Gemma Tidman
@GemmaTidman
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | @LeverhulmeTrust @QMULCompLit | Early modern 🇫🇷 cultural historian: ideas of literature, quarrels, literary play, word games
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The new issue of French History (French History Journal) is out now! Revolution, art and medicine in French history: essays in honour of Colin Jones
The Phaistos Discussions, a game about making games based on the Phaistos disc that 🇵🇸 Younès🔜A MAZE and I are working on, has been selected for the Ultimate IndieMash on May 18, online or in-person in Enschede, Netherlands (sickhouse.nl)
Congratulations to my LAHP PhD student Jack Hanlon who has won the Currier's Company London Essay Prize for 2024
'The Story of London is the Story of its Markets: Smithfield, the Imperial Metropolis, and the Narration of London'.
Watch out for it in the The London Journal
Learn to work with big historical data from newspapers & maps at a 3-day workshop in Lancaster. June 5-7 2024. Taught by Living with Machines folks! Bursaries available!! Apply now: forms.office.com/e/HnKjET1dAs
Lancaster University LancasterUniHistory The Alan Turing Institute NLS Map Collections HeritageMadeDigital
New from me in The Conversation Young people in Britain aren’t bad at learning languages – but the school system doesn’t make it easy for them theconversation.com/young-people-i… Education@Sheffield Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield Uni Shef Languages
London book launch taking place at...
🎉🎭GARRICK'S TEMPLE TO SHAKESPEARE!🎭🎉
7pm-8.30pm 11th May; Hampton, TW12 2EJ
Details and *free* tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/808830101607
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Methuen Drama Soc Theatre Research TaPRA The R/18 Collective #18thc
Il reste un jour pour envoyer une proposition de communication pour une séance plénière ! ⌛️🗓️
One day left to submit an abstract for a plenary session! ⌛️🗓️
#SE172024 #SE17Chicago #EarlyModernStudies #LittératureFrançaise #17esiècle
A pleasure to sonically pop in to the BBC Free Thinking BBC Radio 4 studio tonight to chat to Matthew Sweet about non competitive 17thC French conversation games vs ScrabbleTogether. And interesting to hear proof in the studio that games can help bridge divisions! Thanks all!
Massive! 👏🏿👏🏿
Congrats to Visai Games for the gong and for creating such a fantastic and moving game amongst a very worthy pool of nominees. It was such a privilege to be part of the juror panel for this category.
Now, everyone - you've no excuses. Go and play Venba! 👇🏿
I wrote a piece for the The Guardian about the new cooperative edition of Scrabble, which, predictably, has riled up certain people who fear Scrabble has 'gone woke' & the next generation is doomed.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Some news. Mark Gatiss 💙 and I have been writing this for the past year: shooting begins this month. Prepare to fall in love with Book. deadline.com/2024/04/mark-g…
I often tweet a picture of the Novo Cemetery (on Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End campus) when in bloom. Not quite at peak yet but will be over the next week or two, if you want to visit catch one of east London’s most stunning floral displays. Easy to walk on to campus to see this!
