Writer, academic + freelance. Gothic, SF, lit + film. Recent book: Gothic (2021). *Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead* coming soon.
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Investigating haunted houses with The Ghost Club - @TheProfRog - ft.com/content/8986be33-be1b… via @ft
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Live on @BBCFreeThinking at 9 - rival kings, politicians & philosophers with @hrcastor @MichaelLCrick @DavidEdmonds100 & @KateMaltby; @TheProfRog explains what his love life owes to Marxist critic Fredric Jameson; seances & incunabula at @Warburg_News. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237n…
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Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way.
I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: londoncentric.media
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New episode out now!
Alien (1979): The history & cultural impact, w/ Roger Lockharst & Jason Eberle - thelorehounds.com/podcast/th…
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💀Fellow Mortals
The full program is now up!
We are SO looking forward to another incredible cast of speakers, guides, performers, historians, artists, writers, scientists, vampires + ghouls….!💀 ‘til Friday use LMOTD24 at checkout for a 10% discount
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Director Osgood Perkins’s enigmatic horror follows a rookie FBI agent on the case of an occultist serial killer known as Longlegs, played by a terrifying Nicolas Cage in full ‘nouveau shamanic’ acting mode.
@TheProfRog reviews Longlegs, in cinemas Friday. buff.ly/3Weey2h
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Updated list of "notable" Tory party losses.
(Ministers, ex-ministers and people we're familiar with for one reason or another.)
Liz Truss
Jonathan Gullis
Michael Fabricant
Grant Shapps
Gillian Keegan
Brendan Clarke-Smith
Penny Mordaunt
Johnny Mercer
Therese Coffey
Mark Spencer
Lucy Frazer (Culture Sec)
Michelle Donelan (Sec of State for Science)
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Tobias Ellwood
Simon Hart (Chief Whip)
Ben Bradley
David TC Davies
Andrea Jenkyns
Theresa Villiers
Victoria Prentis
Connor Burns
Alex Chalk
Douglas Ross
Bim Afolami
Bill Wiggin
Miriam Cates
Peter Bottomley (Father of the House)
Mark Harper
Mark Jenkinson
Robert Buckland
Will Tanner (Deputy Chief of Staff to Rishi Sunak)
Maria Caulfield
Roger Luckhurst retweeted
The CIA manual on disrupting activist groups largely explains most meetings in academia.
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"The concept of telepathy was first coined in 1882."
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @TheProfRog & @aeonmag!
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So excited for the final Grave Matters tonight! With talks from the esteemed @TheProfRog @Trabbs_Bhoy and @S_R_Gordon You can sign up to attend here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/…
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4 more events today in #EnglishCreates week: exhibitions at MMU and UEA, a book launch at South St Arts Centre, Reading, and the online 'Victorian Rights, Victorian Wrongs' from University of Manchester at 2.30. Details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/even…
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One week today it's the final Grave Matters do sign up to join in: tktp.as/EMTKSG We're going out with a bang with talks from @Trabbs_Bhoy @TheProfRog @S_R_Gordon It'll be a cracker!
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The British Academy has today published its manifesto, calling on the next government to urgently bolster the humanities and social sciences in higher education and research to fully address the UK's biggest challenges. Read the full manifesto below:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news…
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STUDENTS: REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT NOW!
The law is as follows.
1. You can register at home AND at your term-time address, if that's more convenient for you.
2. You can CHOOSE on the day where to vote.
3. But you can ONLY legally vote in ONE place on the day.
electoralcommission.org.uk/v…
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Warning! This episode is different! Instead of building the episode around the film we delve into the origins of Frankenstein’s monster with @Sarah_Jane_Artt and @TheProfRog
Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood out now.
Link in bio
#gothic #scifi #classicfilm #frankenstein #horror
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If you studied English, please fill in my survey to help me share your experience! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy @TheProfRog @S_R_Gordon Sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/… and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!
