Christina J Faraday

I wrote for Apollo Magazine on Hilary Mantel's references to Tudor art in her Cromwell trilogy, the final volume of which 'The Mirror and...

From October 2020 I will be a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Over the four years of the Fellowship I will aim...

My piece on Jeremiah 4 for the online 'Visual Commentary on Scripture' is now online. I wrote about climate change, internal conflict,...

I'm delighted that my ghost story 'The Advent Visitor' has been published in Ghosts & Scholars Magazine no. 38. The story features a...

Last week I visited Hever Castle to see the unveiling of their newest acquisition, a late sixteenth- century portrait of Richard III....

On 18th July the New Generation Thinkers visited Parliament for a reception hosted by Ed Vaizey MP. We each had 60 seconds to speak about...

On 11th July my 'Postcard' for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking was broadcast. I was speaking about the amazing pop-up anatomy prints created by...

The programme launching the 10 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers for 2019 was broadcast on 25th April 2019; if you missed it, it can be...

I spoke at the conference Hilliard and Oliver in Context at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 28th-29th March 2019. I gave the paper...

I am delighted to have been chosen as an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker for 2019. To find out more about the scheme and read about the...

I talked about portrait miniatures with Shahidha Bari on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking 'The Joy of Sewing, Poet Fatimah Asghar and Painting...

The exhibition Elizabethan Treasures: Portrait Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver, is open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from...

I am honoured to be a Founding Expert for PlaceCloud App, a beautiful new app for geolocated podcasts known as PlaceCasts, or...

My article 'Tudor time machines: Clocks and Watches in English Portraits c.1530-c.1630' forthcoming in Renaissance Studies is out now in...