Dr Kevin Geddes ✶ Keep Calm and Fanny On
@drkevingeddes.bsky.social
Fanny Fun with Fanny Cradock 🍄 Writer. Author. Lecturer. PhD early TV food & cooking programmes in Britain: X Marcel Boulestin, Moira Meighn, Philip Harben, Marguerite Patten, Joan Robins, Josephine Terry, Zena Skinner *Television History*
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So grateful (& surprised) for this years @alcs.co.uk payment - so very welcome... Thanks to all those who have photocopied my work, and thanks most of all to the wonderful folks at @alcs.co.uk for collecting and redistributing the cold hard cash my way... Sign up now if you write & publish anything!
March 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So grateful (& surprised) for this years @alcs.co.uk payment - so very welcome... Thanks to all those who have photocopied my work, and thanks most of all to the wonderful folks at @alcs.co.uk for collecting and redistributing the cold hard cash my way... Sign up now if you write & publish anything!
If you enjoy watching Dragons Den, or the latest series from SaraDavies #thebigideaworks, you might be interested to read my latest article, for the nostalgic Best of British Magazine, which looks at the BBC television series, TV Inventors Club, which ran from 1948-1956... www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you enjoy watching Dragons Den, or the latest series from SaraDavies #thebigideaworks, you might be interested to read my latest article, for the nostalgic Best of British Magazine, which looks at the BBC television series, TV Inventors Club, which ran from 1948-1956... www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk
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SDE would like to make more friends on Bluesky 😀, so with that in mind, we're giving away one of these fantastic #NikKershaw box sets! 10CDs and a DVD! Please like and share and we'll pick a random winner in a week's time, on 28 Feb. Open to everyone! Good luck...
February 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
SDE would like to make more friends on Bluesky 😀, so with that in mind, we're giving away one of these fantastic #NikKershaw box sets! 10CDs and a DVD! Please like and share and we'll pick a random winner in a week's time, on 28 Feb. Open to everyone! Good luck...
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A brand new episode of The British Food History Podcast has dropped. My guest is food historian @drlindsaymiddleton.bsky.social and the topic is Alexis Soyer, arguably the 1st celebrity chef.
Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...
Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...
Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton
The British Food History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A brand new episode of The British Food History Podcast has dropped. My guest is food historian @drlindsaymiddleton.bsky.social and the topic is Alexis Soyer, arguably the 1st celebrity chef.
Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...
Available on all podcast platforms inc this one: open.spotify.com/episode/44Em...
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Hi everyone!
I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy).
Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏
@ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social
I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy).
Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏
@ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hi everyone!
I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy).
Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏
@ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social
I’m a PhD fellow from @UABBarcelona looking for a room to rent in Edinburgh from March 1st to May 1st during my visiting fellowship at @Uni_Edinburgh (Social Policy).
Any tips & RTs are appreciated! 🙏
@ewanrobo.bsky.social @davidevampa.bsky.social l @philiprathgeb.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I have celebrated the end of the year by paying my Tax bill, starting afresh for 2025! #HappyNewYear
December 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I have celebrated the end of the year by paying my Tax bill, starting afresh for 2025! #HappyNewYear
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'Bliss was it in that dawn of television to be alive, but to be writing about it for The Listener was very heaven.'
Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
OTD in early British television: 29 December 1938 - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: 'Are you wondering whether to get a television set or not?,' critic Grace Wyndham Goldie (above, c. 1937) asked in her Listener review-of-the-year column dated Thursday 29 December ...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 8:09 AM
'Bliss was it in that dawn of television to be alive, but to be writing about it for The Listener was very heaven.'
Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
Yesterday's OTD in early British television was a celebration of Grace Wyndham Goldie - and a plea for a contact for her Estate.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...
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Remembering TV cook Fanny Cradock who passed away today in 1994, age 85.
Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer.
She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.
tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...
Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer.
She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.
tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...
December 27, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Remembering TV cook Fanny Cradock who passed away today in 1994, age 85.
Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer.
She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.
tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...
Cradock was a critic, television cook and writer.
She was usually seen with her husband, Major Johnnie Cradock, who played the part of a slightly bumbling hen-pecked husband.
tvark.org/fanny-cradoc...
Fanny Cradock died on this day, 30 years ago 😱
December 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Fanny Cradock died on this day, 30 years ago 😱
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#OTD - 27 Dec 1937 - “Dick Whittington and His Cat" -
Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey.
This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco.
Producer: #ReginaldSmith.
Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey.
This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco.
Producer: #ReginaldSmith.
December 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM
#OTD - 27 Dec 1937 - “Dick Whittington and His Cat" -
Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey.
This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco.
Producer: #ReginaldSmith.
Television’s first grand Christmas pantomime, written by #ArthurAskey.
This sequence opens with #PamelaRandall as Fairy Bow Belle, and ends with #CyrilFletcher as the Emperor of Morocco.
Producer: #ReginaldSmith.
New Book Review - Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 from @kylieandrews.bsky.social - a ‘group biography’ aiming to clearly perform an act of recovery to reinstate the ‘blind spot of gender in broadcasting’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 27, 2024 at 8:41 AM
New Book Review - Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 from @kylieandrews.bsky.social - a ‘group biography’ aiming to clearly perform an act of recovery to reinstate the ‘blind spot of gender in broadcasting’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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OTD in early British television: spoiled for the eve of Christmas Eve choice today, I think we might attempt a double-header, celebrating 'Polite Wine Drinking' (pictured) on this day in 1937, and then 'The Director of Television in the Witness Box', shown on Friday 23 December 1938.
