My book about the Actresses’ Franchise League is now £15 in the MUP sale! All good stuff about interactive and innovative suffrage theatre from suffrajitsu to plays to Holloway prison cell installations.(FYI you add it to basket to get the discount) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114808/

4 yrs ago today I found the script for this 1911 jujitsuffragette sketch in the LC Plays at the BL! Great to have the moves and the dialogue, plus an Edwardian expression of exasperation: “Oh cheese it!” This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪

Happy New Year! 🎉 Do something impactful and meaningful this year, get involved with Arts Emergency! There are so many ways to be part of our movement: - Join our Network - Donate - Fundraise for us - Share our mission We look forward to welcoming you to the community! 🥰 www.arts-emergency.o...

I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

This is always super experience - wrap up warm and head to the South Bank if you can! I'd be going but have my final panto show.

ICYMI Have you ever wanted to watch a film from 1930 but couldn’t find it? They’re now in the public domain, so I put together a database of every feature film released that year and where to find them. Enjoy! pre-code.com/how-to-find-...

#otd 1914, Julia Henshaw, a botanist and explorer, & one of the very few women Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, gave a lecture on the wildflowers of Vancouver Island, at the Society. A teenage girl in the audience was transfixed: the flowers were beautiful, yes, but a WOMAN Explorer! 1/3

Please let Alan Carr be the Secret Traitor #TheTraitors

Let’s go indeed! 🥳

In my final cabaret performance of 2025 last night in Soho I (as Ada Campe) sang comic songs by Dillie Keane, Liza Lehmann, and Rachel Bloom - who along with Betty Comden are my favourite funny female composers to perform. Looking forward to sharing them more in 2026!

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

Fabulous to have #DoctorWho legend Katy Manning at the #RVTPanto!

Recap of 12 brilliant strangers I dined with this year: @jonnelledge.bsky.social, @naomipaxton.bsky.social, Joe Himali, Raine McKeython, Dani Luv, Doudgy Charmant, Brian Acosta Arya, @mkraju.bsky.social, Robert Factor, @cookinwithcongress.bsky.social, @jebbrooks.bsky.social and Azusa Sheshe Dance

Still can’t quite believe it, but Parker Posey came to the #RVTPanto, sat at the front, joined in with everything, gave us a standing ovation and came to say hi! A joy to perform for such an incredible comedy & improv actress - and good on her for coming to see adult panto in a queer venue 🤩😍🙌

An actual bucket list moment from last weekend - Ada Campe being on the bill with the absolute legend that is Dillie Keane 🙌🫶🙌 And she thought Ada was funny! Too thrilling 🤗

Great to see this recognition of British composer Guirne Creith (1907-96). I’m fortunate enough to be in touch with her son - he and his brother knew nothing about the violin concerto until this score was found. Apparently there’s another recording coming out next year. It’s really worth a listen

Hello Tiddlywinks! We hope you’re having a very merry 🥂 Christmas! Just a reminder that there’s matinee performances of our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ panto GROWLED this Saturday, 27th, & next Wednesday, 31st, for those who prefer their campery in the afternoon! Tix: www.outsavvy.com/event/28738/... ✨

Very relieved that getting my Great Unc from his care home to ours for lunch and back again went smoothly today - had been catastrophizing about it for a week. But all was good and jolly! Phew.

Amen!

If you are a Londoner or are interested in it this is a lovely updated @londonist.com map of Anglo Saxon London to browse londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

Looking for a last minute pressie for a fan of cabaret, music, and fantasy? Or something to bring joy in January? I got you! Get your tix for Behind the Nightlight on 29th January here: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/ada-c...

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

Don’t sleep on my new show Behind the Nightlight - a magnificent blend of history, music, fantasy and cabaret - and coming to Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly Circus on Thursday 29th January for one night only! Ticket link in bio. 😃 #adacampe #lizalehmann #crazycoqs #london #cabaret #whatsoninlondon

Like to be tucked up at home at a reasonable hour with a stiff one in hand, BUT also desperately want to see our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ RVT Panto, GROWLED? Well, fear not, because there are matinee performances on 27th, 31st Dec & 3rd, 4th Jan! Tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/28738/...

