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Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
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The Warburg Institute
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Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein in conversation with Bill Sherman exploring the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art. 📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GothicModern
#ArtHistory
#Modernity
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Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined
This event explores the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/creating-gothic-modern-2025
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Oddly the actual piece says it’s impossible for him to sue the BBC and win.
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ChinnyVision
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My grandfather only liked Salt & Vinegar crisps and was a prolific consumer of them. Yet they were only invented in 1967 when he was in his mid 50's. I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations
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These are of course gorgeous. (Look closely at the bottom row.)
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Make Letraset Great Again
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
9 days ago
Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
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Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
Samir Zitouni, 48, was injured while trying to protect passengers during the mass stabbing on Saturday.
https://news.sky.com/story/train-company-lner-extremely-proud-of-rail-worker-in-critical-condition-after-mass-stabbing-as-family-call-him-hero-13463705
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Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen.
indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...
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On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
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All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården
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The Warburg Institute
12 days ago
Ghosts, witches and vampires in the Warburg Library? Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks. Discover more:
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The Warburg Library’s Subject Catalogue: ‘It doesn’t have to be scary’
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https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/warburg-librarys-subject-catalogue-it-doesnt-have-be-scary
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Royal Historical Society
12 days ago
This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social
and publisher DC Thomson
bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online
#Skystorians
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New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
https://bit.ly/4ofWArN
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Me in the Economist on the inert postmodernism of Trump's ballroom, Ceausescu's palace, Jacob Zuma's swimming pool. (£)
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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Lessons from history on renovating official buildings
They rarely start from solid foundations
https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/10/29/lessons-from-history-on-renovating-official-buildings?taid=6903929f68f70400015ebd08&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Christopher Anstey
14 days ago
You don't get this level of technical jargon on Casualty.
#Crossroads
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Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar
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Magisterial
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Russell Parker
14 days ago
Attention: a quick
#PSA
reminder that episode 1 of the once seen, never forgotten 1979s Scottish/German co-pro SF TV series Star Maidens is on Rewind (Freeview 81) at 1700, for any of you lucky enough to be free Go on, treat yourself. It’s quite special.
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It’s an old one, this. Gave a talk on this at
@qedcon.org
last week - how rancid old conspiracy theories are discovered anew by fresh generations of gullible chumps.
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Josh Spero
14 days ago
OMG the FT is hiring a junior arts editor -- what a terrific opportunity!
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Junior Arts Editor
London
https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4701514101
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fesshole 🧻
14 days ago
Have started listening to the 'Welcome to Jurassic Park' Theme every morning when I wake up, to start the day. Best thing I have ever done for my mental health. Can literally deal with anything after those 7.55mins. Thoroughly recommend.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
14 days ago
Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
15 days ago
The question to be asked: who is this imagined civil war against or between?
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Una McCormack
15 days ago
STOP GETTING TOLKIEN WRONG
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Sean Coleman
15 days ago
Good morning, readers.
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Sean is a genius. I have commissioned him many times and last week i gave some of his cards to the teenage son of a friend who now shows them off as prized possessions.
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On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Well. A bit overwhelmed to read this.
www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...
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Matthew Sweet’s exit from Radio 3’s Sound of Cinema is a disaster
Twelve years ago, a film-music show on the BBC induced a sinking feeling. But this host defied us all
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/radio-3-sound-of-cinema-matthew-sweet/
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Lewis Baston
17 days ago
I feel
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
should be made aware of this fellow.
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The true leading man of Crossroads. And his style is so back
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Dr Jamie Gallagher
19 days ago
Whole room are on their feet as the organising team of
@qedcon.org
are giving an Outstanding Contribution award for this amazing event that that they have created with love and professionalism. So much love for
#QEDCon
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
20 days ago
A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves"
x.com/EuropaIneffa...
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Europa Ineffable on X: "In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match: "it's a game of two halves" 🥴 https://t.co/b5YNKyaQtu" / X
In a recent panel at what looks like Labour conference, Sunder Katwala, wearing an England shirt, appeared to compare the R🦍 GANGS to a football match
https://x.com/EuropaIneffable/status/1981667205868822800
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
20 days ago
Over the next 3 months, I am hoping to get somewhere on the questions of - how do end the impunity for racist harassment? - what are the mechanisms for X operating its legal duties, under the 2010 Equality Act, as well as new online laws - what kind of coalition of pressure is needed for action
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It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l07z
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Impressed by Jonathan Ross wearing all his outdoor clothes inside
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Chris Giles
22 days ago
Sometimes, as a public service, I read a book so you don't have to... ... this is one of those times
www.ft.com/content/7ad4...
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Great piece by James.
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A bit of perspective
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22 days ago
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Trying to calculate how many of my friends and neighbours would fall foul of this.
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22 days ago
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Victorianists! Stand by your beds.
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Jo Kershaw
24 days ago
I have found an EXCELLENT meme for the church history lecture on Wednesday (which includes the Great Schism)
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
25 days ago
Monday coming
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Beginning to regret telling those guys in striped tops how to alter the refractive index of the very air itself
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Rick Boo-rin
25 days ago
Does anybody want to buy the Mona Lisa? DMs open
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Anyway one thing led to another
26 days ago
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I know this is hard to believe but I am not out in bars in Soho every night but tonight I was and they took a picture of me and wanted proof of my date of birth. Is this a thing now?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
26 days ago
Daily Express political correspondent Christian Calgie called for Zarah Sultana to lose her seat (legitimate politics) then agreed with an X interlocutor it would be "even better" if the Birmingham-born British Asian Muslim MP were to be deported (illegitimate prejudice). He has since apologised.
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Muriel Zagha
26 days ago
Represented
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social
last night on BBC Free Thinking to discuss why traditions matter with
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@pennymordaunt.bsky.social
@cerihoulbrook.bsky.social
@sundersays.bsky.social
and Uran Ferizi. A stimulating and nuanced show!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Free Thinking - Traditions, roots and local pride - BBC Sounds
Ex MP Penny Mordaunt's new book asks Why Britain's Traditions Matter. Matthew Sweet hosts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ks6g?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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“I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first” It’s the “as I always have” that will ring down the years, I think.
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Well, @Waterstones is offering 25% off online orders of the paperback of The New Forest Murders. OCTOBER25 is the code. Easier to crack than the one its hero and heroine must solve.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-new...
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