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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On

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Fanny Fun with Fanny Cradock 🍄 Writer. Author. Lecturer. PhD early TV food & cooking programmes in Britain: X Marcel Boulestin, Moira Meighn, Philip Harben, Marguerite Patten, Joan Robins, Josephine Terry, Zena Skinner *Television History* 📸 Allan Warren

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So grateful (& surprised) for this years @alcs.co.uk payment - so very welcome... Thanks to all those who have photocopied my work, and thanks most of all to the wonderful folks at @alcs.co.uk for collecting and redistributing the cold hard cash my way... Sign up now if you write & publish anything!
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a woman in a white shirt and black skirt is sitting on a printer .
ALT: a woman in a white shirt and black skirt is sitting on a printer .
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you enjoy watching Dragons Den, or the latest series from SaraDavies #thebigideaworks, you might be interested to read my latest article, for the nostalgic Best of British Magazine, which looks at the BBC television series, TV Inventors Club, which ran from 1948-1956... www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk
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Paul at SuperDeluxeEdition.com @super-deluxe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
SDE would like to make more friends on Bluesky 😀, so with that in mind, we're giving away one of these fantastic #NikKershaw box sets! 10CDs and a DVD! Please like and share and we'll pick a random winner in a week's time, on 28 Feb. Open to everyone! Good luck...
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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A brand new episode of The British Food History Podcast has dropped. My guest is food historian @drlindsaymiddleton.bsky.social and the topic is Alexis Soyer, arguably the 1st celebrity chef. Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...
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Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#HNY25
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I have celebrated the end of the year by paying my Tax bill, starting afresh for 2025! #HappyNewYear
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
'Bliss was it in that dawn of television to be alive, but to be writing about it for The Listener was very heaven.' Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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OTD in early British television: 29 December 1938 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: 'Are you wondering whether to get a television set or not?,' critic Grace Wyndham Goldie (above, c. 1937) asked in her Listener review-of-the-year column dated Thursday 29 December ...
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TVARK @tvark.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Remembering TV cook Fanny Cradock who passed away today in 1994, age 85. Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer. She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband. tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer. She was born on 26 February 1909 and passed away on 27 December 1994 at the age of 85. She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Fanny Cradock died on this day, 30 years ago 😱
A black and white photo of Fanny Cradock showing her pots and pans off in her kitchen. She's wearing a light coloured trousers suit and a jaunty white headband. It's the 70s.
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APTS Archive @aptsarchive.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
#OTD - 27 Dec 1937 - “Dick Whittington and His Cat" - Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey. This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco. Producer: #ReginaldSmith.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
New Book Review - Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 from @kylieandrews.bsky.social - a ‘group biography’ aiming to clearly perform an act of recovery to reinstate the ‘blind spot of gender in broadcasting’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
cover of the book Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting 1945-1975 by Kylie Andrews. The book is black, with white text. The cover image is B&W whopping a woman with her arms folded, standing beside a man filming with a reel film camera marked ABC. It looks sunny.
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
OTD in early British television: spoiled for the eve of Christmas Eve choice today, I think we might attempt a double-header, celebrating 'Polite Wine Drinking' (pictured) on this day in 1937, and then 'The Director of Television in the Witness Box', shown on Friday 23 December 1938.
A man and a woman in evening dress seated at a dinner table, each sniffing a glass of wine held in front of them.
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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Recirculating this starter pack now it's got a few more people on it. And if you'd like to be added, just say the word. It started with the BAFTSS SIG but anyone is welcome. 'Room for one more inside, sir!', as Miles Malleson might say if he were on Bluesky... go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH
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Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org · 16/12/2024
Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇 britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
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Jobs: postdoctoral posts Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible / closes 20 January 2025
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is recruitng for two postdoctoral posts to support the work of Professor Helen M Hanson (Project Lead), and the project team on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Dougie is absolutely right, as always. If you don't pay heed to what he says there's a real & present danger that Fanny Cradock will be cross & write you nasty letters. Transform your Christmas byuuuu-feys in your own time & upset those neighbours you never really liked very much #ItsAllInTheBooklet
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Spoiler - I thoroughly enjoyed this book #AcademicBookReview @cstonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...
