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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I don't watch a lot of TV.) Chernobyl would be my n.1 and I would add The Terror & The Last Kingdom. Non-English language shows: Gomorrah, The Killing, the Bureau, Spiral.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Professional news! My book Environmental Neo-Victorianism is coming out in early 2027.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So, online quizzes results so far: the Jesuit (early-modern Europe); the Church (Vae Victis) and now the Pope. Not subtle!

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We don't usually see each other's header images. Here's mine.

Simone Martini, Guidoriccio da Fogliano all'Assedio di Monte Massi (1328). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Worth a visit when you are in the UK? It's also the location of a massive statue of Alfred the Great.

The stone over Jane Austen tomb in Winchester Cathedral.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New profile picture after the annual vist to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

On holiday in Bormio. Mountains are lovely even though the Stelvio Pass is closed for a landslide. We are surrounded by would-be Fausto Coppi struggling uphill (and by photos of Coppi on his bike in the town).

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Tonight's film. Laughing so much I'm crying.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A film that takes place where you are from.

A poster of Italian film L'albero degli Zoccoli.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this, quote post with a bridge from your gallery.

Stone railway bridge in the Black Forest near Hinterzarten.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Presents to stoke my obsession just as I prepare to teach a module on the country house novel from January.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you see this, drop a pic of the last place your passport was stamped. (Also the first place as a new British citizen.) Titisee, Black Forest. And if anyone can tell me where to find kaffesahne in the UK...

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Field trip to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath with Literature and the Marketplace students. I could mention literary tourism, the Austen phenomenon, fandom, commodification (tea with Mr Darcy, anyone?), but really the best thing is dressing up in Regency clothes - best fashion for both sexes.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The view from my office. I teach until 5pm. Will I manage to get home?

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light - here I come.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Ah yes, autumn food. (Favourite season!)

Sausage, carrot, beans and mushroom stew with polenta.

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Appropriate weather to mark the first day back at school...

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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I remember Barnier gave Davis "Annapurna" as a present at the start of Brexit negotiations. I assume as a metaphor. Have you read anything by Reinhold Messner? We went to Brunico and he is everywhere, incl a museum of mountaineering designed by Zaha Hadid that looks like the lair of a Bond villain.

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