A new documentary is bringing conversations about deathcare, funeral practices, and greener end-of-life options to a wider audience.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiLl...
Cannot wait to see this in print!!! #MedievalSky 🗃️
In October, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻
(Risen from the🪦 with a new QR code).
Learned from my publisher that my new book dropped early in the National Gallery shops today!
If you would like to look at nice pictures of Saints and learn fun things about them, this is the one for you.
Beyond thrilled to share the my monograph proposal “Sanctity, The Body,& Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture & Cryptomedievalism has *OFFICIALLY* been approved by @archumanities.bsky.social to be included in @aspencerhall.bsky.social new series “Intercessions: Sanctity in the Pre/Modern World”
Order of the Good Death
Beyond thrilled to share the my monograph proposal “Sanctity, The Body,& Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Popular Culture & Cryptomedievalism has *OFFICIALLY* been approved by @archumanities.bsky.social to be included in @aspencerhall.bsky.social new series “Intercessions: Sanctity in the Pre/Modern World”
Ellesse Patterson 🐝
Alicia Spencer-Hall
Slayers gotta slay (or dust!).
Casually changing the tone at the encountering Biblical Bodies Showcase held at UoM through SALC.
Scott Midson casually dropping these philosophical heavy hitters (plus Levinas!) during his talk about Human(oid) robots in the sweltering heat at the “(Re)Iamaging Faces” conference today held by Manchester Museum and Creative Manchester.
Siobhán Jolley
My heart is broken. Another core Scooby lost.
Anthony Stewart Head (20 February 1957 - 5 June 2026) you were the best Watcher a Slayer, her Scoobies, & generations of fans could ask for.
#AnthonyStewartHead #Buffy #restinpeace #Giles
Dracula (1958) is being re-released by Hammer with additional footage that censors found to be too gruesome. Sounds absolutely delightful.
#filmsky #moviesky #horror
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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Classic starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing will include footage censors decided was too gruesome
I used to think this government was merely indifferent to the damage being done to UK universities. Now I realise that the harms are intended.
Morbid Movies Podcast
Grumpy Philosopher
Scoop: teaching funding for English universities to be cut by another £100 million www.timeshighereducation.com/news/governm... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
Coming reduction in funding for high-cost subjects and access programmes ‘extraordinarily frustrating’, says Universities UK leader
