And that's the new account just been closed down without explanation, so we're doing with Facebook! Find Obverse news here, plus the mailing list, or at Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/blog/obverse... Instagram: www.instagram.com/obversebooks/

Just read @cooraysmith.bsky.social's Silver Nemesis @blackarchive.co.uk . Full of interesting detail about the scripting and recording and a robust defence of the story.

So, for reasons best known to its useless AI mods, Facebook has deleted the Obverse Books page, and removed all 1000+ followers. We've created a new page, so if you're on FB and want to keep up with Obverse news there, rather than here, this is the new link: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Join@Kenny Smith as he chats to Archive editor @purserhallard.com about the latest Black Archive on THE ARK! soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

Available to pre-order now - the 81st Black Archive, as @purserhallard.com examines THE ARK. Famously comprising two virtually distinct stories set hundreds of years apart, THE ARK owes a debt to the more literary end of the science fiction spectrum - and also has the most mysterious author.

Goodness, we've only done four of these as Black Archives!

Call for submissions! We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive... Closing date for subs 30/06/26 Please share! #booksky

@obversebooks.co.uk announce the latest Black Archive, the 80th in the series, covering the Fifth Doctor story, ‘Mawdryn Undead’. Read more here 👇 wearecult.rocks/black-archiv...

It’s here! Pick up my @blackarchive.co.uk on MAWDRYN UNDEAD from @obversebooks.co.uk : obversebooks.co.uk/product/80-m... 💙📚 #doctorwho

We don't have any new offers for Black Friday, because Black Friday is a con. However, all Archives remain on sale at £5.99, reduced from the RRP of £7.99, as a thank you for ordering direct from us! (and the latest - even more discounted! - bundle covering books 51 to 60 went on sale last week)

Now's the time for overseas buyers to pick up our Archives a bit cheaper via Lulu, using this code: BOOKGIFT30 www.lulu.com/spotlight/ob...

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

In response to a question I was asked yesterday, the official Black Archive policy on AI is: "Raston Warrior Robots will have to pry the manuscripts out of our cold, dead hands before AI is used in any aspect of creating the Black Archives."

It says it right there in the books:

With a cover by Cody Schell, using Blair Bidmead's splendid crystal icon!

Black Archive #80 - MAWDRYN UNDEAD! A second Archive from Kara Dennison, covering 1983's wonderful time travel paradox story. Two Brigs, one treacherous new companion, David Collings with his brain on the outside of his head and Valentine Dyall with a dead crow on his - what's not to love?

Black Archive covers are all done by Cody Schell using icons created by @blairbidmead.bsky.social, which is why they are always awesome.

🌍NEW EPISODE!🌍 We're delighted to be joined by writer Jez Strickley, as we look at the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk. You'll look at The Mysterious Planet in a very different way from now on! soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

First day in @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social was fantastic!

This was prompted by my colleague @cooraysmith.bsky.social 's excellent @blackarchive.co.uk, which shows how saving Greatest Show almost killed this story (and made me glad I'd skiped over that detail in my BA: this is where you really need to know about it) obversebooks.co.uk/product/75-s...

And the @blackarchive.co.uk on The Happiness Patrol was a really enjoyable dig into whether this gay, political story about Margaret Thatcher and Bertie Basset is as good/bad/gay/political/Thatchery/copyright-infringing as we all think it is. obversebooks.co.uk/product/68-t... #DoctorWho

Following on from October's Black Archive title, The Mysterious Planet by Jez Strickley, we can announce the books for the next six slots, covering the remainder of 2025 and most of 2026. Fans of the first and fifth Doctors are likely to be particularly pleased.

At least sky apologised - the BBC continued to peddle the same knowingly incorrect line as Starmer, Nandy etc.

EVEN CIS MEN CAN GET BREAST CANCER WHAT THE FUCK

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.” Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Out now in paperback, ebook and the usual combo deal - THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET, Black Archive #79, written by Jez Strickley! A much under-rated story and Bob Holmes' last full script, MP is packed with duality - and for once, it's not just his dodgy double acts! obversebooks.co.uk/product/79-t...

Lovely note on my @blackarchive.co.uk on Castrovalva!

Available for pre-order now - Jez Strickley examines Robert Holmes love of duality, but with a twist - it's not just about nefarious double acts! obversebooks.co.uk/product/79-t...

Lovely review of the 77th Black Archive, CASTROVALVA by @andreworton.bsky.social obversebooks.co.uk/product/77-c...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Cancel Disney+. Buy a Black Archive instead - cheaper *and* better!

Both he and Newman were exactly what famous actors should be: concerned with doing good work and getting good films made, displaying an affection and love for art, having fun hobbies, giving lots of their time and money to help people and not being a complete piece of shit in their personal life RIP

A handy Groyper primer by Sophie Labelle.

For more on this, see @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social's excellent Black Archive on Warriors' Gate. obversebooks.co.uk/product/31-wg/ (There's also some stuff about Friedrich in my one on The Haunting of Villa Diodati. obversebooks.co.uk/product/56-t...)

Coming soon...Black Archive #79 - THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET by Jez Strickley...

Ebook currently half price too, in memory of Chris Bidmead.

Following the news of the sad death of Doctor Who script editor Christopher H Bidmead this weekend we've reduced the two recent Black Archives on his LOGOPOLIS and CASTROVALVA to £1.99 for the rest of the week. obversebooks.co.uk/product/76-l... obversebooks.co.uk/product/77-c...

Available now from Obverse Books! obversebooks.co.uk/product/71-t...

And if Obverse is there, then the Black Archive will be too - we'll be bringing some (as many as we can - it's a long trek from Edinburgh to Derby carrying books!) selected Archives to sell!

In stock now, all lovely and colourful and full of wisdom - BLACK ARCHIVE 78: THE DEVIL'S CHORD by the lovely, colourful and wise @dalesmithonline.com! obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

And now we're in August, a reminder that we're accepting submissions from anyone for book-length studies of individual Doctor Who TV stories from 2011 to 2015. Full scope and more details here: obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

BLACK ARCHIVE 78 - THE DEVIL'S CHORD is out today, so the ebook and combo deals are now live on the website! obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

Today is the official publication day of my @blackarchive.co.uk on #DoctorWho The Devil's Chord from @obversebooks.co.uk. Want to know why Ruby kept making it snow, or why there are no Beatles' on the iPlayer version of The Chase? Get yourself a copy at obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t... now. NOW!

if you are a resident of the UK, please sign this and tell everyone you know to sign it petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Our first Ncuti Gatwa era Black Archive! @dalesmith.bsky.social investigates Emmy nominated serial THE DEVIL'S CHORD and asks the most important question there is - Beatles or Stones? obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t...

Black Archive 76: LOGOPOLIS “...the Black Archive that Logopolis deserved.” - Celestial Toymaker review obversebooks.co.uk/product/76-l... Read a sample extract here: obversebooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Thanks for the huge pile of pitches for the June open subs slot - that's now closed, but the July window is open for th enext 30 days, covering #doctorwho stories from 2005 to 2010 (full list of stories below). obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...