Dr Andrew Higgins
Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Excited to be returning in May to give a paper at the #Tolkien at #Kalamazoo sessions at The 61st Congress of Medieval Studies #kzoo2026
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- Bravo to Sir #BrynTerfel and the entire cast, chorus and orchestra of @royaloperahouse.bsky.social in Richard Jones production of #BorisGodunov - Sir Bryn is a legend and masterful as the troubled Boris. ROH Chorus is incredibly powerful and those bells! Fantastic #opera
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsAnother edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers. Including: Kullervo in cinemas; Balrog Beatdown; Tolkien Tapestries Return; Leadership in Middle-earth (i.e. in Zurich!); Tolkien Day Ball; nominations for TSA open: music for a sorrowless forest; Grendel/ond; & much more!
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsOn instant classics we’re starting a four part moni series on Helen of Troy”villain, victim and double agent” (yes double agent) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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- First #book of 2026 finished and it is a good one! #oldenglish #northumbria #history #maxadams www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsThe #Tolkien Family Album was published 34 years ago this week. Here are a few gems from this rare book: dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/a-few-gems... Included are some thoughts about the early years of the @tolkiensociety.org and an absent friend…
- A nice find this week in a used book shop in #York! #Tolkien mention around his 1936 Beowulf the Monsters and the Critics Lecture. Tolkien knew and corresponded with Professor Gwyn Jones who was Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Cardiff www.tolkienguide.com/guide/letter...
- Great trip today to @jorvikviking.bsky.social Centre in #York which recreates the 10th Century #Viking village in the Coppergate Part of York brilliant reconstruction with some great items from the excavations there in the 1980’s. #jorvik
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- Was fun to return to YorkMinster today and see its brilliant stained glass windows and there was an interesting exhibition about Saint Cuthbert whose life by Bede I am in the middle of reading in Old English. Tomorrow more Vikings! #york
- Great visit today to the @YorkshireMuseum to see the new #Viking North exhibition which includes items from the Great Army (Micel Here) #yorkshiremuseum #york
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsIt's coming! After years of hard work by @radulescur.bsky.social and Andrew Lynch, as well as a great number of Arthurianists from around the world, The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture is here! 🏰 www.cambridge.org/fr/universit...
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsJohn R R Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Tolkien, the author of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', was a student and eventually a professor at University of Oxford. Back in 1977, the Ashmolean hosted an exhibition of his drawings.
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsTomorrow is J.R.R. #Tolkien's 134th birthday! As Frodo did for Bilbo, the Tolkien Society continues to celebrate Tolkien's birthday in his absence with our #TolkienBirthdayToast. Our tradition: at 9pm your time raise a glass and toast "The Professor!" www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolki...
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsDon't forget - if you're new to Bluesky or you want to welcome lovely people in the new year... Simply check out the amazing starter packs out there... Like this one 🎁🙏 #Tolkien go.bsky.app/RQdWq5fat://did:plc:khnnn7goyrlsh5cezthlbm5u/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3layxxmr6py2w
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsHere is an Xmas day episode of Instant Classics. We take a long hard look at Roman gifts and question tne direct link between Saturnalia & Xmas podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
- Really enjoyed this great telling of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis by Steffan Rhodri who brought the story to life with his excellent reading and voices. #cslewis #narnia #bbc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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- Brilliant performance of Handel’s Ariodante last night at @royaloperahouse.bsky.social with excellent cast including mezzo Grace Durham who replaced Emily D’Angelo and brought down the house with her moving Scherza Infidia. #opera #Handel #Roh
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- Thank you @unamccormack.bsky.social it was fun to research and more on #languageinvention for fiction to come!
