Dr Christina Faraday

Dr Christina Faraday

@cjfaraday.bsky.social

Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio. 📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now views own 🥦👻🎻 https://www.christinajfaraday.com/

4,654 Followers 860 Following 487 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Christina Faraday · At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’

‘A 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scroll’s surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.’

@cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I loved this comparison of the two Menaces.

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I’ve been working my way through the Upmanship books since Christmas! Hilarious!

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LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL PHOTO.

To think that my work is now part of the British Library's history will forever be mindblowing and awesome.

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I’m in this!

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London Review of Books Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.

... @cjfaraday.bsky.social on early modern childbirth
Jefferson Cowie on Senator Huey Long
Edmund Gordon on Flannery O’Connor
Michael Hofmann on the Dutch Masters
a poem by Ian Patterson
and a cover by Naomi Frears.

Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk

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4 days ago

Very happy to be sharing the pages of Ghosts and Scholars 50 with @helengrantsays.bsky.social! My story The Trojan Revenge is inspired by a medieval book of recipes in @theul.bsky.social that also inspired M. R. James's 'The Experiment' - MS Dd.11.45, if you're feeling brave...

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Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..

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Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) at University of Glasgow Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...

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Any authors or image creators who haven't registered their latest work with ALCS need to do so asap. The next payment is being processed and you really don't want to miss out.

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“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

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My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

#earlymodern #Tudors

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Sent to your history today email

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Yes! How would you like it?

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Oooh-- now you can see Mat Collishaw's 'Mask of Youth' for yourself*, and ask, as I did, 'Does a Face Have Ears?'
thepolyphony.org/2018/12/17/d...

*if you are in Cambridge, UK, before 19 April

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Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!

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Exhibition explores Tudor legacies in contemporary art ‘Tudor Contemporary’, the first multidisciplinary exhibition to focus on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice is on display

Read about Tudor Contemporary at The Heong Gallery, @downingcollege.bsky.social, Cambridge: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

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TUDOR CONTEMPORARY now open at The Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge. Free to visit, open Weds-Sun 12-5pm, until 19 April.
Image: Mat Collishaw, Mask of Youth, 2018.

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Thank you Janet - so sorry again to miss you!

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Tudor Contemporary | Downing College Cambridge 20 February - 19 April 2026.

More info: www.dow.cam.ac.uk/creative-art...

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Close up of contemporary Bellarmine jug by Serena Korda, with grimacing bearded face, large green toads clinging to the sides. Close up of Mat Collishaw’s Mask of Youth, a silicon animatronic face of Elizabeth I, with detail of slightly open mouth, wonky teeth and fine downy hairs on chin and upper lip. Face and ruff of Natasja Kensmil’s Elizabeth I, painted photo negative style and almost monochrome except for red in the hair and mouth.  Close up of Korean photographer Chan-Hyo Bae dressed as Henry VIII, with blood running down the side of his face from beneath his red wig. The top of a gold throne in the background.

TUDOR CONTEMPORARY opens at The Heong Gallery, @downingcollege.bsky.social, Cambridge in two days! I’m so excited to share these amazing artworks with you. Here’s a sneak peek - free to visit, runs to 19th April.

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Aww thank you! See you tomorrow!

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🥳🥳🥳

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A photo of the review in the LRB paper with an image of Holbein’s Lady with a Squirrel and the top of the Elizabethan portrait of Moroccan Ambassador Al Annuri Close up of review paragraph reading:

Two new books offer a welcome contribution to our understanding of this fractured legacy. Christina Faraday's lively history of the Tudor visual world examines not just the
'fine arts' of painting and sculpture, but the wider decorative arts, bringing in works as diverse as manuscripts, samplers, armour and candle-snuffers to tell the story of art between the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Elizabeth Goldring has produced a superb biography of Hans Holbein the Younger. While many important studies have focused on Holbein's work in either Basel or England, Goldring looks at his life as a whole and draws new information from scant archival sources.

Delighted with The Story of Tudor Art’s latest review in the current issue of the @lrb.co.uk! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tudor Art: the untold story For the Tudors, visual art was one of the most powerful modes of communication. Many of the most significant political, social and religious upheavals were reflected in, and even shaped by, visual and...

There's still time to book for my in-person study course at Madingley Hall, a beautiful Tudor manor house in Cambridge, next weekend! We'll be diving deeper into the stories behind some of the artworks in my book The Story of Tudor Art. Join me here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/tudo...

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An excellent research opportunity for someone - the collections at Chatsworth really wonderful and significant.

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St Peter's, Raunds is known for its fabulous 15thC wall paintings which include the remnants of what must have been an enormous rood.
Six angels remain surrounding where the crucifixion would have been sited, it's still incredibly impressive.
#WednesdayWallPaintings

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UK Research and Innovation
Arts and Humanities
Research Council
Executive Chair
Candidate Prospectus
January 2026

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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Haha, probably, though Katherine actually adopted the English spelling herself when she arrived in England so in this case I think it’s justified!

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Tonight! I’m very excited to talk about five fascinating Tudor women and the way they used art to shape their identities.

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