Ceija Stojka was a real model. Writing about her in my book, ‘The Roma’, was incredibly moving. ‘Auschwitz is only sleeping’, she said, troubled by continued racism and discrimination.

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A lovely surprise today: my copy of Imprint magazine from #americanhistoricalprintcollectorssociety in which my article on #BillyWaters appears!

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I still can’t quite believe this actually happened, but here’s evidence! The full Sorrow Songs concert at BBC Proms at the lovely Glasshouse Gateshead is now available for listening on @bbcsounds.bsky.social 🙏🏾🖤 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Delighted to announce that the 2025 BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph has been awarded to Maria Damkjær for Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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On Thursday at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference I’ll be on the Wilde panel discussing ‘moral pestilence’, miasma, contagion, the 1890s influenza epidemic, and immorality as an ‘Aesthetic condition’ for Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Symons! Part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project 🦠😷📖📰

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