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WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal 📌
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Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers: why female murderers are so rare – and the reasons they're likely to snap 📌
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The greatest books of 2025 by The Telegraph 📌
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Enclosure and Dispossession 📌
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Ian Tattum
3 days ago
Thanks to
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Fizz & Bubbles 📌
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The Unstoppable Roman: After decades of war between their cities, the generals Scipio Africanus and Hannibal faced off at the Battle of Zama. 📌
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Daniella M.
4 days ago
Check out Ann Elias's review of
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London Fortean Society
5 days ago
Saturday: 22 November 2025
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& online 11:30: The Devil in Church -Jeremy Harte 'a dragon, a fiend, a black pig or dog desecrating the sanctuary.' 4/10
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Malachi Whitaker
8 days ago
Karina Jakubowicz & Gerri Kimber discussing Gerri's new book: "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life" at Waterstones, Hampstead. The book reveals new research, with academic John Wood, on Mansfield's love affair with "New Age" editor AR Orage
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The Warburg Institute
9 days ago
Listen now to our latest Renaissance Lives talk with
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'Memling and the Merchants' explores the social and material aspects of Memling’s career and workshop.
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Renaissance Lives | Memling and the Merchants
'Memling and the Merchants' explores the social and material aspects of Memling’s career and workshop.
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Malachi Whitaker
9 days ago
Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age
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The History of Literature Podcast
10 days ago
For more about Gutenberg, take a listen to
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JR Moores
10 days ago
I'm on the Beatle Blethers podcast having a nice long chat about Paul McCartney in the 1990s. Video and audio versions here. Thanks chaps!
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Beatle Blethers Season 2 Episode 2 - interview with JR Moores
YouTube video by Alan McClure
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How Jean Baudrillard Turned Philosophy into Performance Art 📌
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Restless Soul 📌
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Listen now: New Books Network talks all things Caravaggio and Street Style 🔈
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12 days ago
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The History of Literature Podcast
12 days ago
@jackewilson.bsky.social
talks to author Gerri Kimber about Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life, which explores the life and work of one of literary modernism's most significant writers.
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748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker Who Burgled Him | My Last Book with Emerson Expert Kenneth Sacks
Katherine Mansfield's writing, said Virginia Woolf, "was the only writing I was ever jealous of." In this episode, Jacke talks to author Gerri Kimber about Katherin…
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The History of Literature Podcast
12 days ago
For more about Zola, take a listen to Robert Lethbridge's talk with
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Émile Zola’s Realism Without Radicalism 📌
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12 days ago
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Katrina Navickas
13 days ago
Thanks to
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for featuring my book in his pics for the FT Holiday Gift Guide. Very honoured. If the Jaws pinball machine is out of your price range, do consider my reasonably priced hardback.
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15 gadgets for tech heads – who love Jaws and juicing
HTSI’s in-house ‘nerd’ has got some smart ideas
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'Being old is not the same as feeling old.' 📌
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The lonely passions of Katherine Mansfield 📌
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Listen now: Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids 🔈
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14 days ago
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How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT 📌
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14 days ago
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Join Jules Stewart for a special event, 'Madrid: 63 Years On' 🎟️ Instituto Cervantes - London 9 December 2025, 6.30pm
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Madrid, 63 Years On
Jules Stewart´s life in Madrid from 1970 to 1987
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: The history of a ‘meat of many uses’ 📌
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An extensive account of an otherworldly ocean. 📌
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'an extremely well-researched and beautifully-illustrated book' 📌
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JR Moores
16 days ago
OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The Well-read Naturalist
17 days ago
Satanic unicorns‽ 😲 Apparently so. Lean more medieval horse history and lore in this
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interview of Dr. Anastasija Ropa by Dr. Jana Byars about Dr. Ropa's new book "The Medieval Horse" (
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Anastasija Ropa,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Medieval History · 11/05/2025 · 40m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-in-medieval-history/id1576359748?i=1000735363475
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Jana Byars
17 days ago
Nice
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about Trees Ancient and Modern:
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Cultures and
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Jack Jones
18 days ago
Look what just arrived. Looking forward to getting into this later! Particularly interested in the concept of the streets as an urban commons. Contested Commons by
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Karl Bell
about 1 month ago
Join me for 'Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea', a public talk @ Portsmouth University on 3rd February (5.30-7 pm). It is free, but you need to book a place @
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Tidal Terrors: Folklore and Supernatural Storytelling at Sea
Public lecture: The real life lessons from supernatural stories of the sea.
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Katrina Navickas
28 days ago
Thanks to
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for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here
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Deirdre Loughridge
26 days ago
Index for The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (
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Katrina Navickas
26 days ago
A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from
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The History of Literature Podcast
25 days ago
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." – Dylan Thomas
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talks to John Goodby, co-author of the biography Dylan Thomas: A Critical Life.
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677 Dylan Thomas (with John Goodby) | Emily Brontë and the Search for Hope
Dylan Thomas: brilliant poet or self-indulgent blowhard? In this episode, Jacke talks to John Goodby, co-author of the biography Dylan Thomas: A Critical Life , abo…
https://www.historyofliterature.com/677-dylan-thomas-with-john-goodby-emily-bronte-and-the-search-for-hope/
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Mathew Lyons
22 days ago
My pick of history and non-fiction books for October, featuring slave rebellions, the Weimar Republic, elves and fairies, espionage in the two world wars, snow, graveyards and more!
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Ten books to look out for in October
Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye
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Jack El-Hai
22 days ago
"Uncanny folklore linking seafarers across time." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of
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Elizabeth Currie
19 days ago
I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the
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Elizabeth Currie,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 11/02/2025 · 38m
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Will Jennings
19 days ago
Congrats to
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on her new book, which I'm very excited to read soon - & am 100% sure will get onto my seminar reading lists. Also lovely to see one of my Covid Picturesque photos make the opening spread. Out on
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Last chance to get tickets to see Gerri Kimber talking about Katherine Mansfield at Hatchards! 🎟️ 11 November, 6.30pm Hatchards
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On Katherine Mansfield, with Gerri Kimber at Hatchards, Piccadilly
Join Gerri Kimber to discuss her new biography “Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life” in conversation with TLS editor, Michael Caines.
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20 days ago
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Watch now: The moving life and legacy of Rome’s great emperor philosopher. 🎥
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William O. Stephens - Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King
The moving life and legacy of Rome’s great emperor philosopher. This book guides us through the fascinating life and writings of Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor. Philosopher…
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21 days ago
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Listen now: In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Professor William Stephens to uncover the life, legacy, and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. 🔈
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Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher Emperor | The Ancients
A podcast for all ancient history fans! The Ancients is dedicated to discussing our distant past. Featuring interviews with historians and archaeologists, each episode covers a specific theme from…
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I Just Learned Where Apple Bobbing May Have Come From, And I Had No Clue 📌
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22 days ago
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Book review: Finger on the pulsing beats 📌
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22 days ago
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The not-so-spooky origins of 'ghost' — and why the word still haunts our language 📌
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22 days ago
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It's Halloween season! Catch up with spooky goings on, exclusively on author Lisa Morton's YouTube channel 🎥
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22 days ago
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Inside L.A.’s chilling séance that gets deeply personal — and keeps selling out 📌
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23 days ago
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