Dr Christina Faraday
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
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My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.
T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker…
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social
I will be live on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight talking about the unexpected history of innovation. Tune in or catch us later on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker…
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social
I will be live on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight talking about the unexpected history of innovation. Tune in or catch us later on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 AM
I will be live on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight talking about the unexpected history of innovation. Tune in or catch us later on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Watching the BBC's livestream of the terrifying multihazard weather event about to hit Cornwall and a guy just sauntered past the camera in a pair of shorts.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Watching the BBC's livestream of the terrifying multihazard weather event about to hit Cornwall and a guy just sauntered past the camera in a pair of shorts.
Working on something really exciting at the moment. Announcement very soon but for now here's a creepy preview.
January 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Working on something really exciting at the moment. Announcement very soon but for now here's a creepy preview.
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People of the UK! 🇬🇧 There’s still time to vote for an inspiring history teacher — the entry criteria is on the HRP website. I’m proud to be on the judging panel and look forward to celebrating great history teachers www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
www.hrp.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
People of the UK! 🇬🇧 There’s still time to vote for an inspiring history teacher — the entry criteria is on the HRP website. I’m proud to be on the judging panel and look forward to celebrating great history teachers www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
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Attention current University of Cambridge students! Entries are welcome for this year's Rose Book Collecting Prize until 30 January. Your collection doesn't need to be large or valuable; just interesting.
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Attention current University of Cambridge students! Entries are welcome for this year's Rose Book Collecting Prize until 30 January. Your collection doesn't need to be large or valuable; just interesting.
Delighted with The Story of Tudor Art's review in this month's @apollo-magazine.com! apollo-magazine.com/story-of-tud...
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Delighted with The Story of Tudor Art's review in this month's @apollo-magazine.com! apollo-magazine.com/story-of-tud...
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JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
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New audiobook by @cjfaraday.bsky.social to cheer up my commute at start of new term and I can confirm it didn’t let me down. Already thinking about possibilities of Tudor art for breathing new life into teaching of a period often covered superficially and in stereotypes. Looking forward to the rest!
January 5, 2026 at 7:43 AM
New audiobook by @cjfaraday.bsky.social to cheer up my commute at start of new term and I can confirm it didn’t let me down. Already thinking about possibilities of Tudor art for breathing new life into teaching of a period often covered superficially and in stereotypes. Looking forward to the rest!
Claudia Winkleman putting her History of Art BA (Cantab) to good use! #TheTraitors
January 3, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Claudia Winkleman putting her History of Art BA (Cantab) to good use! #TheTraitors
But they were all of them deceived, for another Traitor was made… #TheTraitors
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
But they were all of them deceived, for another Traitor was made… #TheTraitors
I made this for the tv-loving pure mathematician in my life. The choice of quotation reflects my (lack of) understanding of what he does rather than his own (obviously), but I included a diagram from one of his papers and the things in the corners are called tropical cubic curves.
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I made this for the tv-loving pure mathematician in my life. The choice of quotation reflects my (lack of) understanding of what he does rather than his own (obviously), but I included a diagram from one of his papers and the things in the corners are called tropical cubic curves.
Watch as we nearly set fire to the kitchen with @nearlyoscar.bsky.social’s indoor fireworks / our new year wishes. Happy 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Watch as we nearly set fire to the kitchen with @nearlyoscar.bsky.social’s indoor fireworks / our new year wishes. Happy 2026!
Ludmila Jiřincová (1912–1994), Butterfly and Bees above Wildflowers, undated etching on paper. Czech National Museum, Inv. No. KNM GRA Jiřincová 354a.
December 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ludmila Jiřincová (1912–1994), Butterfly and Bees above Wildflowers, undated etching on paper. Czech National Museum, Inv. No. KNM GRA Jiřincová 354a.
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Today I've been exploring the digitalized collections of Czech museums and galleries available at: en.esbirky.cz
eSbirky.cz
en.esbirky.cz
December 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Today I've been exploring the digitalized collections of Czech museums and galleries available at: en.esbirky.cz
I spoke to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about secrets hidden in Tudor art for the latest episode of Not Just the Tudors - find it wherever you get your podcasts!: shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art | Not Just the Tudors
shows.acast.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I spoke to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about secrets hidden in Tudor art for the latest episode of Not Just the Tudors - find it wherever you get your podcasts!: shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
I seem to have woken up in 1529…
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I seem to have woken up in 1529…
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Annual report 2025
BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Story of Tudor Art
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Almost unforgivably brilliant. The erudition, the breadth of reference, the incisiveness, the prose, dammit: any one alone would make this unmissable. An inspiration & admonition to think, to look, to work harder.
BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Story of Tudor Art
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Almost unforgivably brilliant. The erudition, the breadth of reference, the incisiveness, the prose, dammit: any one alone would make this unmissable. An inspiration & admonition to think, to look, to work harder.
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Annual report 2025
BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Story of Tudor Art
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Almost unforgivably brilliant. The erudition, the breadth of reference, the incisiveness, the prose, dammit: any one alone would make this unmissable. An inspiration & admonition to think, to look, to work harder.
BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Story of Tudor Art
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Almost unforgivably brilliant. The erudition, the breadth of reference, the incisiveness, the prose, dammit: any one alone would make this unmissable. An inspiration & admonition to think, to look, to work harder.
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Haunting festive presence.
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Haunting festive presence.
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Things I found on my laptop, an occasional series
[Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946]
[Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946]
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Things I found on my laptop, an occasional series
[Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946]
[Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946]
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@cjfaraday.bsky.social Father Christmas came through! I LOVE it. I'm only on chapter 3 because there were niblings to entertain, but I've already earmarked 'Quentin Poulet' as an excellent name for a rabbit and started a list of new places we need to visit so I can do peering 😎
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@cjfaraday.bsky.social Father Christmas came through! I LOVE it. I'm only on chapter 3 because there were niblings to entertain, but I've already earmarked 'Quentin Poulet' as an excellent name for a rabbit and started a list of new places we need to visit so I can do peering 😎
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‘Ask any curator, particularly if they work in an old building, and they often have strange stories to tell.’ And none more than M.R. James who drew deeply on his work as a medievalist and as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for his ghostly tales, writes @cjfaraday.bsky.social
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
buff.ly
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
‘Ask any curator, particularly if they work in an old building, and they often have strange stories to tell.’ And none more than M.R. James who drew deeply on his work as a medievalist and as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for his ghostly tales, writes @cjfaraday.bsky.social
I had so much fun thinking about M. R. James, ghosts, art and objects for Apollo this month 👻👻👻
‘There is something about art history and archaeology that makes previous ages seem especially immediate. No wonder so many scholars of those disciplines have turned to writing ghost stories – chief among them M.R. James.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social reads his tales with an antiquarian eye
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I had so much fun thinking about M. R. James, ghosts, art and objects for Apollo this month 👻👻👻
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‘There is something about art history and archaeology that makes previous ages seem especially immediate. No wonder so many scholars of those disciplines have turned to writing ghost stories – chief among them M.R. James.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social reads his tales with an antiquarian eye
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
‘There is something about art history and archaeology that makes previous ages seem especially immediate. No wonder so many scholars of those disciplines have turned to writing ghost stories – chief among them M.R. James.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social reads his tales with an antiquarian eye