December 23, 2024 at 11:03 AM
OTD in early British television: spoiled for the eve of Christmas Eve choice today, I think we might attempt a double-header, celebrating 'Polite Wine Drinking' (pictured) on this day in 1937, and then 'The Director of Television in the Witness Box', shown on Friday 23 December 1938.
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Recirculating this starter pack now it's got a few more people on it. And if you'd like to be added, just say the word. It started with the BAFTSS SIG but anyone is welcome. 'Room for one more inside, sir!', as Miles Malleson might say if he were on Bluesky... go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH
December 20, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Recirculating this starter pack now it's got a few more people on it. And if you'd like to be added, just say the word. It started with the BAFTSS SIG but anyone is welcome. 'Room for one more inside, sir!', as Miles Malleson might say if he were on Bluesky... go.bsky.app/KD7kfpH
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Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
Jobs: postdoctoral posts Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible / closes 20 January 2025
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is recruitng for two postdoctoral posts to support the work of Professor Helen M Hanson (Project Lead), and the project team on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-...
britishphotohistory.ning.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
Dougie is absolutely right, as always. If you don't pay heed to what he says there's a real & present danger that Fanny Cradock will be cross & write you nasty letters. Transform your Christmas byuuuu-feys in your own time & upset those neighbours you never really liked very much #ItsAllInTheBooklet
Just a reminder that my dear pal @drkevingeddes.bsky.social has a couple of items to offer you that would make superb pressies for the foodie in your life. Or get them for yourself, no one’s judging.
December 8, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Dougie is absolutely right, as always. If you don't pay heed to what he says there's a real & present danger that Fanny Cradock will be cross & write you nasty letters. Transform your Christmas byuuuu-feys in your own time & upset those neighbours you never really liked very much #ItsAllInTheBooklet
Spoiler - I thoroughly enjoyed this book #AcademicBookReview @cstonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...
December 7, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Spoiler - I thoroughly enjoyed this book #AcademicBookReview @cstonline.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Christmas past...
December 5, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Christmas past...
Smashing talk from @dranniegray.bsky.social on all things Christmas and the High Street, thanks National Archives 🧡
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Smashing talk from @dranniegray.bsky.social on all things Christmas and the High Street, thanks National Archives 🧡
Bravo to the BFI for this stunning set, looking forward to diving in, and retiring my dodgy copies of this wonderful Vincent Price series... More television food and cooking history please! #CookingPriceWise
November 28, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Bravo to the BFI for this stunning set, looking forward to diving in, and retiring my dodgy copies of this wonderful Vincent Price series... More television food and cooking history please! #CookingPriceWise
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If you haven’t heard of mossgielfarm.co.uk, they’re a regenerative, cow with calf, organic dairy farm, producing the most delicious milk. They’re running a share based crowdfunder for new facilities to continue transforming dairy farming in Scotland. www.crowdcube.com/companies/mo...
www.crowdcube.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
If you haven’t heard of mossgielfarm.co.uk, they’re a regenerative, cow with calf, organic dairy farm, producing the most delicious milk. They’re running a share based crowdfunder for new facilities to continue transforming dairy farming in Scotland. www.crowdcube.com/companies/mo...
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Dear friends, could u please help us?We have curated a hamper with hand made 🇺🇦 things (🌻 oil, wool socks, d.ceps) but finding it difficult to sell (algorithms on IG are 👎🏽). There is also a £5 raffle for one of the hampers and all money goes to Molotok NGO. www.experienceukraine.co.uk/product-page...
November 21, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Dear friends, could u please help us?We have curated a hamper with hand made 🇺🇦 things (🌻 oil, wool socks, d.ceps) but finding it difficult to sell (algorithms on IG are 👎🏽). There is also a £5 raffle for one of the hampers and all money goes to Molotok NGO. www.experienceukraine.co.uk/product-page...
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Today’s early television OTD pays tribute to two wonderful resources which in conjunction open up a key element of the BBC’s Alexandria Palace service 1936-39; first Andrew Martin’s astonishing 7-volume ’Sound & Vision’ series, published by Kaleidoscope...
November 20, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Today’s early television OTD pays tribute to two wonderful resources which in conjunction open up a key element of the BBC’s Alexandria Palace service 1936-39; first Andrew Martin’s astonishing 7-volume ’Sound & Vision’ series, published by Kaleidoscope...
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Something I wrote for the BFI website about Vincent Price's surprisingly diverse, mostly non-horror projects of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/gou...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/gou...
Goulash, grizzly ghouls and the funk of 40,000 years: Vincent Price in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
From fronting his own cookery show to rapping on the lead single from the biggest album of all time, the late career of horror legend Vincent Price took many unexpected directions.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 20, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Something I wrote for the BFI website about Vincent Price's surprisingly diverse, mostly non-horror projects of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/gou...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/gou...
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Dear colleagues, our @cstonline.bsky.social conference CFP is now available here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/tvresearchgr...
Please consider putting in an abstract for a contribution.
Please consider putting in an abstract for a contribution.
Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025 - Television Studies Research Group
Television Studies and CST: The Past, the Present and the Future 8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has been 20 years since the conference that ...
sites.edgehill.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Dear colleagues, our @cstonline.bsky.social conference CFP is now available here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/tvresearchgr...
Please consider putting in an abstract for a contribution.
Please consider putting in an abstract for a contribution.