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Former #PoetLaureate, Dame #CarolAnnDuffy, is openly lesbian. If you read only one collection of hers, make it 'The World's Wife', in which the wives of famous men such as Mrs Midas, Frau Freud & Queen Kong get a voice. What an imagination!
ALT "Carol Ann Duffy - Cambridge 2015" by Chris Boland is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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#DerekJarman was a filmmaker, artist & #LGBT activist who died of #AIDS in 1994 (age 52😢). He made many movies but #Caravaggio (1986) is seen as his most accessible. He emulates the artist's use of #chiaroscuro (light/dark) in the film. Just beautiful! Watch it.
ALT Derek Jarman by Gorup de Besanez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0.
ALT "Caravaggio, The Entombment" by f_snarfel is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
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#DavidBowie is probably the most famous bisexual this country has produced. Our students learn about the pivotal moment in #UK cultural history when he performed #Starman on 'Top Of The Pops' in 1972. It was a life-changing 3 mins for many young #LGBT people.
ALT Pic: YouTube/GreatGuitarHeroes
ALT Pic: YouTube/GreatGuitarHeroes
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2/2: #Wittgenstein had three male loves in his life & one female. Whenever he wanted to escape from philosophy, he would go the cinema, take a front row seat & completely immerse himself in the movies of #CarmenMiranda. & who can blame him.
ALT Drawing of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Christiaan Tonnis
ALT "1943 ... Carmen Miranda!!!" by x-ray delta one is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
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1/2: Have you read the philosopher #Wittgenstein? Born #Vienna (1889) & taught @Cambridge_Uni. Famous for his 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'. Oh just call it the 'TLP' for short (everyone else does😂).
ALT "Ludwig Wittgenstein | Drawing" by Christiaan Tonnis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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2/2: Is #Orlando the first trans novel ever? Quote: “The change of sex, though it altered [Orlando’s] future, did nothing whatsoever to alter [Orlando’s] identity.” Watch #TildaSwinton's magnificent performance😱in the 1992🎥by #SallyPotter.😍
ALT "Tilda" by didkovskaya is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
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1/2: #VirginiaWoolf's novel #Orlando (1928) was inspired by her affair with #VitaSackvilleWest. Both women were quite open about their love for each other at a time when #British society was socially conservative.
ALT "vita sackville west by william strang 1918" by tom clearwood is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
ALT "Virginia Woolf" by miss_rogue is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
19 Sep 2023
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The Biba Story, 1964-1975 at the Fashion and Textile Museum, 22 March – 8 September 2024. The Biba Story delves into the rise of the world’s first lifestyle label, Biba, and how it revolutionized fashion and shopping in the 1960s and 1970s. fashiontextilemuseum.org/exh…
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
21 Sep 2023
#JudgmentAtNuremberg -Stanley Kramer (1961) is on BBC Four at 9pm. It's about the Nuremberg Trials and is quite astonishing in its moral clarity.
Everyone in this is great- and everyone is in it.
But it is #JudyGarland who is the revelation.
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Ready, set, Brighton! 🎉
It's great to see students arriving at our halls and back into the city. As our campuses continue to fill up, our staff and student ambassadors will be around to help you. 🙌
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✨ Fashion, identity, painting... tickets are on sale today for #SargentAndFashion, a show that celebrates #JohnSingerSargent’s striking portraits of stylish sitters. 🎀 See almost 60 paintings alongside period garments from the portraits themselves.
🎟️ bit.ly/3EuZFPs
ALT An 1892 portrait of a woman sitting in a chair and wearing a white dress with a lilac bow around the waist
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
20 Sep 2023
“I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.” — Ed Ruscha
Meet artist Ed Ruscha!
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Job Vacancy at the University of Brighton: Information Adviser jobs.brighton.ac.uk/IS5149-2…
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
18 Sep 2023
New statue displayed on #Hove plinth
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
17 Sep 2023
Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto has just opened at @V_and_A 🌟
We loved seeing this fab news show at the press preview.
Here's a sneak peek at the exhibition.
Stay tuned for our full review out later today!
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
17 Sep 2023
Preview of our next exhibition Lee Miller - Dressed in todays @ObserverUK @BrightonMuseums from 14 October supported by @ace_southeast @BrightonHoveCC
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St Peters House Library, University of Brighton retweeted
14 Sep 2023
One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.
Some notable cowboys!
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