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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-13

Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) Register at link below. 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช ๐Ÿ—ƒ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-04

I talked with @bethbarany.bsky.social about how curating an exhibition got me into monsters; on what makes a good #SFF monster; #StarTrekโ€™s Borg Collective; and lessons from Monsters, Inc. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #histsci #politics #HAMH writersfunzone.com/blog/2025/11...

Podcast icon in mauve, with dark lettering: How to Write the Future: Tips for fiction writers. With Beth Barany.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-10-31

Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช ๐Ÿ—ƒ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-10-29

Halloween special on the @prospectmagazine.co.uk #podcast! I chatted with editors @aloner.bsky.social & @ellenhalliday.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, and "monstrification": 1/n ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #politics #monsters #monstertober #spookyseason #HAMH

Halloween special: Surekha Dav...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-10-27

Delighted that HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY was featured in @neilmackay.bsky.social's Long Read column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to chat with Neil. 1/2 #monsters #politics #sociology #psychology #folklore ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-10-25

Natalie Lawrence (ENCHANTED CREATURES) and I (HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY) were interviewed by @kensycoop.bsky.social on the @manymindspod.bsky.social #podcast! Some monster-making egs we explored: 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ—ƒ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology #HAMH ๐Ÿงต

Monsters and their makers - DI...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-09-13

I spoke with screenwriter and novelist @colehaddon.bsky.social about the links between politics and pop culture, the entangled history of humans and monsters, and (in a second episode) an iconic double episode of #StarTrek #TNG. 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH ๐Ÿงต

Square podcast logo: blue background, yellow, neon-light-style unfilled letters, โ€œ5AMโ€, across the top, with StoryTalk in white just below; bottom half of logo is a black mug with steam rising from it.Screenshot from a newsletter page titled โ€œ5AM StoryTalk.โ€ Three-quarter-angled headshot of a woman with dark hair, smiling, and a headshot of Sir Patrick Stewart as Locutus of Borg: deathly pale, almost greenish skin, and a prosthetic across the right-hand side of his face with a glowing red light in the middle. Text beneath: Bonus episode: Surekha Davies talks Star Trek: TNGโ€™s โ€œThe Best of Both Worlds.โ€ Subtitle: The historian and โ€œHumans: A Monstrous Historyโ€ author discusses a seminal piece of art from her life โ€“ two of the greatest โ€œStar Trekโ€ episodesโ€ฆ
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-09-09

"It's up to us whether to worry about whether we're monsters or to celebrate uniqueness. And in the monster there is beauty." I got to chat with host Alexis Pedrick in the studio for the Distillations podcast at @sciencehistory.org. Listen now: ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH

Humans and Monsters: An Interv...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-09-06

ICYMI: Book talks from @histfest.bsky.social at @britishlibrary.bsky.social are on the British Library's YouTube channel! Here's the link to my conversation with @k8lister.bsky.social about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #politics #HAMH

HistFest: Humans: A Monstrous ...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-18

Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor. For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest

Three women on a stage. Left to right, they are wearing: a red and patterned trouser; suit and cream sandals; a pale shirt and trousers, bright red shoes, and a black face mask; black top, white robe, and black and white patterened skirt, boots, and a headwrap. In the background is a pale purple screen with โ€œEdinburgh International Book Festivalโ€ on the right, and the corner of a printed pamphlet and part of the auto-captioning visible at the top left.Two women (one in pale shirt, other in red and patterned trouser suit), one masked, in front of a blue screen. Projected on screen is a medieval world map and a zoomed-in detail of said map, partly overlaying the map.Dark-haired woman in a black face mask is engrossed in signing a pile of copies of a bright red book with a silvery mirror and black frame, entitled โ€œHumans: A Monstrous History.โ€ She sits at a desk covered in a black cloth. On the left is a brass-coloured desk lamp with a triangular shade.Dark-haired woman in a black face mask looks up quizzically while signing a pile of copies of โ€œHumans: A Monstrous History.โ€ She sits at a desk covered in a black cloth. On the left is a brass-coloured desk lamp with a triangular shade.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-14

It was a pleasure to chat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on Not Just The Tudors about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a history of the idea of "human" from antiquity to the present. ๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH podfollow.com/not-just-the...

