Dr Christina Faraday
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 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.
There's still time to book for my in-person study course at Madingley Hall, a beautiful Tudor manor house in Cambridge, next weekend! We'll be diving deeper into the stories behind some of the artworks in my book The Story of Tudor Art. Join me here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/tudo...
Tudor Art: the untold story
For the Tudors, visual art was one of the most powerful modes of communication. Many of the most significant political, social and religious upheavals were reflected in, and even shaped by, visual and...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
There's still time to book for my in-person study course at Madingley Hall, a beautiful Tudor manor house in Cambridge, next weekend! We'll be diving deeper into the stories behind some of the artworks in my book The Story of Tudor Art. Join me here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/tudo...
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An excellent research opportunity for someone - the collections at Chatsworth really wonderful and significant.
#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
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Devonshire Collections Research Fellow at Chatsworth House Trust
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February 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
An excellent research opportunity for someone - the collections at Chatsworth really wonderful and significant.
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St Peter's, Raunds is known for its fabulous 15thC wall paintings which include the remnants of what must have been an enormous rood.
Six angels remain surrounding where the crucifixion would have been sited, it's still incredibly impressive.
#WednesdayWallPaintings
Six angels remain surrounding where the crucifixion would have been sited, it's still incredibly impressive.
#WednesdayWallPaintings
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 AM
St Peter's, Raunds is known for its fabulous 15thC wall paintings which include the remnants of what must have been an enormous rood.
Six angels remain surrounding where the crucifixion would have been sited, it's still incredibly impressive.
#WednesdayWallPaintings
Six angels remain surrounding where the crucifixion would have been sited, it's still incredibly impressive.
#WednesdayWallPaintings
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Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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February 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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Haha, probably, though Katherine actually adopted the English spelling herself when she arrived in England so in this case I think it’s justified!
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Haha, probably, though Katherine actually adopted the English spelling herself when she arrived in England so in this case I think it’s justified!
Tonight! I’m very excited to talk about five fascinating Tudor women and the way they used art to shape their identities.
On Sunday evening I'll be speaking at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Katherine of Aragon Festival, asking: how was art used to shape the identities and reputations of five amazing Tudor royal women? I hope you can join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-art-f...
Talk: Art for Tudor Queens
In this talk we’ll look at the portraits and belongings of five royal women across the Tudor century.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Tonight! I’m very excited to talk about five fascinating Tudor women and the way they used art to shape their identities.
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@cjfaraday.bsky.social, I finished The Story of Tudor Art! It was fabulous. I especially loved the chapters on Mary I's art and the evolution of religious #art. #Tudors #history #Renaissance
January 31, 2026 at 9:23 PM
@cjfaraday.bsky.social, I finished The Story of Tudor Art! It was fabulous. I especially loved the chapters on Mary I's art and the evolution of religious #art. #Tudors #history #Renaissance
Hooray! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
January 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Hooray! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
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‘By the time Elizabeth I’s reign ended, [artists] had attained a status in society that would have been difficult to imagine when the queen’s grandfather Henry VII took the throne in 1485.’
Edward Town on culture shock in Tudor England
Edward Town on culture shock in Tudor England
How Tudor England coped with culture shock
Christina J. Faraday’s history of the period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution, writes Edward Town
buff.ly
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
‘By the time Elizabeth I’s reign ended, [artists] had attained a status in society that would have been difficult to imagine when the queen’s grandfather Henry VII took the throne in 1485.’
Edward Town on culture shock in Tudor England
Edward Town on culture shock in Tudor England
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Giving this a boost. Grateful for the suggestions so far and wondering if anyone has additional ideas.
What do we know about interactions between #earlymodern elites and the people who helped manage their property and interests?
What do we know about interactions between #earlymodern elites and the people who helped manage their property and interests?
Wondering if anyone knows about work on interactions btwn #earlymodern elites and the people--stewards, bailiffs, etc--who managed their estates and property. I'm curious about these relationships, which would have required conversation, some level of mutual trust, etc.
January 28, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Giving this a boost. Grateful for the suggestions so far and wondering if anyone has additional ideas.
What do we know about interactions between #earlymodern elites and the people who helped manage their property and interests?
What do we know about interactions between #earlymodern elites and the people who helped manage their property and interests?
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Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.
January 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.
But did you get the badge?
January 29, 2026 at 10:05 AM
But did you get the badge?
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On Sunday evening I'll be speaking at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Katherine of Aragon Festival, asking: how was art used to shape the identities and reputations of five amazing Tudor royal women? I hope you can join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-art-f...
Talk: Art for Tudor Queens
In this talk we’ll look at the portraits and belongings of five royal women across the Tudor century.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
On Sunday evening I'll be speaking at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Katherine of Aragon Festival, asking: how was art used to shape the identities and reputations of five amazing Tudor royal women? I hope you can join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-art-f...
My brother is the clever one @nearlyoscar.bsky.social
Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a prose-poem of obsessive reconstruction, circling a single childhood summer in which the ordinary textures of suburbia, garden games, camera snapshots, pop songs, and family rituals begin to feel charged with threat.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My brother is the clever one @nearlyoscar.bsky.social
Do X thing or do the X thing 😆
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Do X thing or do the X thing 😆
Ah I was reading it! Which version do you recommend?
January 26, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Ah I was reading it! Which version do you recommend?
Also: surely one of the creepiest lines in all of literature
January 26, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Also: surely one of the creepiest lines in all of literature
Finished The Haunting of Hill House yesterday and thought I’d been appreciating its creepiness on a purely intellectual level, until our house started making new and inexplicable noises in the middle of the night 😰
January 26, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Finished The Haunting of Hill House yesterday and thought I’d been appreciating its creepiness on a purely intellectual level, until our house started making new and inexplicable noises in the middle of the night 😰
On Sunday evening I'll be speaking at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Katherine of Aragon Festival, asking: how was art used to shape the identities and reputations of five amazing Tudor royal women? I hope you can join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-art-f...
Talk: Art for Tudor Queens
In this talk we’ll look at the portraits and belongings of five royal women across the Tudor century.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
On Sunday evening I'll be speaking at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery as part of the Katherine of Aragon Festival, asking: how was art used to shape the identities and reputations of five amazing Tudor royal women? I hope you can join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-art-f...
Happy belated birthday! Hope you enjoy it!!
Happy birthday to me (2 weeks ago but I forgot to post my lovely birthday book haul!) Really looking forward to this - and the production is sumptuous 🖼😍
January 26, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Happy belated birthday! Hope you enjoy it!!
I think maybe the best tv programme ever made, I rewatch every few years. Livia style goals
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I think maybe the best tv programme ever made, I rewatch every few years. Livia style goals
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A new history of the Tudor period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution in the 16th century, writes Edward Town
How Tudor England coped with culture shock
Christina J. Faraday’s history of the period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution, writes Edward Town
buff.ly
January 24, 2026 at 1:45 PM
A new history of the Tudor period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution in the 16th century, writes Edward Town
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
January 23, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
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I'm enjoying @cjfaraday.bsky.social's The Story of Tudor Art! As a blind woman, I value how Faraday describes traditions, objects, & artistic works; I wouldn't be able to perceive these details without her help. So thankful this book is on Audible. www.amazon.com/Story-Tudor-... #history #Tudors
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January 23, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I'm enjoying @cjfaraday.bsky.social's The Story of Tudor Art! As a blind woman, I value how Faraday describes traditions, objects, & artistic works; I wouldn't be able to perceive these details without her help. So thankful this book is on Audible. www.amazon.com/Story-Tudor-... #history #Tudors