Oh same - there's lots about it that I really like and the DVD Special Edition helps with some of the original editing issues, but there are definitely moments where a more sure-handed director and production team could have escalated it. @purserhallard.com's @blackarchive.co.uk on it is fascinating

Available for pre-order now - Black Archive 83: THE WEB PLANET, in which Brigid Cherry considers what has been described as the strangest classic Doctor Who sotry - and certainly the one with the best credit.

I just finished this - another thought provoking @blackarchive.co.uk book from @obversebooks.co.uk, full of original ideas and observations. I loved the chapters on the sound effects and music, the possible influences on the script, and the Dalek design. Excellent work by @oliver-wake.bsky.social.

I’ve just read this wonderful @blackarchive.co.uk book by @0tralala.bsky.social. I loved the tone and the structure. A really thought provoking mix of diligent research and original theories.

One of a kind Doctor Who book and signed cover proof now on sale for charity: the last remaining hardback copy of the Forgotten Lives Omnibus, plus the original (rather bashed up) cover proof, signed by many of the authors (including Black Archive folk like @purserhallard.com and @stuartdouglas.com)

Very true - get buying folks!

Celebrate 10 years of The Black Archives @obversebooks.co.uk @stuartdouglas.com @rolinsond.bsky.social @blackarchive.co.uk @purserhallard.com @rubycosmos.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/04/30/c...

...and here's what's in the book. You got off lightly - I cut out two chapters. Next time I shall not be so lenient, etc

Turns out that my new book is out. It's about this docudrama's skilful techniques, its re-enactments of Doctor Who scenes, paratexts (such as trails and idents), historiography and school teaching of history in the 1960s... and it celebrates Hartnell's Doctor and Who's ambitious early years.

To celebrate 10 years of the Archives, we're proud to announce an Archive Special - David Rolinson takes on AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME in a double length examination of Mark Gatiss' love letter to Doctor Who! Ebook out now - paperback in May! obversebooks.co.uk/product/an-a...

A wee reminder that the subs window for disabled people and people of colour is still open!

Get your own splendidly shiny copy here: obversebooks.co.uk/product/82-t...

For those who prefer to buy via ebay (and we know there are some of you!), the latest three Black Archives are now available there (slightly more expensive, but that'd down to ebay fees, unfortunately). www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26440671...

My book about 'The Daleks' is out now as hardcopy and ebook. Link below. I hope some of you will buy it and tell me what you think. I'll share a bit about the ground it covers later. Meanwhile, early birds can get 10% off with code tenyearanniversary this month only.

The ebook and combo version of THE DALEKS by Oliver Wake is now available! obversebooks.co.uk/product/82-t...

Hard to believe, but The Black Archive series is ten years old! I feel so grateful to have been able to contribute to this amazing series. If you haven't read any before, you can get a discount off any title with the code down the thread.

Hard to believe, but it’s ten years this month since the first Black Archives were released to what we hoped would be an interested Doctor Who world! Started by an email by @purserhallard.com wondering if people would read a book analysing just one story, Phil and @stuartdouglas.com then spent

Black Archive 82:THE DALEKS is now available for pre-order in paperback! It's the most important Doctor Who story of all, and Oliver Wake has done a brilliant job dissecting why that is- and just how much it ripped off The Time Machine! Why not buy a copy while you wait for DMP to come out!

That's us closed for our holidays - feel free to order books - please do, in fact! - but we won't be able to send them out until early April!

Noticing a worrying trend this morning for people to claim Twitter is somehow improving recently and we should all give it another chance. It hasn't improved, it's still a cesspit of misogynists, grifters, racists, transphobes, MAGA morons and kiddie porn, and we should not give it another chance.

The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word. What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

It's WORLD BOOK DAY, so here's a 10% off voucher for any Black, Silver or Gold Archive (or any other book on the Obverse website, actually). WBD2026 obversebooks.co.uk

New - Black Archive start pack! go.bsky.app/BvdRUh5

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

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