The Black Archive
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Obverse Books award-winning range of book length monographs on individual Doctor Who stories.
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Join@Kenny Smith as he chats to Archive editor @purserhallard.com about the latest Black Archive on THE ARK!
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493: The Black Archive - The Ark
Hot off the presses, the latest publication from Obverse Books's Black Archive series has been released this week.
Philip Purser-Hallard takes a look at Paul Erikson and Lesley Scott's The Ark, and h
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February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Join@Kenny Smith as he chats to Archive editor @purserhallard.com about the latest Black Archive on THE ARK!
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Available to pre-order now - the 81st Black Archive, as @purserhallard.com examines THE ARK.
Famously comprising two virtually distinct stories set hundreds of years apart, THE ARK owes a debt to the more literary end of the science fiction spectrum - and also has the most mysterious author.
Famously comprising two virtually distinct stories set hundreds of years apart, THE ARK owes a debt to the more literary end of the science fiction spectrum - and also has the most mysterious author.
81. The Ark – Obverse Books
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January 26, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Available to pre-order now - the 81st Black Archive, as @purserhallard.com examines THE ARK.
Famously comprising two virtually distinct stories set hundreds of years apart, THE ARK owes a debt to the more literary end of the science fiction spectrum - and also has the most mysterious author.
Famously comprising two virtually distinct stories set hundreds of years apart, THE ARK owes a debt to the more literary end of the science fiction spectrum - and also has the most mysterious author.
Goodness, we've only done four of these as Black Archives!
January 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Goodness, we've only done four of these as Black Archives!
Call for submissions!
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
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Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
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Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
Black Archive Submissions – Obverse Books
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January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Call for submissions!
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
We'd like to expand the diversity of our Archive authors, and are looking for proposals for any available story from anyone meeting the criteria of being disabled or a person of colour.
obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
Closing date for subs 30/06/26
Please share! #booksky
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@obversebooks.co.uk announce the latest Black Archive, the 80th in the series, covering the Fifth Doctor story, ‘Mawdryn Undead’. Read more here 👇
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Black Archive ‘Undead’ at 80! » We Are Cult
❉ Obverse Books announce the latest Black Archive, covering the Fifth Doctor story, 'Mawdryn Undead', written by Kara Dennison.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@obversebooks.co.uk announce the latest Black Archive, the 80th in the series, covering the Fifth Doctor story, ‘Mawdryn Undead’. Read more here 👇
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It’s here! Pick up my @blackarchive.co.uk on MAWDRYN UNDEAD from @obversebooks.co.uk :
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💙📚 #doctorwho
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💙📚 #doctorwho
80. Mawdryn Undead – Obverse Books
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November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s here! Pick up my @blackarchive.co.uk on MAWDRYN UNDEAD from @obversebooks.co.uk :
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💙📚 #doctorwho
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💙📚 #doctorwho
We don't have any new offers for Black Friday, because Black Friday is a con.
However, all Archives remain on sale at £5.99, reduced from the RRP of £7.99, as a thank you for ordering direct from us!
(and the latest - even more discounted! - bundle covering books 51 to 60 went on sale last week)
However, all Archives remain on sale at £5.99, reduced from the RRP of £7.99, as a thank you for ordering direct from us!
(and the latest - even more discounted! - bundle covering books 51 to 60 went on sale last week)
Black Archives – Obverse Books
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November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We don't have any new offers for Black Friday, because Black Friday is a con.
However, all Archives remain on sale at £5.99, reduced from the RRP of £7.99, as a thank you for ordering direct from us!
(and the latest - even more discounted! - bundle covering books 51 to 60 went on sale last week)
However, all Archives remain on sale at £5.99, reduced from the RRP of £7.99, as a thank you for ordering direct from us!
(and the latest - even more discounted! - bundle covering books 51 to 60 went on sale last week)
Now's the time for overseas buyers to pick up our Archives a bit cheaper via Lulu, using this code:
BOOKGIFT30
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November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Now's the time for overseas buyers to pick up our Archives a bit cheaper via Lulu, using this code:
BOOKGIFT30
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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In response to a question I was asked yesterday, the official Black Archive policy on AI is: "Raston Warrior Robots will have to pry the manuscripts out of our cold, dead hands before AI is used in any aspect of creating the Black Archives."
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In response to a question I was asked yesterday, the official Black Archive policy on AI is: "Raston Warrior Robots will have to pry the manuscripts out of our cold, dead hands before AI is used in any aspect of creating the Black Archives."
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It says it right there in the books:
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It says it right there in the books:
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With a cover by Cody Schell, using Blair Bidmead's splendid crystal icon!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
With a cover by Cody Schell, using Blair Bidmead's splendid crystal icon!
Black Archive #80 - MAWDRYN UNDEAD!
A second Archive from Kara Dennison, covering 1983's wonderful time travel paradox story. Two Brigs, one treacherous new companion, David Collings with his brain on the outside of his head and Valentine Dyall with a dead crow on his - what's not to love?
