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Roger Luckhurst is a British writer and academic and since 2020 the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth Century Studies at… more

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God,I’m terrible at properly annotating my photo files, so this is either a recent shot from the Mars rover or the audience assembling at Manchester Central for Kemi Badenoch’s speech
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Rob Hell and Emu
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Accurate plot summary, at least, but does contain spoilers
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Overheard in hipster caff: “He’s 45, but he’s still very active.”
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From the Caspian Sea to Burma, the Regency to U Boats; our history book picks for the month ahead. With new books from
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New History Books for October 2025  - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the month ahead.
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by Roger Luckhurst

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The first burial, Père Lachaise, Paris, 1804
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Reposted by: Roger Luckhurst, Euan G. Ritchie, R. M. Wilson , and 8 more

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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Churchyard in Aldeburgh, Suffolk 2020
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by Roger Luckhurst

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October 2021, the time in Brompton Cemetery where I came across a pile of coffins and only slowly realised they were film props
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Just back from my 2-3.30pm stint as French Prime Minister, most people not back from lunch so couldn’t get much done malheureusement
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Mortsafes in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, designed to prevent bodysnatchers
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Not sure about the brother — there was a great exhibition about the city in 1945 this summer, ranging from Jaspers coming back for the chancellorship to a snapshot of Marlene Dietrich on the castle battlements in army gear!
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by Roger Luckhurst

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In Heidelberg, disenchanted…
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by Roger Luckhurst

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This is a fascinating book!
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@theprofrog.bsky.social calls John Blair’s Killing the Dead “authoritative and compelling” in the October issue of @historytoday.com. Learn more about this “fascinating history” here: hubs.ly/Q03M4M2F0.
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World by John Blair
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Reposted by: Roger Luckhurst, Fabián Muniesa

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@theprofrog.bsky.social calls John Blair’s Killing the Dead “authoritative and compelling” in the October issue of @historytoday.com. Learn more about this “fascinating history” here: hubs.ly/Q03M4M2F0.
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World by John Blair
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Morning acupuncture session on my achy tennis elbow, but I do wonder if they’re taking it a bit far
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Wise man!
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 5d
That's my reading sorted for a bit, thanks to @theprofrog.bsky.social. The graveyard is certainly a great subject!
A picture of me with Roger Luckhurst's book, Graveyards
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by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by: Roger Luckhurst

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That's my reading sorted for a bit, thanks to @theprofrog.bsky.social. The graveyard is certainly a great subject!
A picture of me with Roger Luckhurst's book, Graveyards
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by Roger Luckhurst

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He’s quoting Object-Oriented Ontology now?
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Lovely to see you Malcolm!
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Agreed! Hard to describe but they have put an actual shallow grave on the cover!
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by Roger Luckhurst — Reposted by: Martin Paul Eve

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Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Starmer looks confidently to the future
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Woke myself up before 6am from a dream where I was arguing with a man sitting next to me on an aircraft about the relative merits of the early poetry of Thom Gunn #thuglife
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Is it okay to just not like PTAs use of film grammar very much? One Battle is okay, actually, but only because he stops ramming cameras in people’s faces so much, sometimes for some minutes at a time
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Woke household, about to go wokier
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by Roger Luckhurst

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You know I did ask, several weeks ago now, for the news to go less racist and absolutely no one has paid any attention it’s just rude
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Call me old fashioned but there’s gotta be a better way to communicate than writing messages to be read on spent bullet casings
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by Roger Luckhurst

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Was just about to take a paracetamol when I suddenly remembered that there’s a wizened old cunning woman down on the heath in a hovel who uses a rusty old hammer to trepan that demon right out your skull — all for a couple of groats, no questions asked
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