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Dr Christina Faraday
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Historian of art & ideas, University of Cambridge | FSA FRHistS | BBC New Generation Thinker | host of British Art Matters podcast | trustee of The Walpole Society | 📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now! | 🥦👻🎻 views own
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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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Thank you!!
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A bit of a departure for me in @apollo-magazine.com’s December issue, where I look at what M. R. James's ghost stories can tell us about the pleasing terror of studying art and objects...
A photo of the cover of the December 2025 Apollo Magazine with a close up of a painting by Lippi of Joseph with grey hair and a halo, leaning on a staff, caption in white on his blue cloak reading “Getting Lippi in Rome” with a sub caption “the ghostly world of M R James” Double page spread of Apollo “Raising the Dead” in gothic writing against a sepia photo of the entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum in the late 19th century when M. R. James was director, against a patterned red tablecloth. A photo of the end of the article reading: “Baxter was only too literal in his desire to “look through dead man's eyes” filling the binoculars with liquid made from boiled bones. But the dead, who 'didn't like having their bones boiled, finally come to carry Baxter off 'whither he would not'. An unfortunate end for Baxter, but what greater fantasy for students of the past than seeing history first-hand? Historians of all kinds - but especially art historians - devote their lives, by different means, to exactly this cause. What else is Michael Baxandall's famous concept of the 'period eye' - his attempt to recover the culturally shaped modes of vision specific to certain times and places - than a more respectable attempt to look through dead men's eyes? James was writing at a time when professional historians were anxious to distance their quasi-scientific approaches from the whimsical studies of antiquaries. But his stories reveal that he understood only too well what many students of art and history feel when faced with the remains of the past. The creeping feeling that we are never quite alone with the objects we study, that we are always somehow accompanied by the people who once made, viewed and used them, and that their intentions and desires are still deeply embedded in the objects that survive them. Drawing out these intentions, accounting for the humanity of the long dead, is a task that can cause the scholar considerable anxiety - accompanied or not by the fear that, should we get it wrong, the dead will find a way to return, to put us right.” Christina J. Faraday is an affiliated lecturer in history of art at the University of Cambridge and author of The Story of Tudor Art (Head of Zeus).
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Just got this from @blpublishing.bsky.social by @tanyakirk.bsky.social! 📚👻 shop.bl.uk/products/the...
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Haha yes, that bad penny!
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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YES.
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Perfect Hallowe'en-e'en post - my author copies of The Haunted Library, @blpublishing.bsky.social's latest Tales of the Weird volume, out on 13th November. My story 'The Advent Visitor' appears alongside some true classics of the genre...
Two copies of The Haunted Library on a table with richly patterned table cloths in red and white. The book cover is green and black, with a figure holding a candle looking up at a domed library. The Haunted Library book open at the contents page: The Devil's Manuscript S. LEVETT-YEATS The Tractate Middoth M. R. JAMES The Whisperers ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Fingers of a Hand H. D. EVERETT Mr. Tallent's Ghost MARY WEBB The Book MARGARET IRWIN The Library HESTER HOLLAND Midnight Express ALFRED NOYES Herodes Redivivus A. N. L. MUNBY W. S. L. P. HARTLEY What Shadows We Pursue RUSSELL KIRK The Work of Evil WILLIAM CROFT DICKINSON Revenant as Typewriter PENELOPE LIVELY The Advent Visitor C. J. FARADAY
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I know, carrots aren’t tubers, they are taproots
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Kevin the Carrot engaged to Katie? Gonna be a lot of broken heartichokes out there now one of the country’s most eligible batubers is off the table….
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Looking forward to hearing more!
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Looks fantastic!!
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration is of black and white embroidery of flowers, fruit, and animals; it's sitting on a blue and white William Morris print cushion. The table of contents of a book. The chapter titles read Stuff, Linen, Leather/Wool, Silk, Inky Cloak, Sew, Cut, Fold, Ruff.
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Finally nailed the promotional photo for my East Anglian remake of Don't Look Now, which tells the same story, but using all the locations from Whistle And I'll Come To You.
A photo I took of my friend Rosie walking along the beach at Covehithe, Suffolk
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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😂
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
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Podcast | The Walpole Society
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November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of this book! A marvellous new biography of The Notorious LMB.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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On BBC Radio 3 in half an hour!
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My episode of @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Sunday Feature goes out this Sunday at 7:45pm (or catch up later on BBC Sounds). All about the musical aspects of my favourite Tudor picture, The Henry Unton Memorial Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Screenshot of the Sunday Feature webpage on the BBC website, listing the episode information. A detail of the Unton Memorial Portrait showing his house. Unton is hosting a dinner party with musicians in a broken consort, with wind and string instruments, and in an upstairs room plays the viola da gamba in a small group, music books on the table.
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...
Entrance to St Katharine’s Chapel with ornate wood carvings above the door. Wood carving of a winged angelic figure playing some kind of pipe instrument. Wood carving of someone riding a beast on four legs with the head of a bearded man. The rider is grabbing the hair of the beast. Wood carving of a winged demon behind two women.
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Saw possibly the greatest Halloween costume ever the evening…
A blurry photo of someone in a large fossil diplodocus costume, their legs in the front legs
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Sir Henry Unton's Music
Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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My episode of @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Sunday Feature goes out this Sunday at 7:45pm (or catch up later on BBC Sounds). All about the musical aspects of my favourite Tudor picture, The Henry Unton Memorial Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Screenshot of the Sunday Feature webpage on the BBC website, listing the episode information. A detail of the Unton Memorial Portrait showing his house. Unton is hosting a dinner party with musicians in a broken consort, with wind and string instruments, and in an upstairs room plays the viola da gamba in a small group, music books on the table.
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Very diligent haha
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Isn’t he!
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Oh and the city of Sarum/Salisbury top left
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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They belong to livery companies, the bottom right is his merchant’s mark and date of death…
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM