You know you are in for a treat when the @gailmyerscough.co.uk delivery arrives

Honestly I cannot get over it - my name on a book cover, next to the name of my favourite film (well the book is about it so yeah!) and with a picture of the main cast. Weeping ❤️❤️

Was in a grump this morning but just seen the cover of my next book and it is STUNNING. Can’t wait to share!

Oh so delighted this is out! If you are interested in beauty history - especially the marketing of it - please do check this out (and the rest of the articles too - although there are still two more to come!)

URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨 ​Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th). www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2... ​Includes Plus One & Double Airfare! ​Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!

If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif. (I mean it’s got to be - have watched more than 7 times in the lead up to my deadline)

If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih

What a wonderful resource.

But on the other hand they played a right 90 min set and we were out, on the train and back home by 11. Perfect!

The horror - am at a concert and the band am here to see do not start till 9.15

Very proud to have worked on Season II as a consultant along with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social! As with the first one: characters are inspired by real people but VERY much fictionalised. All storylines, too. Want the real Hezekiah, Alec and Sugar? THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - Duckworth - Oct 2026 📕🥊

Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov. There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...

Am so looking forward to 2026 and celebrating all things Marilyn. There are some great exhibitions planned and my book #NobodysPerfect is also coming out too. 👇 is at the NPG.

Am so looking forward to 2026 and celebrating all things Marilyn. There are some great exhibitions planned and my book #NobodysPerfect is also coming out too. 👇 is at the NPG.

The risible wages are well-known in the wider field of the library, museum, gallery and archive world. I’d like to think public opinion is with the people who make the place click day-in-day-out; they deserve better. Knowledge may be free but labour isn’t: spread the wealth and pay the workers!

THE DEAD COME TO STAY features #autistic protagonist Jo Jones, a murder on the moors, stolen artifacts, dodgy real estate billionaires, Jammie Dodgers, & terrible carpeting. Humor+intrigue #LGBTQ #neurodivergent representation! “A classic whodunit and a deeper family mystery.” –The Washington Post

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Only slowly did I come to see that in following the lives that came together on the streets of Seven Dials we might better understand how and why cities like London came to be as they are, and how they might have been made differently. 7/15

This book is where those journeys have brought me. It took me a long while to realise that these three things – a city, a trial, and a moment in time – were part of the same story. 6/15

'East End history, West End backdrop.' What a cracking phrase from @historitage.bsky.social: it really captures something of the character of Seven Dials in the 1920s and 1930s - as well as how outsiders often thought about the neighbourhood.

Publishing today! Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history

Tony Curtis later remembered her reacting with fury – shouting obscenities about Hopper and her so called friends. It felt like a particularly stinging betrayal. That it was Curtis who had confirmed to Hopper that he believed she was pregnant added to the conflict on set.

On the morning of Monday, October 20, 1958, Hedda Hopper’s column in the Los Angeles Times included a brief passage in which “Marilyn Monroe’s closest friends” speculated about whether she was pregnant. Hopper concluded: ‘If true, I hope she’ll be able to carry this baby.’ #OTD #NobodysPerfect

Join @artdecosocuk.bsky.social for their monthly online talk! We will be welcoming artist Danny Keen on 30th October to talk about Art Deco, Modernism and the Black Aesthetic. Tickets are available here www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

Join us for this special collaborative event with the Seaside Heritage Network, that brings together four speakers with distinctive insights into preservation, design, and place.

On the morning of Monday, October 20, 1958, Hedda Hopper’s column in the Los Angeles Times included a brief passage in which “Marilyn Monroe’s closest friends” speculated about whether she was pregnant. Hopper concluded: ‘If true, I hope she’ll be able to carry this baby.’ #OTD #NobodysPerfect

A weird question for my museum collections nerds on a Monday: Human Hair in collections. Who's thinking about/ writing about/ discussing this? What hair have you got? How do you approach potential sensitivities? Please share far and wide! #Museums #Collections #CulturalHeritage

Being the scenes glimpse into something have been working on recently. Can’t wait to share the full details!

Am not saying coming round my house is the best night ever but I do sometimes crack open this beauty

@cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are offering a webinar, Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers, for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Professional Development webinar series. Thurs, Nov 6, 2025, at 12-1pm. EST / 5-6pm GMT (& recorded) #renaissance #earlymodern #histsci #writingcommunity 💙📚 🗃 1/

Tomorrow night! Cannot wait for this - an in conversation with the phenomenal @bschillace.brandyschillace.com about all about trans histories, Dora Richter, Magnus Hirschfeld, and resistance under fascism. London people - see you at Waterstones's Gower Street, Thursday at 6:30pm

Vintage salon featured in a lobby card for THE BEAUTY PRIZE

(Yes!) and also someone who constantly fought to control her image and her artistic expression - constantly butting up against studio heads and directors who sought to belittle and demean her.

Whoop!

Just had my first (accidental) AI playlist. Was meant to be a soul/funk/hip hop playlist but soon realised that every song sounded the same but was only half paying attention. The songs ‘bottled water’ and one that lyrics were about being a fishmonger really made it clear. Absolute nonsense 🤣

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙 ☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

Madame Pangon, purveyor of Batik fabrics, had premises rue de la Böetie too, but plate 31 shows her temporary showroom at the #ArtDeco Exposition, by Bernard Hanbold with wrought iron by Raymond Subes René Herbst also had a shop on the bridge, more up-to-the-minute in appearance, visible in plate 32

14 hours left ❤️‍🔥 it’s my birthday and I have one ask: to sustain electricity for DOZENS of students taking their exams this week. In the north, yall. Among ground invasion, bombing, mass displacement, Spark Space is a project of resistance. 734/1000

Really looking forward to this!

Interesting conversation - especially from a history of makeup and different broadcast mediums pov.

This is a fascinating piece about writing biographies. Having just finished writing about the making of my favourite film, made by fave director, starring my fave actor and actress - the challenges posed by this resonate!

I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.

Since I’m awake… hi there, #UK friends! I’m coming to you on book tour for THE INTERMEDIARIES, a timely history of science, #transrights and the LGBTQ+ fight against Nazis. This thread has the events, and here is the full list on my site: brandyschillace.com

Aaaggh looks like have missed loads of emails over the last few weeks (maybe months) as they haven’t been delivered for some reason. If you have been in touch and I haven’t responded please do try again. Yikes!

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.