www.instagram.com/p/DPUYx37jLj... A nice review from Lisa Hamer for #choiceofdarkness 'a fascinating read, the research in this book really comes through....I couldn’t put it down, I love reading true crime and although it’s listed as historical fiction it reads more factual than not.'

My best books about guilt and suspense #choiceofdarkness shepherd.com/best-books/g...

Day two of my blog tour for Choice of Darkness - one four star and one five star review so far. #choiceofdarkness www.ebay.co.uk/itm/27731968...

Violent crime with injury is down in every London borough thanks to the collective efforts of the police and London's Violence Reduction Unit. But one death or one crime is one too many - so we’ll keep working with partners and the government to drive down crime and make London safer for everyone.

Saw Oscar Wilde's rarely-performed 'Vera or The Nihilists' @brocjacktheatre, his only serious play, and I reviewed it for @playstosee, 'a rare chance to see an important piece of theatre history' history.https://playstosee.com/reviews/uk-reviews/london/vera-or-the-nihilists/ #theatre

A four star review of Choice of Darkness from Lady J Reads www.instagram.com/lady_j_reads/ 'I could almost see Henry slipping from the detective's hands time and time again. Will Frank ever find enough evidence? Will he ever get his redemption?' #choiceofdarkness tinyurl.com/fuzwwwsj

Just days to the official launch of Choice of Darkness with my tour. #choiceofdarknessbook

Just days to the official launch of Choice of Darkness with my tour. #choiceofdarknessbook

Looking forward to this tonight!

Tickets still available! Click on the link

I talk about the decadent poet of love and death Ernest Dowson at Kirkdale bookshop, Sydenham, on Thursday 10, commemorating his 125th anniversary and my biography of him. kirkdalebookshop.com/madder-music...

Here, @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social shares personal insights into Benn’s humour, values and the enduring relevance of his vision in today’s world 👉 www.bitebackpublishing.com/posts/tony-b...

'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter'...I'll be talking about decadent poet Ernest Dowson at Kirkdale Bookshop on Thursday 10, promoting the updated reissue of my biography for the 125th anniversary of his death day. www.ticketsource.co.uk/Kirkdale-Boo... #booksky #decadence #1890s

In 1978, Pillsbury Company sued SCREW for $50 MILLION for trademark dilution for comic strips depicting the Pillsbury Doughboy banging the bound-and-gagged Doughgirl, culminating in a yeast infection. We won, and the legal precedent for explicit parody was established. You're welcome, Axel Braun! 😜

Just under a month to go to the Benn Legacy Conference @uniwestminster 11-13 April. www.thebennlegacy.co.uk The first event is a conversation between Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Melissa Benn on Friday 11 Tickets free but you have to book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jeremy-and... #UKPolitics

Femen and Pussy Riot are the natural inheritors of the outrage with which the suffragettes were greeted - by both conservative society and the staid 'constitutional' suffragists. They have dared to make a feminism which is more public and more defiant than what has gone before.

Just over a month to go to the Benn Legacy Conference www.thebennlegacy.co.uk 11-13 April There are still places available. £20 for the full conference or £12 per day. The event with Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn & Melissa Benn on Friday evening is free but you have to book #UKPolitics #UKHistory

Just over a month to go to the Benn Legacy Conference www.thebennlegacy.co.uk 11-13 April There are still places available. £20 for the full conference or £12 per day. The event with Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn & Melissa Benn on Friday evening is free but you have to book #UKPolitics #UKHistory

Reform was a puffed-up media bubble, like the SDP in the early 80s. As soon as the Falklands War came along, the SDP disappeared from political conversation though it had been vaunted as a supposed third force, taking votes from both sides.

'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson now on sale, direct from www.jadadams.co.uk/legal-notice or from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836540213.

For half a century, Tony Benn was Britain’s leading radical, defying the leadership of the Labour Party and staking out the moral high ground. Updated with a new introduction to mark the centenary of Benn’s birth, @jadadamsauthor.bsky.social explores his continuing legacy in 21st-century Britain.

Trump has made the US an international laughing stock. Well, who could have predicted that?

Dowson Revived day is at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on Friday 21, starting at Dowson's grave, followed by papers, poems and presentations, and ending with the launch of my newly revised Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson. bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-dowson #poetrysky #biographysky

'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter' Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson now on sale, direct from www.jadadams.co.uk/legal-notice or from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1836540213.