Getting the freelancer January nerves… so! Am available for talks, presenting, hosting, chairing, workshops, research, advising, new writing… got loads of experience with suffrage histories, public engagement, archival research, radio, comedy, cabaret, magic, and performance. Get in touch 😃

absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps

One of this year's great thrills was getting to film a documentary on Gallaghers and the Gallagher surname (with a dollop of my own family history too) for TG4. Our episode of Sloinne is being broadcast again on Wednesday 17 December at 7.30pm (or streaming here): www.tg4.ie/en/player/on...

Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen! Why not celebrate by reading my hot-off-the-press lil piece which sheds new light on the composition process for JA's greatest novel (no questions, sit yo ass down) PERSUASION. It involved archival sleuthing, so was cracking fun to write. jasna.org/publications...

I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Looking for something non-Christmassy at the moment? I can warmly recommend this 👇 If you don't know who these women are, you really should. Full playlist here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #ElectronicWomen #Herstory #Radio #BBCRadio3 #ElectronicMusic #PioneeringWomen 🎧🎛️🎚️📻🎙️📼

It's nearly Christmas. We sell an excellent* wee book on how to write & perform comedy, pitched at ages 7+. You can get it for £7 in the UK (inc p&p) direct from us: www.comedyclub4kids.co.uk/how-to-be-an... * Boy comedians often say, with mild surprise, it's actually really good. Thanks lads!

Ooh… think will try the Hawaiian Beauty first and then work my way through the rest 😋

Today there’s two performances of the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ RVT Panto - GROWLED. Online tickets are sold out for both shows, BUT you can pay on the door from 3pm (matinee) and 7pm (evening). 🎉🎄

A cheeky mashup of all the backstage kitchen dance fun so far from the @vauxhalltavern.bsky.social panto Growled! If you want to watch the originals they are all on Ada Campe’s Instagram and TikTok pages 😊 The #RVTPanto runs until 4th Jan 2026. #adacampe #london #pantomime #pantoday #lgbtqlondon

Happy #PantoDay! Am having a hoot in the #RVTPanto this year - lovely cast, fab crew, wonderful audiences, and great reviews too 😃 If you’re looking for a fun and funny adult panto in a historic LGBTQ+ London cabaret venue, then you know where to come!

Was invited to speak to the Cabinet Office today about suffrage theatre - always a joy to talk about the breadth of creativity and performative propaganda in the Votes for Women movement. Hurray for sunny winter days in London, and of course always hurray for for the Actresses’ Franchise League 🩷💚

An absolutely fabulous RVT Panto review from the magnificent Helen Lederer. Thank you for coming to see GROWLED, Helen! 💕👑

Last week a lovely chap came to the panto who remembered working with me at a flagship retail store on Regents Street in 1997! Am still amazed - I only worked Sundays as it was my first year at uni, but he’s definitely right - he remembered us singing Monty Python songs in the stockroom together 😆

See, this is what the internet is really about: a lovely older gentleman showing off the massive purple cabbage he grew whilst wearing a purple cabbage print hat and coat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYw...

Tomorrow - Sunday 7th December at 5pm - come to the Museum of Comedy to meet some truly fantastical creatures, conjured by the imagination of an Edwardian child and brought to life by Ada Campe and Sarah Rose! Tickets available online or on the door 😃 www.museumofcomedy.com/ada-campe-be...

This Sunday! Come!

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout on.ft.com/48pT7jP

Feeling very glad to be able to thank the late Sarah Davey-Hull in the acknowledgments to my upcoming co-edited book, and now a sudden wave of sadness again that she’s gone.

"Please, Mr Leopard..."

Well this is jolly lovely! I’m award nominated for the #RVTPanto - thank you @fringetheatreaward.bsky.social 💚💚💚