by Liz Nuttall | Dec 2, 2022 | Cumbria, Pixel Tweaks, Ulverston
Welcome everybody to our new-look website, designed by Russell Holden at Pixeltweaks in Ulverston. I apologise to followers of Handstand Press who have been unable to access our site on the web in recent months. Since 2020 there has been something of a hiatus, during...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Book Launch, Cumbria, New book, Ulverston
Lots of Helen Shacklady’s friends and supporters came to join in celebrating the launch of her book ULVERSTON – An English Market Town Through History at the Coronation Hall, last night. In true Ulverston style there was poetry, music, a quiz designed by quizmaster...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | New book, Ulverston
This time last year I wrote that a new history of Ulverston would be published by Handstand Press in 2015. We are a couple of months late! I’m pleased to announce, finally, that ULVERSTON, An English Market Town Through History, by Helen Shacklady, will be in the...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | New book, Ulverston
Handstand Press was founded in 2005. Its aim was to publish Cumbrian books by Cumbrian authors, but chiefly to produce a new history of Ulverston. As a bookseller in Ulverston I had lots of enquiries from locals and visitors to the town and there was nothing in...
