Just seen: challenging gender orthodoxies at the fin de siecle - my piece in BBC History Magazine HistoryExtra June issue, referencing Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives Reaktion Books reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/decadent-… #DecadentWomen

I always think of Mary Renault when I think of Yourcenar - both lesbians who wrote first person novels about men living in classical times. If there are others, I don't know them.

Special Monday release!! Dr Amy Lim joins us to discuss the exhibition 'Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920' opening at Tate Britain on May 16th. With plenty of nineteenth century and Pre-Raphaelite adjacent artists on display, this exhibition is not to be missed!

America was supposed to be Art Deco.

Here's how an age of optimism sparked a golden age of design.

And why it's coming back... (thread) 🧵

As a Sarf Lunduner I venture tentatively to the East End but I found The Yard Theatre (Hackney Wick) exciting and friendly last night. I reviewed Multiple Casualty Incident for PlaysToSee playstosee.com/multiple-casua…

I'm not a big #SadiqKhan fan, he's a bit too conservative for my tastes, but I am voting for him today in response to the right-wing dog-whistle attacks that the religion he was born in somehow affects his policies. That's not how we do things in London.

Good to see it so graphically demonstrated that Hollywood's ancient world (in this case Babylon) was based on late Victorian and Edwardian paintings, notably those of Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Round the maypole dances Miss Prism
Not realising its symbolism

Hearing the music of Homer

Happy May Day, today we stand with workers all around the world in solidarity, for International Workers' Day.

In 1889, the International congress of socialist parties met in Paris and decided to celebrate Labour Day or Worker's Day on 1st May. …

Now is the month of maying, When merry lads are playing, Each with his bonny lass, Upon the greeny grass
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The excellent Magdalen College Choir #Oxford

What an interesting character, brilliant bit of research in finding her.

This is discussion is online tonight -- come along! :) Link is here to sign up:
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While this is already horrifying, reading down the text it is recorded that Mehak called 999 on three separate occasions prior to the day he killed her.

My uni have just announced funding for PhD studentships. If you're interested in doing a PhD with me then do reach out. I have interests in long c19th home studies, kinship, gender & alternative sources i.e. visual sources, buildings etc #twitterstorians ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-s…

Does anyone know of published accounts of back-street abortions pre-1967 in the UK? Contemporary accounts are unlikely (because it was a crime) and after 1967 the focus was on the safety of medical abortion rather than the dangers of the alternative. Lesley A Hall