Dr Naomi Paxton
@naomipaxton.bsky.social
Historian of suffrage theatre. Books, talks, walks, games, exhibitions - and more!
Performer and broadcaster. Former BBCR3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Member of The Magic Circle. Does comedy, cabaret & magic as Ada Campe
www.naomipaxton.co.uk
Performer and broadcaster. Former BBCR3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Member of The Magic Circle. Does comedy, cabaret & magic as Ada Campe
www.naomipaxton.co.uk
A candid shot of our panto choreographer in rehearsal today - the enigmatic, exacting, and inscrutable Autumn. Ooh she knows what she wants and she’ll drill us until we get it right! I’m exhausted!
#rvtpanto
#rvtpanto
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A candid shot of our panto choreographer in rehearsal today - the enigmatic, exacting, and inscrutable Autumn. Ooh she knows what she wants and she’ll drill us until we get it right! I’m exhausted!
#rvtpanto
#rvtpanto
Time’s running out to get your FREE tickets for Behind the Nightlight at @beinghumanfest.bsky.social this Weds. Link in my bio. And if you can’t make it this week, come and see the full show at @museumofcomedy.bsky.social in Dec and Crazy Coqs in Jan! 😃
#beinghumanfestival #lizalehmann
#beinghumanfestival #lizalehmann
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Time’s running out to get your FREE tickets for Behind the Nightlight at @beinghumanfest.bsky.social this Weds. Link in my bio. And if you can’t make it this week, come and see the full show at @museumofcomedy.bsky.social in Dec and Crazy Coqs in Jan! 😃
#beinghumanfestival #lizalehmann
#beinghumanfestival #lizalehmann
First day of panto rehearsals done! It’s gonna be a fun one 😃
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
First day of panto rehearsals done! It’s gonna be a fun one 😃
Unboxing the sketching booklets for Behind the Nightlight next week @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - featuring Ada Campe, Sarah Rose, Dusty Limits, and the incredible music of Liza Lehmann! Just 16 tickets left if you want not only a wonderful show but also one of these beauties 😊 #beinghumanfest
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Unboxing the sketching booklets for Behind the Nightlight next week @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - featuring Ada Campe, Sarah Rose, Dusty Limits, and the incredible music of Liza Lehmann! Just 16 tickets left if you want not only a wonderful show but also one of these beauties 😊 #beinghumanfest
Fantasy beasts from the mind of an Edwardian child brought to life with live music and a cabaret star, plus a sketching workshop! Next Wednesday 12th November as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the...
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Fantasy beasts from the mind of an Edwardian child brought to life with live music and a cabaret star, plus a sketching workshop! Next Wednesday 12th November as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the...
It’s obvious - Kate Butch and Ada Campe are the perfect replacements for Tess and Claud! #strictlycomedancing #strictly #katebutch #adacampe
October 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It’s obvious - Kate Butch and Ada Campe are the perfect replacements for Tess and Claud! #strictlycomedancing #strictly #katebutch #adacampe
Gosh this was good. See it @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow if you can - it closes soon.
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Gosh this was good. See it @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow if you can - it closes soon.
Hope this is enticing…
Absolutely loving getting ready for our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event on the 12th November 😃
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/behin...
Absolutely loving getting ready for our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event on the 12th November 😃
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/behin...
October 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hope this is enticing…
Absolutely loving getting ready for our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event on the 12th November 😃
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/behin...
Absolutely loving getting ready for our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event on the 12th November 😃
www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/behin...
A treat to see this brand new piece of work by @melhugsopera.bsky.social for the @teteateteopera.bsky.social Festival - it was funny, satirical, snappy, beautifully sung (of course) and passed the Bechdel Test with flying colours. Am excited to see what happens to it next! 😃👏👏👏
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A treat to see this brand new piece of work by @melhugsopera.bsky.social for the @teteateteopera.bsky.social Festival - it was funny, satirical, snappy, beautifully sung (of course) and passed the Bechdel Test with flying colours. Am excited to see what happens to it next! 😃👏👏👏
My latest research wheeze into Edwardian theatre history has turned up this terrifying beast and am not sure I want to carry on delving 🫣
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My latest research wheeze into Edwardian theatre history has turned up this terrifying beast and am not sure I want to carry on delving 🫣
Off to Torquay to perform at this variety show for Baton of Hope - with all money raised going directly to local suicide prevention initiatives.
#bringhope2thebay #batonofhopeuk
#bringhope2thebay #batonofhopeuk
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Off to Torquay to perform at this variety show for Baton of Hope - with all money raised going directly to local suicide prevention initiatives.
