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danzep.bsky.social
If you’d like to see if I’m witty and humane off the page, do join me at a bookshop near you soon!

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March 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
chuckbrouillette.bsky.social
OnThisDay in 1942 #Manhunter debuted in #QualityComics #PoliceComics #8 #policeCadet #DanRichards take on #costumedIdentity toProveHisMentor’s innocence whenFramedForMurder #workingWithACanineSidekick #Thor later w the character acquired @DC.com an 80s plot has #ThorRevealedAsAManhunterAndroidPlant
January 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
chrispilley.bsky.social
‘Clouds, Cameras, and Courage’

Fascinating talk today about that maverick of early aerial photography, Alfred Buckham.

#Blipfoto #AlfredBuckham #photography #aerialphotography #talk #exhibition #Edinburgh #NGS #TigerMoth #DanRichards #NicholasJRWhite

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‘Couds, Cameras, and Courage’ | Chris_P
Fascinating talk today about that maverick of early aerial photography, Alfred Buckham. The images he created—following a career in...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
rubykye.bsky.social
This was such shoot!! Taken by @danrichards
June 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
danzep.bsky.social
'What's capturing your stray attention?'
So kind of Katherine May to feature Overnight on her substack. open.substack.com/pub/katherin... #katherinemay #overnight #danrichards
What's capturing your stray attention?
Yes, I know it's been a while...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
chuckbrouillette.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1942 #QualityComics #hero #Manhunter debuted in #PoliceComics #8 after #hisMentorIsFramedForMurder #policeCadet #DanRichards takes on this #costumedIdentity to prove his innocence #workingWithCanineSidekick #Thor later #DCComics -acquired 80s plot #hasThorRevealedAManhunterPlant
January 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
danzep.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece for the Society of Authors’ magazine about my grandfather’s working life on the mail trains and the joy of hand-written letters and cards at Christmas. 🎄📮👍

#nightmail #mailtrains #royalmail #gpo #handwritten #overnight #christmascards #danrichards
December 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Belated Day 20 - Bat stamps

#overnight #danrichards #bats #stamps
December 21, 2024 at 11:23 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Day 19 - Overnight, Chapter 5

RESCUE 912

Search & Rescue, Humberside Airport, Lincolnshire, UK: August 2022

"The sea shall not have them”

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December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Belated Day 18 - In August 2022, I spent 24 hours with Rescue 912 – HM Coastguard Search & Rescue helicopter crew in Humberside.

Here they are taking off around 00:30 to search for a man reported missing in fenland to the south.

#overnight #danrichards #hmcoastguard #rescue912 #searchandrescue
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Photographs from Pyramiden and Longyearbyen, Svalvard, Norway 🇳🇴 April 2018

#overnight #danrichards #svalbard #hopeinthedark #hope #light #iceland
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Worryingly, in the 18 months since my visit, bat numbers have tumbled and nobody is quite sure why…

#overnight #danrichards #greaterhorseshoebats

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December 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Day 14 - A few months after my first visit to Southampton Docks, the massive Ever Given container ship became suck fast in the Suez Canal.
‘The internet’ responded in a number of ways - I think this was my favourite

#overnight #danrichards #evergiven #suezcanal
December 14, 2024 at 11:04 PM
danzep.bsky.social
at the link below, for more voices and stories from that overnight shift including @bessbbe.bsky.social talking with great joy about driving the yard’s 08 shunter.

#overnight #danrichards #freightliner #southampton #southamptondocks #onlyafterdark #bbcradio4

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BBC Radio 4 - Only After Dark, At the Docks
Adventures into the night with writer Dan Richards
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December 13, 2024 at 2:07 PM
danzep.bsky.social
And here’s Day 12 - Straddle-carriers at Southampton Docks - 12th December 2020 - four years ago last night!
As heard on Only After Dark @bbcradio4.bsky.social

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#overnight #danrichards #freightliner #southampton #southamptondocks #onlyafterdark #bbcradio4
December 13, 2024 at 1:50 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Belated Day 11 - Finnish ice fishing bonus video - scooting around the Pellinge archipelago with Marie & Viking Kellgren on their fan-powered sled boat.

#overnight #danrichards #mariekellgren #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson #pellinge #pellingearchipelago
December 13, 2024 at 1:48 PM
danzep.bsky.social
as happens in Moominland Midwinter; you would revel in the return of jolly, itinerant friends, just as Snufkin’s reappearance always augurs the thaw.’

