Julie Peakman
juliepeakman.bsky.social
Julie Peakman
@juliepeakman.bsky.social
Author and Historian of Sexuality, Women, Erotica, C18th Culture, Greece.
A fantastic night of theatre with @JadAdams at OSO Arts Centre. If you want to see a night of brilliant acting and a play full of verbal dexterity, do go. The dramatic tension was palpable. Best short play in London this year! 5* See my review below for
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Enigma Variations | Plays To See
love dialogue two-hander
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November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943
The best books on personal experiences of fighting in Greece in WWII
Julie Peakman shares the 5 best books on fighting in Greece in WWII. Have you read War in the Islands?
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December 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Just sharing some personal favourite #books on #WWII in #Greece, all memoirs of men fighting for #Leros in 1943
December 19, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the olfactory awesomeness that is Tasha Marks & the sublime Eleanor Jackson about their new exhibition, Mediaeval Women In Their Own Words, at @britishlibrary

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December 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Claearly a New Woman #Victorian
Today’s weird find. A picture of a Victorian lady smoking a cigarette by a bike. Is this nsfw?
December 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM
#Goethe. Famous as poet, playwright, novelist, scientist. Wrote #Faust and #SorrowsofYoungWerther. Pioneer of Sturm und Drang literary movement, which emphasized strong emotions and individualism. He influenced Michal von Borch. See my new edition for more. #history #travelwriting
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
NEW BOOK: Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe. The Sexes Abroad
For everyone interested in long eighteenth-century and travel writing, we are holding a seminar/book launch at London's Foundling Museum on Saturday 18th January 2025 at 1pm, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. All welcome.
December 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Interested in #ravelwriting or #Eighteenth-Century #Europe? Do join us on Saturday 18 January, 2025 – FOUNDLING MUSEUM, LONDON at 1PM for special seminar Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad @wsguk.bsky.social
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December 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Ares taken from Medical Zodiac taken from MS Hunter 251, folio 47v, University of Glasgow....because it is pretty.
December 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Hercules, commanded by the Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, had to act as slave to Omphale for the period of a year.
December 15, 2024 at 1:01 PM
According to the pamphlet 'The Life and Character of Moll
King (1696–1747)', ‘Every Swain, even from the Star and Garter to the Coffee-House Boy, might be sure of finding a Nymph in waiting at Moll’s Fair Reception House.’
December 15, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Continence of Methodist Parson enticed by #Libertine #Women. #skybooks #LibertineLondon
December 15, 2024 at 12:50 PM
#JamesBoswell's unusual biography of Corsican Pascal Paoli featured in #newbooks on #eigthteenth-century #travellers #booksky
December 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM
The lascivious #JamesBoswell on walk-about in #Eighteenth-Century #Libertine #London
December 15, 2024 at 11:11 AM
#LadyMaryWortleyMontagu meets Fatima,wife of the Kahya at Adrianopolis. Stipple, engraving after T. Stothard 1798. Wellcome Reference 27545i #Travellers in #Eighteenth-Century Europe. #travelwriting, #history, #newbooks
December 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
The book has arrived! Thanks to fabulous Miriam Al Jamil, Valentina Aparicio, Jo Willett Sophie Dunn, Shirley Tung, Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Teresa Rączka Jeziorska, Louise Duckling, MariaDongu MinaWang, Emily Paterson Morgan, EleanorReynolds #history #travel #travelwriting #eighteenthcentury
December 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM