Derek Johnston

Gone away to Blue Sky and Mastodon with the same handle (but generally using social media less)

#OnThisDay 1954: An adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first aired on BBC Television. It starred Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence and André Morell. Watch on BBC iPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… #bbcarchive #georgeorwell #nineteeneightyfour

Join myself, @drdjohnston and one half of @agothiccookbook for some Festive Gothic this evening (UK time) - DM the Gothica team on one of their socials for a link!

The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying. Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…

🚨🚨🚨The Kneale-Cartier adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, starring Peter Cushing and Yvonne Mitchell, is being repeated on BBC4 on Sun 17 November.🚨🚨🚨 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@Stevevolkwriter Last of the Summer Vodka

The runion that we really wanted.

Do you remember watching Play for Today when it was on TV in the 1970s or 1980s? If so, please get in touch (see email address in image) I'm *especially* wanting to hear from any viewers who lived in Northern Ireland, Northern England, the Midlands, or saw it outside the UK!

I hate wasps. So, I have to keep reminding myself that they aren’t just there to annoy us. "A loss of wasps… leads to reduced pollination, and without wasps our plants are more likely to be eaten by insect larvae otherwise controlled by wasps." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A reminder that after 50 years Harlan Ellison's THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS will debut October 2nd, so there's still time to pick up the original DANGEROUS VISIONS and AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISONS before this hits the stores.

+ COMPETITION + After a recent rummage in the archives we are giving away a bundle of rarities, sold out items, commissions, prototypes & promotional items. Follow, RT & Like to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. UK only. Summer sale is still on in the shop. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

We're hiring a new Curator of Printed Ephemera. We're not exaggerating when we say this is a dream job. The role manages one of the most important collections in the world. Candidates with a qualification in librarianship, archives, or similar, apply here: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/JohnJohnsonJob

EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Aislinn Clarke’s Locarno title Fréwaka from @Cineuropa cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/…

Congratulations to Broadcast Production award winners ✨ ⭐️ Anjool Malde Journalism Award - Louise Simms & Sarah Morrison ⭐️ @QUBelfast Foundation Scholarships - Arwen Fegan & Louise Simms 📸 with lecturers @mrfrankdelaney @elena_caoduro @drdjohnston @_johndarcy & Kurt Taroff

Huge congratulations @KajaFranck! We'd love a reviewer for this...

@accordingtoJonD Also similar to the titles of the 1951 The Thing From Another World.

STUDY OPPORTUNITIES From October 2024 I will be offering supervision for students to study with me online for an MA by Research in Literature on : #Vampire Literature and Culture or Literature and #Folklore One year full time or two years part-time

I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI. I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...

What a great conference!