- Hoc est festivum! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... @instantclassicspod.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social #instantclassics #rome
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- This morning we welcomed a group of our supporters and partners to our new suite of Second World War Rooms at Imperial War Museums #Duxford - The Pilots Briefing Room, Aircrew Room and Locker Room bringing history to life where history happened. #Iwm #duxford
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsThe latest editions of our magazine Amon Hen and our journal Mallorn are landing with our members. A Christmas treat! Get yours too by joining the Society as a member at www.tolkiensociety.org/join. Print and digital options available, and we ship worldwide! #Tolkien #BookSky
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- Congrats @joelmerriner.bsky.social really enjoyed this and for me the works of Alexander Koritch and Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov stand out. Highly recommend another great volume from the #Bloomsbury Perspectives on Fantasy Series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrat... #tolkien #art
- Was so cool to attend the live recording of this @instantclassicspod.bsky.social episode with the classics dynamic duo of Dame @wmarybeard.bsky.social and Charlotte Higgins in the Roman Amphitheater below #Guildhall in #London podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
- Eglerio! I first heard Professor #MichaelDCDrout talk about the idea for this book at a conference in Dublin in 2010 and now the 🦅🦅 have delivered his new #Tolkien book! Can’t wait to read!
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- For those who have heard me gone about it - I did manage to find a Pumpkin Pie in London last night for mini-Thanksgiving festivities- quite good #thanksgiving
- Great to be back in Manchester for opening of IWM North Spies Lies and Deception last night this a family focused look at the role of spying espionage from WW1to Modern Day including Operation Mincemeat! Please come and bring the family! #iwm #immnorth #spies #museums www.iwm.org.uk/events/spies...
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew Higginswhat is a god? On Instant Classics we have a go at trying to understand Athena, much more than a 'goddess of wisdom' podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
- Attended a live recording of the excellent new podcast @instantclassicspod.bsky.social hosted by Dame @wmarybeard.bsky.social and Charlotte Higgins in the ruins of the Roman amphitheater under #Guildhall - good timing as I tackle #Tacitus #Agricola podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... #classics
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsA new episode of Instant Classics Bookclub has dropped. We're reading the Odyssey & have reached Book 4. Helen 'of Troy' is back in Sparta with Menelaus whom she abandoned so causing the Trojan War. Domestic bliss? Join the Bookclub with access to back episodes too: instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
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- Was blown away by the new production of Janacek’s The Makropulos Case last night at @royalballetandopera with a stellar cast in a powerful (and I hope not last!) production by Katie Mitchell - packs a punch and a must see #opera #makropolouscase #janacek
- Reposted by Dr Andrew Higgins25 November in the Roman amphitheatre at the London Guildhall, it's Instant Classics's first live event. We'll be talking about what life was like in Roman London. And a drink and mingle at the end. Had been sold out, but more tickets now released www.instantclassicspod.com/events
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- Really moving #Remembrance Day service this morning on #IWM HMS Belfast - beautiful weather for!
- Was great to attend the UK Premiere of the new film Nuremberg last night from @skytv a fantastic powerful movie with excellent performances no spoilers! #nuremberg
- Was at the World Premiere of this incredibly powerful opera by Jake Heggie at San Francisco Opera 25 years ago and now so looking forward to this new production at English National Opera with a stellar cast including the divine Sarah Connolly toi toi all @englishnationalopera #eno #opera
- Great episode. Aldarion is getting on my nerves! Eru when are these two going to get married! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @prancingponypod.bsky.social #tolkien
- Great episode on the MGM movie House of #DarkShadows podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social @darkshadowsnews.bsky.social #TerroratCollinwood
- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsWhat better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
- My #Halloween tradition every year is to watch my fav horror movie (outside of the Dark Shadows story-world) which is known as The City of the Dead or Horror Hotel featuring Christopher Lee. Leave Whitewood now! Watch with lights off very spooky! Poor Lottie! 💀👻🎃 m.imdb.com/title/tt0053...
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsThis week in Instant Classics Bookclub, we take a step back & think about the repeated adjectives used to describe characters in the Odyssey. What is their point? Join the Bookclub here instantclassics.supportingcast.fm (& you can get an earlybird offer to our first live event on 25 Nov)
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- An amazing subterranean journey into the depths under Clapham South today in London with our fantastic Imperial War Museums Patrons to see the vast tunnels that were built for thousands to survive the Battle of Britain and interesting to learn how the site continued to be used after WW2 #iwm
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- Reposted by Dr Andrew HigginsThe question for today. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? And what tune did he play. On Instant Classics now tinyurl.com/cv7e9m92
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