#overnight #danrichards #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson
December 11, 2024 at 11:06 PM
danzep.bsky.social
The blurb on the back of the book (second image above) gives some indication/foreshadowing of the darkness inside this classic ‘children’s’ book. 🥶

#overnight #danrichards #moominlandmidwinter #moomins #tovejansson
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Above 👆 are the first few pages. Pictured in this post are four of the albums mentioned.

#overnight #danrichards #discography #bonnieprincebilly #iseeadarkness #johncoltrane #johncoltraneandjohnnyhartman #echoandthebunnymen #thekillingmoon #oceanrain #nocturnalme #nickdrake #pinkmoon
December 9, 2024 at 11:00 PM
danzep.bsky.social
and look through the parts of Al’s archive relating to Night.

The most amazing, varied set of papers, notes, articles, & reviews - the Times photo essay about closure of Spitalfields caught my eye. Hopefully Vintage will republish Night soon

#overnight #danrichards #alalvarez #night #vintagebooks
December 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Day 6 - A little more about my grandfather’s life on the Bristol - Plymouth TPO

#overnight #danrichards #nightmail #mailtrain #tpo
December 7, 2024 at 12:02 AM
danzep.bsky.social
Having spent the previous evening drinking gin with @salenagodden.bsky.social, I remember feeling ‘delicate’ on arrival but Daisy Terry made me feel very welcome & sorted everything out with coffee & croissants 🥐👍

#overnght #danrichards #dustyknuckle #baking #bread #felicitycloake #croissants
December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
danzep.bsky.social
The ‘Night Mail’ chapter of Overnight contains more information about my grandfather’s work on the TPO and the Royal Mail trains which are sadly no more - the last having run in September.

Thanks to Vintage Trains

#overnght #danrichards #york #nightmail #vintagetrains #5043earlofmountedgcumbe
Poster for the Night Mail GPO documentary film of 1936
December 4, 2024 at 9:50 PM
danzep.bsky.social
Day 3 - A conversation with Michael Fassbender at 24h Le Mans, 2023, where he was racing a Porsche 911 in the GTE-Am category. Here he talks about night driving + the similarities between acting & racing.

Portrait by @nicholasjrwhite.bsky.social

#overnght #danrichards #michaelfassbender #porsche
December 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM
danzep.bsky.social
@bessbbe.bsky.social now drives freight trains across the UK, often on the night shift. She’s a brilliant author, illustrator and social media presence. Do give her a follow. 👍

#overnight #danrichards #canongatebooks #bessie #railfreight #gbrailfreight #canongate #onlyafterdark
Praise for Overnight by Dan Richards I loved Overnight. It is both gripping and consoling, and full of an intelligent, querying tenderness for its subjects. I was never sure whether l'd be moved to laughter or tears: often, it was both, and in the end I was sad to leave Richards' humane and witty company' SARAH PERRY 'Overnight takes us to hidden worlds that lie so far from most of our daily lives, but exist in such proximity to them. Dan Richards is an excellent guide, and this is a hugely fascinating, funny and moving book' CHRIS POWER The height of crafted eloquence' SAMANTHA HARVEY 'A revelatory journey into the teeming life of the night. Moving, engrossing, essential.' KATHERINE MAY I found Overnight to be a moving and sympathetic mix of the personal and the observational. Dan Richards captures that out-of-time, dislocated, slightly surreal quality that wakeful overnight hours possess. By turns emotionally raw, fascinating and even a little spooky' KASSIA ST CLAIR 'In Overnight, Dan Richards introduces us to the shadowy, starlit world of postal workers, night nurses, 24-hour industry, late night radio, search & rescue. We meet desperate rough sleepers, racing demons, new mothers... and what shines through most clearly is the humour and the pathos, the remarkable diversity in what it means to live, to work, to love. A lucid dream of a book, one that will keep you up late' CAL FLYN In Overnight, Richards casts the night and its many activities anew to create a book offering a rare type of solace. I've been almost pathologically afraid of the dark my entire life, but Overnight is a kaleidoscopic book, illuminating at every turn dark corners of both the night and our collective minds, until the idea of darkness became appealing, even to me' ALI MILLAR 'Dan Richard's writing spans great gulfs of emotion and experience. He is witty & profound and his curiosity and empathy know no bounds. He takes us deep into the night & brings it utterly alive. PHILIP HOARE
December 1, 2024 at 5:46 PM