The cover of the book Armchair Cinema by Sheldon Hall, providing a history of Feature Films on British Television 1929-1981. The cover design is styled like an old Radio Times cover, with an image of King Kong on a broadcasting mast.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Christmas past...
A black and white advert from the 1950s stating Christmas is Coming! Showing Santa on a bike with a basket full of VP wine, with the sales slogan promising for under £1 you can get 3 bottles...Another 1950s black and white advert, showing a special box of Christmas cigarettes, from Capstan, with a cartoon of a lady presenting then to Santa in bed... She is saying Have a Christmas, Father Capstan... The slogan is Give Capstan cigarettes...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Smashing talk from @dranniegray.bsky.social on all things Christmas and the High Street, thanks National Archives 🧡
Screen grab from the online talk, showing the introduction slide with the title The British High Street at Christmas in black, with Annie Gray in red. Illustration and design matches the wonderful book design for Annie Grays book. Annie appears in a wee screen at the bottom right of the image, surrounded by books and twinkly lights.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Bravo to the BFI for this stunning set, looking forward to diving in, and retiring my dodgy copies of this wonderful Vincent Price series... More television food and cooking history please! #CookingPriceWise
A copy of the Vincent Price Blu-ray Cooking Price Wise The inside of the Blu-ray showing the disc and booklet
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Rob @glastronomer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you haven’t heard of mossgielfarm.co.uk, they’re a regenerative, cow with calf, organic dairy farm, producing the most delicious milk. They’re running a share based crowdfunder for new facilities to continue transforming dairy farming in Scotland. www.crowdcube.com/companies/mo...
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Olia Hercules @oliahercules.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Dear friends, could u please help us?We have curated a hamper with hand made 🇺🇦 things (🌻 oil, wool socks, d.ceps) but finding it difficult to sell (algorithms on IG are 👎🏽). There is also a £5 raffle for one of the hampers and all money goes to Molotok NGO. www.experienceukraine.co.uk/product-page...
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today’s early television OTD pays tribute to two wonderful resources which in conjunction open up a key element of the BBC’s Alexandria Palace service 1936-39; first Andrew Martin’s astonishing 7-volume ’Sound & Vision’ series, published by Kaleidoscope...
Colourful book cover featuring a drawing of the Alexandra Palace television mast, with this text: Sound & Vision: Television from Alexandra Palace (and some other places): A Programme Guide 1928-1929: Volume 1 1928-1935. Compiled and Edited by Andrew S. Martin
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EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Something I wrote for the BFI website about Vincent Price's surprisingly diverse, mostly non-horror projects of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. www.bfi.org.uk/features/gou...
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Goulash, grizzly ghouls and the funk of 40,000 years: Vincent Price in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
From fronting his own cookery show to rapping on the lead single from the biggest album of all time, the late career of horror legend Vincent Price took many unexpected directions.
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Elke Weissmann @tellyelk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Dear colleagues, our @cstonline.bsky.social conference CFP is now available here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/tvresearchgr... Please consider putting in an abstract for a contribution.
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Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025 - Television Studies Research Group
Television Studies and CST: The Past, the Present and the Future 8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has been 20 years since the conference that ...
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Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've started a food history starter pack. It's mainly GB at the moment cos those are the people I know, but I'd like it to be wider please. If you'd like to be added, let me know. Otherwise the very short list is here go.bsky.app/RH4kTRU
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A lovely evening in the company of @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social exploring the Invention of British Art with Topping Bookshop, at the Pilrig Church. My mind has been suitably expanded.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Sunday Vibes from Mabel
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Putting the finishing touches to my final (for now? for ever? 😢) Television Studies Lecture tomorrow. We'll be evaluating a century of technological change & consulting our crystal balls to consider the future of television too. What will my students think? 📺 #TelevisionStudies
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
I am cock-a-hoop to say that I passed my PhD Viva today, with minor corrections... Yahoooooo!
