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Lauren B
@gothicbookworm.bsky.social
🦇Haunts museums, bookshops, and the Gothic
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD Student, Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
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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
October 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I'm grateful to @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social @issegyptomania.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk @incsa.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social & so many individuals within the #Victorian #Gothic #Egyptomania #LitSci #PreRaphaeilite communities for friendship & support during my Research Fellowships.
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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.
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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An Evil Omen by Samuel Read (1878).

#anevilomen #samuelread #gothicpainting #gothicillustration
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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
Gothic Selves/Artificial Others
18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK
hullgothic.wordpress.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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
August 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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
July 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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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!
July 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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!!!
July 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
New book delivery! Insect Ways on Summer Days (C.1888, sources vary on the publication date). I love the illustrations! Especially of the whirligig 🪲🪲🪲
June 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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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
June 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤
The brilliant @lotnumber249.bsky.social is hosting an online workshop this evening on getting conference ready and help with abstracts!
May 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#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
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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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.
May 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Friends, TOMORROW is your last chance to download this @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social Element for free!
cup.org/4iCMeQb
Making Memories in Ancient Egypt
Cambridge Core - Egyptology - Making Memories in Ancient Egypt
cup.org
April 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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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...
April 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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)
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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!
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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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
March 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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
March 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM