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Dr Christina Faraday
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Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.

📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · Aug 19
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.
Red book cover with gold lettering, titled The Story of Tudor Art. Instead of O’s, two portrait miniatures with Elizabeth I and the artist Nicholas Hilliard. In white at the bottom the words “A history of Tudor England through its art and objects”
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Ah yes, I think we all have a friend like Polly Crisis, lurching from incident to incident, always asking your advice but never heeding it…
Guardian headline “We are living in a time of polycrisis, if you feel trapped- you’re not alone” with a light display of a woman sitting at a garden table with a cat surrounded by silhouettes of bombs, phones and lightning strikes
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Also very thoughtful to dwell on the modes through which previous eras understood, affirmed, disowned, & made usable their own remembered pasts. Like the Tudors ‘rediscovering’ the Anglo-Saxons, even as so many of their actions obliterated their material heritage
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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appropriately reflective episode of BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Perennial questions of innovation & nostalgia. With Margaret Heffernan
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation
Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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I’ll be on Times Radio tomorrow at ~7:50am talking about this: www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
Off with her head: Anne Boleyn portrait ‘is actually Elizabeth I’
A historian says in the a new book that the National Portrait Gallery’s famous painting of Henry VIII’s second wife shows her torso — but their daughter’s face
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January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Bananarama is the imperative singular form - you must banana!
cjfaraday.bsky.social Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 7d
Bananaramo
Bananaramas
Bananaramat
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Bananaramo
Bananaramas
Bananaramat
January 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Do kids suffer from lack of nostalgia on Tik-tok? Nah, I think they (& we) need more of this kind of intelligent stuff...
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A French aristocrat with a grey hat (the "Conductor" played by Marius Goring in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is standing in front of a bush with pink flowers. The text reads "One is starved of 'istory down zere".
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker…
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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
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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
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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
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Working on something really exciting at the moment. Announcement very soon but for now here's a creepy preview.
Close up of the eye, nose and cheek of a silicone mask, with real eyebrow and eyelashes, a robotic armature visible behind.
January 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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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...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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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
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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
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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...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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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
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Claudia Winkleman putting her History of Art BA (Cantab) to good use! #TheTraitors
A still from The Traitors with Claudia Winkleman and subtitles “players, welcome to my old art gallery”
January 3, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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But they were all of them deceived, for another Traitor was made… #TheTraitors
January 1, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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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.
An embroidery on cream coloured linen in leaf green, teal and purple threads. A border in purple with elongated hexagons with spurs in each corner. At the top a diagram with a point expanding to a square with arrows at the corners. The phrase ‘the work is mysterious and important’ in the middle. Underneath an outline of the Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences with birds flying above.
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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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
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Ludmila Jiřincová (1912–1994), Butterfly and Bees above Wildflowers, undated etching on paper. Czech National Museum, Inv. No. KNM GRA Jiřincová 354a.
An etching, silhouetted wildflower leaves in green, the outline of a butterfly in dark red, and a sun outlined in yellow above, with several layers of scratching, interference and shadow impressions giving the image atmosphere and depth. The Czech Museum stamp or watermark in the bottom right corner.
December 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Today I've been exploring the digitalized collections of Czech museums and galleries available at: en.esbirky.cz
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December 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
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December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I seem to have woken up in 1529…
Screenshot of a Telegraph article with the headline “The King is a better Christian than the Pope and Archbishop”
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Annual report 2025
BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Story of Tudor Art 
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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.
The Story of Tudor Art - book cover.
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM