Perfect post-lockdown return to the cinema: Marlene Dietrich season BFI Southbank. Here's a pic of the crowds greeting La Dietrich when she went to see Ivor Novello's play Careless Rapture at the Drury Theatre in 1936

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Looking for contributors for an edited volume on Women and Historical Moviegoing (edited by me and Dr Lies Lanckman 🏳️‍🌈). If you work on film history/ female audiences/ fan magazines/ feminist perspectives in film history, this might be of interest!

So excited to read this - and so impressed with the team at Mr B's Emporium for consistently sending me books I love / was planning to read anyway! Can't recommend their subscription service enough, it's like they can read minds :)

Excited to bring The Weimar Film Network to Twitter! We are currently looking for contributors to write short blog posts for our website! May be of particular interest to current UG and PG students of German Studies! Please drop us a message if you are interested!

Shout out to the staff at Tower Hamlets Archives - so helpful and generous with their advice on their collections! Local archivists are truly indispensable

A great opportunity to join our stellar department Birkbeck, University of London. We’re hiring a full-time Lecturer in Digital Media Design.

In the post today: first time using the GRO to get a copy of a marriage cert for research. Absolutely wild that you can order any certificate for a small amount of £

Very happy to be included in the Weimar Film Network blog - writing about nightclubs, cabaret and Dietrich, what more could you want!

Great blog post by Helen Sunderland about the 1911 census. I love the census, I love the Edwardian period - and I learnt some more detail about how the 1911 census may have been completed within households! historyworkshop.org.uk/census-lessons/ via History Workshop

Yes to all this- sadly I definitely feel safer on bike than on foot as it allows for a quicker get away; and I also have experience of cars passing way too closely theguardian.com/environment/bi…

For my 20s30sNetwork writing retreat lunchtime trip I went to Wandsworth Town Hall, built in 1937

Second day of 20s30sNetwork writing retreat, took a walk to this #20s30s building which used to be the Granada cinema, built in 1937

Is Poker a sport or a game? The debate has been raging since at least 1927 - All-Night Card Clubs interwarlondon.com/2021/04/14/15/

A look at the great interwar comedian Ralph Lynn interwarlondon.com/2021/04/21/16/

Very exited that my (first) article is now available online with Media History - representations of journalists in 1930s British films. DM me if you want to read but don't have access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back Ephemeral Cities theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Any early cinema buffs, this is happening this week & is free

Great article that definitely speaks to my personal experience! Off the tenure track: experiences of PhD graduates in academic administrative positions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Perspectives Journal

Ahem...beaten to it! Yes, *very* pleased to say that my monograph, based on my PhD undertaken at @BirkbeckFMACS, is published! Ever thankful, of course, to my supervisors Mike Allen & Tim Markham for their excellent support

Yes! So excited that this article is now published - it's my favourite piece of writing so far!