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Dr Maddy Pelling

@MaddyPelling

Historian and broadcaster 📖 Writing on the Wall 🎧 After Dark @historyhit 📺 @skyarts @channel4 @warnerbros @historyhit

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Publication day!!!

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The history is bouncing off the wall next weekend @Writeideafest with @MaddyPelling in conversation with @RebeccaRideal Book a ticket and check it out ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/write…

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Who was Jack the Ripper? 🤔 Join @maddypelling & Anthony Delaney on the After Dark podcast, as they investigate the men accused of being this infamous killer & why they were singled out as monsters. All 4 parts are now available. Listen to Part 1 here 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H0cVqyM0

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I'm hugely excited to be part of @Writeideafest this year! Come see me I'm conversation with the brilliant @rebecca

Happy #HistoryWritersDay2024 We have all sorts of history @Writeideafest this year. @MaddyPelling @DanielRachel69 Andy Beckett. Something for everyone #writeidea

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Happy #HistoryWritersDay2024 We have all sorts of history @Writeideafest this year. @MaddyPelling @DanielRachel69 Andy Beckett. Something for everyone #writeidea

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Burke and Hare: Scotland’s most notorious killers 💥 Join @MaddyPelling & Anthony Delaney on the dark streets of Edinburgh as they investigate this infamous 19th-century murder case. Watch 'The Edinburgh Murders: Burke and Hare' on History Hit now 🎥


This is a fabulous book, and I was so lucky to get to read an advance copy. Check it out!

'A rich tapestry of lives and things interwoven in lively prose' – @MaddyPelling ✨ Immerse yourself in Eleanor Barraclough's eye-opening history of the real Vikings, from children to enslaved people, artisans to travellers. #EmbersOfTheHands is out now: tinyurl.com/EmbersOfTheHan…

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Celebrating 100 episodes of After Dark! 👻🎉 With spooky season upon us, join Dr @MaddyPelling and Dr Anthony Delaney on the podcast to get your dark history fix twice a week 🎃 What's been your favourite episode so far? Let us know 👇


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LOVED the Salem pod today @MaddyPelling and Anthony! Perhaps your best yet. Cannot recommend enough a visit to Salem - you won’t be disappointed! Filled with so much history and atmosphere. One of my favorite places.


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🎧 Listen to an audio extract from @MaddyPelling's gripping and original history of 18th-Century Britain #WritingOnTheWall 🎧 Get the audiobook now: tinyurl.com/WritingOnTheWa…


I think we all know a Ryley from Chester... #drunkhistory

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Coming to a TV near you... I'll be talking Titanic's interior, her art historical borrowings and what colourisation means now at 9pm this Sunday on @Channel4 As ever, it was a pleasure working with @woodcutmedia and series producer @bbcjonny

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In 1845, HMS Terror and Erebus went missing in the isolated and freezing Arctic Circle, seeking the Northwest Passage. Here is my first attempt at the Terror, stranded in the ice. Inspired by listening to @MaddyPelling’s After Dark @HistoryHit podcast, and @TheTerrorAMC

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Day 1 of our shoot in Edinburgh!

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This is tonight!

This is tonight! Featuring @MaddyPelling on historical hoaxes, @KateCherrell on psychic merchandise, @lievenscheire on the weird world of AI, & standup from @sarapascoe, @PhilNWang & @EricLampaert Soho, London, 7pm, come experience the weirdness. Tix: underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/we-can…

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Come experience the weirdness Featuring: @sarapascoe @PhilNWang @MaddyPelling @KateCherrell @EricLampaert @lievenscheire, and ft. cameos from the editor-in-chief of the Guinness World Records, as well as my uncle - who ran what many claim was a ‘haunted hotel’ in Tibet. Tix 👇

Londoners! This coming Monday, the No Such Thing As A Fish co-host Dan Schreiber is throwing a new nerdy standup night celebrating all things weird with @sarapascoe, @PhilNWang and more! Check out the full line-up and get your tickets here: underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/we-can…

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This is my recent book acquisition section, both new and secondhand. If your book is not there, don’t worry as it’s probably on the way! :-) @BruceABoucher @misswalsingham @Sathnam @cath_fletcher @MaddyPelling @SoaneMuseum

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No big deal, just living my best life on a gig with THESE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE Buy tickets and come see me, I guess?

Come see ‘We Can Be Weirdo Live’ a night of standup, mystery & general batshittery - Mon July 15th, Soho London. It’s a killer line up… @sarapascoe, @PhilNWang, Belgium’s finest nerd @lievenscheire, After Dark co-host Dr. @MaddyPelling, & more. Tix 👉 underbellyboulevard.com/book-tickets/w…

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As a street art fan my next @BigIssue share had to be this @MaddyPelling "free from museum collecting strategies or curatorial agendas..waiting to be found" From castle walls to Banksy: graffiti has given us the writing on the wall throughout history bigissue.com/culture/books/…


Excited to speak as part of an incredible line up at Chalke History Festival this year as part of their Young Historians Day with Alice Loxton. Friday 28 June in the Stove Tent - where all talks are included in your entrance ticket. 🔗history-hub.chalkefestival.com/history-hub/yo…

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