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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · Aug 19

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Red book cover with gold lettering, titled The Story of Tudor Art. Instead of O’s, two portrait miniatures with Elizabeth I and the artist Nicholas Hilliard. In white at the bottom the words “A history of Tudor England through its art and objects”

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South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was a legend ~ not only of film ... but also of historic building preservation, serving on the board of the Los Angeles Conservancy, as a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation & more... Great info in the linked blog below 🙌. RIP 💚 bsky.app/profile/save...

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy @savewrightflwbc.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservancy was saddened to learn of the death of actress Diane Keaton. Deeply committed to historic preservation, she played a significant role in our efforts to rescue the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ennis House in 2005. savewright.org/remembering-...

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 1d

‪ANN SAUNDERS ESSAY PRIZE FOR 2026

A prize of £1,000 is offered annually for an original and unpublished 8000-word research essay on the topography, development or buildings of London in any period.

Submissions by 1 April 2026.

Details can be found at: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton, your coolness made me feel much better about getting glasses.

Black and white photo in two matched halves, left half Christina Faraday in check shirt with big glasses, looking up; right half Diane Keaton looking much cooler in similar check shirt and glasses.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

He saw it twice!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

Oscar Wilde could have ridden on the underground drinking a bottle of coke and eating chips with Heinz ketchup.

A black and white photo of Oscar Wilde photoshopped into a colour image of a tube train at Kennington station with a plate of chips and ketchup in his lap and a bottle of coke in his hand.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 8d

Term starts here tomorrow; solidarity to any colleagues experiencing a "pretty chronic attack of beginning-of-term-itis", à la Jennings.

Page from a book, with the words: ""Well, so you have; every night for the last four terms.
If you want to know what I think, Jennings, I'd say you were suffering from a pretty chronic attack of beginning-of-term-itis."
"Uh?"
"Oh, it's nothing serious. It's just that you haven't switched over properly from holidays to term time." The specialist frowned thoughtfully at his patient. "You'll feel less chronic tomorrow when you've got over the ghastly shock, and after that you'll settle down to a calm and peaceful term with everything running smoothly."
A rash prophecy, if ever there was one! Jennings' feeling of strangeness passed quickly enough..."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 9d

Wonderful but missing “clothes torn to flinders”!!

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Link to online: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Corpses, sexy faces and blingy codpieces — the art of the Tudors

In her beautifully illustrated history, The Story of Tudor Art, Christina Faraday ranges widely from portraits to tapestries, fashion to funerals

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 10d

Exciting to see The Story of Tudor Art reviewed in today’s Times!

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 10d

Often overlooked, Tudor art richly reflected a turbulent century of growth and change, by Christina Faraday, Research Fellow in History of Art, University of Cambridge theconversation.com/often-overlo... @cjfaraday.bsky.social #Tudors #Art #BookLaunch

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 11d

ah yes,

a material culture vulture

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 11d

My article for @uk.theconversation.com about Tudor art is now online: theconversation.com/often-overlo...

Often overlooked, Tudor art richly reflected a turbulent century of growth and change

A new book examines art made for the royal court and increasing numbers of ‘middling’ professionals, who embraced art and material objects to mark their new-found status in society.

theconversation.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12d

Had a ridiculously swish time recording for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social Members’ Book Club with Aliki Braine today, talking about The Story of Tudor Art!

Aliki Braine, in red cardigan, blue shirt and jeans, and Christina Faraday, in colourful trousers, black shirt, burgundy shoes, sitting in armchairs in a recording studio with tv cameras in the foreground, a curtained backdrop tinted red, plants and a bookcase with art books, including The Story of Tudor Art, facing outward.

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12d

Today!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow I’m doing an online talk about my new book for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social members! Info here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/chris...

Christina Faraday on 'The Story of Tudor Art': Online Members' book club | Events | National Gallery, London

Discover the art and objects of the Tudor era.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13d

Tomorrow I’m doing an online talk about my new book for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social members! Info here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/chris...

Christina Faraday on 'The Story of Tudor Art': Online Members' book club | Events | National Gallery, London

Discover the art and objects of the Tudor era.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13d

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 14d

On the note of Tudor art, the Philip Mould Gallery has recently acquired a VERY rare & exciting early 16th c painting. More coming soon but here it is being safely handled by Lawrence and Simon, with thanks to Philip for the sneak peek.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 14d

High praise 🙏🙏 thank you!!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 14d

Such a joy to celebrate @cjfaraday.bsky.social’s new book, The Story of Tudor Art, at the Philip Mould Gallery this evening — the perfect setting to toast a stunning book that investigates the weird, wonderful world of Tudor artifice. I love that Esther Inglis appears next to the Great Bed of Ware.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you so much for coming Lauren! A wonderful evening.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 14d

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!!