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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

ISSE Journal Call for Papers 2026 is OPEN! Head to issegyptomania.com for the full CFP, guidelines, and more info! #Egyptomania #Egyptology #AncientHistory #AncientEgypt #ReceptionStudies

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS 🪲🪲🪲ISSE is thrilled to announce the call for papers for the ISSE Research Roundtable which will be held in person on 7th March 2026 Dublin, The Irish Georgian Society. The full CFP can be found on our website (link in bio or click here: www.issegyptomania.com/dublin-2026 #Egyptomania

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Tickets available for tomorrow’s online talk ‘He Who Robs the Graves of Egypt, Dies!’: #HammerHorror and the Curse of the Mummy ‘Monster by ISSE co chairs Lauren & Shell! Non member ticket link: www.issegyptomania.com/events #Egyptomania #Halloween #TheMummy

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

MATCH BOX BATS including vintage Japanese design & c. 1900 vampire bat. #Bats associated with darkness ironically become the bringers of light!! In many Asian countries they symbolise good luck #31DaysofHalloween

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

As a horror author, I love the “extreme cake” videos where everything is cake. I’ve seen folks cut or bite into cake shoes, tables, walls, chairs, knives, tablets, hands, bricks, raw meat and chicken, etc. I’m ready for cars and babies and mythical creatures and rotten things.

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Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com

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18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hello, lovelies 👋🏻 If you enjoy my content and research, I'd be very grateful if you'd consider supporting my work ☕ • ko-fi.com/louvainrees • paypal.me/louvainrees #freelancer #wales #selfemployed

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

CONFERENCE TICKETS ON SALE! 9-10 August: Reception and Revival: Global Histories of 'Egyptomania' Check out the conference page on our website for a full programme. To book your tickets for just £5 per day: www.issegyptomania.com/events (members go free & no booking required!) #AncientEgypt

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Haunted Futures @hauntedfutures.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who has sent us an abstract so far, we’re blown away by the amazing scholarship we’re encountering! If you’d like to send us an abstract, take a look at our CFP!

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I had the absolute pleasure on Wednesday giving a talk for @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @chromotope.bsky.social about the materiality and myth and Mummy Brown Paint 🎨 thank you for having me! It was a joy to share my research with such an engaging audience!!!

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

New book delivery! Insect Ways on Summer Days (C.1888, sources vary on the publication date). I love the illustrations! Especially of the whirligig 🪲🪲🪲

Cover of the book Insect Ways on Summer Days with a cup of coffee in the corner

Illustration of a whirligig insect in a pond

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Have you spotted an ISSE bookmark in the wild? Please take one if you do! Thinking of becoming a member? Click the link in our bio for more info! #AncientEgypt #Egyptology #Egyptomania #EgyptReception #Egypt #History #AncientHistory #Bookmarks #Lovebooks #Booksbooksbooks #Books #Travel

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤

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Rider Haggard Society @riderhaggardsoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Rider Haggard society celebrated the author on the centenary of his death in Ledbury this past weekend! It also marked 40 years of the society. A wonderful weekend of old and new friends! #RiderHaggard

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#CallforPapers We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for our annual online conference! This year’s theme is Reception and Revival: Global Histories of #Egyptomania Full CFP details here: www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conf... We look forward to hearing from you! #AncientEgypt #Egyptology

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Griffith Institute @griffithinstitute.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Happy 151st Birthday to Howard Carter, born on this day in 1874! To mark the occasion this year, we are sharing Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent', which is said to have hung above his desk in his house, 'Carter Castle II', at Thebes.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 03/04/2025

The UK Archaeological Sciences conference is taking place right now at the University of York! Want to explore the latest in archaeological science? Check out our #Zooarchaeology collection to learn about recent applications of animal bones to studying the past: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A rather amusing coincidence! Currently examining travel accounts (and the narrator’s travels within museums) and just so happened to find this extract is from April 3rd! The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓 Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Amusing misreading of the day. ‘Yours very sexy. A. Lang’ Letter from Andrew Lang to Henry Rider Haggard. Rudyard Kipling used to jokingly refer to the two of them as ‘Rangard Hang’. With thanks to @gothicbookworm.bsky.social for recommending these letters!

Yours very truly. A Lang.
Letter from Andrew Lang to Henry Rider Haggard.