'I know, let's just give him the Sudetenland, that'll satisfy him.' #Ukraine

'It's good to see a musical which is original and not a version-with-songs of something you have seen on a screen elsewhere.' Saw the vibrant Miss Brexit last night @omnibustheatre.bsky.social and reviewed it for Plays to See. playstosee.com/reviews/uk-r... Four stars. #theatresky

Good to spend some time with Matt Chorley on his excellent @bbc5live.bsky.social afternoon programme, talking about my re-released Tony Benn biography, now out from @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social. Everyone wants to talk about Tony Benn and principled politics, can't think why. #politics

Six years ago Sadiq Khan planned to set up a commission to explore how rent controls might stop the costs of London's private rental market from spiralling. It still hasn't been set up, and Londoners are backing fresh calls to do so. Story by @robjfirth.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/cost-of...

Fascinating piece on the work of Stan Bult (1886-1966) who worked to record the unique features of clowns. insidecroydon.com/2025/02/09/f... #theatresky

Good to see publishers doing something: big five are getting together to challenge US book bans. www.thebookseller.com/news/big-fiv... #booksky

Does anyone know if there is an online source for Picture Post? I want the 19 May 1945 issue. #booksky #authorsky

I'm old enough to remember the same media doing the same promotional dances around the Social Democrat Party (1981-88) which broke away from Labour & split the left of centre vote. It was said to be a great new force in British politics, taking support from right and left. It wasn't. #BBCRadio4Today

What would Tony have made of all this? My biography, fully updated, is re-released for his centenary. www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/tony-b...

Dowson Revived Day will commemorate 125 years since the decadent poet's death. Goldsmiths, UofLondon, Feb 21, starting at Dowson's grave in Ladywell Cemetery, ending with the launch of my revised version of Madder Music, Stronger Wine, The Life of Ernest Dowson. bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-dowson

Dowson Revived Day will commemorate 125 years since the decadent poet's death. Goldsmiths, UofLondon, Feb 21, starting at Dowson's grave in Ladywell Cemetery, ending with the launch of my revised version of Madder Music, Stronger Wine, The Life of Ernest Dowson. bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-dowson

This probably wouldn't be the day to ask for our 13 colonies back.

American writer friends: what would someone from New Hampshire at the end of the C19th call the sort of things that a middle-class family has on the piano or mantelpiece? In England we would say bric-a-brac or knick-knacks. I have doodads in mind but would that be terribly wrong? #writingandbooks

Three of my books have been used to train AI. Oh, let me put that more plainly: three of my books have been plagiarised by people who have fed my work into machines so they can copy it without crediting me or asking permission.

American writer friends: what would someone from New Hampshire at the end of the C19th call the sort of things that a middle-class family has on the piano or mantelpiece? In England we would say bric-a-brac or knick-knacks. I have doodads in mind but would that be terribly wrong? #booksky #author

Talk: “Making Victorian News Images Searchable: A Computational Approach to the Illustrated London News, 1842-1899” by Thomas Smits (University of Amsterdam). Wednesday, 15 January, 1pm GMT, Zoom Smits discusses his work on creating a searchable dataset of 72,081 illustrations using […]

A new book comes into the world and the universe smiles. Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson is my biography of the tragic poet. More will follow on the launch and other Dowson-related events but I had to share the joy. #Booksky #decadence

For all the cats out there who might be preparing their New Year's resolutions today: time to make the right choice . . . (An illustration by J.-J. Grandville of Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals, 1877 edition) Happy new year, Bluesky cat ladies and cat guys! #19thc AND #catpics

How have I lived this long without knowing about the Weird Universe blogsite? Thank you Nicoletta Momigliano, Professor of Classics at Bristol University, for introducing me to Ancient Minoan Culture Illustrated with Barbies. #Classics www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comment...

Wishing you a happy, #Victorian Christmas

Claearly a New Woman #Victorian

Hercules, commanded by the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, had to act as slave to Omphale for the period of a year.

Interested in #ravelwriting or #Eighteenth-Century #Europe? Do join us on Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON at 1PM for special seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad @wsguk.bsky.social @femmediastudies.bsky.social @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social