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Editor of @BSECS Criticks. 18C Co-Editor of Literature Compass. Podcast: ( @satirenomore ). 18C print culture, esp satire.
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The Tories look like they're TRYING to lose.
Labour seems to be expending all of their energy on pumping out memetastic TikToks.
Ed Davie is apparently having the holiday of a lifetime.
Meanwhile, the internet is drowning in satire.
@waugh_JS
& I are here to talk about it.
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
EP64. Snappy GenyLex Special:
The 2024 General Election Eras of Satire Tour
@waugh_JS
&
@elementaladam
chart & dissect the many eras of
#generalelectionuk
satire seen so far:
#GenyLex
#ToryShambles
#TalkAboutSatire
#Satire
#ErasTour
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Felt the "chilling effect" first hand & not for the first time. Walking through a group of protestors to listen to a *ticketed debate in a civic building* was unsettling, but well worth it for what proved a brilliant discussion, as compelling as it was courageous.
#WPUKLeeds2019
I'm at my first
@Womans_Place_UK
meeting. Nerve-wracking walking through the gauntlet of protestors outside, but such a warm welcome inside and a lovely generous crowd. Feel star struck to see
@drlouisejmoody
talking in the flesh!
#WPUKLeeds19
#BeBrave
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Having actually been inside & listened to what was actually said I was able to check the event against the criteria helpfully handed to me by the folks outside...
And I can now confirm that an "anti-trans extremist group" is not trying to recruit me.
#WPUKLeeds2019
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I just had cause to look something up in here & I have say, once again, how monumentally impressive & indispensable this veritable behemoth of a volume actually is. Not only is it a pioneering work of feminist scholarship, it's also THE comprehensive guide to periodical studies.
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Whoever does Wilko's home product branding is either an intentional comedy genius or they've been drinking on the job. Heavily.
This thread identifies & explores the 8 various genres of slogan offered by the Wilko brand. 👇
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This assortment of pictures might seem like a weird flex (given what a beautiful city Edinburgh is) but an absolute highlight of my visit was tracing the footsteps of John Rebus & finding them exactly as I've always imagined! Thank you
@Beathhigh
, you are my favourite addiction.
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It has just dawned on me that when you're CTRL+F searching for yourself in the 151 page programme of an enormous conference all about the eighteenth century being called Adam Smith isn't at all helpful 😂
#ISECS2019
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A new Superman show on BBC1 on a Saturday night is giving me major childhood nostalgia vibes 😊
#SupermanAndLois
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🚨To represent a full range of scholars, we're now looking for 1 or 2 PhD/Post-Doc contributors to our next volume of People of Print (CUP)🚨
Seeking: 2,750 word biographical essay about a member of print personnel operating 1700-1800.
Please share & DM for info 🙏
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Just casually doing some work over breakfast outside the British Library like an academic in a Dan Brown novel.
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Seeing as I was supposed to be giving my "Romanticism Reconfigured" lecture this morning but am instead out on the picket line striking, here's a wonderfully appropriate graphic representing very specifically where my head is at, created by the legendary
@drbeard79
#ucuRISING
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Horrified that
@sheffielduni
-- an institution that I have been *extremely* proud to have both studied at & worked for in the past -- are threatening staff for working to contract.
Cannot support
@SheffieldAlumni
, can support
@sheffielducu
fighting fund:
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You're voting for a party not a leader.
You're voting for a party not a leader.
You're voting for a party not a leader.
You're voting for a party not a leader.
You're voting for a party not a leader.
You're voting for a party not a leader.
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Eighteenth-Century Lecturers...
Did you know that there is a whole, growing hub of freely-accessible, tried & texted, ready-to-use classroom activities on the
@HistoricalTexts
website?
There are some really innovative suggestions for new & engaging ways to use ECCO here!
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Confirmation just came through that Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer and I now have a contract with CUP to edit a book for their Book & Publishing History Thread titled:
The People of Print in the Seventeenth Century
More soon.
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Starting tomorrow... I'll be working with 4
@YSJLit
students & 1 MA in Publishing student to produce a new, fully accessible, critically annotated & completely FREE edition of Eliza Haywood's incredible 18th-century periodical The Parrot.
To be published as an E-book in August.
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Working on a lecture about 18th-Century London and found this extraordinary picture of The Shard, circa 1765. ;)
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500 public libraries closed by The Conservative Party since 2010.
500.
FIVE HUNDRED.
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Half a decade ago we started this book. Since then we had to pause it during unprecedented strike action, then to host a huge 3-day international conference on this theme, and then of course there was the small matter of global pandemic, but we've done it. It's finally here!
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This concept creep of what counts as "Gothic" is really getting out of hand now.
