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

Oddly the actual piece says it’s impossible for him to sue the BBC and win.

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

These are of course gorgeous. (Look closely at the bottom row.)

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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 news.sky.com/story/train-...

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/...

On Sergelstorg baht ‘at

All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården

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:

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

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...

You don't get this level of technical jargon on Casualty. #Crossroads

Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar

Magisterial

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.

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.

OMG the FT is hiring a junior arts editor -- what a terrific opportunity! job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

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.

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.

The question to be asked: who is this imagined civil war against or between?

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Good morning, readers.

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.

On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Well. A bit overwhelmed to read this. www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...

I feel @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social should be made aware of this fellow.

The true leading man of Crossroads. And his style is so back

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.

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...

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

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...

Impressed by Jonathan Ross wearing all his outdoor clothes inside

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...

Great piece by James.

A bit of perspective

Trying to calculate how many of my friends and neighbours would fall foul of this.

Victorianists! Stand by your beds.

I have found an EXCELLENT meme for the church history lecture on Wednesday (which includes the Great Schism)

Monday coming

Beginning to regret telling those guys in striped tops how to alter the refractive index of the very air itself

Does anybody want to buy the Mona Lisa? DMs open

Anyway one thing led to another

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?

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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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/...

“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.

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...