FID Anglo-American Culture
"Victoria's Secret" is the tongue-in-cheek title of this new 2025 #QueenVictoria #biography by @fernriddell asking what we REALLY know about the relationship of Victoria & John Brown
Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑
Today is, however, not only #MonsterMonday but also Margaret #Thatcher was #BOTD 100 years ago
Find arguments against #Thatcherism in the #BritishStudies & #PoliticalStudies literature in our collection
Greetings from #Anglistiktag2025 starting today in Essen! 👋 We're excited for the programme. The organisers did a great job at signage & ordering crisp, sunny autumn weather! 🍂
Please say hello if you're here too! 😊
#conference #BritishStudies #AnglophoneStudies #EnglishLiterature #Linguistics
Wouldn't a #roadtrip be fun? 🛣️
Let #WilliamShakespeare come with you - as a #radioplay
"Shakespeare on the Radio" by Andrea Smith takes a tour of 100 years of #BBC radioplays by the Bard, 1923-2023
#BritishStudies #EnglishLiterature #BritishRadio #AdaptationStudies #BBCradio
(sadly not our car!)
New week, new book alert! 🚨
This mighty tome on #EnglishHistory by Susan Doran traces the dynastic change from #QueenElizabeth to #KingJames - from #Tudor to #Stuart in #RenaissanceEngland - on over 600 page, citing sources from #Literature to #MaterialCulture
A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat
#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837638330
#BritCult has published a #CfP #CallForPapers for their conference in November 2025
Deadline: 19 March 2025
Topic: Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today
https://www.britcult.de/category/conferences/
#GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies #BritishStudies
This empowering #memoir by Diane Abbott details her way as a child of the #WindrushGeneration to her becoming Britain's 1st Black female MP
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1798141493
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #BritishStudies #autobiography #BlackStudies #WomensHistory #WomensStudies