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#Bridgeton
uses fantasy to present us with an 18th century that appeals to our modern commitment to social justice.
But reading 18thC women writers like Haywood, Ingram & Lennox reveals that there were also voices expressing these values at the time:
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Next week's
#InOurTime
is on the history of coffee, featuring discussion of coffee houses & slavery in the 18th century.
I'm looking for an 18th-century scholar to cover this for
@BSECS
Criticks.
Please help me spread the word & let me know if you fancy it!
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FYI, Universities didn't 'close' in the first lockdown.
They pivoted online.
Teaching never stopped, it just got much harder.
#Lockdown2
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Some of the students in my 18th-century class have decided to start saying 'Odsbobs!' instead of OMG after reading Henry Fielding's Shamela this week.
This pleases me.
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If there's one thing that years spent in & around
#Sheffield
taught me it is that you should always trust the graffiti.
#GE2017
#VoteLabour
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Downgrading students based on their school's performance is a great way to keep high achieving working class students in their place & universities the preserve of grammar school stock & the privately educated.
And the best bit: you can blame algorithms, so no one look guiltily.
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My essay on satire & the folk horror revival in extremely good company alongside a total of *40* essays in the truly 🦣
@routledgebooks
Companion to Folk Horror, an extraordinary achievement edited by
@RobCEdgar
& Wayne Johnson.
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I am deliriously pleased that my former-peer, former-colleague & long-serving friend
@stevensoncarly
will be joining the ranks here at
@YSJLit
this Autumn as a Visiting Lecturer!
This is us in the olden days when we used to solve literary-themed murders in country houses...
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Throughout my entire degree I only ever missed 2 sessions, 1 lecture & 1 seminar.
I missed the seminar bc it was my 4th (& final) driving test.
I missed the lecture to be photographed for the prospectus.
Someone just sent me this. Wish I'd just gone to the lecture 😅
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Boris Johnson studied Classics, Ancient Literature and Classic Philosophy
Micheal Gove studied English
Jacob Rees Mogg studied History
David Cameron studied Philosophy
Theresa May studied Geography
So Humanities are fine for the few, but not the many?
English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.
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If I knew I'd been sitting on this kitchen chair 9-5 everyday I would have bought a better one.
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If like me you fit into that glorious social strata of people who love Alan Partridge AND the world of
@Bafflegabble
&
@danny_robins
then you MUST go and see
#LateNightWithTheDevil
It's the Knowing Me Knowing You Xmas special crossed with The Excorcist & it really works!
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There's just something rather much about York which I think I'm quite a bit in love with.
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F*ck it. I'm going to start listening to my Halloween playlist now. There's a chill in the air, time has no meaning anymore and it feels appropriate.
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Preparing to teach 'The Woman of Colour, A Tale', a novel published anonymously in 1808.
It you haven't read this extraordinary & extremely surprising novel before you WILL NOT BELIEVE IT!
Spoiler-free plot tease in the 🧵below...
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Feeling strangely moved to be back in Fountains Lecture theatre for the first time in 14+ months.
It's bigger than I remember, although, after a year of lockdown, everything is.
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How did I not about this?
Does everyone else know??
ITVx is currently releasing a "major new serialised adaptation" on Henry Fielding's 18th-century novel Tom Jones:
("Contains bawdy scenes and moderate language")
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It's often difficult to justify staying on this hellsite...
...but it was initially thanks to 18th-Centurist Twitter that I learnt of the existence this text, read about it, followed events dedicated to it...
& have now decided to start teaching it in 2023-24 🙌
So thanks! X
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🚨NEW EPISODE: GAMING THE 18TH CENTURY🚨
Coffee House Perspectives, the official
@BSECS
Podcast, returns with an all new episode exploring the popularity of the 18th century within the contemporary video game industry:
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Argh! Lectures are about more than delivering content in the most convenient way.
The lecture should be as much about the form as the content.
We're teaching communication, argumentation, synthesis *whist delivering the content*.
That takes 50mins.
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I'm very grateful to the Printing Historial Society, who have just sent notification that my small research grant application has been successful! This is for a project on Sheffield's Hartshead Press during the 18th century... So expect a lot more more tweets about that.
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Listening to Prof Judith Hawley trying to discuss sociability in the 18thC coffee house whilst Melvyn Bragg repeatedly talks over her.
Very satisfying when she talks back over him to deliver the highly appropriate observation that:
"We're talking about POLITENESS."
#InOurTime
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It's Anne Lister's birthday, so here's a video of how to find her blue plaque, which is in the grounds of York's most hidden church... Holy Trinity.
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The voice in my head used to be so much more interesting.
Now it just repeats "That's not two meters" over and over again all of the time.
