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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So thrilled to FINALLY be able to announce my forthcoming edited volume (with the glorious @hosmeriana.bsky.social) of “Shaping nineteenth-century Art History: Objects and aspirations in Britain and beyond” — essays in honour of Prof Liz Prettejohn. Out Feb 2027 with @manchesterup.bsky.social.

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Manchester University Press - Shaping nineteenth-century Art History

Shaping nineteenth-century Art History - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Shaping nineteenth-century Art History by Susie Beckham

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We saw this Canova Napoleon (with handy Napoleon painting behind), and thought of @hosmeriana.bsky.social 😁 Pitti Palace, Firenze (W' @jackshoulder.bsky.social)

A marble bust of Napoleon in front of a painting of Napoleon

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy international women’s day lads

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Serious curatoring at Bonhams yesterday

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thrilled to announce I’ll be curating the Treasure House Art Fair Sculpture Walk in collaboration with Sculpture Walk director Flora Horswell this summer, including curator’s tours, artist talks, and more!

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Apparently there is a Eurovision song called 'Serving Kant' and somehow it is NOT a historical epic from the point of view of the former Prussian soldier Martin Lampe?

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You know who else laid down a devastating "diss track" accusing his nemesis of being an immoral drugged out weirdo? That's right. Rufus Griswold, the hostile self-appointed executor of Edgar Allan Poe’s literary estate.

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this

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Dr Susie Beckham @susiebeckham.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Me at @hosmeriana.bsky.social on this afternoon’s project planning call

Screengrab from Thor: Ragnorok. Text: “Behold. My spreadsheets.”

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Gotta say I think the pink zipper was an inspired touch, me

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The ultimate beverage goblin beverage

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Oh no someone plagiarised my plagiarism machine help me big government help me

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My parents are getting a new puppy and she is so Baby

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Beach Boys were and remain the superior sixties band

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein:

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Resentfully doing MATHS on a SUNDAY to make this stupid Laura Ashley knockoff dress I have in my head but no one will sell me the pattern for

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 12/01/2025

Who gon beat my ass? My brain. My brain will absolutely beat my ass

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Glorious light streaming through the windows in the sculpture gallery

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audrey @whataretheauds.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

i know how to please a woman… you simply comment upon the jaunty angle of her cap

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Spooky Mermaids Dress Christmas sewing is done! I finally cut into my precious Liberty Tana lawn from the odyssey collection and it’s perfect and I love it especially in the spooky fog

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Did Michel Foucault write this?

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Just Mike @justmike.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background.

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Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Art historian: the negative space serves to open up the composition, creating illusionistic depth while at the same time causing my previous roles to expand and contract across the picture plane in harmonious relation

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My no new fabric rule was dashed almost immediately by the 50% off sale at my favourite bougie designer and soon I will have a horrible new Sea Creatur dress and a Jaunty Holiday Lad shirt