Estou do lado do povo brasileiro. As manifestações de hoje demonstram que a população não quer a impunidade, nem a anistia. O Congresso Nacional deve se concentrar em medidas que tragam benefícios para o povo brasileiro.

Depilation for women in 1700s I have been taking a look at hair removal for women in the 18th and early 19th centuries and it seems highly likely that the only part of their body that they remove hair from was on their face. It’s not clear whether hair removal related just to eyebrows or all…

Today! Do send me an email for the link if you want to hear about the latest cosmetic and makeup history.

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

So hard to take photos when the wind is so fierce but is making my little art deco lover heart happy to be eating dinner in this building tonight.

Think this is going to be one of the more unusual (and extra fun) conferences have been to for a while. Love the view from the bedroom window.

Gotta love a five hour train journey, no catering and only one working toilet.

Me again, because I NEED you to know that your support for Spark Space has enabled the volunteers to prep the space for high school students taking the FIRST exams in 2 years. This week! Incredible, glorious hope. So keep it going. 16 hours left—213/350 chuffed.org/project/spar...

This is just perfection.

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I have a new kids' book out on Oct 14. DEAD ENDS is about medicine's biggest failures, and how failure often leads to scientific breakthroughs. You can preorder SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com: shorturl.at/Ji1UEr

I have a list (ever growing) of people I would take great pleasure in watching their spectacular downfall. It’s rarely spectacular enough 🤞

Love how this is how I found out.

So excited to launch Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup with this online event. If you want to attend please do email me via my website www.lucyjanesantos.com (I haven’t set up age verification on this so no DMs)

The latest paper in our Selling Beauty special issue has now been published. Jeaney Yip and colleagues explore Indonesian beauty ideals through the ads of local beauty brand, Mustika Ratu. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1108/JHRM... #beauty #cosmetics #marketing @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social

Have not been as lucky with Columbo - some of my least favourite ones today!

Oh gawd, my 8 year old nibbling has free choice on our next hobby. I was pushing for making/eating meals from countries around the world. Educational, practical and tasty. Looks like we are learning to roller skate 😬

This has been on my wall (in various houses obviously) since 1993 and today have just finished 76,000 words about Some Like It Hot- it’s filming and its legacy. Pooped but happy!

The relaxation gods smiled on me today - THREE episodes of Murder She Wrote that I either haven’t seen or seen so long ago that couldn’t remember them. Bliss.

So nice to know that today I only have to do my day job and not put in a full writing shift this evening. It’s done and am going to clock off at 5.30 and do nothing :)

This has been on my wall (in various houses obviously) since 1993 and today have just finished 76,000 words about Some Like It Hot- it’s filming and its legacy. Pooped but happy!

One last watch before the manuscript is submitted!

I am just so happy to have written a book that isn’t about radioactivity - although have got a quote about billy wilder that compares him radium and talk a little bit about atomic age anxieties so still on my bullshit.

Finished the last chapter!!! Just references and index to go (and a little more of a tidy up in places)

One more week till submission deadline for #NobodysPerfect - still a fair bit to do but I think it’s good!

Companies to pay $63M for Navajo Nation uranium mine cleanup Two major corporations have agreed to spend $63 million cleaning up uranium mine waste that has contaminated Navajo Nation land in New Mexico for more than four decades. United Nuclear Corporation and General Electric reached a…

Past events: are you curious to find out more about the time in the 1920s-30s when Croydon Airport was at the heart of a golden age of air travel? You can now watch the recording of the 'When Croydon Was the Centre of the Universe' talk on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYnF...

Congrats! This looks great.

Are you curious to know more about flats as an ubiquitous yet overlooked building type that changed urban living forever? Join us on August 28th to find out the role played by George Kay Green in building some of interwar London’s largest blocks of flats. www.ticketsource.co.uk/art-deco-soc...

So excited to launch Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup with this online event. If you want to attend please do email me via my website www.lucyjanesantos.com (I haven’t set up age verification on this so no DMs)

80 years ago today, in perhaps the earliest attempt to capitalize on and exploit the atomic bomb—only two days after Hiroshima was annihilated—the Los Angeles Burbank Burlesque Theatre advertised new “ATOM BOMB DANCERS” in the Los Angeles Evening Herald-Express (h/t @conelrad6401240.bsky.social):

I’m in my happy place - spent the Museum’s 17th (!) anniversary today working on the Flutter exhibition. 😅

The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to [email protected]. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Do you fancy showing us your favourite #artdeco tea pot, or a video tour of your house? Join us at our AGM followed by a special event where you'll have a chance to tell us a bit about your passion for Art Deco. Sign up here www.ticketsource.co.uk/art-deco-soc...

Was so proud of myself for dancing with my 8 year old nibling for ages last night and keeping up. Today my hip is reminding me of my late 40s reality 🤣

COMEDIANS / MEDICS / SCIENTISTS / MUSEUM FOLK / OTHER NERDS I'm looking for people who'd like to perform at a SPOOKY MEDICINE comedy show on October 29th. PAID (enough for you to write something new) 15 minute slots. Think Halloween / Horror / Goth stuff DM me if you've got ideas and fancy it

Wonderful new opportunity coming today from the Past Preservers team, if you not registered with us, do it now! pastpreservers.com/our-people/

Not gonna lie: I'm having a tough time. @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I have a kids' book out soon called DEAD ENDS. It's for kids 8-12, but we think everyone will like it. I'd love if you'd consider preordering a signed copy from @mysteriousbookshop.com 👇 www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/lin...

5 hours left! Survival—and our duty to Palestinians—does not stop with evacuation. Unable to work as a refugee, Ahmed has relied on us for EVERY basic need. Help get him his life back. 462/550 for his student visa fees. Extra = rent & food. PP: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF V: gothhabiba, ref “concert”

Ooh box full of paperbacks in advance of next weeks launch. Same content - slightly updated cover!

Ahem less than a week till this beauty is out on paper back. Where else are you going to get a history from literally the dawn of time to weird 50s music to bikinis and a hopeful future for clean energy.

Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium Published by Icon Books Paperback coming: 31st July 2025 Preorder - shorturl.at/lXNU9 via Hive Preorder- shorturl.at/Qmv4m via Waterstones or pretty much anywhere else you can think of!

Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium Published by Icon Books Paperback coming: 31st July 2025 Preorder - shorturl.at/lXNU9 via Hive Preorder- shorturl.at/Qmv4m via Waterstones or pretty much anywhere else you can think of!

And there’s still plenty to do- got some more archives in today that have information have never seen before which is exciting. And maybe another lead for something else.

But with five weeks to go till the final deadline there is still plenty of time to think it’s the worst thing ever committed to paper again!

Have reached the stage of my #wip where I keep opening the doc to stare in wonder at it- it exists and I think (hope) it’s good!

Have reached the stage of my #wip where I keep opening the doc to stare in wonder at it- it exists and I think (hope) it’s good!

Good morning Bluesky! I have a website. Please feel free to browse and join my mailing list. Thank you. www.kategarnermusic.co.uk

I work full time so my research/writing time is very much reserved for early mornings and evenings. Today am looking forward to delving into this as am researching the MGM makeup department and the use of toxic ingredients - in this case copper and aluminium.