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Writer, presenter and consultant who seeks out the surprising stories that sit at the edges of familiar history. https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_

Lucy Jane Santos

Starting to message everyone with the details of this but if you haven’t let us know you want to come then see below on how to.

Think I just bossed my ultimate ADHD procrastination challenge. 18 years to change something on a bank mandate (nothing really urgent so couldn’t get round to it). It took 45 mins on the phone but honestly been feeling bad about it at least monthly for all that time!

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As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is. But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.

Love the big content creator company that asked if I would be interested in being on their show and boasted about their tens of million subscribers. Ghosted me after asking whether there was any fee, of course. Is great being a @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social

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I met David Hockney once and we sat and had a drink (very much against his will I think but he was polite enough). He even did me a little drawing and signed it and someone STOLE it from me a few weeks later.

Rethinking Lipstick - Free online event 12th June 2026, 12pm EST/5pm GMT Join us for a session as three expert speakers debunk some of the lipstick myths and legends that often circulate online and in print media.

And me! I am going to be looking at the famous tale that beauty entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden distributed red lipstick to suffragettes marching in 1912, a story often cited as the reason why lipstick became a symbol of women’s protest. Register: chmsn.wufoo.com/forms/qffw9z...

A Feminist Approach to Some Like it Hot (1959)

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Sexualized Pastries and Trash People – Black and White and Read All Over

Hillary Belzer of @makeupmuseum.org will tackle the enduring “lipstick index” myth - the idea that lipstick sales rise during economic downturns and can be used as a reliable indicator of recession. It’s an interesting theory but is there any truth to it?

Eileen G’Sell (author of Lipstick) will look at the story that in ancient Greece, sex workers risked punishment if they appeared in public without lipstick. What does this reveal about gender, status and social control?

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Dr. Vaughn Joy

Alt: Dwight Schrute's Excited Reaction in The Office

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Dwight Schrute's Excited Reaction in The Office