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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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
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
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 😱
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....
I'd be very chuffed to be added if poss, thanks! 📺
December 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I'd be very chuffed to be added if poss, thanks! 📺
Happy Holidays!
December 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Happy Holidays!
Yes please! You've reminded me to cook* more from this wonderful book from Jenny Hammerton, with her recipes and lovely images (incl the 🍌 🥗) thanks!
*and drink 🍸
*and drink 🍸
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Yes please! You've reminded me to cook* more from this wonderful book from Jenny Hammerton, with her recipes and lovely images (incl the 🍌 🥗) thanks!
*and drink 🍸
*and drink 🍸
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 🧡
Fanny Cradock used to collect her overnight guests pee (in buckets), for her tomato plants. They apparently flourished. She called it Madame's Tonic...
December 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Fanny Cradock used to collect her overnight guests pee (in buckets), for her tomato plants. They apparently flourished. She called it Madame's Tonic...
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
fabulous, wish I was there! I managed to squeeze a great discussion about Bobbie Kimber (1930s-1950s children's TV performer) into a gender/TV lecture last year, which was a surprise to many students who expected trans people, and discussions of their pronouns, were not on TV then... Have fun!
November 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
fabulous, wish I was there! I managed to squeeze a great discussion about Bobbie Kimber (1930s-1950s children's TV performer) into a gender/TV lecture last year, which was a surprise to many students who expected trans people, and discussions of their pronouns, were not on TV then... Have fun!
A lovely evening in the company of @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social exploring the Invention of British Art with Topping Bookshop, at the Pilrig Church. My mind has been suitably expanded.
November 15, 2024 at 9:02 PM
A lovely evening in the company of @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social exploring the Invention of British Art with Topping Bookshop, at the Pilrig Church. My mind has been suitably expanded.
Sunday Vibes from Mabel
August 25, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Sunday Vibes from Mabel
Putting the finishing touches to my final (for now? for ever? 😢) Television Studies Lecture tomorrow. We'll be evaluating a century of technological change & consulting our crystal balls to consider the future of television too. What will my students think? 📺 #TelevisionStudies
April 14, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Putting the finishing touches to my final (for now? for ever? 😢) Television Studies Lecture tomorrow. We'll be evaluating a century of technological change & consulting our crystal balls to consider the future of television too. What will my students think? 📺 #TelevisionStudies
I am cock-a-hoop to say that I passed my PhD Viva today, with minor corrections... Yahoooooo!
February 28, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I am cock-a-hoop to say that I passed my PhD Viva today, with minor corrections... Yahoooooo!
Bright and beautiful Edinburgh morning, perfect to begin teaching - I am looking forward to meeting this year's Y3 Television Studies students, and the lectures, seminars, screenings and, erm, assessments (probably more than they are), in the coming weeks... 📺
January 15, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Bright and beautiful Edinburgh morning, perfect to begin teaching - I am looking forward to meeting this year's Y3 Television Studies students, and the lectures, seminars, screenings and, erm, assessments (probably more than they are), in the coming weeks... 📺
Festive Fanny Fun! Well, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of Fanny. I had a *BLAST* chatting to (ahem, award winning) podcaster Gilly Smith for her Cooking the Books series - shows.acast.com/cooking-the-... Grab your Mincemeat Omelettes, settle down and enjoy! Fanny Cradock Rocks...
December 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM
Festive Fanny Fun! Well, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of Fanny. I had a *BLAST* chatting to (ahem, award winning) podcaster Gilly Smith for her Cooking the Books series - shows.acast.com/cooking-the-... Grab your Mincemeat Omelettes, settle down and enjoy! Fanny Cradock Rocks...
I have a nostalgic festive run-down of Christmas Food Television Past (and Present) in this month's Best of British magazine... Featuring turkeys, nakedness, skinny-dipping and @nigella.bsky.social 👀
November 23, 2023 at 1:23 PM
I have a nostalgic festive run-down of Christmas Food Television Past (and Present) in this month's Best of British magazine... Featuring turkeys, nakedness, skinny-dipping and @nigella.bsky.social 👀
So, after five years, I SUBMITTED this today!
November 6, 2023 at 1:49 PM
So, after five years, I SUBMITTED this today!
Today's Editorial Assistant (the Editors sister) has a much more relaxed attitude really, mainly involving horrified facial expressions 'you think you can submit THAT?' 😱 She may have a point...
September 13, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Today's Editorial Assistant (the Editors sister) has a much more relaxed attitude really, mainly involving horrified facial expressions 'you think you can submit THAT?' 😱 She may have a point...
A new approach suggested by my Editor, just chew the pages which make no sense to remove them entirely from your work in progress...
September 11, 2023 at 1:57 PM
A new approach suggested by my Editor, just chew the pages which make no sense to remove them entirely from your work in progress...
Eek, I've compiled my 'work-in-progress' for my PhD on Television Cooking History into one document as a 'draft' submission. Now to decide which of the words to chop, which to re-write & which to re-arrange (most of them) so that it all makes sense. Target of 90k so a brutal-ish edit to come!
August 26, 2023 at 9:11 AM
Eek, I've compiled my 'work-in-progress' for my PhD on Television Cooking History into one document as a 'draft' submission. Now to decide which of the words to chop, which to re-write & which to re-arrange (most of them) so that it all makes sense. Target of 90k so a brutal-ish edit to come!