Lauren B
@gothicbookworm.bsky.social
🦇Haunts museums, bookshops, and the Gothic
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD Student, Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD Student, Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
I had the absolute pleasure on Wednesday giving a talk for @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @chromotope.bsky.social about the materiality and myth and Mummy Brown Paint 🎨 thank you for having me! It was a joy to share my research with such an engaging audience!!!
July 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I had the absolute pleasure on Wednesday giving a talk for @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @chromotope.bsky.social about the materiality and myth and Mummy Brown Paint 🎨 thank you for having me! It was a joy to share my research with such an engaging audience!!!
New book delivery! Insect Ways on Summer Days (C.1888, sources vary on the publication date). I love the illustrations! Especially of the whirligig 🪲🪲🪲
June 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New book delivery! Insect Ways on Summer Days (C.1888, sources vary on the publication date). I love the illustrations! Especially of the whirligig 🪲🪲🪲
A rather amusing coincidence! Currently examining travel accounts (and the narrator’s travels within museums) and just so happened to find this extract is from April 3rd!
The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓
Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)
The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓
Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A rather amusing coincidence! Currently examining travel accounts (and the narrator’s travels within museums) and just so happened to find this extract is from April 3rd!
The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓
Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)
The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓
Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)
Really excited to be invited by Birmingham Egyptology to talk about Mummy brown paint 🎨 26th Feb, online, 7pm GMT and tickets are free! Link: shorturl.at/EBRii #EgyptReception
February 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Really excited to be invited by Birmingham Egyptology to talk about Mummy brown paint 🎨 26th Feb, online, 7pm GMT and tickets are free! Link: shorturl.at/EBRii #EgyptReception
Chapter edits are underway on travel theory and The Papyrus of Ani!
February 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Chapter edits are underway on travel theory and The Papyrus of Ani!
Thesis edits means revisiting the mountains of photos I’ve taken at the British Library, various museums etc. this one is from Pettigrew’s History of Egyptian Mummies (1834) held at the BL #EgyptReception #EgyptomaniaStudies
January 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Thesis edits means revisiting the mountains of photos I’ve taken at the British Library, various museums etc. this one is from Pettigrew’s History of Egyptian Mummies (1834) held at the BL #EgyptReception #EgyptomaniaStudies
Figuring out this app! Here’s my fave drawing of a bat from the Description de l'Égypte 🦇
November 15, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Figuring out this app! Here’s my fave drawing of a bat from the Description de l'Égypte 🦇