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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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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12h

🤣🤣🤣

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13h

He saw it twice!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13h

Oscar Wilde could have ridden on the underground drinking a bottle of coke and eating chips with Heinz ketchup.

A black and white photo of Oscar Wilde photoshopped into a colour image of a tube train at Kennington station with a plate of chips and ketchup in his lap and a bottle of coke in his hand.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 2d

Term starts here tomorrow; solidarity to any colleagues experiencing a "pretty chronic attack of beginning-of-term-itis", à la Jennings.

Page from a book, with the words: ""Well, so you have; every night for the last four terms.
If you want to know what I think, Jennings, I'd say you were suffering from a pretty chronic attack of beginning-of-term-itis."
"Uh?"
"Oh, it's nothing serious. It's just that you haven't switched over properly from holidays to term time." The specialist frowned thoughtfully at his patient. "You'll feel less chronic tomorrow when you've got over the ghastly shock, and after that you'll settle down to a calm and peaceful term with everything running smoothly."
A rash prophecy, if ever there was one! Jennings' feeling of strangeness passed quickly enough..."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful but missing “clothes torn to flinders”!!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 4d

Link to online: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Corpses, sexy faces and blingy codpieces — the art of the Tudors

In her beautifully illustrated history, The Story of Tudor Art, Christina Faraday ranges widely from portraits to tapestries, fashion to funerals

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting to see The Story of Tudor Art reviewed in today’s Times!

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 4d

Often overlooked, Tudor art richly reflected a turbulent century of growth and change, by Christina Faraday, Research Fellow in History of Art, University of Cambridge theconversation.com/often-overlo... @cjfaraday.bsky.social #Tudors #Art #BookLaunch

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 5d

ah yes,

a material culture vulture

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 5d

My article for @uk.theconversation.com about Tudor art is now online: theconversation.com/often-overlo...

Often overlooked, Tudor art richly reflected a turbulent century of growth and change

A new book examines art made for the royal court and increasing numbers of ‘middling’ professionals, who embraced art and material objects to mark their new-found status in society.

theconversation.com

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

Had a ridiculously swish time recording for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social Members’ Book Club with Aliki Braine today, talking about The Story of Tudor Art!

Aliki Braine, in red cardigan, blue shirt and jeans, and Christina Faraday, in colourful trousers, black shirt, burgundy shoes, sitting in armchairs in a recording studio with tv cameras in the foreground, a curtained backdrop tinted red, plants and a bookcase with art books, including The Story of Tudor Art, facing outward.

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

Today!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow I’m doing an online talk about my new book for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social members! Info here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/chris...

Christina Faraday on 'The Story of Tudor Art': Online Members' book club | Events | National Gallery, London

Discover the art and objects of the Tudor era.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow I’m doing an online talk about my new book for @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social members! Info here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/chris...

Christina Faraday on 'The Story of Tudor Art': Online Members' book club | Events | National Gallery, London

Discover the art and objects of the Tudor era.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

On the note of Tudor art, the Philip Mould Gallery has recently acquired a VERY rare & exciting early 16th c painting. More coming soon but here it is being safely handled by Lawrence and Simon, with thanks to Philip for the sneak peek.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 8d

High praise 🙏🙏 thank you!!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

Such a joy to celebrate @cjfaraday.bsky.social’s new book, The Story of Tudor Art, at the Philip Mould Gallery this evening — the perfect setting to toast a stunning book that investigates the weird, wonderful world of Tudor artifice. I love that Esther Inglis appears next to the Great Bed of Ware.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much for coming Lauren! A wonderful evening.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 8d

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!!

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 9d

The AAH 2026 Conference #callforpapers site is live, incl. our session 'Art Writing: Beyond the Crisis?'. Seeking 10-minute papers on examples of innovative art writing & what the discipline can learn from its choices of format, style, subject matter & audience. forarthistory.org.uk/art-writing-...

Screenshot of a Call for Papers titled Art Writing: Beyond the Crisis?
Text: At a time when the discipline of art history is seeking ever greater diversity in both subject matter and practitioners, this same diversity has not penetrated to the level of art writing. As Brad Haylock and Megan Patty (2021), James Elkins (2021) and others have noted, channels for criticism are diminishing, acceptable styles of formal art historical writing are narrowing, and movements such as literary studies' 'postcritique' appear to have passed art history by. At the margins of mainstream art history, however, new approaches have been taking root since the 1980s, proliferating in the twenty-first century. These combine creative writing, criticism and scholarship-often seen as separate or even antagonistic disciplines - to push the boundaries of what art writing can look like (e.g. Greg Tate (1986), Gary Indiana (1985-1988), Jill Johnston (1994);
Elkins (2023); Gloria Kury (2015); Janet Malcolm (2014); A.V. Marraccini (2023)). Underlying such experiments is a desire to reflect the increasing diversity of voices within the discipline, question old assumptions, engage new audiences, and reinspire old ones.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 10d

Hahah

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 10d

Sad to say goodbye to my amazing flat in Newnham Cottage, the C18th Cambridge villa where I’ve lived as a Research Fellow @caiuscollege.bsky.social. I’ll especially miss the beech tree’s fiery autumn display outside the window. So glad to have had such a stunning place to think & write for 5 years.

A wall of bookshelves over an antique table next to an open window, with houseplants, armchair and orange cushion. A bright green tree outside the window.

A view of a bright orange and yellow beech tree out of a window, with curtains, houseplant and armchair.

A view of Newnham Cottage, a yellow brick Cambridge villa, from the back lawn. An ironwork pergola over the floor length downstairs windows, blue wooden shutters against the windows. The branch of a redwood in the foreground. A brilliant blue sky.

A mid brown G plan table, on top a pottery lamp with a red shade flanked by houseplants. Patterned placemats by Louise Bourgeois. Two pictures on the wall, on the left a small picture, pink and white with two abstract figures talking, on the right a black and white print by Amy Jeffs of Diana sending Brutus to Albion.

Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 10d

That’s more than Taylor Swift tickets!!!

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