Day 2, #HighgateCemetery 🖤🪦

Thank goodness we managed to find #KarlMarx's memorial...so easy to miss...😳

Dropped in on #GeorgeEliot, told her I still hadn't finished Middlemarch.

I appreciated this grave which confirmed DEAD, just in case we weren't sure.

A selection of highlights 1/2

Reprised birthday celebrations with a sisterly trip to Londonium.

Last night: Cabaret @ KitKat club starring Matt Willis as the emcee - no photos permitted inside but we were on a table right by the stage (very up close & personal with the performers & a very naughty telephone call at our table).

Poster for "'Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now' presents Women in White and the New Gothic Cinema. A free lecture by Professor Catherine Spooner + a screening of Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak. The Showroom Cinema, 18th June, 6pm." Next to the text, the poster features a photo of a blonde woman in a white linen dress, holding a butterfly and candlesticks.

If you'll be near Sheffield on 18th June, check out this free lecture and film screening hosted by @radcliffecup.bsky.social!

Tickets and more info on their Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-w...

Every single one. Gold.
Watched so many times with my mom in childhood and even tried to convince some random kids at school who could play instruments that we could set up a commiments-style group.
Didn't happen but we did sing some of the songs in choir ❤️

Happiest of birthdays! 🎂🥳🎈

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

LOL Great Minds! See my reply to Elizabeth 😆

Do we think this is a sort of acceptable thing to use a "GoFundMe" for? 🤔😏

Or organise a group trip - 10 day retreat (one of the 8 parts a day plus a day either side for prelude and finale)....

I reckon I will try again in September when I start the regular commute to work, as I can listen bit by bit...maybe. or maybe I should rent a cottage for a week that has no internet or electronic devices...

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I have repeatedly failed to finish it. Even as an audiobook read by Juliet Stevenson. So this is genuine applause from me

Extra levels of disturbing 😬

I am at the scene in the bar where all three are there. So just awkward and devastating.

Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society Call for Papers

Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for @dickenssociety.bsky.social! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).

"You make my life so much bigger and I'm just wondering if I do the same for you"
Ooof. Arthur 💔

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Dan Levy freaking the fuck out at Mr Blobby was just not the scenario I ever envisaged absolutely loving 🤣🤣

Actually episode 6 was really good. The last one in the series 😬

Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory

I love Claudia, but I'm not sure how I feel about her new talk show yet. Might be some of the guest combos but I feel more like it's a problem the editing... just still a bit clunky at ep 6.

Thank you! My little haven in the city.
New additon/experiment - trying to train this clematis to cover this fence panel 💪🏻🙏

All set up for day 2 of @vpfa.bsky.social Short Story Study Day, featuring detective fiction #Sherlock #LovedayBrooke, the pychology of bigamy, sound in the short story, art and illustration ❤️

How is the film? Might watch later or tomorrow...

Had an excellent first day at this - some great papers and even more promised tomorrow 💪🏻

Absolutely geeking out over this wealth of #shortstory chatter ❤️📚

I have quite literally written paragraphs, thinking I have finally worked something out or how to express something, only to discover I had written almost the same paragraphs many months (even a year) earlier! 🤣😬

Exciting news! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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The absolute panic when you first see an email from Eventbrite saying something you are attending is "happening soon" before realising it's actually two days away

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Absolutely bloody thrilled to see the amazing book from my fabulous friend and PhD sister is soon to be out 💪🏻💪🏻❤️❤️

YOU THERE! ASK YOUR UNI LIBRARY TO ORDER IT!