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MATCH BOX BATS including vintage Japanese design & c. 1900 vampire bat. #Bats associated with darkness ironically become the bringers of light!! In many Asian countries they symbolise good luck #31DaysofHalloween

I'm grateful to @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social @issegyptomania.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk @incsa.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social & so many individuals within the #Victorian #Gothic #Egyptomania #LitSci #PreRaphaeilite communities for friendship & support during my Research Fellowships.

As a horror author, I love the “extreme cake” videos where everything is cake. I’ve seen folks cut or bite into cake shoes, tables, walls, chairs, knives, tablets, hands, bricks, raw meat and chicken, etc. I’m ready for cars and babies and mythical creatures and rotten things.

Thoroughly enjoyed your talk!! 🌿🌿🌿

An Evil Omen by Samuel Read (1878).

#anevilomen #samuelread #gothicpainting #gothicillustration

Gothic Selves/Artificial Others 18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK

Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com

Hello, lovelies 👋🏻

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CONFERENCE TICKETS ON SALE!
9-10 August: Reception and Revival: Global Histories of 'Egyptomania'
Check out the conference page on our website for a full programme.
To book your tickets for just £5 per day: www.issegyptomania.com/events (members go free & no booking required!) #AncientEgypt

Thank you to everyone who has sent us an abstract so far, we’re blown away by the amazing scholarship we’re encountering! If you’d like to send us an abstract, take a look at our CFP!

I had the absolute pleasure on Wednesday giving a talk for @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @chromotope.bsky.social about the materiality and myth and Mummy Brown Paint 🎨 thank you for having me! It was a joy to share my research with such an engaging audience!!!

Oh thank you so much! Thrilled you enjoyed it!!🥰🥰

Aw Rebecca 🥹🥹 thank you 🥰

Thank you Shantell! Glad you enjoyed the talk! 💕

Cover of the book Insect Ways on Summer Days with a cup of coffee in the corner

Illustration of a whirligig insect in a pond

New book delivery! Insect Ways on Summer Days (C.1888, sources vary on the publication date). I love the illustrations! Especially of the whirligig 🪲🪲🪲

Have you spotted an ISSE bookmark in the wild? Please take one if you do! Thinking of becoming a member? Click the link in our bio for more info!
#AncientEgypt #Egyptology #Egyptomania #EgyptReception #Egypt #History #AncientHistory #Bookmarks #Lovebooks #Booksbooksbooks #Books #Travel

Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤

The Rider Haggard society celebrated the author on the centenary of his death in Ledbury this past weekend! It also marked 40 years of the society. A wonderful weekend of old and new friends! #RiderHaggard

#CallforPapers
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for our annual online conference! This year’s theme is Reception and Revival: Global Histories of #Egyptomania
Full CFP details here: www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conf...
We look forward to hearing from you!
#AncientEgypt #Egyptology

Happy 151st Birthday to Howard Carter, born on this day in 1874! To mark the occasion this year, we are sharing Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent', which is said to have hung above his desk in his house, 'Carter Castle II', at Thebes.

Making Memories in Ancient Egypt Cambridge Core - Egyptology - Making Memories in Ancient Egypt

Friends, TOMORROW is your last chance to download this @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social Element for free!
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Hands wearing blue gloves handling chicken bones.

The UK Archaeological Sciences conference is taking place right now at the University of York! Want to explore the latest in archaeological science? Check out our #Zooarchaeology collection to learn about recent applications of animal bones to studying the past:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A rather amusing coincidence! Currently examining travel accounts (and the narrator’s travels within museums) and just so happened to find this extract is from April 3rd!

The golden chicken is…an unusual analogy 🐓

Bayard Taylor, Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1847 (New York: G P Putnam)

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Yours very truly. A Lang. Letter from Andrew Lang to Henry Rider Haggard.

Amusing misreading of the day.
‘Yours very sexy. A. Lang’

Letter from Andrew Lang to Henry Rider Haggard. Rudyard Kipling used to jokingly refer to the two of them as ‘Rangard Hang’.

With thanks to @gothicbookworm.bsky.social for recommending these letters!

As The Sum of Your Flesh turns two today it's on promo at 99c/99p! Exactly what did Irving Walsh bring back with him from his doomed Arctic expedition? And what ties him to Rafferty Henderson? 😈 #booksky
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Thinking of becoming an ISSE member? There’s no better time! Members access: Free talks and lectures, members magazine, free annual conference tickets, networking opportunities, discounts on in-person events, newsletter & more! Go to issegyptomania.com
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Will also tag our society: @issegyptomania.bsky.social 😁