Looking in an advertising database, @drewhobbs.bsky.social identified 85 regional or county magazines in England in 2025...

I loved Matt Davies' slide with the covers of the 17 produced by the same publishing company, Newsquest, which is in the business of capitalistic cost cutting...

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Nice discussion in the Q&A following Gary Kelly's declared political opposition to the *Chester Life*

@drewhobbs.bsky.social points out that we should study the techniques of all print, inc. fascist magazines

The actual editors' views don't necessarily align with those in the magazines
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If the Cheshire Life Digitisation Project gets funding, Matt Davies wants to interview contributors, readers, and—REALLY INTERESTING👉NON-READERS to ask what they think of *Cheshire Life*

@drewhobbs.bsky.social is transferring a recently retired photographer's archive to a county archive
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Matt Davies leads the Cheshire Life Digitisation Project & ties the magazine's success to how it:
1️⃣exudes positivity
2️⃣unites disparate elements of the county
3️⃣asserts uniqueness without putting other counties down
4️⃣claims to be the epitome of Englishness
5️⃣constructs an imagined community
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9.3. Commercial Perspectives: Marcela Scibiorska, Transnational Perspectives on North Francophone Publishers’ Commercial Magazines, Barbora Svobodová on Corporate Periodicals in Bat’a’s Global Expansion, & Laurel Brake on the Itinerant Contributor and the Worlds of Magazines #ESPRit2026

We're closing with a deep-dive into the *Cheshire Life*

Loving how Matt Davies is situating us (and his own life trajectory) on a map of Cheshire!

He hesitates to say he's from Cheshire because people will tend to this of 👇 TV show, which premiered in 2015 & is into its 19th season...

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And now! 9.1. Forms of Dissent: Charlotte Reihs on Proletarian Periodicals & t/ Politics of Radio in the Weimar Republic, Sophie van den Elzen on black Dwarf(s), free Speech & t/ 1960s Global Student Movement, & Elizaveta Shatalova on Counterpublicity in Post-Soviet Digital Periodicals #ESPRit2026

I'm amused by how two different regional institutions, 20 miles apart, are claiming Beatrice Tunstall as their own:

- the Cheshire Local History Association @clha.bsky.social
- the Warrington Museum and Art Gallery

In addition to being a writer, she was an actress.

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Next up is @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social about Beatrice Tunstall (1889-1966):

"Born and grew up in in Grappenhall. As a best selling novelist she based herself in Cheshire. Her subject matters were Cheshire customs, local histories and the countryside."
—Warrington Women: An Historical A-Z
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Oh, I didn't realize this project had its own Bluesky handle!

Follow at @placeperiodical.bsky.social 🥳

For more information about the upcoming *Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine* (2027) the 3 panelists are editing, you can read their call for chapters 👇 (deadline past)

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Initially, @drewhobbs.bsky.social had planned to compare English county magazines with their French counterpart, but he only found the one below 👇

Below the title, it says "Noël à Bangkok", or Christmas in the capital of Thailand...

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I love how @drewhobbs.bsky.social often refers to previous talks he's heard at a conference (organizers, always put him on the last day...)

In this case, it's Jutta Ernst's notion that "magazines create a world of their own"

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I've been looking forward to this panel!

"Provincialising the World: How Twentieth-Century English County Magazines Constructed Their Worldview"

@drewhobbs.bsky.social has really taken the theme at heart and shows how the world is represented in *Chester Life*, *Sussex Life Magazine*

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@hinesjumpedup.bsky.social contends that magazine culture created the independence movement in Scotland (did I get that right?) following the Winnie Ewing's sensational victory at the Hamilton by-election of 1967...

Remind's me of Paul-Émile Borduas's *Refus global* (1948) for Québec!

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Sabina Fazli is collaborating and presenting alongside @hinesjumpedup.bsky.social

His Scottish Magazines Network (SMN) is a research network about the Scottish independent magazine culture of the 1960s-1990s, in partnership with the @natlibscot.bsky.social

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After coffee 8.1. Magazines as Worlds & t/ Worlding of Magazines: featuring Jutta Ernst on Exile Magazine’s
Editorial Culture,
Sabina Fazli & Scott Hames on Independent Magazines &
Alternative Worlding, &
Oliver Scheiding on Traditions & Visions: The Worldmaking of Indigenous Zines #ESPRit2026

Oh, Andrew's back live-posting!

Sabina Fazli's research is rooted in Indiemags + Zines Mainz (IZM).

"Das IZM ist weniger eine Bibliothek als eine Arbeitsplattform für Nutzer:innen, die zu zeitgenössischen angloamerikanischen Zeitschriften forschen oder an Magazinen interessiert sind."

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What a wonderful project, this *Index of Modernist Magazines*!

It's described in:

“The Digital Database: a Model of Student, Staff, and Faculty Collaboration”

Case study #5 in *Making the Connection: Six Studies of Technology and Collaboration in Liberal Arts Institutions* (2014)

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For more on the Callaghan family as a Canadian literary family—in addition to Morley and Barry, it includes the latter's son Michael—see this article by @thestar.com:

"The ‘Intrepid Callaghans’ add a new chapter to their massive literary legacy in Canada"
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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The epigraph of the first issue of *Exile: A Literary Quarterly* is a translation of a quote from Québécois painter Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960) in *Projections libérantes* (1949).

*Exile* published texts by French-language Québécois writers translated in English.

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