Dr Andrew Higgins
@ashiggins.bsky.social
Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Was blown away by the new production of Janacek’s The Makropulos Case last night at @royalballetandopera with a stellar cast in a powerful (and I hope not last!) production by Katie Mitchell - packs a punch and a must see #opera #makropolouscase #janacek
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Was blown away by the new production of Janacek’s The Makropulos Case last night at @royalballetandopera with a stellar cast in a powerful (and I hope not last!) production by Katie Mitchell - packs a punch and a must see #opera #makropolouscase #janacek
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25 November in the Roman amphitheatre at the London Guildhall, it's Instant Classics's first live event. We'll be talking about what life was like in Roman London. And a drink and mingle at the end. Had been sold out, but more tickets now released www.instantclassicspod.com/events
Instant Classics | Events
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
25 November in the Roman amphitheatre at the London Guildhall, it's Instant Classics's first live event. We'll be talking about what life was like in Roman London. And a drink and mingle at the end. Had been sold out, but more tickets now released www.instantclassicspod.com/events
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On 9 November 1967: Smith of Wootton Major was first published.
A short story by J.R.R. #Tolkien set entirely outside of Middle-earth, the tale is about a cake and a feast, the Master Cook, Smith, and the land of Faery. A cute little tale that is very much worth your time. #Booksky
A short story by J.R.R. #Tolkien set entirely outside of Middle-earth, the tale is about a cake and a feast, the Master Cook, Smith, and the land of Faery. A cute little tale that is very much worth your time. #Booksky
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Really moving #Remembrance Day service this morning on #IWM HMS Belfast - beautiful weather for!
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Really moving #Remembrance Day service this morning on #IWM HMS Belfast - beautiful weather for!
Was great to attend the UK Premiere of the new film Nuremberg last night from @skytv a fantastic powerful movie with excellent performances
no spoilers! #nuremberg
no spoilers! #nuremberg
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Was great to attend the UK Premiere of the new film Nuremberg last night from @skytv a fantastic powerful movie with excellent performances
no spoilers! #nuremberg
no spoilers! #nuremberg
Was at the World Premiere of this incredibly powerful opera by Jake Heggie at San Francisco Opera 25 years ago and now so looking forward to this new production at English National Opera with a stellar cast including the divine Sarah Connolly toi toi all @englishnationalopera #eno #opera
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Great episode. Aldarion is getting on my nerves! Eru when are these two going to get married! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @prancingponypod.bsky.social #tolkien
387 – We Can Work it Out
Podcast Episode · The Prancing Pony Podcast · 26/10/2025 · 2h 11m
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November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great episode. Aldarion is getting on my nerves! Eru when are these two going to get married! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @prancingponypod.bsky.social #tolkien
Great episode on the MGM movie House of #DarkShadows podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social #TerroratCollinwood
Ep 119: House of Dark Shadows 55th Anniversary with Ansel Faraj and Darren Gross
Podcast Episode · Terror at Collinwood: A Dark Shadows Podcast · 30/10/2025 · 56m
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November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Great episode on the MGM movie House of #DarkShadows podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social #TerroratCollinwood
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What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
My #Halloween tradition every year is to watch my fav horror movie (outside of the Dark Shadows story-world) which is known as The City of the Dead or Horror Hotel featuring Christopher Lee. Leave Whitewood now! Watch with lights off very spooky! Poor Lottie! 💀👻🎃
m.imdb.com/title/tt0053...
m.imdb.com/title/tt0053...
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My #Halloween tradition every year is to watch my fav horror movie (outside of the Dark Shadows story-world) which is known as The City of the Dead or Horror Hotel featuring Christopher Lee. Leave Whitewood now! Watch with lights off very spooky! Poor Lottie! 💀👻🎃
m.imdb.com/title/tt0053...
m.imdb.com/title/tt0053...
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Have you heard about The Bovadium Fragments, the new #Tolkien book published three weeks ago (and the last to be edited by Christopher Tolkien)?
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
New Tolkien book – <em>The Bovadium Fragments</em> – is satire on industrialisation
HarperCollins has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Bovadium Fragments will be released on 9 October 2025.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Have you heard about The Bovadium Fragments, the new #Tolkien book published three weeks ago (and the last to be edited by Christopher Tolkien)?
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
The Fragments are a satire on the impact of cars, and highlight again Tolkien's concern for the environment.
www.tolkiensociety.org/2025/06/new-...
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This week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point? Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
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October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point? Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
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I was really excited to join a special tour of Clapham South Deep Level Shelter this afternoon with IWM's patrons. A fascinating history beyond the Second World War, with an afterlife including being a hostel and labour exchange for those on the Windrush, and a hotel for the Festival of Britain
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I was really excited to join a special tour of Clapham South Deep Level Shelter this afternoon with IWM's patrons. A fascinating history beyond the Second World War, with an afterlife including being a hostel and labour exchange for those on the Windrush, and a hotel for the Festival of Britain
An amazing subterranean journey into the depths under Clapham South today in London with our fantastic Imperial War Museums
Patrons to see the vast tunnels that were built for thousands to survive the Battle of Britain and interesting to learn how the site continued to be used after WW2 #iwm
Patrons to see the vast tunnels that were built for thousands to survive the Battle of Britain and interesting to learn how the site continued to be used after WW2 #iwm
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
An amazing subterranean journey into the depths under Clapham South today in London with our fantastic Imperial War Museums
Patrons to see the vast tunnels that were built for thousands to survive the Battle of Britain and interesting to learn how the site continued to be used after WW2 #iwm
Patrons to see the vast tunnels that were built for thousands to survive the Battle of Britain and interesting to learn how the site continued to be used after WW2 #iwm
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I went to this exhibition recently, highly recommended. The first exhibition on empire and decolonisation at a major a British museum that I can recall www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I went to this exhibition recently, highly recommended. The first exhibition on empire and decolonisation at a major a British museum that I can recall www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...