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I'm excited (& perhaps a touch daunted) to be replacing
@EmrysDBJones
as the new editor of
@BSECS
Criticks, but mostly delighted to be working with our excellent team of subject editors & very pleased to be welcoming my own replacement, our new Media Editor:
@spacedolphin__
.
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Just found out I'm now a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy (huge thanks to
@Zensto
@laurenrachel11
@ElizMGoodwin
&
@FionaThompson16
for supporting my application!).
From now on please address all mail to:
Dr Adam J Smith, BA (Hons), MA, SFHEA
😉
#WeirdFlex
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For no other reason than wanting to make today seem different from all of the other days, I'm about to attempt to find & photograph all 15 Snickleways on the
#SnicketsofYork
map as fast as I can. York Minster is the start & finish line.
How long do you think it'll take?
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Now that my induction is complete I can announce that I am joining
@h_d_hudson
as 18th-century Section Co-editor for the Literature Compass journal & will be looking to commission 5 state-of-the-field essays per year.
So, if you have an idea for such an essay, lmk!
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Huge congratulations to the
#classof2018
! It's been a blast, now: go save the world.
#YSJGrad
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As someone who was in York for all of 2020, I'm getting low key triggered by these scenes at 9.30am on a Monday morning. 1/2
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Just went out in my winter coat for the first time since lockdown started and found this in my pocket.
Do you remember these?
It's a bus ticket. In the Before Times the carless used to use these to get from one place to another.
Different places. Do you remember those?
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Hearing the following description of the eighteenth century was the highlight of my day, possibly even be the highlight of my year:
"To sum it up, there was a lot of excess, a lot of poverty, and a lot of people chatting shit in coffee shops."
Nailed it. 😂
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This (free) event looks excellent. Might be of interest to colleagues & friends at
@CECSYork
@fairfax_house
@AnneListerSoc
@GentlemanAnne
&
@ce_crawshaw
?
Booking:
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Can't believe how little coverage the
#ucustrike
is getting as it reaches its *THIRD* week, constituting historically unprecedented strike action for the sector.
Where are the headlines?
Clearly it is up to us to keep making noise about this.
#USSstrike
#SolidarityForever
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10yrs ago today I came to York to give a postgrad paper at
@CECSYork
. I took some photos that day. This is what York looked like a decade ago...
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Bloody hell
@danny_robins
!
Compelling mystery, beautifully balanced rival interpretations from
@_EvelynHollow
&
@ahmed_nilufar
, all the typically brilliant
@Bafflegabble
business & then...
THEN ---
Those final few mins! 😱
What a twist!
#Uncanny
@BBCSounds
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The fact that teenage Jane Austen trolled Samuel Richardson by adapting his multi-volume novel, A History of Charles Grandison (one of the longest novels in the English language), into a 2-page play & still retained most of the plot might be my favourite 18th-century moment.
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Feeling inspired (& exhausted) after a brilliant conference, as sociable & generous at it was critically engaging & intellectually stimulating. There's amazing work happening, a great deal by a new generation of postgrads. The future for the 18c is v. bright indeed!
#BSECS2019
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York Geese demonstrate the latest 2 metre social distancing rule.
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One of my students just pointed out that waiting to hear what the university's position is on suspending face-to-face teaching & the implications on whether or not this means our Waiting for Godot seminar will still go ahead is actually massively appropriate.
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I'm looking forward to presenting at The Pleasure of Hating conference at College Cambridge today, and to what looks like a fascinating series of talks. Follow the action over at
@HatingConf
We are excited to share our conference schedule, and to announce that you can now register on Eventbrite:
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I'm delighted to be speaking alongside
@snowkatiemarie
&
@waugh_JS
this morning in what will be the *first ever* York Research Unit for the Study of Satire conference panel. It is session 71, and it is about the medical metaphor in 18C Satire. Here's my cover slide.
#BSECS2020
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I help people create meaning (whilst also reminding them that all meaning is constructed & the universe meaningless).
#badlyexplainyourjob
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If you've been wondering what a track and trace self isolation notification looks like on the NHS app, it's this.
See you in person in 10 days. Until then I'll be in here, in the internet, you're friendly still lecturing ghost in the machine.
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Bizarre scene playing out on the train: Man & woman drinking Prosecco, toasting "Tory Victory". Prosecco falls over. Man & woman soaked.
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I'm pleased that
#Covid_19
has taught everyone how you should be washing their hands.
Now if everyone* could also stop pissing on the toilet seat & on the floor that would be great.
If I have to stand in your piss one more time I'll kill you before the virus. Thanks.
*Men
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Forgot my headphones today and now have no choice but to endure the unmediated wretchedness of my own interior monologue. Sad.
