Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster

Baby’s first trip to Oxford

In 2019, I launched the Healthy Scepticism project w/ support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social and including fave colleagues @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social. Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, it's a book! Preorder (w/ discount) here. waterstones.com/book/healthy...

BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, The Nostalgia Divide Nostalgia and the cringe factor. Adam Fleming explores why 2016 is big online.

I’m also on UK Radio! BBC R4’s AntiSocial, c.40m in talking about, you guessed it, nostalgia www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Twist - Retro-Träume: Mehr als nur Nostalgie? - Komplette Sendung | ARTE War früher wirklich alles besser? "Twist" im Retro-Rausch: Die Schweds aus Österreich leben wie in den Goldenen 20ern. Der französische Musiker Mattyeux liebt Sound und Look der 80er, VHS-Ästhetik ink...

I’m on German TV! The good bit (with me in it) starts at 16:00 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Someone in the comments has called them a “fanatical cult” 🫠

Absolutely none

It’s not funny though is it

GB news are calling the Fabian Society a cabal that controls the City of London hahhahahhahahah

Busses beginning with P are always the most choatic

…I’m looking at you P5

The Cold, Cold War

Americans have long sought to settle the Arctic www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... @historytoday.com

A dangerous emotion? Heavy on the question mark this evening on The World Today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Agnes’ book sits high in a rich, recent library of ‘nostalgia’ texts — often poised on that etymological fulcrum of the ‘longing for’ & the ‘pain of’ *home*, which seems so apposite to our injured times

Thank you!

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Innovation Matthew Sweet explores the cultures of novelty.

appropriately reflective episode of BBCFreeThinking from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social & guests. Perennial questions of innovation & nostalgia. With Margaret Heffernan
@timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @cjfaraday.bsky.social @nickfthilton.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!

We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Filming for German TV feat. Sylvie the dog

I wrote about Paddington and nostalgia for the Big Issue!

Neither me nor my partner have nailed solo bedtime with two kiddos

I’ve escaped from my newborn and am en route to broadcasting house!*

*shout out to the team of three making this possible: parents looking after toddler and partner parenting said newborn at home

T-1h30! Tune your radio to BBC Radio 4, unless you’ve succumbed to the innovation of the Smart Speaker…
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @timminshall.bsky.social @agnesjuliet.bsky.social @margaretheffernan.bsky.social

Nostalgie - ein gefährliches Gefühl? Die britische Historikerin Agnes Arnold-Forster hat die Geschichte der Nostalgie erforscht - und dabei ihre Abgründe aufgedeckt.

Just before Casper was born, I was filmed for the German TV programme Kulturzeit. I was chatting about nostalgia but I was heavily pregnant and it’s overdubbed in German so cant guarantee I’m saying anything sensible www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...

To celebrate my return to the land of the living (or something) I’ll be chatting live on Radio 4 this Friday evening about INNOVATION www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tune in!

I’m sure no one has noticed my absence from here, but I’ve been mostly gone from work + life recovering physically + emotionally from the v traumatic birth of my second son Casper in September.

We spent most of the autumn in hospital but he’s now doing fantastically. Just busy being a baby.

Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

My partner took shared parental leave in 2024 and HR at my then place of work (a university) said that we were the first in the organisation to do so! (which meant she didn’t really know how it worked…)

Feat. in @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s article about ‘90s nostalgia! www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

If only someone had written a book about this www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster Find out more about Nostalgia by Agnes Arnold-Forster

I wrote a book about this! www.panmacmillan.com/authors/agne...

Ty!