Not Just the Tudors

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-09

Time for another ๐Ÿงต on #monsters in British history and culture! And if youโ€™re anywhere near #Edinburgh, come over to the #EdBookFest on Friday 15 Aug, 1:30-2:30pm, to chat with me and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! 1/๐Ÿงต Today: an eg of #Shakespeareโ€™s #monsters #earlymodern #politics #HAMH ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ

A humanlike figure viewed from behind wears a skin and looks over his shoulder. The caption, in an angular, jazz-age-like font, reads, โ€œCaliban Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.โ€
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-06

Looking ahead to my#EdBookFest appearance in #Edinburgh next Friday with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social, letโ€™s spend a few days examining monsters, and monster-making in British history! 1/๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #gender #histsci #histmed #climate #politics #HAMH www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-04

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social is six months old today! But what exactly is a monster, and why does it matter? Image: me at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for a book convo event with @mkn.bsky.social! 1/๐Ÿงต ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ๐Ÿงช #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #SFF #monsters #politics #HAMH

Woman in a dark trouser suit and blue collared shirt stands at the bottom of a staircase and gestures excitedly at a bookcase full of copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a red book with a dark oval mirror at the centre.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-29

I'll be LIVE on the Colin McEnroe show on @ctpublic.bsky.social, an eclectic culture, history, science, & books show, July 31 somewhen between 1-2pm ET, talking about, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! 1/ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

The Colin McEnroe Show

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-25

I was interviewed by @tespiteri.bsky.social for the @hpspodcast.bsky.social We talked about my boomerang-like relationship with #histsci & HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a sweeping history from earth to outer space. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ—ƒ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histmed #politics #HAMH #arthistory ๐Ÿงต/

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-19

Humans: A Monstrous History in the wild! Photos of the book with your pets / on holiday / in your #TBR pile welcome! Check the thread to learn what happens to the mirror in high humidity. We'll have to check what happens to it on Oct 31. If you use the #HAMH hashtag, we can find your book photos!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-18

ICYMI: "There are no monsters, and all of them are real." I spoke with @kawulf.bsky.social, director of the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Library, about, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. The recording: 1/2 ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #monsters #politics #HAMH www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDch...

Screenshot of a YouTube channel showing a black PowerPoint screen with six vivid images on it. Top-left to bottom right: a painting eight figures, most of them of African descent, posing on three levels; painting of a girl with a hairy face holding up a sheet of paper; a museum shot of an entryway with "bones and mummies" on it and a dinosaur image above it; a round, diagrammatic map, a print of a naked woman riding backwards on a hoofed mammal; and a print of a monster standing on its hind legs: vaguely humanoid, with a donkey's head. At the top right is the small icon of the speaker: a dark-haired woman wearing a blue and yellow top. Along the lower part of the screen: JCB Reads: Surekha Davies on Humans: A Monstrous History.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-05

My convo with @k8lister.bsky.social at @histfest.bsky.social is streamable. Check it out for the origin story of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, monster as โ€œcategory-breakerโ€, Beowulf, the Muppets, astrobiology, politics, and more! 1/2 ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH

HistFest: Humans: A Monstrous ...

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)drsurekhadavies.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-07-02

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is a @bookculture.com staff pick! 1/n The book is a history of humanity from antiquity to the present told through ideas about monsters and monster-making. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿงช ๐Ÿ—ƒ #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH www.bookculture.com/book/9780520...

Alt: Screenshot of a web homepage banner. Top-left, in a row: the University of California Press name and red logo followed by menu options. Main image: a bright, crimson-red background with a spiderwebby or cracked-mirror pattern in thin black lines. A white square on the left, with text: Humans: A Monstrous History. A History Through Monsters. A history of how humans have created monstersโ€ฆ and what these monsters tell us about humanities present and future. Learn more -> 1/3
On the right, a book cover design: an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, โ€œHUMANSโ€,curved around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and batsโ€™ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies.

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