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Dr Christina Faraday
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Historian of art & ideas, University of Cambridge | FSA FRHistS | BBC New Generation Thinker | host of British Art Matters podcast | trustee of The Walpole Society | 📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now! | 🥦👻🎻 views own
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
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My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.
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Haunting festive presence.
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Things I found on my laptop, an occasional series

[Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946]
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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@cjfaraday.bsky.social Father Christmas came through! I LOVE it. I'm only on chapter 3 because there were niblings to entertain, but I've already earmarked 'Quentin Poulet' as an excellent name for a rabbit and started a list of new places we need to visit so I can do peering 😎
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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‘Ask any curator, particularly if they work in an old building, and they often have strange stories to tell.’ And none more than M.R. James who drew deeply on his work as a medievalist and as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for his ghostly tales, writes @cjfaraday.bsky.social
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
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December 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I had so much fun thinking about M. R. James, ghosts, art and objects for Apollo this month 👻👻👻
‘There is something about art history and archaeology that makes previous ages seem especially immediate. No wonder so many scholars of those disciplines have turned to writing ghost stories – chief among them M.R. James.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social reads his tales with an antiquarian eye
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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‘There is something about art history and archaeology that makes previous ages seem especially immediate. No wonder so many scholars of those disciplines have turned to writing ghost stories – chief among them M.R. James.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social reads his tales with an antiquarian eye
The ghostly world of M.R. James
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Just catching up with @cjfaraday.bsky.social ‘s brilliant Story of Tudor Art.
Highly recommended. www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My little piece 'Accuracy, Astrology, and Authority' appears in the One Object segment of British Art Studies 29, where 8 of us consider the Ramsay-Kerr watch from different angles. I looked at its maker's curious philosophical proclivities, & other things...: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/de...
British Art Studies
*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I spoke to @onthetudortrail.bsky.social about The Story of Tudor Art for Talking Tudors podcast! Listen as I bust Tudor rose myths and get a bit too enthusiastic about women ropemakers, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf8t...
Episode 326 - The Story of Tudor Art with Dr Christina Faraday
YouTube video by Talking Tudors
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December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Belatedly caught up with @cjfaraday.bsky.social's great Radio 3 documentary on music in the glorious biographical portrait of Sir Henry Unton. It's my favourite early modern painting and Christina and guests bring it wonderfully to life. Ideal pre-Christmas listening! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Sir Henry Unton's Music
Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Talking Tudors: Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Christina Faraday about her new book, 'The Story of Tudor Art', a first-of-its-kind survey of 16th-century English art. talkingtudors.podbean.com/e/the-story-... @cjfaraday.bsky.social @onthetudortrail.bsky.social #Tudors #Podcast
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
THE STORY OF TUDOR ART - came out in September. The first book on English art across the whole 16th century, for the royal court and beyond it. Extremely Christmassy - a great gift - doesn’t even need wrapping because the dust jacket is red and shiny gold. 🌟🌹👑♥️
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Help me, #skystorians of #elizabethan England & #earlymodern material culture enjoyers… This is Isaac Oliver's splendidly unsubtle - and surprisingly tiny - Party in the Open Air (Statens Museum Kunst, C'hagen). Q: what's the bottle (decanter?) in the foreground of the 24hr party people side? 🗃️
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A bit of a departure for me in @apollo-magazine.com’s December issue, where I look at what M. R. James's ghost stories can tell us about the pleasing terror of studying art and objects...
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Perfect Hallowe'en-e'en post - my author copies of The Haunted Library, @blpublishing.bsky.social's latest Tales of the Weird volume, out on 13th November. My story 'The Advent Visitor' appears alongside some true classics of the genre...
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Kevin the Carrot engaged to Katie? Gonna be a lot of broken heartichokes out there now one of the country’s most eligible batubers is off the table….
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Finally nailed the promotional photo for my East Anglian remake of Don't Look Now, which tells the same story, but using all the locations from Whistle And I'll Come To You.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
Podcast | The Walpole Society
www.walpolesociety.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of this book! A marvellous new biography of The Notorious LMB.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
On BBC Radio 3 in half an hour!
My episode of @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Sunday Feature goes out this Sunday at 7:45pm (or catch up later on BBC Sounds). All about the musical aspects of my favourite Tudor picture, The Henry Unton Memorial Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM