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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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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 · 24/03/2025

totally... Surprised this year to receive 3x my 'usual' amount, but honestly any amount is a boon. I also got £1.34 from PLR last month, and was equally as delighted by that! It's weird how I plan what to spend my ALCS payments on more like a gift, something to treasure often...

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am celebrating surprisingly hard today, having seen my statement! It is always such a joy, and most welcome...

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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 · 25/01/2025

Veggie haggis pizza, had the haggis, tatties and neeps last night!

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Doesn't stop people always trying to get me 'just try' them, I need to 'acquire a taste' apparently... No, I need to resolve my irrational fear! 😂 It does pain me that I dislike ANY food mind you...

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It's actually more of a fear/phobia of olives, I can't really deal with them anywhere near me! 😂 I'll just have the custard...

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

always thankful that I've had enough work to warrant a tax bill!

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

like to get it out of the way! Happy New Year to you guys too...

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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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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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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'd be very chuffed to be added if poss, thanks! 📺

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yes please! You've reminded me to cook* more from this wonderful book from Jenny Hammerton, with her recipes and lovely images (incl the 🍌 🥗) thanks! *and drink 🍸

Copy of the cookbook Cooking with Joan Crawford by Jenny Hammerton. It's a beaut.

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

thanks for including this one, was brilliant to watch live, Calum is always a treat - and among many other talented colleagues!

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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

looking forward to it too - my favourite podcast! Thanks for them all...

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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 · 03/12/2024

Only a handful. Maybe one or two really... but she entertained a lot, and invited party goers to stay. I think people were nervous to say no!

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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fanny Cradock used to collect her overnight guests pee (in buckets), for her tomato plants. They apparently flourished. She called it Madame's Tonic...

Fanny Cradock looks smug as she pipes out mashed potatoes in her 70s kitchen with two assistants who are looking down

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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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Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On @drkevingeddes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

fabulous, wish I was there! I managed to squeeze a great discussion about Bobbie Kimber (1930s-1950s children's TV performer) into a gender/TV lecture last year, which was a surprise to many students who expected trans people, and discussions of their pronouns, were not on TV then... Have fun!

B&W Image showing early BBC TV act Bobbie Kimber with his ventriloquist dummy

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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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