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There’s a lovely new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London that aims to inspire kids through the aesthetics of #Egyptology — Having cowritten my own children’s book about Ancient Egypt with Dr Campbell Price, I spoke to the exhibition’s curator, Benjamin Hinson, for this month’s V&A magazine

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American Gothic Studies is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic, broadly construed. This encompasses considerations of literature, film, television, comics, and new media, as well as cultural artifacts and practices.

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I'm so excited to announce that mine & @odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/

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On just now on BBC Radio 3:

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From the archives of HORROR STUDIES: Cassandra Krauss traces versions of the Final Girl & slasher tropes in Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw & the 2022 film Prey, both of which unsettle the colonial histories that underlie #horror @intellectbooks.bsky.social doi.org/10.1386/host...

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The new Patrons-only episode of our new podcast Telefantasy Time Jump is out now! @lizbethmyles.bsky.social and I are surprisingly pleased at 1954's German/French/US version of Flash Gordon! www.patreon.com/posts/telefa...

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A month of early television OTDs: February With 88 original OTD posts now on this blog, I thought it might be appropriate to compile this index of the February ones www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/a-month-of-e...

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The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc. meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/

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Congratulations to our colleagues Dr Ruth Duffy and Dr Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social on winning the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book and Ann Owens Weekes Prize for best article in Irish Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, and/or Intersectional Studies.

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OTD in early British television: Today’s post is a melancholy little tale of a short, vibrant life in which early television played just a small part. The subject is dancer and acrobat Laurie Devine... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

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In Dublin for the relaunch of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies and already my mind is whirring too fast with ideas and connections and not enough time to unravel them. Also, tasty lunch from Sprout, and a chance to revisit locations from Ek Tha Tiger…

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It's the last chance to get tickets for Romancing the Gothic's two part 'Medieval Murder: Goth Detectives' course featuring a real Medieval murder case and Medieval Historian Dr Melissa Julian-Jones! ko-fi.com/s/0f39ad9500

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It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors. Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

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Yes, I have some writing to do, but looking forward to this!

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‘Now, the Workshop’s considerable archive of equipment is being recreated in new software, allowing anyone to evoke the same array of analogue sound that its pioneering engineers once did.’

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Are you interested in Medieval Lives? Queer history? Murder? Well, have a look at our 2 part interactive course Medieval Murder: Goth Detectives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9565535062...

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Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.

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A new special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television 'The Women Behind James Bond' has dropped. It covers everything from stunt women to wardrobe, to voice acting and (of course) the mighty Barbara Broccoli. Oh, and an article on casting by me.

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My latest for the BBC: To mark 20 years of The Apprentice, a ‘long read’, with archive clips galore, on the BBC’s portrayal of the workplace. From the heroic steelworkers of the 1930s to high-finance drama Industry. Via Dinnerladies, Clocking Off, The Office, W1A - and Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs’

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Here's the full rundown of @severinfilms.bsky.social's Valentine's Day slate: all curated, produced and art-directed by me!

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Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

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SUBMISSIONS - University of Glasgow’s first fantasy fiction publication Elsewhere, is calling for submissions! ‘We are interested in all forms of fantasy, but especially those with voices and stories historically under-represented in the genre. 1/3

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Come see Gigi on the big screen @vidiots.bsky.social in LA on Sunday at 3:30, featuring a video intro by Karina Longworth! vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/gigi/

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OTD in early British television: The afternoon schedule on Sunday 12 February 1939 began with two caption cards accompanied by Bing Crosby (on record) singing ‘Please’ and, I assume, some words from on-duty announcer Elizabeth Cowell. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

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OTD in early British television: The range of plays produced at Alexandra Palace from 1936 to 1939 is remarkable. Of the 400+ stagings, many were of popular potboilers, but there were also numerous classics from the tradition of English literature... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

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I watched Threads for the first time the other night and I’m going to pursue a slightly different talking point here: it’s really fucking good and it has such a specific, British tone, verisimilitude and sensibility that our milquetoast indulgence of American corporatism has all but lost.

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A month of television OTDs Welcome to a new index of the earliest group of my daily posts about an aspect of British television before the Second World War. Listed on the link are the posts that ran from late November through December. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/a-month-of-t...

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OK, so you missed it, but you don’t get off that easily — available now on BBC Sounds

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The Bridport Prize is offering two fully funded writer residencies in Dorset for writers from The Midlands and/or The North West of the UK who are working class and/or 60+ From Sunday 22 to Friday 27 June 2025. Writers must be available for the whole period. Details in link. Please share :)

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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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