Monstrosities Mon Amour
Places & Travel Podcast · 4 Episodes · Monthly
If you fancy a cheery listen my podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour explores places that bring joy which usually get a bad press. The Radio Times said it’s ’a breath of fresh air.’ Contains whimsical asides and geekery podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
08.03.2025 07:46 — 👍 50 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2
That is beautiful. Synchronicity with North Wales...I climbed Snowdon yesterday. It was my first time up since I had Covid 3 years ago: twas a real bucket list moment. Loved it.
29.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘There’s a place for us, goes Stephen Sondheim’s opening lyric from that evergreen LGBTQ+ anthem “Somewhere”. But with the best will in the world, I don’t think he meant Milton Keynes.'
Introducing Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by @grindrod.bsky.social, out 12 March 2026.
28.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Matt Houlbrook sits in a chair holding a microphone as he talks about his new book Songs of Seven Dials in Waterstones Covent Garden.
Matt Houlbrook's step count for 21 October 2025 showing that he walked 18114 steps around London on the day his latest book was published.
A group of people standing in a bookshop after the launch of Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials.
Matt Houlbrook looking ridiculously awkward in the BBC Radio London studios.
This is what publication day looked like.
I am buzzing but broken this morning. Thank you to everyone who made time to talk to me or came out to hear me talk about Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
The book is out now with @manchesterup.bsky.social
22.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 87 🔁 10 💬 8 📌 3
Book your trip today at www.snowdonrailway.co.uk
#snowdonmountainrailway #yrwyddfa #snowdon #snowdonia #VisitWales #WalesAdventure #Easter2025 #SchoolHolidays
09.04.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s view from the top 😎
#SnowdonMountainRailway #YrWyddfa #Snowdon #Snowdonia #VisitWales #WalesAdventure #Easter2025 #Sunshine #WeatherUpdate #Spring #BlueSky
09.04.2025 14:48 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
*New Publication!*
Lovely end to the week - 'John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio' out now in Shakespeare Survey. It shows that not only was he a leading stage actor, but he was an audio drama pioneer too.
If you have access, here's the link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
17.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Lectures
LAMAS - London And Middlesex Archaeological Society
If you are around London, or online, on 10 December I’m talking to the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society about the #southwark deep shelter
www.lamas.org.uk/lectures.html
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07.10.2024 20:02 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Are you coming along to #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November 2025? Why not stay at Senate House for my #lecture in the evening, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public'. Book your free place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
15.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
Booked!
15.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very excited to be doing this at the Imperial War Museum London.
20.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We are happy to announce the publication of the sixth issue of our online journal, IRECS, on “The Science of Taste”. It is now available on the ISECS website:
oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...
03.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
CSECS 2025
Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries / Trans/Formations: franchir les limites, estomper les frontières
csecs2025.ca Excited to present on Thur 16th October. TITLE: “Queer Mr Coupler (1696) and Trans Mrs
Coupler (1777)” exploring the cuts from Vanbrugh to Sheridan #queerbritain #restoration #LGBTQ+ #playwrighting
10.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Went to a really good talk this evening by Roger Morgan-Grenville at #EastGrinstead Bookshop. Lots of what he said resonates with my experience so I'm looking forward to reading the book #RestlessCoast
08.10.2025 21:07 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
08.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 85 🔁 30 💬 8 📌 6
Hard to imagine now but the #Brighton Grand Hotel must have looked like a skyscraper when it was first built in 1864. Designed by John Whichcord Jr. it towered over the rest of the seafront
08.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 43 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 0
@seasideferry.bsky.social is taking the #seasideheritage cause around the country.
Apparently there aren't many tickets left if you want to join her in #sheffield...
07.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Booked! 🌈🎉
05.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me 4 Nov at Senate House for History Day. This year I'm delighted to be working with the IHR to include a Queer History Trail and have a Queer Zine workshop at History Day 2025.
Come say Hi and check out the amazing historical work being done around the UK.
www.history.ac.uk/news.../even...
29.09.2025 14:08 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Booked! 🎉
05.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025
Every year in November we host History Day, an event for students, researchers and history enthusiasts.
Celebration and Resistance: Explore LGBTQ+ collections and more at History Day 2025 🎉
This #HistDay25 we're partnering with @justinbengry.bsky.social to create a Queer History and Heritage Trail highlighting queer stories, figures & collections. Hear from Justin here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
03.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open!
Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'.
Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY
26.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 62 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 0
Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting
05.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
29.09.2025 11:23 — 👍 14 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
This morning I'm at the Royal Festival Hall to give a talk for the Festival of Britain Society all about how the 1951 exhibition was influenced by, and in its turn influenced, the British seaside.
04.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies. Just published Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909. https://tinyurl.com/52xkw9rj Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Social historian of modern places. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out March 2026. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
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Freelance Creative Consultant: Content creator and proofreader on business documentation and media content; sound workshops, event hosting; creative consultant for poetry, non-fiction, fiction 1:1 manuscript reviews; funding, job and PhD applications.
Professor of English, Oxford
Archaeologist working in London
Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni | Historian of Leisure, Fashion, & Commercialisation | 📖 ‘Domino’ CUP 2023 | 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 | Mother runner, coffee enthusiast.
Heneb is an independent organisation dedicated to the conservation, investigation, recording and promotion of the historic environment of Wales and beyond. heneb.org.uk
Fighting With Pride is the LGBTQ+ Armed Forces charity, leading the campaign for better support for LGBTQ+ veterans and families.
Arts in Health charity based in Wales. Co-creating life story arts projects. Working alongside older people, people living with dementia, military veterans, perinatal women and people at the end of life www.re-live.org.uk https://linktr.ee/relive_arts
Military Historian, Author & Educator
Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society
Author of Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma - Chiselbury Publishing
Media Representative Past Preservers: casting@pastpreservers.com
History: especially gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British women composers
Long-term housebound with v. severe long covid
Health Historian (Glasgow Uni).
• Gambling sports sponsorship @kthabitproject.bsky.social
• Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
• Maternal mental illness
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture, Fad to Fear: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
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Academic. Interested in various aspects of #tourism, place and coastal communities in particular. Interdisciplinary. Preston, Lancashire.
Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
Historian of the queer past | 'gay pardons' | local LGBTQ+ histories | capitalism. Headed the University of London's MA Queer History.
Travels, writes, and longs for the mountains. London and Valencia. (he/him)
justinbengry.com | notchesblog.com
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