Dr Joanne Norcup

Part of my research over the years has been taking seriously popular culture & especially popular tv comedy dramas in how they are able to inform geographical imaginations about the world. Great that this podcast series is taking the cultural history of 'reality tv' into thoughtful consideration

📯Very excited to see the new HGRG Newsletter! There is a special section to the ICHG in China.
Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!!
📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social

On next week, 7th October on BBC FOUR.
Libraries are about curiosity, freedom, inclusivity, creativity & gift numerous positive opportunities to learn, connect, support & uplift opportunities for all. There are divisive forces at work attempting to undermine them. Watch and learn. #SaveLibraries

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

First seminar of the academic year for the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies on Tuesday 28th October sees YPCCS alumni, Professor Alison Donnell taking about her internationally acclaimed 2025 publication 'Lost and Found' (Papillote Press). Please share. All welcome.

Liverpool! Happening now!

We have an amazing panel at 4pm at @OpenEyeGallery with the brilliant & inimitable @carolvorders.bsky.social Stewart Lee & @& the entire @thenerve.news team on this our launch day!

It’s first come, first served for seats. See you there!! 👊👊👊

Cover of "Landscapes of Detectorists" by Innes Keighren and Joanne Norcup

What a delightful little book this is. For anyone who loves the Detectorists, this will be a joy to read. #booksky

Black British Folk Takeover Song, Music, Storytelling & More from British Folkies of the African Diaspora.

THIS THIS www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...

Vaccination and the price of forgetting History shows how dangerous anti-vax sentiment can prove

Eighteenth-century precedents and 21st-century threats.

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

To the World's End: Scenes and Characters on a London Bus Route First transmitted in 1985, To the World's End follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

YouTube video by The Librarians Film THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading" Really vital viewing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykll...

A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".

Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs

Join us on 23 September for the start of our CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26 @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s w/ Andrew Williams (University of the West Indies, Mona) shorturl.at/euVXU

No Other Choice review: 'Deliriously entertaining' South Korean masterpiece is this year's Parasite Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook has premiered a "bleakly hilarious" comedy about economic anxiety at the Venice Film Festival, and it could be a huge hit.

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Reading the Crisis — Love Hackney Hackney Libraries are pleased to be collaborating with The Stuart Hall Foundation to offer a list of books relating to their Reading the Crisis online conversation series.

www.lovehackney.uk/reading-list...

YouTube video by HOUSE OF DREAD Studio DEEP DIVE:THE DIGITAL IS BLACK 2025 Professor Vincent Brown with Fiona Compton and Dr Renee Landell:

#houseofdread #inspirationaffirmingpraxisinterventions #DeepdiveTheDigitalIsBlack
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The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)

Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...

Whipped through #thekillerquestion and can thoroughly recommend to anyone who enjoys solving archive mysteries/ pubquizzing.
Also this
@janicehallett.bsky.social
joy, which was perfect intergenerational summer hol reading #aboxfullofmurders Also loved this because #publisher #1980spuffinclubmember

Wuthering Heights: Cathy's Modern Manifesto in Warsaw Wuthering Heights: Cathy's Modern Manifesto is a collaborative video art project between Mind the Gap (Bradford, UK) and Teatr 21 (Warsaw, P...

bronteblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/wuth...

For those who might be interested, a recording of my lecture is now available: youtu.be/xD51buje-ts

YouTube video by Documentary Weekly The Shadow Scholars (2024) | A New Colonialism | Exclusive Clip

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Chatting to Adam Tandy: sitcom & budgets The first in a series of BFOD chats with comedy people...

also, this joelmorris.substack.com/p/chatting-t...

Closing The Factory Super-producer Adam Tandy joins me for more pub-style chat on the state of British comedy, the TV landscape, and the problem with 'closing the factory' where we made some world class stuff.

@gralefrit.bsky.social &
@adamtandy.bsky.social
many observations made re comedy production parallel similar challenges to HE research #culturesofmethodology #creativity #smallscalefundingpotsfornewcreativityandnuancedstories
#growingofnewandemergingtalents

joelmorris.substack.com/p/closing-th...

Rob is a genius. Widely regarded and a tech Wizard and a lovely chap too!

Everton’s sleek new home feels like the right place to harness fans’ new optimism | Aaron Sharp Hill Dickinson Stadium has a debut to remember with awestruck supporters hoping it can help the club step into a successful era

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Books, Boardgames, Beaches. Strong recommend for all inclined towards the Brontë's, book geographies and histories of publishing #GrahamWatson 's very excellent #TheInventionofCharlotteBronte charting the crucible for, creation of and initial reception of Mrs Gaskill's The Life of Charlotte Bronte

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?

The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!

#SwitchingTheLens

Re-mapping the Brontës: A one day event in Bradford | The Brontë Parsonage Museum ‘Under an African summer’s sun’  Re-mapping the Brontes: Race, Place and EmpireJoin us for a day of discussion and debate in Bradford as it celebrates UK C

www.bronte.org.uk/events/re-ma...

Rare Brontë portrait on display in writer's Bradford home The portrait of Emily Brontë, by her brother Branwell, is believed to date back to about 1833.

Rare portrait of Emily Brontë by her brother Branwell has gone on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth for the first time since 2008. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...