Lucy Jane Santos
@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social
writer, presenter and consultant who seeks out the surprising stories that sit at the edges of familiar history.
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Hi my name is Lucy and I am a freelance historian and consultant uncovering the hidden stories of how science and technology have transformed daily life, especially when it comes to innovations in beauty practices.
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Our special issue has now been assigned a volume! You can catch up with the editorial and all six articles here. Two more to go - one by me on 'dishpan hands' and one by @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social on radium.
www.emerald.com/jhrm/issue/1...
#cosmetics #marketing #advertisements
www.emerald.com/jhrm/issue/1...
#cosmetics #marketing #advertisements
Volume 17 Issue 3-4 | Journal of Historical Research in Marketing | Emerald Publishing
Focuses entirely on marketing history and the history of marketing thought.
www.emerald.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Our special issue has now been assigned a volume! You can catch up with the editorial and all six articles here. Two more to go - one by me on 'dishpan hands' and one by @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social on radium.
www.emerald.com/jhrm/issue/1...
#cosmetics #marketing #advertisements
www.emerald.com/jhrm/issue/1...
#cosmetics #marketing #advertisements
Ooh just spent a very pleasant few hours choosing (and buying licenses- not so much fun) for the images in my next book. Love the feeling when it starts coming together.
a black and white photo of a woman laying on a bed with her mouth open
Alt: Gif from some like it hot of Jack Lemmon as Daphne lying on the bed and shaking maracas with a huge grin.
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ooh just spent a very pleasant few hours choosing (and buying licenses- not so much fun) for the images in my next book. Love the feeling when it starts coming together.
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URGENT SPEAKER NEEDED! Last-minute cancellation for a luxury Crystal Cruises voyage (Crystal Symphony, Jan 5-18, 2026).
Seeking an expert to deliver 6 lectures on Africa/Indian Ocean (Mombasa to Mumbai itinerary).
Send topics to: casting@pastpreservers.com
#CruiseSpeaker
Seeking an expert to deliver 6 lectures on Africa/Indian Ocean (Mombasa to Mumbai itinerary).
Send topics to: casting@pastpreservers.com
#CruiseSpeaker
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
URGENT SPEAKER NEEDED! Last-minute cancellation for a luxury Crystal Cruises voyage (Crystal Symphony, Jan 5-18, 2026).
Seeking an expert to deliver 6 lectures on Africa/Indian Ocean (Mombasa to Mumbai itinerary).
Send topics to: casting@pastpreservers.com
#CruiseSpeaker
Seeking an expert to deliver 6 lectures on Africa/Indian Ocean (Mombasa to Mumbai itinerary).
Send topics to: casting@pastpreservers.com
#CruiseSpeaker
Well that was (disorganised on my part) efficiency. Less than half an hour from a message reminding me of flu jab app to a mad rush to getting it to being back home.
an illustration of a syringe with vaxx on it
Alt: an illustration of a syringe with vaxx on it and angel wings
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Well that was (disorganised on my part) efficiency. Less than half an hour from a message reminding me of flu jab app to a mad rush to getting it to being back home.
Promise to myself - if I ever sell a book proposal for a decent amount of money am treating myself to these. Have been top of my wish list since the 80s.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Promise to myself - if I ever sell a book proposal for a decent amount of money am treating myself to these. Have been top of my wish list since the 80s.
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It’s me in real life looking at me on a screen in an exhibition (at London Transport Museum). Very surreal and very odd but very fun!
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s me in real life looking at me on a screen in an exhibition (at London Transport Museum). Very surreal and very odd but very fun!
It’s me in real life looking at me on a screen in an exhibition (at London Transport Museum). Very surreal and very odd but very fun!
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s me in real life looking at me on a screen in an exhibition (at London Transport Museum). Very surreal and very odd but very fun!
Some Like It Hot at #2 - not saying if I agree or not but was interested to see its position in 2025.
It is imposdible to make a Top 100 list everyone agrees with…
BUT THIS LIST IS SO WRONG!!!!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
BUT THIS LIST IS SO WRONG!!!!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Some Like It Hot at #2 - not saying if I agree or not but was interested to see its position in 2025.
Love a hairstyle history and this is so interesting!
The 80's pop group "B-52's", known for hits like "Love Shack", "Roam" and "Rock Lobster" are named for the group's distinctive hairstyle.
We can trace the specific invention of the beehive hairstyle, which was also called the 'B-52' for similarity to the nose of the 'Boeing Stratofortress'.
We can trace the specific invention of the beehive hairstyle, which was also called the 'B-52' for similarity to the nose of the 'Boeing Stratofortress'.
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Love a hairstyle history and this is so interesting!
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Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
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Early Career Researchers wanted!
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
🎤 Are you an early career researcher passionate about communicating with the wider public? Applications for the 2026 British Science Festival Award Lectures are now open!
Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept.
Find out more and apply >
www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept.
Find out more and apply >
www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
Award Lectures
Details on how to become an Award Lecturer at the British Science Festival
www.britishscienceassociation.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Early Career Researchers wanted!