#bringhope2thebay #batonofhopeuk
#bringhope2thebay #batonofhopeuk
Have always wondered what it was like in the Rivoli Ballroom… this is one of the bars and it’s so beautiful in the main spaces. Sunday morning tiredness evaporated as soon as I walked in. Cannot wait to host a show here as Ada next week! 😍🥰😍
September 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Have always wondered what it was like in the Rivoli Ballroom… this is one of the bars and it’s so beautiful in the main spaces. Sunday morning tiredness evaporated as soon as I walked in. Cannot wait to host a show here as Ada next week! 😍🥰😍
Watching the news feels increasingly like a psychological versio of the first part of suffragist actress Eva Moore’s unexpectedly violent favourite beauty treatment… with unfortunately no soothing or invigorating after effects 😳
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Watching the news feels increasingly like a psychological versio of the first part of suffragist actress Eva Moore’s unexpectedly violent favourite beauty treatment… with unfortunately no soothing or invigorating after effects 😳
A glimpse into the collections at The Magic Circle this afternoon 😃 #magic #london #thingstodoinlondon #magictricks
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A glimpse into the collections at The Magic Circle this afternoon 😃 #magic #london #thingstodoinlondon #magictricks
Back from my brief stint at #edfringe and now on stage in this brand new play at #camdenfringe! Am playing an eccentric scientist researching global warming in the 1970s. Every day this week inc Sunday at 3.30pm at Baron’s Court Theatre (not in Camden!) www.anthropoceneplay.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Back from my brief stint at #edfringe and now on stage in this brand new play at #camdenfringe! Am playing an eccentric scientist researching global warming in the 1970s. Every day this week inc Sunday at 3.30pm at Baron’s Court Theatre (not in Camden!) www.anthropoceneplay.com
A fascinating trip to @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social to talk about the Grand Tour and travel to Italy in the 19C with Museum Director Dr Chris Stephens and Professor Roey Sweet from the University of Leicester. The programme is a BBC Radio Proms Plus and will be broadcast in August - date tbc!
July 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A fascinating trip to @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social to talk about the Grand Tour and travel to Italy in the 19C with Museum Director Dr Chris Stephens and Professor Roey Sweet from the University of Leicester. The programme is a BBC Radio Proms Plus and will be broadcast in August - date tbc!
Security made me check my bag of conference pears (newly purchased as props for Ada’s show tomorrow) into the cloakroom for tonight’s Tim Minchin show at the Hammersmith Apollo. The lovely cloakroom attendant was as amused/bemused as I! 😄🍐⁉️
July 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Security made me check my bag of conference pears (newly purchased as props for Ada’s show tomorrow) into the cloakroom for tonight’s Tim Minchin show at the Hammersmith Apollo. The lovely cloakroom attendant was as amused/bemused as I! 😄🍐⁉️
Suffrage bicycle fun!
Autumn 1907 - a group of women called the “Suffragette Scouts” meet regularly outside the Court Theatre in Sloane Square to take the message of suffrage out of the city by bicycle. Here’s three of them pictured setting off for Redhill in Surrey.
Autumn 1907 - a group of women called the “Suffragette Scouts” meet regularly outside the Court Theatre in Sloane Square to take the message of suffrage out of the city by bicycle. Here’s three of them pictured setting off for Redhill in Surrey.
July 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Suffrage bicycle fun!
Autumn 1907 - a group of women called the “Suffragette Scouts” meet regularly outside the Court Theatre in Sloane Square to take the message of suffrage out of the city by bicycle. Here’s three of them pictured setting off for Redhill in Surrey.
Autumn 1907 - a group of women called the “Suffragette Scouts” meet regularly outside the Court Theatre in Sloane Square to take the message of suffrage out of the city by bicycle. Here’s three of them pictured setting off for Redhill in Surrey.
Update after five hours:
July 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Update after five hours:
Live thoughts from a train station elevator… am on my way into the City where it is even warmer! 🥵 #londonheatwave
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Live thoughts from a train station elevator… am on my way into the City where it is even warmer! 🥵 #londonheatwave
As a theatre historian it’s only fitting that this weekend, I (as Ada Campe) will perform in the style of Edwardian variety act Francini Olloms… not his acro-whilst-playing-the-concertina routine, but his profuse perspiring 🥵 He must have been SO sweaty for it to have been used in an ad in 1914!
June 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As a theatre historian it’s only fitting that this weekend, I (as Ada Campe) will perform in the style of Edwardian variety act Francini Olloms… not his acro-whilst-playing-the-concertina routine, but his profuse perspiring 🥵 He must have been SO sweaty for it to have been used in an ad in 1914!
Delighted to be asked back to host the #3MT competition at the University of Westminster as part of their Graduate School Festival. As ever, great to hear so much new research presented so succinctly.
June 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Delighted to be asked back to host the #3MT competition at the University of Westminster as part of their Graduate School Festival. As ever, great to hear so much new research presented so succinctly.
Been working on lots of new songs with the fantastic @tomcarradine.bsky.social and you can hear them tonight at the Club for Acts and Actors in Covent Garden! Show starts 8pm and is free for members and non-members. Details here: www.thecaa.org/monday-club/
June 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Been working on lots of new songs with the fantastic @tomcarradine.bsky.social and you can hear them tonight at the Club for Acts and Actors in Covent Garden! Show starts 8pm and is free for members and non-members. Details here: www.thecaa.org/monday-club/
Had to be done. A cone of chips on the pier at Deal before my gig last night 😊
June 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Had to be done. A cone of chips on the pier at Deal before my gig last night 😊
Great to be part of the New Gen Thinkers workshop day again - my sixth year chairing the afternoon debate session! All the candidates were, as ever, so engaging across a range of topics. Pleased that the AHRC and BBC Radio are continuing the scheme, albeit in a new format.
May 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Great to be part of the New Gen Thinkers workshop day again - my sixth year chairing the afternoon debate session! All the candidates were, as ever, so engaging across a range of topics. Pleased that the AHRC and BBC Radio are continuing the scheme, albeit in a new format.