Petra
@cliomz.bsky.social
Historian, Playwright, Singer Currently writing: Martha (Regency Amélie Poulain with Wollstonecraftian ideals on the Romantic Rhine) 🌈 Ally • ADHD
Perhaps, after such a long time, I should introduce myself again: Hi, I’m Petra. I’m interested in football and know quite a lot about the evolution of the rules of the game. I’m also developing my playwriting practice through online short courses at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Given all the lovely things happening this weekend, I really ought to dust off my Bsky account a bit, shouldn’t I?
Why are English TV series such as Midsomer Murders so popular in the UK – and beyond? What sets the Midsomer atmosphere apart from Poirot, Marple & Co.? My half-hour read explores this in an essay-like way. #SkyStorians #AcademicSky #🗃️
Quintessentially English: The Atmosphere of Midsomer Murders - Quintessentially English
What do we mean when we describe Midsomer Murders being quintessentially English? What characterises the atmosphere of Midsomer Murders?
midsomermurdershistory.org
Why are English TV series such as Midsomer Murders so popular in the UK – and beyond? What sets the Midsomer atmosphere apart from Poirot, Marple & Co.? My half-hour read explores this in an essay-like way. #SkyStorians #AcademicSky #🗃️
Quintessentially English: The Atmosphere of Midsomer Murders - Quintessentially English
What do we mean when we describe Midsomer Murders being quintessentially English? What characterises the atmosphere of Midsomer Murders?
midsomermurdershistory.org
🍰🔪 Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift – my impressions of the first performance of the stage adaptation, written and directed by Guy Unsworth at the beautiful Richmond Theatre. - 1/2
Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger‘s Drift on stage – First Performance Impressions - An unofficial, historian-curated archive of Midsomer Murders — exploring Englishness, nostalgia and atmosphe...
Review of Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift on stage – Guy Unsworth’s smart and sensitive adaptation, premiered at Richmond Theatre.
midsomermurdershistory.org
After I've not been around for a while, there's a link I'd like to drop. Not only am I writing a book about Midsomer Murders / Inspector Barnaby, but I also saw the stage adaptation of Graham's first Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift.
Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.
Me on Sunday: Okay, Petra, the book manuscript is now really finished. Anything else would just water down the essence. Collegue (in a completely different context) on Monday: I recently read that this and that. I didn't know that at all. ... Well, neither did I, but it's very relevant to the book.
My first go at pulling together all the Midsomer Murders actors who are actually related! I’m sure there are still a few missing, but I’ll be adding more over the next few days. ➡️ midsomermurdershistory.org/real-life-re... #MidsomerMurders #InspectorBarnaby
Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.
Oh, it's already been two and a half months since I met Annette Badland. It was so amazing. And when she walked past me in the hotel corridor on her way to her room, I wished her “good night” and she replied “good night, darling”... 🥹❤️
Why are unpleasant emails so unpleasant? And why do I see emails as unpleasant when I'm just doing self-care? 🫠
In June 1826, 9 travellers with English-sounding names signed the guestbook in Klopp Castle at Bingen on the Rhine. However, I have only been able to identify 3 of them. The others either did not provide their forenames or gave no titles, making identification difficult. So how to identifying them?🧵
Friday. I've started researching the names (not too deep for the sake of numbers). And I'm already racking my brain. What do I do with all the ones I can't identify? I'll make a new thread for that. Maybe one of my followers who are researching Britain's Romantic Period will have an idea?
Petra@cliomz.bsky.social · last yr.I thought it'd be interesting to see all Brits who signed the guest book at Klopp Castle in Bingen on the Rhine between 1826 and 1914, to see which honours and celebrities were there. Well… got. more than 2000 names, and I've already deleted the duplicates and entries with illegible surnames. 😵💫 🗃️
My spring tradition: When it's 20 degrees outside for the first time (and I'm at home), I drink a glass of rum in the garden. This year: Don Papa Baroko. Cheers!
Envious of all the people from Teesside because they have the best English accent without having to learn it.
I thought it'd be interesting to see all Brits who signed the guest book at Klopp Castle in Bingen on the Rhine between 1826 and 1914, to see which honours and celebrities were there. Well… got. more than 2000 names, and I've already deleted the duplicates and entries with illegible surnames. 😵💫 🗃️
What I wanted to do: read a bit and do some freelance work. What I did: added a pillar page with texts & links to my website, designed the homepage with a new theme, lost my nerve several times because I couldn't find small errors in the Wordpress customiser, then finally found them and fixed them.
It's official, I have hay fever. Birch and house dust are my nemeses. (But the latter is not quite as bad.) Maybe my diagnosis of "chronic rhinitis" seven years ago was really hay fever?
Just read the programme for Midsummer in Midsomer 🙌. It's going to be so great. Look forward to lots of photos of film locations and plenty of food and drink.
I just realised that the actress who played Frances Le Bon in Midsomer Murders' Ring Out Your Dead is known for a quite famous role in a Monty Python movie.
"And so it is hardly surprising that the 1886 Laws of the Game are almost identical to the 1885 FA Rules. The big exception: the throw-in (in the form still used today) is Scottish! However, the Scottish offside rule was not included in the LoG."
Oh wow, my UK ETA application has just been approved in less than a minute (Sunday evening!). The confirmation email I received a few seconds earlier said it would take an average of three working days. Well, I take that as a very good sign for #MiM25.