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Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As The Sum of Your Flesh turns two today it's on promo at 99c/99p! Exactly what did Irving Walsh bring back with him from his doomed Arctic expedition? And what ties him to Rafferty Henderson? 😈 #booksky Available on all digital platforms. Shares greatly appreciated. beacons.ai/beverleylee

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thinking of becoming an ISSE member? There’s no better time! Members access: Free talks and lectures, members magazine, free annual conference tickets, networking opportunities, discounts on in-person events, newsletter & more! Go to issegyptomania.com #AncientEgypt #Egyptomania #Egyptology

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Tomorrow 7pm GMT online 🧵 The Egyptian ‘Egyptian Revival’: Pharaonic khayamiya panels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their impact on British design by Dr Ben Hinson Tickets: www.issegyptomania.com/events #ancientEgypt #Egyptomania #EgyptReception #Egypt #Egyptology #museums

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From Stephen King & Mike Flanagan. The mystery of a lifetime. THE LIFE OF CHUCK. How do you describe the indescribable? See for yourself in theaters June.

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Introducing Dr Ben Hinsen, our speaker for 12th March! 🏛️ Ben is an Egyptologist & curator in the Middle East Section @V_and_A & Curator of Visions of Ancient Egypt @SainsburyCentre & Making Egypt @young_vam. His research focuses on 19thC-20thC Egyptomania Nonmember tickets: issegyptomania.com/events

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Lauren’s work is brilliant & it was fab to get to hear her talk about it in this longer format. She draws on training in Law, ethics, art history, & chemistry. I regret not inviting @artologica.net along for this one. I’ll do better next time.

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Introducing our next online guest lecturer talking about Roman reception of Ancient #Egypt! Dr Nicky Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at UoM, field director of the Tell Nabasha Project & author of Egyptomaniacs (2020)! Members go free! Non-member tickets www.issegyptomania.com/events

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Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A stressful time for anyone who has seen Disney’s Hercules

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

To bring a smile to your face this Monday morning, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti... #Archaeology #Art

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A tiny #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of carnelian (height 0.9 cm). Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility. Dating c. 1540-1296 BC, New Kingdom. Photo: Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A small, intricately carved frog figurine made of translucent reddish-orange carnelian gemstone. The frog has a smooth, polished surface with minimal detailing, and its shape is slightly stylized. The figurine is placed on a plain, white background.

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Really excited to be invited by Birmingham Egyptology to talk about Mummy brown paint 🎨 26th Feb, online, 7pm GMT and tickets are free! Link: shorturl.at/EBRii #EgyptReception

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Our next online talk is on 6th March! Dr. Nicky Nielsen presents “Some Bull is Regarded as a God!": Roman Attitudes to Egypt and the Egyptians! 🐂 Eventbrite link for non-members: www.eventbrite.com/e/some-bull-... Members go free! No need to book! #AncientEgypt #Egyptomania #RomanHistory

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Thrilled to announce I am joining the Haunted Magazine family once more for issue 45. This time I delve into the lore that surrounds a sample of Egyptian-revival pyramid mausolea/funerary monuments in Britain and discuss why us pesky mortals attach tales of superstition,strange apparitions and...

A stack of haunted magazine copies issue 45. The theme is green and black with the text 'Travels with the Dead' on the front

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John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Delighted to welcome my splendid colleagues at @issegyptomania.bsky.social to Bluesky 🦋. Please consider giving them a follow on this platform, or even in becoming a member, they do incredible work on the reception of ancient Egypt and host numerous online lectures, seminars, and conferences!

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Dr Louise O'Brien @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

If anyone happens to be attending the 'Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, and Future' conference this week, be sure to stop by my poster during the lunch break to learn how the BM's 1997 Ancient Faces exhibit changed how we study mummy portrait panels!

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Chapter edits are underway on travel theory and The Papyrus of Ani!

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The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania @issegyptomania.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hello! We are ISSE, The International Society for the Study of Egyptomania! ISSE is dedicated to the ethical study and research of the historic & modern day fascination with Egypt #Egyptomania #ReceptionStudies

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Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thesis edits means revisiting the mountains of photos I’ve taken at the British Library, various museums etc. this one is from Pettigrew’s History of Egyptian Mummies (1834) held at the BL #EgyptReception #EgyptomaniaStudies

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John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Delighted and quite astonished to see that BBCFour begins screening Cyril Aldred’s documentary series, TUTANKHAMUN’S EGYPT, next week. Made to accompany the British Museum’s 1972 TREASURES OF TUTANKHAMUN exhibition, the 13x20min episodes haven’t been seen since their original broadcast. #Egyptomania

Cover of the BBC publication TUTANKHAMUN’S EGYPT (1972) by Cyril Aldred, published to accompany the BBC series of the same name.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

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@robcoles52 @robcoles52.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

@lotnumber249.bsky.social @gothicbookworm.bsky.social Your Christmas Viewing? Sorted. Best Wishes for the Festive Season and New Year x www.bbc.com/articles/cr5...

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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Massive away win for the little fella.

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Jay @drjaysullivan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Joining here as a Musk-free place for my academic musings. I'm currently hard at work on my monograph 'Egyptianised Gothic and the Senses' which should be out with Palgrave Gothic in late 2025. Stay tuned for updates 📚

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