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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Nov 11

An intro! I'm a lecturer in English & I specialise in Victorian lit, the gothic from the c18-present & the representations of seas & coasts in lit & culture. I am writing a book about queer ecologies of the gothic! I post about ADHD, food, queer stuff, horror, TV & film, writing, fanfiction & cats

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 21d

I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...

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Glenside Hospital Museum @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion?

Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait!

Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 27

I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications

Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 27

THE AREA IS CALLED ST GEORGE. THE SCHOOL HAS A ST GEORGE MURAL ON IT. WE HAVE MULTIPLE ROADS CALLED SOME VARIATION OF 'DRAGON'. THE LOCAL PUB IS THE GEORGE AND DRAGON.

Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 27

absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.

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Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social · Aug 22

Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · Aug 12

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 12

i can only imagine the casting director for the sandman was watching interview with the vampire and flew off the couch as though electrocuted. 'who is this sad beautiful man!!! i must put a cape on him and make him anguished!!!'

Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 12

like. Tom Sturridge will go down in history as the Platonian ideal of brooding pouting byronic gothic antihero perfection. HOW do you cast a Dream who comes even NEAR that level of pouty brooding woeful romantic poetic despair? LOUIS DU LAC

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Aug 12

it's been DAYS since i saw it but i still can't stop thinking of the GENIUS of casting Jacob Anderson as Daniel Hall

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Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is why I am sometimes grumpy when people tell me how lucky I am to live somewhere with limited public transport links and an economy built on on low paid seasonal work. Yes, it's beautiful, but that's not enough, particularly for the young.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition

They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount up

www.theguardian.com

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jul 4

And it specifically had fun with gothic tropes! Haunted houses representing the tortured mind! Uncanny doubles everywhere! Accepting the darkness rather than fighting it! Everyone is a Frankenstein's monster lab experiment gone wrong!

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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’m (Lauren) pleased to announce the safe arrival of my first child, ‘The Gothic at War’, weighing 75 pounds. It was a long and difficult birth but worth the effort.

If you want to support my sweet child, why not order a copy for you library: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-got... #AcademicChatter #Gothic

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jul 4

Good set pieces, a cast with great comic timing, emo underdogs and misfits. It's formulaic as anything but if you expect art house going into a Marvel movie that's a you problem. I know what I'm going to get when I eat at Wetherspoons, man

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jul 4

I actually loved Thunderbolts. A profoundly on the nose reflection on self loathing and loneliness where a group hug saves the day but I'm a simple creature and I love a haunted house story with found family

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Jul 4

Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊

Met Office graphic with the heading 'DID YOU KNOW?' and an illustration of a light bulb. Text reads: '100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the very first Shipping Forecast, produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.' Includes the hashtag '#WhenItMatters'. On the right, a photo shows rough ocean waves under a cloudy sky.

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 4

For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! https://wraggelabs.com #glam #histodons #digitalhumanities

Wragge Labs

A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.

wraggelabs.com

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Jul 3

At this point I think I may be one of an incredibly small number of people to have read the second Sullivan report in detail. It is uniformly poor scholarship, containing flagrant fabrications and misrepresentations, calling into question Alice Sullivan's ability to conduct basic academic research

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Jul 3

it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ucu.org.uk

University of Bristol jobs at risk amid lower student numbers

The university says the number of applicants to the languages course has fallen in recent years.

www.bbc.co.uk

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Massive Attack via Instagram.

The first two paragraphs:

"Today, a hot day when 22 Palestinians (including journalists) sat in a seafront café were murdered by one Israeli bomb, various national media outlets have contacted us (again) to ask our view of something a musician said.

For 636 days now, unprecedented & insufferable horror has been recorded by the brutalised communities of Gaza and shown to us on our phone and television screens. It will not stop. No one, it seems, will stop it."

The last two paragraphs (in part):

"As we all watch on aghast, every single day, shouting or typing into an echo chamber of complicity...

Given the total ban by Israel on international journalists reporting from Gaza, and the simultaneous murder of hundreds of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces, Massive Attack would urge the BBC and other media outlets to redirect their considerable news resource to reporting the truth of what is happening, daily, to the people of Gaza, and critically, to explaining the corresponding inaction of western governments (such as the UK) to their viewers.”

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jun 28

Omg ofc it's a Gustin, iconic

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 28

Summer trips planned to a range of libraries and archives where I have some research time available. Let me know if you're in need of (paid) research in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Essex, London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hereford, Devon, Cornwall or the West Midlands. 🗃️ www.joesaundershistory.co.uk

Joe Saunders History

Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History

www.joesaundershistory.co.uk

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jun 28

I've been staring into space ever since I got home

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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · Jun 28

That dress!!! Where is the dress from!!!

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