Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature @SurreySLL; now on Bluesky (CEMathieson) and instagram (Dr_Charlotte_Mathieson)
Guildford, England
Joined October 2011
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Very excited to be part of the @BritishAcademy_ Summer Showcase this July, with my exhibit “Sensing Sunscreen: the curious history of a familiar product”. It’s a fantastic programme - find out more and sign up here:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even… #forcuriousminds
I’ve now joined Bluesky, same handle as here, and would love to keep in touch with some followers over there! I’ve also been over on instagram/threads (more the former than the latter) for a while, @ Dr_Charlotte_Mathieson
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Really pleased to be part of this!
It's vital that we nurture #PhD students & #ECRs working on #TransportHistory & #MobilityHistory.
Please share widely!
H/t my co-convenors @cemathieson @TurnipRail @LewisChSmith @DrOliBetts Tamara Thornhill & Aparajita Mukhopadhyay.
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PhD student or ECR working on #TransportHistory or #MobilityHistory?
Join the next @ihr_history Transport & Mobility History seminar for career guidance & to ask questions!
Thurs 24 October, 17.30 UK
Co-convened by our Dr Mike Esbester.
Register here:
history.ac.uk/events/finding…
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How did we go from buying Sun Lovin’ Malibu Barbies to taking every precaution to avoid direct sunlight? Sunblock scholar Charlotte Mathieson explains. zps.la/3Xfu5iR
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Lots of fantastic exhibitions @BritishAcademy_ Summer Showcase! Just been admiring this section of @cemathieson 's fabulous display about sunscreen and sun protection remedies ☀️Do go along today if you can before it closes!! 👏🏻
We’re off to a fantastic start at the @BritishAcademy_ #SummerShowcase after a busy private view last night and schools morning today! Looking forward to the public opening this evening and a full day tomorrow! @SurreySLL
Barbie and her “peek-a-boo tan” has very much been stealing the show here 😍 She’s refreshed and ready for a full and final day of #summershowcase
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Thanks to @BritishAcademy_ for another exciting #SummerShowcase. I enjoyed chatting to BA-funded researchers who are doing innovative, boundary-crossing work in #SHAPE subjects like @cemathieson @surreysll @uniofsurrey who runs the ‘Sensing Sunscreen’ project. I learned lots!
ALT Board with words about sunscreen and picture of organs bottle of sunscreen
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Not to be missed - Sensing Sunscreen: The curious history of a familiar product, featuring Barbie herself! Research and display by @cemathieson
ALT A display of red and white deck chairs and blue and white striped deck chairs in a large bay window.
ALT Two barbies are displayed on a wooden table, bearing visible tan lines
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Don't forget - you can meet the author of this blog and explore the medical, commercial, and cultural histories of sun protection from the 18th to 20th centuries at our Summer Showcase happening this weekend (12-13 July)! Book a free ticket here: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
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How did British people approach suntanning and skincare in the early 20th century? In a new blog post, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey @cemathieson explores the medical and commercial histories of sun protection through literary text:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog…
ALT A black and white photo of a group a women at the beach. On the far right, a woman applies sun cream to her friends' backs on Margate Main Sands, 1934. Image credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
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It's not too late to book a FREE ticket to our Summer Showcase on 12-13 July - a festival of ideas that features the latest, uplifting research from the best and brightest in humanities and social sciences. Soak up the sun and discover a world of ideas: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even…
ALT A purple background with a halo of pink and orange surrounds the British Academy logo, with the words 'Summer showcase' on it. On the right hand side, the words '12-13 July 2024' are written in white.
Prep is now well underway for my “Sensing Sunscreen” exhibit
ahead of the BA Summer Showcase next month: here’s a few items from my own collection that’ll be making an appearance ☀️🏝️#forcuriousminds
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CFP for a giant of gothic literature call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed… @hammerfilms @HorrorHammer1 @reviewwales
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Right, on to the next conference - send us your proposals for Dickens and the Gothic. We're keen to hear from both Gothic scholars and Dickensians to get a broad range of papers, so please spread the word! @IGA_Goths @DickensFellowHQ @Dickens_Society
Extended CFP for this year's Dickens Day in London - email your proposals for talks on Dickens and the Gothic to us at [email protected] by 14th July. Thanks to all those who have already submitted - we'll be in touch after the new deadline.
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NEXT WEEK!
20 June, 17.30 UK, hybrid
@NEN_Sithole, Hidden voices: immorality, respectability, & African women on the Rhodesia Railways
An @ihr_history Transport & Mobility History seminar, co-convened by our Dr Mike Esbester; also @IHRWomen.
Booking:
history.ac.uk/events/hidden-…
ALT Hilda Ramushu, the first African female traffic officer in Zimbabwe, at work coupling wagons. From: The Railroader, 26 January 1984 (reference: National Archives of Zimbabwe).
One month to go!
Very excited to be part of the @BritishAcademy_ Summer Showcase this July, with my exhibit “Sensing Sunscreen: the curious history of a familiar product”. It’s a fantastic programme - find out more and sign up here:
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/even… #forcuriousminds
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‘The @BritishAcademy_ study says that rather than being “low value”, [media and comms] courses play a vital role in the UK’s £108bn creative industries and have become increasingly relevant in a world grappling with new technologies’ theguardian.com/education/ar…
