearrangement of a poem by Holly Corfield Carr. Printing on the Printing Bike by Nick Hand. 11am-2pm. Sunday 26th March 2023. Mangotsfield Railway Station platform. All welcome, print your own postcard poem. www.mangotsfieldfolly.uk A partnership project with Sustrans & funded by Arts Council England & Emersons Green Town Council."

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SF Said@whatSFSaid15 Nov 2022
MILLIONS & MILLIONS & MILLIONS OF US still use and need and love libraries - and library staff! They are vital & irreplaceable! The fact that YOU haven't been to a library in 30 years only shows that you know nothing about them, or about the people who love them. #SaveLibraries
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth15 Nov 2022
How does a Mail journalist think we should solve the crisis in local services caused by Tory underfunding? More cuts! "councils will have to make fundamental decisions. Do they continue to fund libraries? How many families go to libraries? I havn't been to a library for 30yrs"
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Love #cycling? Love #Printing? Love #Bristol? Then look no further. Our first event at #OnePortwallSquare with @bristolbikeproj @LetterpressColl #cyclefair
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In a supposed period of mourning when as ‘subjects’ we can’t even watch football the new king during the most condescending speech ever finds time to impose his son on Wales as it’s new prince 🤮 #thanksomuch #republicofwales #gweiniaethgynaladwy nation.cymru/opinion/declari…

Declaring a new Prince of Wales with no discussion with the people of Wales wasn't right

Ifan Morgan Jones There’s an interesting scene in the hit Netflix show The Crown where Prince Charles is being invested at Caernarfon Castle, and suddenly expresses sympathy for the political views...

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Brummie is the worst accent in the UK, according to a 2014 YouGov study These are all the British accents that got net unattractive scores: Brummie: -53 Scouse: -33 Mancunian: -31 Cockney: -30 Glaswegian: -29 yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyl…
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This is how these Tories rule: push through outrageous ideas - see also sewage, Dacre at Ofcom, defunding BBC, attacking GPs - and only back down if the response (especially from RW media) is damaging to them. It's emotionally exhausting! theguardian.com/politics/202…

Boris Johnson makes U-turn over anti-sleaze regime for MPs

Commons expected to vote as soon as next week on suspending Tory Owen Paterson after PM’s retreat

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The ⁦@guardian⁩ asked me to write about a moment that changed me. This was it: How a ‘death knock’ taught me about grief, respect and truth theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

A moment that changed me: how a ‘death knock’ taught me about grief, respect and truth

It was my first day on a local paper when I went to visit a bereaved family with a seasoned reporter. It shaped all the values I took into my journalistic career

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What a giant hunk of shite.
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My generation (born 1960s) to young people today: "Can you imagine, when I went to university, it was free!" Today's generation, to young people in the future: "Can you imagine, when I was young, healthcare was free!"
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Get an inside look at what it's like to be an #animator for Wallace & Gromit @aardman from @ernyberny Beautiful project called #Slowcoast from @nickhand @DeptSmallWorks - interviewing artists & crafts people around the UK. #creativity #passion departmentofsmallworks.co.uk…

Slowcoast — The Department of Small Works

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My favourite Meet the Maker so far. Great work ⁦@BobMytton⁩. 👏👏👏 I didn’t realise ⁦@nickhand⁩ founded thirteen. I once applied for a job there... before I set out on my own. Now I’m printing too and I have an Adana and Heidelberg’s. WP-Alan podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

Making with letterpress, films and a bike – with Nick Hand

Podcast Episode · Meet the Maker · 27 July 2021 · 54min

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'There is a time for everything – for sowing, planting, harvesting. A time for holding on, and a time to let go. A time for sorrow, and a time for healing. More so, there is, simply, time.' @kerri_ni's 'Thin Places' is published today. Read an extract: bit.ly/3ci6FCs
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"An endangered craft is like an endangered species. For example there was a ladder maker who was the last wooden ladder maker in Britain and also the last clockmaker, whose skills would’ve died with him." ~ @NickHand Interview recording & transcript: lttr.ai/ccE6
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On the newsletter: @kerri_ni, @JebLoyNichols, @_KevinBoniface_, @Mathew__Clayton, @nickhand, @cerilevy & @Hanpeel on mends, money, mash, & much in between; win a copy of @solwaywalker's 'The Fresh and the Salt'; PLUS vintage corncrake-wifery from @amy_may bit.ly/398KGMf
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"There’s nothing better than being in a workshop or a studio of a maker because the energy and the spirit in those places, whether it’s a leather worker in a shed or someone making jeans in a factory, it’s incredible." ~ @NickHand Full interview: lttr.ai/UoiN
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New Boots And Panties was rejected by all the major labels, who didn't know what the hell it was. Luckily, Stiff Records fell in love with this hotwiring of jazz, funk, music hall and punk, and on this day in 1977 released one of the best albums of all time #vinyl #iandury
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Did Boris Johnson really just say that France, Italy and Germany are only doing better then us with covid because we are freedom-loving people and they’re just basically characters from 'Allo 'Allo?
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"And every time I handle a piece of wood type, I just think, “What words did this make the first time it was used a hundred years ago?" ~ @NickHand Interview recording and transcript: lttr.ai/VBXo #printing #craft #creativity
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Thank you @recordsfriendly for the t-shirt, hand delivered by a nice bloke on a bike. Support your local independent record store 👍
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