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Julie Peakman
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Author and Historian of Sexuality, Women, Erotica, C18th Culture, Greece.

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · 20d
A fantastic night of theatre with @JadAdams at OSO Arts Centre. If you want to see a night of brilliant acting and a play full of verbal dexterity, do go. The dramatic tension was palpable. Best short play in London this year! 5* See my review below for
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Enigma Variations | Plays To See
love dialogue two-hander
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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · May 25
They only seem to have tiny dogs in Japan...then carry them or have them in a pushchair. I guess lack.os space.

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Feb 10
Spooky

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Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social · Dec 21
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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 19
That's one one give you a wish, my boy.

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 19
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Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943
The best books on personal experiences of fighting in Greece in WWII
Julie Peakman shares the 5 best books on fighting in Greece in WWII. Have you read War in the Islands?
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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 19
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Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · Dec 18
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the olfactory awesomeness that is Tasha Marks & the sublime Eleanor Jackson about their new exhibition, Mediaeval Women In Their Own Words, at @britishlibrary

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 18
#Goethe. Famous as poet, playwright, novelist, scientist. Wrote #Faust and #SorrowsofYoungWerther. Pioneer of Sturm und Drang literary movement, which emphasized strong emotions and individualism. He influenced Michal von Borch. See my new edition for more. #history #travelwriting

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 18
NEW BOOK: Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. The Sexes Abroad
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.

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J B Banks & Son Ltd @jbbanks.bsky.social · Dec 18
Today’s weird find. A picture of a Victorian lady smoking a cigarette by a bike. Is this nsfw?

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Dan white @danwhite1972.bsky.social · Dec 18
Good morning

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
Interested in #ravelwriting or #Eighteenth-Century #Europe? Do join us on Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON at 1PM for special seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad @wsguk.bsky.social
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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
Ares taken from Medical Zodiac taken from MS Hunter 251, folio 47v, University of Glasgow....because it is pretty.

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
Hercules, commanded by the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, had to act as slave to Omphale for the period of a year.

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
According to the pamphlet 'The Life and Character of Moll
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
Continence of Methodist Parson enticed by #Libertine #Women. #skybooks #LibertineLondon

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
#JamesBoswell's unusual biography of Corsican Pascal Paoli featured in #newbooks on #eigthteenth-century #travellers #booksky

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
The lascivious #JamesBoswell on walk-about in #Eighteenth-Century #Libertine #London

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
Fab pic!

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
#LadyMaryWortleyMontagu meets Fatima,wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis. Stipple, engraving after T. Stothard 1798. Wellcome Reference 27545i #Travellers in #Eighteenth-Century Europe. #travelwriting, #history, #newbooks

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
It is most well-deserved!

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Julie Peakman @juliepeakman.bsky.social · Dec 15
The book has arrived! Thanks to fabulous Miriam Al Jamil, Valentina Aparicio, Jo Willett Sophie Dunn, Shirley Tung, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Teresa Rączka Jeziorska, Louise Duckling, MariaDongu MinaWang, Emily Paterson Morgan, EleanorReynolds #history #travel #travelwriting #eighteenthcentury