A fantastic night of theatre with @JadAdams at OSO Arts Centre. If you want to see a night of brilliant acting and a play full of verbal dexterity, do go. The dramatic tension was palpable. Best short play in London this year! 5* See my review below for playstosee.com/reviews/enig...

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shepherd.com/best-books/f... Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943

shepherd.com/best-books/f... Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943

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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the olfactory awesomeness that is Tasha Marks & the sublime Eleanor Jackson about their new exhibition, Mediaeval Women In Their Own Words, at @britishlibrary shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

Claearly a New Woman #Victorian

#Goethe. Famous as poet, playwright, novelist, scientist. Wrote #Faust and #SorrowsofYoungWerther. Pioneer of Sturm und Drang literary movement, which emphasized strong emotions and individualism. He influenced Michal von Borch. See my new edition for more. #history #travelwriting

NEW BOOK: Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. The Sexes Abroad For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.

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

Ares taken from Medical Zodiac taken from MS Hunter 251, folio 47v, University of Glasgow....because it is pretty.

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

According to the pamphlet 'The Life and Character of Moll King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’

Continence of Methodist Parson enticed by #Libertine #Women. #skybooks #LibertineLondon

#JamesBoswell's unusual biography of Corsican Pascal Paoli featured in #newbooks on #eigthteenth-century #travellers #booksky

The lascivious #JamesBoswell on walk-about in #Eighteenth-Century #Libertine #London

#LadyMaryWortleyMontagu meets Fatima,wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis. Stipple, engraving after T. Stothard 1798. Wellcome Reference 27545i #Travellers in #Eighteenth-Century Europe. #travelwriting, #history, #newbooks

The book has arrived! Thanks to fabulous Miriam Al Jamil, Valentina Aparicio, Jo Willett Sophie Dunn, Shirley Tung, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Teresa Rączka Jeziorska, Louise Duckling, MariaDongu MinaWang, Emily Paterson Morgan, EleanorReynolds #history #travel #travelwriting #eighteenthcentury