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IWM Podcast Live Festival!
The Forgotten War
Hosts Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher will be joined by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson, author of Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945.
1 November 2025
4pm to 5pm
IWM London
Book your ticket: https://bit.ly/3LbQOJ9
#Historysky #Booksky
The Forgotten War
Hosts Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher will be joined by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson, author of Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945.
1 November 2025
4pm to 5pm
IWM London
Book your ticket: https://bit.ly/3LbQOJ9
#Historysky #Booksky
IWM Podcast Live Festival
Immerse yourself in the world of history and storytelling at IWM Podcast Live. This one-of-a-kind event offers a day of live podcast recordings exploring stories from over a century of war and conflict in the iconic IWM London. Whether you're a history ...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
IWM Podcast Live Festival!
The Forgotten War
Hosts Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher will be joined by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson, author of Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945.
1 November 2025
4pm to 5pm
IWM London
Book your ticket: https://bit.ly/3LbQOJ9
#Historysky #Booksky
The Forgotten War
Hosts Dr Robert Lyman MBE & Jack Bowsher will be joined by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson, author of Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945.
1 November 2025
4pm to 5pm
IWM London
Book your ticket: https://bit.ly/3LbQOJ9
#Historysky #Booksky
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Pleasure to join the virtual launch of 'The New Holocaust Galleries of the Imperial War Museum London: conception, design, interpretation', ed. Stephan Jaeger & James Bulgin. Fascinating contributions, including @andypearce.bsky.social Hannah Holtschneider & Diana Popescu, also Clare Lawlor.
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Pleasure to join the virtual launch of 'The New Holocaust Galleries of the Imperial War Museum London: conception, design, interpretation', ed. Stephan Jaeger & James Bulgin. Fascinating contributions, including @andypearce.bsky.social Hannah Holtschneider & Diana Popescu, also Clare Lawlor.
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On 27 October 1983: The Book of Lost Tales Part One was published.
Edited by #Tolkien's son, Christopher, the book is the first part in the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, and contains the earliest versions of Tolkien's writings that would become the Silmarillion. #BookTok
Edited by #Tolkien's son, Christopher, the book is the first part in the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, and contains the earliest versions of Tolkien's writings that would become the Silmarillion. #BookTok
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
On 27 October 1983: The Book of Lost Tales Part One was published.
Edited by #Tolkien's son, Christopher, the book is the first part in the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, and contains the earliest versions of Tolkien's writings that would become the Silmarillion. #BookTok
Edited by #Tolkien's son, Christopher, the book is the first part in the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, and contains the earliest versions of Tolkien's writings that would become the Silmarillion. #BookTok
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Join the Tolkien Society at www.tolkiensociety.org
The Society is a worldwide community where you can meet others, share your love of #Tolkien and learn more about the Professor. And you get 6 copies of our magazine Amon Hen a year!
We have postal and digital memberships, and we ship worldwide.
The Society is a worldwide community where you can meet others, share your love of #Tolkien and learn more about the Professor. And you get 6 copies of our magazine Amon Hen a year!
We have postal and digital memberships, and we ship worldwide.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Join the Tolkien Society at www.tolkiensociety.org
The Society is a worldwide community where you can meet others, share your love of #Tolkien and learn more about the Professor. And you get 6 copies of our magazine Amon Hen a year!
We have postal and digital memberships, and we ship worldwide.
The Society is a worldwide community where you can meet others, share your love of #Tolkien and learn more about the Professor. And you get 6 copies of our magazine Amon Hen a year!
We have postal and digital memberships, and we ship worldwide.
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The question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned?
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 23/10/2025 · 44m
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October 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
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Episode 87 (87)
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Episode 87 (87)
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It's publication day! A huge congratulations to Exeter alumnus Sir Philip Pullman (1965, English) on the release of The Rose Field, the final novel in The Book of Dust trilogy.
#ExeterCollegeOxford #PhilipPullman #TheBookOfDust
#ExeterCollegeOxford #PhilipPullman #TheBookOfDust
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It's publication day! A huge congratulations to Exeter alumnus Sir Philip Pullman (1965, English) on the release of The Rose Field, the final novel in The Book of Dust trilogy.
#ExeterCollegeOxford #PhilipPullman #TheBookOfDust
#ExeterCollegeOxford #PhilipPullman #TheBookOfDust
The end of an epic - starting the final journey with Lyra this weekend! @philippullman.bsky.social #TheRoseField #Philippullman #bookofdust
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The end of an epic - starting the final journey with Lyra this weekend! @philippullman.bsky.social #TheRoseField #Philippullman #bookofdust
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Excited to announce the virtual launch of our new book, 'The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London' in one week! Join our editors next Tuesday at 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET; 9:00-10:30 a.m. CT; 4:5-30 p.m. CST! @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @andypearce.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Excited to announce the virtual launch of our new book, 'The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London' in one week! Join our editors next Tuesday at 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET; 9:00-10:30 a.m. CT; 4:5-30 p.m. CST! @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @andypearce.bsky.social