Matthew Roberts
@matqbritholiday.bsky.social
Entered 4th year on the PhD Text, Practice as Research (part-time) program at the University of Kent. Presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social at Liverpool University in July 2026: Gulliver in (Gul)liverpool on the Victorian Stage. #Gulliver #Victorian #theatre
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I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS opening credits (#16)
YouTube video by Sam Henderson
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
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“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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👑 Shakespeare & Kingship
with Darren Freebury-Jones
🗓 Sunday 12 April
⏰ 6–7pm
🎟 £8
Power. Politics. The Crown.
The 1620s House and Garden,
Manor Road, Donington le Heath, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 2FW.
Book here.
1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake...
with Darren Freebury-Jones
🗓 Sunday 12 April
⏰ 6–7pm
🎟 £8
Power. Politics. The Crown.
The 1620s House and Garden,
Manor Road, Donington le Heath, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 2FW.
Book here.
1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake...
Shakespeare and Kingship - Darren Freebury-Jones Talk | 1620s House and Garden
Darren Freebury-Jones grapples with the big questions Shakespeare raises in his history plays.
1620shouse.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
👑 Shakespeare & Kingship
with Darren Freebury-Jones
🗓 Sunday 12 April
⏰ 6–7pm
🎟 £8
Power. Politics. The Crown.
The 1620s House and Garden,
Manor Road, Donington le Heath, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 2FW.
Book here.
1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake...
with Darren Freebury-Jones
🗓 Sunday 12 April
⏰ 6–7pm
🎟 £8
Power. Politics. The Crown.
The 1620s House and Garden,
Manor Road, Donington le Heath, Coalville,
Leicestershire, LE67 2FW.
Book here.
1620shouse.org.uk/events/shake...
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A really great pre-review of our soon-to-be-published Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945. This reviewer really got the point of the book. :)
mancunion.com/2026/02/10/a...
mancunion.com/2026/02/10/a...
A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945 - a review - The Mancunion
A Queer Scrapbook offers a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland.
mancunion.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
A really great pre-review of our soon-to-be-published Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945. This reviewer really got the point of the book. :)
mancunion.com/2026/02/10/a...
mancunion.com/2026/02/10/a...
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It's time to 'Enjoy Leisure Moments' with the Six Nations rugby tournament starting this evening...hopefully the teams have had their energy and spirits buoyed by Allenbury's Diet (like the player in the 1927 ad below) and are ready for the matches to come 🏉
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 AM
It's time to 'Enjoy Leisure Moments' with the Six Nations rugby tournament starting this evening...hopefully the teams have had their energy and spirits buoyed by Allenbury's Diet (like the player in the 1927 ad below) and are ready for the matches to come 🏉
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It exists in the world. Released worldwide in English on April 7th. Something is coming…
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It exists in the world. Released worldwide in English on April 7th. Something is coming…
BBC Radio 4 - Sliced Bread, Toast - Club 18-30
Why did the package holiday brand Club 18-30 disappear?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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New on NOTCHES: Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7, an interview with Hugh Sheehan. Sheehan revisits the 1998 prosecution of seven gay and bisexual men charged with gross indecency and buggery for consensual group sex.
🔗Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4T9
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Bolton7 #BritishHistory
🔗Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4T9
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Bolton7 #BritishHistory
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
New on NOTCHES: Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7, an interview with Hugh Sheehan. Sheehan revisits the 1998 prosecution of seven gay and bisexual men charged with gross indecency and buggery for consensual group sex.
🔗Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4T9
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Bolton7 #BritishHistory
🔗Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4T9
#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Bolton7 #BritishHistory
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Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
February 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
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So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.
February 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.
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First class carriage & second class carriage
Watercolour, ink & chalk drawings, 1864, by Honoré Daumier, influential French artist & printmaker, known for unsparing political & legal caricatures, he depicted contemporary life with realism. He died #OTD 1879.
Walters Art Museum
Watercolour, ink & chalk drawings, 1864, by Honoré Daumier, influential French artist & printmaker, known for unsparing political & legal caricatures, he depicted contemporary life with realism. He died #OTD 1879.
Walters Art Museum
February 10, 2026 at 6:01 AM
First class carriage & second class carriage
Watercolour, ink & chalk drawings, 1864, by Honoré Daumier, influential French artist & printmaker, known for unsparing political & legal caricatures, he depicted contemporary life with realism. He died #OTD 1879.
Walters Art Museum
Watercolour, ink & chalk drawings, 1864, by Honoré Daumier, influential French artist & printmaker, known for unsparing political & legal caricatures, he depicted contemporary life with realism. He died #OTD 1879.
Walters Art Museum
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Great to see the recording of @richardjansell.bsky.social 's recent paper on travel journals and servants' lives on the Grand Tour is now avaiable on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website. @long18thsem.bsky.social See: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Great to see the recording of @richardjansell.bsky.social 's recent paper on travel journals and servants' lives on the Grand Tour is now avaiable on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website. @long18thsem.bsky.social See: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
Non-Elite Travel Writing and the Bibliography of British and Irish History - On History
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses several ways that the Bibliography of British and Irish History is contributing to his research on non-elite travel…
blog.history.ac.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
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I'm excited to share I've been selected as a PG Rep for @bsecs.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to joining the team, and for the postgrad events we will plan together!
February 9, 2026 at 10:49 AM
I'm excited to share I've been selected as a PG Rep for @bsecs.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to joining the team, and for the postgrad events we will plan together!
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Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Hope to get my dad to take me to Clapham Junction one day.
I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS opening credits (#16)
YouTube video by Sam Henderson
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
MAGIC WITH A MISSION.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjjr...
#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
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If you missed our lecture today, catch up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/live/t4pEXjJ...
Some Archaeologists Are More Equal Than Others: The Lives of George Orwell & Vere Gordon Childe
YouTube video by SocAntiquaries
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February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
If you missed our lecture today, catch up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/live/t4pEXjJ...
So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.
February 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.
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Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researching the History of Emotions
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February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.
February 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.
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My article about eighteenth-century coffee houses is in the latest Modern History Review. It's featured on the cover!
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
My article about eighteenth-century coffee houses is in the latest Modern History Review. It's featured on the cover!
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
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***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
BECC-BSECS Postgraduate Fellowship - University of Birmingham
The Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies run an annual fellowship.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 AM
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...