A second Archive from Kara Dennison, covering 1983's wonderful time travel paradox story. Two Brigs, one treacherous new companion, David Collings with his brain on the outside of his head and Valentine Dyall with a dead crow on his - what's not to love?
80. Mawdryn Undead – Obverse Books
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November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Black Archive #80 - MAWDRYN UNDEAD!
A second Archive from Kara Dennison, covering 1983's wonderful time travel paradox story. Two Brigs, one treacherous new companion, David Collings with his brain on the outside of his head and Valentine Dyall with a dead crow on his - what's not to love?
A second Archive from Kara Dennison, covering 1983's wonderful time travel paradox story. Two Brigs, one treacherous new companion, David Collings with his brain on the outside of his head and Valentine Dyall with a dead crow on his - what's not to love?
Black Archive covers are all done by Cody Schell using icons created by @blairbidmead.bsky.social, which is why they are always awesome.
Excellent - because (a) AI covers are crap* and (b) visual artists deserve protection from lazy AI slop just as much as those who do the writing.
* Like both of these covers.
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* Like both of these covers.
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Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers
For the first time AI regulations have been applied to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, including every detail from cover to cover.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Black Archive covers are all done by Cody Schell using icons created by @blairbidmead.bsky.social, which is why they are always awesome.
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🌍NEW EPISODE!🌍
We're delighted to be joined by writer Jez Strickley, as we look at the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk.
You'll look at The Mysterious Planet in a very different way from now on!
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We're delighted to be joined by writer Jez Strickley, as we look at the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk.
You'll look at The Mysterious Planet in a very different way from now on!
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455: The Black Archive - The Mysterious Planet
He's back, and it's about time. Well, 18 months or so!
Today, we're looking at the latest releast from Obverse Publishing's Black Archive series, as Jez Strickley turns the spotlight on The Mysterious
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🌍NEW EPISODE!🌍
We're delighted to be joined by writer Jez Strickley, as we look at the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk.
You'll look at The Mysterious Planet in a very different way from now on!
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We're delighted to be joined by writer Jez Strickley, as we look at the latest #DoctorWho Black Archive release from @obversebooks.co.uk.
You'll look at The Mysterious Planet in a very different way from now on!
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First day in @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social was fantastic!
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First day in @pandasbooksrecords.bsky.social was fantastic!
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This was prompted by my colleague @cooraysmith.bsky.social 's excellent @blackarchive.co.uk, which shows how saving Greatest Show almost killed this story (and made me glad I'd skiped over that detail in my BA: this is where you really need to know about it) obversebooks.co.uk/product/75-s...
75. Silver Nemesis – Obverse Books
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November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This was prompted by my colleague @cooraysmith.bsky.social 's excellent @blackarchive.co.uk, which shows how saving Greatest Show almost killed this story (and made me glad I'd skiped over that detail in my BA: this is where you really need to know about it) obversebooks.co.uk/product/75-s...
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And the @blackarchive.co.uk on The Happiness Patrol was a really enjoyable dig into whether this gay, political story about Margaret Thatcher and Bertie Basset is as good/bad/gay/political/Thatchery/copyright-infringing as we all think it is. obversebooks.co.uk/product/68-t... #DoctorWho
68. The Happiness Patrol – Obverse Books
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October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And the @blackarchive.co.uk on The Happiness Patrol was a really enjoyable dig into whether this gay, political story about Margaret Thatcher and Bertie Basset is as good/bad/gay/political/Thatchery/copyright-infringing as we all think it is. obversebooks.co.uk/product/68-t... #DoctorWho
Following on from October's Black Archive title, The Mysterious Planet by Jez Strickley, we can announce the books for the next six slots, covering the remainder of 2025 and most of 2026. Fans of the first and fifth Doctors are likely to be particularly pleased.
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Following on from October's Black Archive title, The Mysterious Planet by Jez Strickley, we can announce the books for the next six slots, covering the remainder of 2025 and most of 2026. Fans of the first and fifth Doctors are likely to be particularly pleased.
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At least sky apologised - the BBC continued to peddle the same knowingly incorrect line as Starmer, Nandy etc.
Sky News now offering clarification.
They’d previously stated that the Maccabi ban was just about safety of Maccabi fans.
Now they admit it was also about Maccabi violence.
Ladies & gentlemen, our corrupt journo-political complex just got caught out.
They’d previously stated that the Maccabi ban was just about safety of Maccabi fans.
Now they admit it was also about Maccabi violence.
Ladies & gentlemen, our corrupt journo-political complex just got caught out.
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
At least sky apologised - the BBC continued to peddle the same knowingly incorrect line as Starmer, Nandy etc.
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EVEN CIS MEN CAN GET BREAST CANCER
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
EVEN CIS MEN CAN GET BREAST CANCER
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT THE FUCK
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“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”
Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.
Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”
Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.
Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.
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Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
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Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...