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Trying to get through York Christmas Market to visit M&S be like
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I actually think
#BatmanvSuperman
is really good. The more I think about it the more I admire it. Particularly like it's take on Lex Luther.
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Teaching Goddot this morning and one of my students brought their toddler-daughter.
I asked the child if she thought there was meaning in the universe.
She said "No."
I asked if we were all bound to return to the same nothing from whence we claim.
She smiled and said "Yes."
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My dad just sent me this pic of an angry bird,🏁 snapped in their garden.
Forgive my ignorance, but what kind of bird is this? It looks livid. 😂
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If you're a
@YSJlit
student taking my Gothic Origins module in Sept and you're in York atm, head over to the literature book swap corner outside Wilmott. Someone has donated the whole reading list!
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If I taught you between 2013-2018 it may have seemed like solidly I'd been employed since finishing my PhD, but the truth is I was working a combination of fixed-term/hourly paid jobs before finally, fortunately, being made permanent. Here's the real story:
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Almost exactly a year after my first play was performed at York Theatre Royal, my first poem has been published in the
@YSJTerra2
anthology.
Liesl, what have you done to me?
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Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the linear nature of causality, which means that totally unrelated events are happening simultaneously across all of space and time and don't involve me until I impose a spurious rationality upon them. Sad!
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It's the punultimate day of the
#USSstrike
(for now).
Let's continue to stand by striking staff & celebrate how much has been achieved!
Fighting fund:
#UCUStrike
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"Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly [...] If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."
Here's some Monday morning Elizabeth Gaskell for
@UniversitiesUK
as
#USSstrike
#ucustrike
continues.
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In case you were wondering what York Minster looks like at 7am...
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'Everything about the language of the North, and particularly those people of York, is so crude and discordant that we Southerners cannot understand it.'
William of Malmesbury, writing in the year of our Lord 1125.
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It turns out nothing hammers home quite what a bonkers century the eighteenth-century was like adding Alt-Text to the images in a powerpoint called 'Introduction to the Long Eighteenth Century'....
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Just when you think you've seen York Minster from every possible angle...
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I just did that thing where I was listening to some rad tunes on train whilst working on my laptop without realising my headphones weren't properly plugged in.
I'm mortified.
But also, for any Prodigy fans in Coach E, you are most welcome.
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The opening two chapters of this novel *alone* feature:
Charles Ignatius Sancho (obvs)
Lady Mary Montagu
Gulliver's Travels
David Garrick
Copious references to Cervantes & the world of Don Quixote
At least one allusion to Tristram Shandy
...I've died and gone to heaven.
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It's the final lecture today on the
@YSJLit
"employability" module Literature at Work, which I've directed this year.
The punchline is that *all* our modules are employability modules, bc literary skills are widely applicable to life after study. You just need to see & say how.
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I think I've found a way of creating something of a work/life balance in the era of WFH... 😂
Left: Weekdays
Right: Weekend
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As of today I am officially also artist now my peice, titled "Institutions", has been installed in The Satire Unit.
It is a durational exhibit, and I'll be tracking the way it changes over the next 12 weeks.
More info on The Satire Unit here:
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You might be sitting there thinking you're comfortably Team Sceptic or Team Believer, but what if I told you I SAW
@danny_robins
@_EvelynHollow
&
@chriscfrench
IN YORK & they delivered the most chilling cases yet!
THIS BLOWS THE WHOLE THING WIDE OPEN
So good 🙌
#UncannyTour
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Something I do dearly miss is sitting in nice bars with exquisite company & getting so lost in conversation that you lose track of time. And then you get that bittersweet bafflement when the lights come on & you realise you've talked all the way to closing time. That was good.
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It's easy to forget this sometimes with everything that always needs to be done, but do you know what?
I do absolutely f***ing love eighteenth-century literature.
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"Regency England... It's a bit more black than they show in the movies."
"So was Jesus. History's a whitewash."
#DoctorWho
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The BAFTA award winning writer of the BBC’s hit drama,
#Poldark
, will be in conversation with the series historical consultant
@Hannah_Greig
at the
@YorkFestofIdeas
in June.
Best put this in your calendar now BC this will definitely get fully booked:
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‘There is not a village in England that had not a ghost in it’
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1711
I'm teaming up with the Folk King
@RobCEdgar
to talk about folk horror energy in early 18th-century print & we're joining an immense line-up:
Book now!
For Dark Dukes we'll be marking the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man with a celebration of folk horror including 5 screenings curated by award-winning author Andrew Michael Hurley (The Loney, Starve Acre)
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Do you think having a lock of your hair stolen in the 18th century is equivalent to someone taking a candid photo of you and making it the home-screen on their phone?
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