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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Glad you liked it! Godspeed with the writing!

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to stay away from here to write ... BUT I had to share this sumptuous (and free) online catalogue for 'Elizabeth I: Queen & Court 14th (May - 10th July 2026)' Essays by @cjfaraday.bsky.social and Elizabeth Goldring [click on the landing-page link] philipmould.com/exhibitions/...

philipmould.com

Elizabeth I | Queen & Court | An exhibition exploring how portraiture shaped one of Britain’s most iconic reigns

Upcoming and past exhibition at Philip Mould & Co.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes! Wesley Crusher - I think it's series 2, episode 17?

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I believe that most people are continually harmed by their daily lives, as most people’s daily lives are on the computer or their smartphones, and those lives have been stripped of dignity." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How can you leave her to die? That's her punishment. How can you sit out here and listen to her? And that's mine.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was admiring this phenomenon too the other day

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Voyager til I die but this was not the strongest episode by any means

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I dunno did you see the ones they dropped................

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

enjoying the BBC live feed on the Renoir thefts. Police updates interspersed with postcritical musings on the impact of Renoir on the reporters' own lives(!)

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did you know our Linda Parry Textile Research and Conservation Grants make awards of £500-£5,000 to churches, chapels & other places of UK worship for the research & conservation of textiles?! Next deadline is 31 August, apply now! www.sal.org.uk/what-we-do/g...

Before conversation on 20th century church banner depicting the Virgin Mary

After conversation on 20th century church banner depicting the Virgin Mary

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyway, some seventeenth-century academics would probably be right at home in the modern university, like John Ellys aka The Devil of Caius (incidentally a friend of Newton).

Portrait of louche-looking man in academic robes, John Ellys 'the devil of Caius'.

Screenshot from Wikipedia:
Later life
As Master of Caius Ellys tried, from 1709, to exercise a veto in college business, causing the Visitor to intervene in 1714. His ongoing conflicts in old age with the Fellows earned him the nickname "Devil of Caius" He was quite isolated, his only ally in the college being his nephew John Ellys.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

However you're watching the eclipse, spare a thought for Taddeo Gaddi, author of the first real 'night scene' in Western art. Gaddi's obsession with light & celestial effects apparently caused him to stare too long at the 1330 eclipse, causing permanent sight damage. A warning from art history!

Taddeo Gaddi's Annunciation to the Shepherds Fresco from Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence, c.1330. Two shepherds are woken by a glow from an angel against a golden cloud in an otherwise dark sky. Around them in the rocky landscape are sleeping rams and a suspicious-looking dog.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties.

The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And that one was for Harold Godwinson!

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A timeless Cambridge scene, one that Rupert Brooke would recognise: "Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through, / Beside the river make for you / A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep / Deeply above; and green and deep / The robot lawnmower glides beneath."

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Omg this is my one!! Something like -Fertilizer, what is point? -Well, we need it to make food. -Food, what is point food? -Well we need it to live. -Live? (Sadly) What is point live?

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Book cover for A Golden World by Lauren Working, embossed with gold and containing a still life painting overrun with global goods.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Eng v SA and the batter’s names are Luus Brits…

Hastily snapped photo of women’s cricket match on tv

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This looks so interesting! The library doesn't seem to have it yet...

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Val @v4673.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Recently finished “Dead Weight” by @hildur.bsky.social -so good! Now reading “The Story of Tudor Art“ by @cjfaraday.bsky.social and I am enjoying it very much.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Congratulations on a fantastic book!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and what better example of the confluence of voyaging & pearl earrings in 1590s portraiture than this fabulous painting of Robert Dudley (the younger), currently on rare public display at the Philip Mould Gallery in London 🦪

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thrilled to review two terrific books in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social and This Little World by @rentravailer.bsky.social - both expanding our ideas about “insular” Tudor England in fascinating ways.

This week’s New Statesman, with a pink cover showing a hand around the neck of a lion wearing a crown, and two books, A Golden World by Lauren Working and This Little World by Nandini Das, on a white garden table against a backdrop of raspberry plants.

An open page of The New Statesman, at the book review ‘This sceptred but porous isle: Tudor and Stuart England was shaped by the people who left its shores and the objects that arrived here from afar by Christina J Faraday”

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'Working demonstrates that, in fact, much of what we imagine to be the typical Renaissance and baroque aesthetic can be linked to influences emerging from the Americas.' The New Statesman reviews A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social ✨

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thank you @cjfaraday.bsky.social for this New Statesman review of #AGoldenWorld alongside Nandini Das’ This Little World! #earlymodern 🦜

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