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Bright and beautiful Edinburgh morning, perfect to begin teaching - I am looking forward to meeting this year's Y3 Television Studies students, and the lectures, seminars, screenings and, erm, assessments (probably more than they are), in the coming weeks... 📺
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Festive Fanny Fun! Well, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of Fanny. I had a *BLAST* chatting to (ahem, award winning) podcaster Gilly Smith for her Cooking the Books series - shows.acast.com/cooking-the-... Grab your Mincemeat Omelettes, settle down and enjoy! Fanny Cradock Rocks...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
I have a nostalgic festive run-down of Christmas Food Television Past (and Present) in this month's Best of British magazine... Featuring turkeys, nakedness, skinny-dipping and @nigella.bsky.social 👀
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
So, after five years, I SUBMITTED this today!
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Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Next Wednesday (the 11th), I'm getting to interview Regula Ysewijn as part for Cheltenham Lit Fest. It should be a lot of fun (and her book is lush). Come along....tix via their website, £32 fir us and a full afternoon tea.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
A new approach suggested by my Editor, just chew the pages which make no sense to remove them entirely from your work in progress...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Eek, I've compiled my 'work-in-progress' for my PhD on Television Cooking History into one document as a 'draft' submission. Now to decide which of the words to chop, which to re-write & which to re-arrange (most of them) so that it all makes sense. Target of 90k so a brutal-ish edit to come!
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
I don't recall posing for this advert... Also, where can I get some, please?
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
Early pest control at the BBC - Philip Harben's food was clearly irresistible...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
Don't mind me, I'm just going to settle down with a nice boxset and munch on my Baked Bean Stuffed Peppers of many vibrant colours...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
I had the absolute *best* time chatting to Dr Neil Buttery about early television cooking programmes in Britain, the powerhouse Philip Harben, the enduring Marguerite Patten and the fabulous Fanny Cradock (of course) and their connected cookbooks - have a listen, it's a good one!
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Early Television Cookbooks & Tie-ins with Kevin Geddes
Listen to this episode from The British Food History Podcast on Spotify. Neil talks to returning guest Kevin Geddes. He told us all about the wonderful, fabulous Fanny Cradock, but today he is talking...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
How many products can you spot in this picture which Fanny Cradock was sponsored to promote? 📺
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
"A very simple assiette de fruits de mer.." Fanny Cradock 1966
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
I have LOVED reading this new, fabulously illustrated, book this weekend from Connor Spacey on the wonderful things you can create instead of binning food traditionally wasted... Can't wait to cook LOTS using it now. Thanks for another winner Blasta Books 💚🧡
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
My latest academic article “Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976 has now found its permanent home in the latest Issue of the Food and Foodways Journal - all the articles in the issue are Open Access www.tandfonline.com/toc/gfof20/31/3
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Just a moment...
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
gRapHic DesiGn iS My pasSioN (PadamPadam)
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
Publisher: So, Philip, we thought for the book cover we'd just shape some uncooked sausages into the title, you know, just quickly. What do you think? Harben: I am the senior television cook (since June 1946) so there is no need for anything else... Just put me on the back cover, that'll sell it.
Cover of the book Cooking Quickly by Philip Harben with the words shaped in uncooked sausages. That is all.Rear cover with a photo of Harben and the words..."PHILIP HARBEN was born in 1906 to actor Hubert Harben and actress 'Mary Jerrold'. He originally joined his parents' profession as stage manager, but left the theatre to become a fashion photographer. Later he achieved fame as a cook and caterer.

Mr. Harben is the senior television cook (from June 1946), a manufacturer of coated (non-stick) holloware, and the author of numerous books on cookery."
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
I've got a wee article in this month's Best of British nostalgia magazine looking at a few of my very favourite, but slightly bizarre, television tie-in cookbooks...Think Molly Weir to Dick Emery, with some added Richard O'Sullivan, Larry Grayson & Crossroads - what were yours?
Cover of the magazine, featuring the 'for Mash get Smash' robots A glimpse of the article...... and another. If you'd like to read it let me know which format is best for you and your screen reader and I'll try and sort it out.
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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
Hey BlueSky podcast lovers, I had a lot of fun recently chatting all things Fanny Cradock with Dean from the Well Seasoned Librarian - Spotify link below, also available on other lovely podcast platforms... Have a listen!
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Kevin Geddes (Keep Calm and Fanny On!Its All In The Booklet Festive Fun) Well Seasoned Librarian Sea...
Check this out! Listen now on @Spotify.
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