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Geoff Swallow

@cornishturn

PhD researcher on mobilities, modernity, territory and identity in the annual swimming match circuit in the West of England 1863-1913.

 St Ives Cornwall
Joined September 2016
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Good to see the Victorian sporting press validating my choice of research field! Sporting Life, 3.09.1888 #BNArchives
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CYCLING PASTS: a new blog on the history of early #cycling and cycling competitions (1860-1920) with articles in 🇳🇱|🇬🇧. 👉 sites.google.com/view/cyclin… #sportshistory #cyclinghistory @BritSportHisSoc @BramConstandt @SportinHistory1 @sportinghistory @Playing_Pasts @BritishCycling
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Tomorrow 🏊 😊
Bristol Radical History Group (@BrisRadHis) profile pictureBristol Radical History Group@BrisRadHis17 Nov 2024
Book launch: City of Swimmers: A radical history of Bristol’s pools, lidos & wild swimming by @drstephenhunt for Bristol South History Festival. Tue 3 Dec (7pm, Filwood Community Centre, BS4 1JP): tinyurl.com/2jjfy464. @brisradhis publications: tinyurl.com/2s3mza58
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Book launch: City of Swimmers: A radical history of Bristol’s pools, lidos & wild swimming by @drstephenhunt for Bristol South History Festival. Tue 3 Dec (7pm, Filwood Community Centre, BS4 1JP): tinyurl.com/2jjfy464. @brisradhis publications: tinyurl.com/2s3mza58
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To celebrate the arrival of the brilliant & beautiful films BAIT (2019) and ENYS MEN (2023) on Deeper Movies Channel, filmmaker/artist @Mark_Jenkin has selected a collection of his short films, including Bronco's House, especially for the Channel! HERE deepermovieschannel.com/bund…
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Patrick Hawe@PatrickHawe16 Jul 2023
The Unbearable Lightness of Behan. ‘I like Waiting for Godot. I don’t know what it’s about. I like a swim in the sea. I don’t know what that’s about either.’ – at Dublin City, Ireland
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Chris Brown@P0st_News4 Jul 2023
Yay, yet another @UWEJournalism MA Journalism student getting a byline on @BBCNews. Well done @BeaSwallow 👍🎉 cc @BJTC_UK @UWEBristol bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-br…
Hunt for 130-year-old Kingswood circus elephant burial site

Hunt for 130-year-old Kingswood circus elephant burial site

Archaeologists are to use ground-penetrating radar to detect the possible Victorian grave site.

bbc.co.uk
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‘Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913’ by @JoanPassey is available now! 📚uwp.co.uk/book/cornish-gothi…
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Carl/The Farm@thefarm_carl2 Jan 2023
Really looking forward to chatting to @Mark_Jenkin about his film. Tickets are flying. @frankcottrell_b @edgehillice @BFI @LivEchonews @BodenJones @TheGuideLpool
Picturehouse at FACT (@FACT_Cinema) profile picturePicturehouse at FACT@FACT_Cinema2 Jan 2023
Our first Q&A of 2023 is a corker! We’re so excited to welcome director @Mark_Jenkin and host @thefarm_carl for a Q&A screening of mind bending Cornish folk horror #EnysMen on 9th Jan. Tickets are flying out for this so grab yours here quick👉 ow.ly/Gl0E50MgCvZ
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I’m pretty sure it’s Skeggy. ‘Professor’ Frank C. Gadsby and his ‘intrepid young son “Dare-devil Leslie” performed there during the 1926 and 1927 seasons. – at Lelant, England
Dr Kathryn Ferry (@SeasideFerry) profile pictureDr Kathryn Ferry@SeasideFerry1 Nov 2022
Replying to @PaulSuttonKing
Fantastic image! It's 1930s and Southport pleasureland was already well-established by then so my hunch is it's a new park at a smaller resort. Gadsby performed a lot at Skegness but it doesn't feel right for the amusements there. Still thinking...
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Joan Passey@JoanPassey27 Oct 2022
Due April 2023 with University of Wales Press and University of Chicago Press! Preorder (or get your library to preorder) here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
Cover of an academic monograph entitled 'Cornish Gothic, 18130-1913' by Joan Passey in the UWP Gothic Literary Studies series. Cover is black and white with red text and the black and white image of a sunken tallship, it's sails still held aloft despite being partially submerged.

ALT Cover of an academic monograph entitled 'Cornish Gothic, 18130-1913' by Joan Passey in the UWP Gothic Literary Studies series. Cover is black and white with red text and the black and white image of a sunken tallship, it's sails still held aloft despite being partially submerged.

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in 1905, 117 years ago this evening, Teignmouth water polo club incurred their first home defeat since the club’s inception in 1901, losing 2-0 to world champions Hyde Seal of Manchester.
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The Seals featured no less than 3 English internationals, Forsyth, Wilkinson and Wildgoose, while Teignmouth, captained by former Tottenham Hotspur player J. W. Welham, also featured Welsh international Paolo Radmilovic.
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And the bathing machines! Interesting to see one of Beale’s designs from Margate so far up the east coast. – at Lelant, England
HistoryandHeritageYorkshire (@GenealogyBeech) profile pictureHistoryandHeritageYorkshire@GenealogyBeech28 Aug 2022
Burlington (Bridlington ) Quay published by bookseller John Furby. He is best known for his publication 'Handbook for strangers visiting Bridlington Quay' It is the paddle steamer and multi-masted ships in the distance that make this image.
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Renationalise the Water Industry - Sign the Petition! chng.it/L6CRSZCg via @UKChange – at Lelant, England
Sign the Petition

Sign the Petition

Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership

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One for you again, @MattLMcDowell ? – at Lelant, England
Dunblane Curling (@dunblanecurling) profile pictureDunblane Curling@dunblanecurling17 Jun 2022
Replying to @dunblaneinfo
@dunblaneinfo @DunblaneMuseum We're trying to clarify the history of the "Curling Shed" at Ochlochy Pond (and the curling equipment it contained) which now sits within the fence of Craigewan on the Glen Road, Dunblane. Does anyone have any information? #curlinglegacy
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Born in Penzance OTD in 1850, the mercurial Dolphy Mitchell, the world champion Cornwall never had. In his heyday thousands used to line the promenade just to watch him practice. A great swimmer and a true Cornishman. Proud to remember you Dolphy. – at Lelant, England
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Jack@jackarking20 May 2022
ENYS MEN: by far the best in show thusfar. It’s giving the creeping psycho-bio terror of REPULSION, the zany isolation of THE LIGHTHOUSE, the folksy weird-outs of WICKER MAN. So refreshing to have a new British filmmaker with a daring, maximalist visual perspective.
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Mark Kermode@KermodeMovie20 May 2022
Enys Men by @Mark_Jenkin really is head-spinning fare - The Haunting of Hill House reimagined by the ghost of Nic Roeg as a Stone-Taped island of lost souls; past,present&future interwined in crisscrossing temporal/cinematic Cornish mineshafts. Oh and @WoodvineMary is brilliant.
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My review of Enys Men (dir. Mark Jenkin) is up here: theguardian.com/film/2022/ma… #Cannes #Cannes75 #Cannes2022
Enys Men review – a supremely disquieting study of solitude

Enys Men review – a supremely disquieting study of solitude

Bait director Mark Jenkin delivers another eerie prose-poem of a film, about an isolated woman lost inside her own mind

theguardian.com
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