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Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com · Jul 10
📚 From Mary Queen of Scots to Fidel Castro, the Monsoon to earthquakes, here’s our selection of anticipated new history books that will be released over this summer. With new books by @marinawarner.bsky.social, @shafikmeghji.bsky.social,
@timqueeney.bsky.social and many more👇
New History Books for Summer 2025 - Unseen Histories
Our picks of a range of vibrant new history books that will be released over the months ahead.
www.unseenhistories.com

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · Jul 8
For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...
How to Create Sanctuary Now?
Marina Warner explores the history of Sanctuary and how traditions and storytelling might help revive this ancient right in the present day
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · Jul 3
In final episode of this season’s BBCRadio4 #bbcstw @tds153.bsky.social
talked to @marinawarner.bsky.social
@olibasciano.bsky.social & Fergus Butler-Gallie about their respective new books on Sactuary, the history of leprosy, & key church buildings. Get all 3!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Sanctuary, refuge and exile
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 2
James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov

In the latest @lrb.co.uk podcast, @marinawarner.bsky.social & Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA represent fanaticism, & ask why both writers used the fantastical to test reality
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Podcast: Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell · Close Readings: James Hogg and Mikhail Bulgakov
London Review of Books
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · Jul 1
Marina Warner writes in @burlingtoncontemp.bsky.social about "Versia Harris’s memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College"
contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour... @marinawarner.bsky.social
Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Versia Harris’s memorial to Hugh Springer: a response to Black Lives Matter protests at All Souls College
On entering the antechamber of All Souls College Library, University of Oxford, the reader, scholar, student will see, set between the high windows, a tall pyramid reminiscent of the tomb of Gaius Ces...
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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · Jun 22
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The sculptures look very striking, of historic importance and aesthetic originality, so their removal is very alarming.
Save the Testament Sculptures at Exeter Cathedral
Kenneth Carter’s “Testament Sculptures”, made specifically for the niches of the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral, are under imminent threat of removal. These powerful works have enriched the cathedr...
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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · May 29
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... The first exchange for LRB's Close Readings is with the writer Adam Thirlwell explores the paradoxically realistic fables of Franz Kafka - we both love his work for many reasons
Podcast: Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell · Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka
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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · May 6
book here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
A summons to history: Radwa Ashour's Andalusia and its afterlife
The first complete English translation of Radwa Ashour’s acclaimed Granada trilogy, by Kay Heikkinen, brings all three books to new readers, commemorating the author a decade after her death and featu...
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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social · May 6
@aucpress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social 'Andalusia' beckons to us as an ideal society, a harmonious utopia. Radwa Ashour's magnificent trilogy is visionary, and a lens on to present conflicts. Do come to this launch, which includes her son, the poet Tamim Barghouti - SOAS, 13 May 2025, 6-8pm

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Apr 18
'If you are agnostic or atheist, you can delight in the virtuoso realization of these mysteries of the faith and lose yourself as if at the theatre.'

Marina Warner on the beauty and humanity of fourteenth-century Sienese art
Mysteries and grace | TLS
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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · Apr 5
In Episode 3 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC, Marina Warner and I enter the labyrinth of Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES, and the text that inspired its frame, the 13th century travels of Marco Polo, composed from a prison cell. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @lrb.co.uk
Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Apr 4
I’ll be in conversation with Holly Pester at the Essex Book Fest this June, and Marina Warner will be talking about her new book Sanctuary on the same afternoon! Date for the diaries, Essex friends essexbookfestival.org.uk/spirits-salo...
Spirits, Salons & Sanctuary - Essex Book Festival
Spirits, Salons & SanctuarySaturday 21 JuneSt Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church, Colchester An afternoon exploring Spirits, Salons and Sanctuary in the church of St Leonards through new books by poet and tr...
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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · Feb 11
Episode 2 of FICTION & THE FANTASTIC is out, wherein Marina Warner and I take on a longtime favorite of mine—and to each her own pronunciation of "Houyhnhnm," the race of intelligent horses who have colonized mankind... www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @londonreview.bsky.social
Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift
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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social · Jan 13
Introducing FICTION & THE FANTASTIC, a new podcast series from the LRB, wherein Marina Warner and I traverse the classics of enchantment, to discover how it has been a mode of inquiry and hypothesis.... www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @londonreview.bsky.social
Podcast: Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin · Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’
London Review of Books
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