WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal 📌 buff.ly/wWlsk5a 📚 buff.ly/5oHuw0F

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers: why female murderers are so rare – and the reasons they're likely to snap 📌 buff.ly/LW5aHl2 📚 buff.ly/wKBXiba

The greatest books of 2025 by The Telegraph 📌 buff.ly/MWRIuEB

Enclosure and Dispossession 📌 buff.ly/nRyUjt4 📚 buff.ly/rdRUYIN

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social . Two more to review. Katherine Mansfield a crafter of superlative short stories , Richard 1 a king whose legend was crafted by ingenious story tellers.

Fizz & Bubbles 📌 buff.ly/RgVL9yD 📚 buff.ly/bPzKo9I

The Unstoppable Roman: After decades of war between their cities, the generals Scipio Africanus and Hannibal faced off at the Battle of Zama. 📌 buff.ly/t5PqXuE [£] 📚 buff.ly/18Eaas4

Check out Ann Elias's review of @helenscales.bsky.social's "Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep," published in 2025 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #oceanhist #maritime #histsci www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Saturday: 22 November 2025 @conwayhall.bsky.social & online 11:30: The Devil in Church -Jeremy Harte 'a dragon, a fiend, a black pig or dog desecrating the sanctuary.' 4/10 forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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 @litcamb.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Listen now to our latest Renaissance Lives talk with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 'Memling and the Merchants' explores the social and material aspects of Memling’s career and workshop. #CulturalHistory

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 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

For more about Gutenberg, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Eric Marshall White, author of Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books. #books #printing @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #offtheground #paulmccartney #beatles 68a9a46c09c9f0-62282495.castos.com/player/2203078 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWXV...

How Jean Baudrillard Turned Philosophy into Performance Art 📌 buff.ly/SKRlhJo 📚 buff.ly/dULnrM4

Restless Soul 📌 buff.ly/gtbIixm 📚 buff.ly/nDfbxVd

Listen now: New Books Network talks all things Caravaggio and Street Style 🔈 buff.ly/YGuMdRf 📚 buff.ly/mUzTldn

@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. #books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

For more about Zola, take a listen to Robert Lethbridge's talk with @jackewilson.bsky.social about Zola.

Émile Zola’s Realism Without Radicalism 📌 buff.ly/3cdO0Qh 📚 buff.ly/4VzfPrF

Thanks to @rhodri.biz 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. www.ft.com/content/29d4...

'Being old is not the same as feeling old.' 📌 buff.ly/tmZ3NO0 📚 buff.ly/HoZKHP8

The lonely passions of Katherine Mansfield 📌 buff.ly/lk6hnQv 📚 buff.ly/nDfbxVd

Listen now: Sex and sensationalism: a history of the tabloids 🔈 buff.ly/SrGssY1 📚 buff.ly/zZF3UfR

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT 📌 theconversation.com/how-the-fren... 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/jean-ba...

Join Jules Stewart for a special event, 'Madrid: 63 Years On' 🎟️ Instituto Cervantes - London 9 December 2025, 6.30pm

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: The history of a ‘meat of many uses’ 📌 buff.ly/p4HSXB9 [£] 📚 buff.ly/0q3QN9S

An extensive account of an otherworldly ocean. 📌 buff.ly/skRZ19q 📚 buff.ly/YMvoWIO

'an extremely well-researched and beautifully-illustrated book' 📌 buff.ly/cB3S7EB 📚 buff.ly/rPFMuSX

OFF THE GROUND is one year old. 🥳 “…a must read for serious Beatles fans.” 👇👍✌️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Satanic unicorns‽ 😲 Apparently so. Lean more medieval horse history and lore in this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview of Dr. Anastasija Ropa by Dr. Jana Byars about Dr. Ropa's new book "The Medieval Horse" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social / @reaktionbooks.bsky.social). #Booksky

Nice @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Charles Watkins of @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about Trees Ancient and Modern: #Woodland Cultures and #Conservation @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #skystorians #EnvironmentalStudies #Forestry #trees #nature #rewilding newbooksnetwork.com/trees-ancien...

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 @katrinanavickas.bsky.social

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 @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tidal-terr... @uopmaritime.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Index for The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-mus... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social ) submitted! It starts:

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 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

"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 @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to John Goodby, co-author of the biography Dylan Thomas: A Critical Life. #books #poetry @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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!

"Uncanny folklore linking seafarers across time." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @karlbell.bsky.social & @reaktionbooks.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️🪡 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Congrats to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social 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 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Last chance to get tickets to see Gerri Kimber talking about Katherine Mansfield at Hatchards! 🎟️ 11 November, 6.30pm Hatchards

Watch now: The moving life and legacy of Rome’s great emperor philosopher. 🎥 buff.ly/jwe3rXR 📚 buff.ly/9vrXGKN

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. 🔈 buff.ly/jgmEqJS 📚 buff.ly/9vrXGKN

I Just Learned Where Apple Bobbing May Have Come From, And I Had No Clue 📌 buff.ly/pQGDUvm

Book review: Finger on the pulsing beats 📌 buff.ly/4y5UuBr 📚 buff.ly/6x7XzSn

The not-so-spooky origins of 'ghost' — and why the word still haunts our language 📌 buff.ly/rJteQ54

It's Halloween season! Catch up with spooky goings on, exclusively on author Lisa Morton's YouTube channel 🎥 buff.ly/GtV7sSe

Inside L.A.’s chilling séance that gets deeply personal — and keeps selling out 📌 buff.ly/uAOYK9i