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Jonathan Potter

@drjonpotter.bsky.social

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Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online. Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Very excited at what just dropped through the letter box! It's the @vpfa.bsky.social special issue of Archiv (including a contribution from yours truly).

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I don't suppose there is a Guinness world record for longest continuous broadcast of lies but if you're going to have to broadcast this man then framing it as a record-breaking performance of lies seems like a good way to do it.

Text from the Guardian: More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Also I am both surprised and delighted to read this:

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"This sketch is really beautiful, defective and devoid of art though it is." Perfect description for those strangely arresting AI drawings you sometimes see, fresh from 1860.

"This boy," he said, "is an inmate artist. This sketch is really beautiful, defective and devoid of art though it is."

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If anyone's looking to try a new fragrance, here's two from June 1861: Stolen Kisses and the sequel, Box-His-Ears!

A magazine advertisement that says "Please & Lubin, new scents for the festivities. Stolen Kisses when did'st thou steal thy sweets that smell if not from my love's breath? - Bard of Avon. Also, the sequel to Stolen Kisses, Box-His-Ears, That's for Remembrance! - Shakespeare. 2, New Bond Street." There is additional information about the company.

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Cor, isn't that gravel pit romantic!" "That's nothing love, wait till you see the commercial office I've got lined up next."

Text reads: "Their honeymoon took the form of a demanding two-week tour of cathedrals, monuments, museums, gravel-pits, and commercial offices stretching from Colchester to Scarborough."

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 10 is... Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries by @alisonbooth.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro... #bookchallenge #booksky 10/20

The book cover for "Homes and Haunts" by Alison Booth

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

And lastly, a properly tragic verse printed just in time for Christmas: "Lines on a lady, who, in the last stage of decline, was making her children's mourning" - 20 December 1845

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Lines written on a bank note" - not sure on the date, alas

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Microscopic Observations" - 21 July 1849

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Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"On being asked to write in a scrap book" - 17 January 1846

Photograph of printed poem from the Family Herald.

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