Broadcaster and actor Peter Purves got in touch to say how much he’d enjoyed our book The Quatermass Experiment, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social’s definitive guide to TV’s first sci-fi classic, available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk 🚀
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🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
If you are a fan of Dark Shadows, do pick up a copy of Daytime Gothic II before they are all gone! A thing of beauty and all proceeds are going to Peace4Kids www.peace4kids.org tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/dayt...
Daytime Gothic II: Celebrating TV's Supernatural Soap Opera Dark Shadows
Daytime Gothic is a full-colour charity magazine celebrating 60 years of TV's spookiest soap, Dark Shadows, with 160 pages of features, interviews, rartwork, fiction and humour, illustrated with rare ...
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To mark the opening of the 2026 International Network of Street Papers Summit at Civic House, Glasgow – a former printing press – poet and friend of INSP Brian Connolly penned an original poem, ‘Word on the Street’: www.insp.ngo/articles/str...
Join the @gothicstudies.bsky.social editorial team! Gothic Studies is pleased to announce a number of editorial positions: 2 associate editors and 1 North American reviews editor. Click here for more information and to apply: www.globalgoth.org/blog/join-th...
Join the Gothic Studies editorial team - Gothic Association
Gothic Studies is pleased to announce a number of editorial positions.
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The International Gothic Association is pleased to invite submissions to our biennial Early Career Essay Prize: www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...
The International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2027-28 - Gothic Association
The International Gothic Association is pleased to invite submissions to our biennial Early Career Essay Prize.
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To close the INSP Awards 2026 in Glasgow, poet Ambreen Bonnet penned an original poem, titled ‘One Voice, One Night’. Read it here: www.insp.ngo/articles/str...
New for October, we are pleased to announce the release of The Reality War, a new book charting 20 years of the Doctor Who revival and its impact on the television industry. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
After last night's screening on BBC Four, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene has sold out! A reprint is on its way, due back in stock later this month. 🔥 Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
On 3 September, at the close of this year’s INSP Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, delegates gathered in the theatre of the Social Hub hotel for the INSP Awards 2026. We are now thrilled to announce this year's shortlist and winners: www.insp.ngo/articles/str...
Cologne-based sociologists Nicole Bögelein and Gina Rosa Wollinger co-host the podcast True Criminology. They spoke to DRAUSSENSEITER about crime in Germany, perceived and actual safety, and their new book: www.insp.ngo/articles/opi...
Big Issue is celebrating 35 years of working to end poverty with a major new exhibition in partnership with Grow Up. Also inside: the harsh reality of life in NEET Britain, Andrew Scott on D-Day film Pressure, and much more. Find your local vendor: vist.ly/5hj5h
We've just received a haul of fresh reprints: The Quatermass Experiment, Totally Tasteless, Is That You, Maureen? and Pull to Open are all back in stock. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
It is estimated that almost one million people in the UK are living with dementia. For this special edition, we have given a platform to people impacted by the disease – both carers and those living with a diagnosis. Find your local vendor: vist.ly/5gpdq
Congratulations Phillip & Ashlie on completing your Three Peak challenge in 10 hours 27 mins! Ashlie said “It was a brilliant day, I’m so glad it wasn't sunny! We’re feeling very accomplished now as this was the hardest walk we have ever done together.” You can donate at vist.ly/5fhpi
At this year’s IGA, we saw presentations on everything from dolls to trad wives, horror to classic Gothic literature.💀 @igagoths.bsky.social We rounded up some attendees to tell us about themselves and their papers. 🖊️ #academia #internationalgothicassociation #goth #alt #gothic #gothicacademia
At this year’s IGA, we saw presentations on everything from vampires to social media, TADC to The Portrait of Dorian Gray💀 @igagoths.bsky.social We rounded up some attendees to tell us about their papers 🖊️ #academia #internationalgothicassociation #goth #alt #gothic
No arrests, warnings, or barring notices have been issued to people experiencing homelessness since DC’s MLK Memorial Library began its 90-day pilot to enforce regulations preventing people from sleeping outside the building on 6 July. @streetsensedc.bsky.social reports: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
📣 Symposium on the life & writings of MR James w/ adaptations of 'Lost Hearts' & 'A Warning to the Curious' by @nunkie.bsky.social 📍Drayton Arms Theatre, London 🕰️ 8 November 2026 Full details 👉 tinyurl.com/m7p89yx4 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social #AcademicSky
A reminder to anyone interested that tomorrow I am giving an online talk on the use of Highgate Cemetery as location for TV and film. Starts as 6.30. Details below.
Beyond the Graves - Highgate Cemetery on Film and Television. Online talk. - Arnos Vale
A talk on how Highgate Cemetery has been portrayed in film and TV and what it reveals about its history and cultural image.
arnosvale.org.uk
Content about helping people experiencing poverty and homelessness is trending on social media. But is that a good thing? @isonumero.bsky.social reports: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
Next Wednesday I'm giving my 'what was filmed at Highgate Cemetery' talk online. As much about what it's like for a cemetery to be a location as the filming itself. But there's lots of cool and rare clips!
Beyond the Graves - Highgate Cemetery on Film and Television. Online talk. - Arnos Vale
A talk on how Highgate Cemetery has been portrayed in film and TV and what it reveals about its history and cultural image.
arnosvale.org.uk
Perhaps the most powerful thing we can do in divided times is not speak more persuasively, but listen with more cultural intelligence, argues Lucy Butters: www.insp.ngo/articles/opi...
Phillip & Ashlie are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for Big Issue North. That's a 24-mile route covering Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, with over 5000 feet of climbing! Support their fundraising at vist.ly/5ehb8 Good Luck!!
Count Binface, aka comedy writer Jon Harvey, took time out to outline his manifesto ahead of the Clacton by-election. Also, news that Jodrell Bank’s telescope lost its funding has left UK scientists facing an uncertain future, plus much more. Find your local vendor: vist.ly/5e77v
Everyone deserves a place to call home. Yet too many people are struggling with rising rents and a lack of affordable housing. It doesn't have to be this way. Director @rolibarker shares her thoughts on the housing crisis and why we need solutions that put people first: vist.ly/5c7ib
Big Issue headed inside Jodrell Bank as cuts could see the Lovell Telescope lose the entirety of its funding in 2028. This is set to cost Britain and affect our contribution to science on an international scale.
'Who can you trust on social media? You can trust Jodrell Bank'
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10 years in the making … greatly expanded and fully updated second edition on sale soon! Details and pre-orders shorturl.at/dIdDW or via the usual outlets.
@streetsensedc.bsky.social vendor and artist Erica Downing reflects on this year’s National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference, held in Washington DC, US: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