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
Yikes. Just seen a film of my face that is going be played on a loop at a major museum exhibition until at least 2027 and my overriding thought is - should have worn more eyeliner! #tiredhistorian
a potato with a face and a pink lip is standing in the dirt
Alt: a potato with a face and a pink lip is standing in the dirt
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yikes. Just seen a film of my face that is going be played on a loop at a major museum exhibition until at least 2027 and my overriding thought is - should have worn more eyeliner! #tiredhistorian
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A quick update, because writing about my book was easier than actually writing the book today 🥊🤜🏻🤛🏾
Okay, back in the attic she goes...
grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/11/15/t...
Okay, back in the attic she goes...
grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/11/15/t...
Bruisers, Boozers, and Bear Tamers: THE DEVIL’S DANCEFLOOR will be published by Duckworth in October 2026
My first book, which explores the ‘dying days’ of bareknuckle boxing and the story of a rapidly changing London through biographies of Hezekiah Moscow and seven other 1880s boxers, will be publishe…
grapplingwithhistory.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A quick update, because writing about my book was easier than actually writing the book today 🥊🤜🏻🤛🏾
Okay, back in the attic she goes...
grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/11/15/t...
Okay, back in the attic she goes...
grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/11/15/t...
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'New Threats. New Era. New Season.'
(New Poster)
Season II of A Thousand Blows streams 9 Jan 2026.
The completely unaffiliated, unconnected, in no way endorsed by Disney, book with the true stories of Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson - THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - is published in Oct 😅👊🏻
(New Poster)
Season II of A Thousand Blows streams 9 Jan 2026.
The completely unaffiliated, unconnected, in no way endorsed by Disney, book with the true stories of Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson - THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - is published in Oct 😅👊🏻
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
'New Threats. New Era. New Season.'
(New Poster)
Season II of A Thousand Blows streams 9 Jan 2026.
The completely unaffiliated, unconnected, in no way endorsed by Disney, book with the true stories of Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson - THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - is published in Oct 😅👊🏻
(New Poster)
Season II of A Thousand Blows streams 9 Jan 2026.
The completely unaffiliated, unconnected, in no way endorsed by Disney, book with the true stories of Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson - THE DEVIL'S DANCEFLOOR - is published in Oct 😅👊🏻
Oh but I did enjoy reading this.
Kate Wagner, the woman behind McMansion Hell apparently did a piece on the Rococo style Trump loves in the White House and I literally squealed like a teenager when I found out.
www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion Hell
Get more from McMansion Hell on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Oh but I did enjoy reading this.
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Revealed: Hidden dangers behind trend of tanning drops, sprays and injections
www.channel4.com/news/reveale...
www.channel4.com/news/reveale...
Revealed: Hidden dangers behind trend of tanning drops, sprays and injections
Tan from the inside out. It sounds tempting and promises quick fix results but this programme can reveal the hidden dangers behind this booming trend.
www.channel4.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Revealed: Hidden dangers behind trend of tanning drops, sprays and injections
www.channel4.com/news/reveale...
www.channel4.com/news/reveale...
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Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
You know you are in for a treat when the @gailmyerscough.co.uk delivery arrives
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
You know you are in for a treat when the @gailmyerscough.co.uk delivery arrives
Honestly I cannot get over it - my name on a book cover, next to the name of my favourite film (well the book is about it so yeah!) and with a picture of the main cast. Weeping ❤️❤️
Was in a grump this morning but just seen the cover of my next book and it is STUNNING. Can’t wait to share!
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Honestly I cannot get over it - my name on a book cover, next to the name of my favourite film (well the book is about it so yeah!) and with a picture of the main cast. Weeping ❤️❤️
Was in a grump this morning but just seen the cover of my next book and it is STUNNING. Can’t wait to share!
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Was in a grump this morning but just seen the cover of my next book and it is STUNNING. Can’t wait to share!
Oh so delighted this is out! If you are interested in beauty history - especially the marketing of it - please do check this out (and the rest of the articles too - although there are still two more to come!)
Delighted to share the introduction to our special issue 'Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup', which was published today with Journal of Historical Research in Marketing.
www.emerald.com/jhrm/article...
@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social @makeupmuseum.org
www.emerald.com/jhrm/article...
@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social @makeupmuseum.org
Guest editorial: Introduction to special issue on “selling beauty”
We are delighted to present this special issue, entitled “Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup”, to the readers of the Journal of Historical Research in Mar...
www.emerald.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Oh so delighted this is out! If you are interested in beauty history - especially the marketing of it - please do check this out (and the rest of the articles too - although there are still two more to come!)
Reposted by Lucy Jane Santos
URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
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If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif. (I mean it’s got to be - have watched more than 7 times in the lead up to my deadline)
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif. (I mean it’s got to be - have watched more than 7 times in the lead up to my deadline)
If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If you love Marilyn (and Jack, Tony and the rest) and want to know more about the making of Some Like It Hot you are in luck as I have a new IG for that www.instagram.com/makingslih