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Lauren B

@gothicbookworm.bsky.social

✨Haunts museums & bookshops 🪲PhD Student: ‘Travel & the Body’ perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19thC 🌍Gothic book blogger/reviewer🦇 🎨’mummy brown paint’ 📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania 📝 Rider Haggard

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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

26.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

07.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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!!!

06.07.2025 12:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

06.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aw Rebecca 🥹🥹 thank you 🥰

06.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Shantell! Glad you enjoyed the talk! 💕

06.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of the book Insect Ways on Summer Days with a cup of coffee in the corner

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

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 🪲🪲🪲

30.06.2025 12:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

13.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤

27.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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

20.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#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

12.05.2025 09:40 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

09.05.2025 14:54 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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!
cup.org/4iCMeQb

07.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
Hands wearing blue gloves handling chicken bones.

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...

03.04.2025 09:45 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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)

03.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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02.04.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Yours very truly. A Lang. 
Letter from Andrew Lang to Henry Rider Haggard.

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!

02.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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
Available on all digital platforms.
Shares greatly appreciated.
beacons.ai/beverleylee

23.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
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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
#AncientEgypt #Egyptomania #Egyptology

22.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Will also tag our society: @issegyptomania.bsky.social 😁

22.03.2025 12:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Beverley! Hope you’re well! X

22.03.2025 12:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi!! Glad to see you over on Bluesky too! 😃

22.03.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tomorrow 7pm GMT online
🧵 The Egyptian ‘Egyptian Revival’: Pharaonic khayamiya panels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their impact on British design by Dr Ben Hinson
Tickets: www.issegyptomania.com/events
#ancientEgypt #Egyptomania #EgyptReception #Egypt #Egyptology
#museums

11.03.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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From Stephen King & Mike Flanagan.

The mystery of a lifetime.

THE LIFE OF CHUCK.

How do you describe the indescribable?

See for yourself in theaters June.

10.03.2025 20:49 — 👍 13885    🔁 1313    💬 421    📌 109
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Introducing Dr Ben Hinsen, our speaker for 12th March! 🏛️ Ben is an Egyptologist & curator in the Middle East Section @V_and_A & Curator of Visions of Ancient Egypt @SainsburyCentre & Making Egypt @young_vam. His research focuses on 19thC-20thC Egyptomania
Nonmember tickets: issegyptomania.com/events

10.03.2025 23:04 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.

Happy World Book Day.

06.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 4098    🔁 893    💬 54    📌 40

Thank you! I hope in the future I’ll have the space to give an updated talk on this topic 🥰 thrilled you enjoyed it!

06.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lauren’s work is brilliant & it was fab to get to hear her talk about it in this longer format. She draws on training in Law, ethics, art history, & chemistry. I regret not inviting @artologica.net along for this one. I’ll do better next time.

06.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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