Jennifer Wallis-Bernard

@harbottlestores.bsky.social

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Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass

One of three images, all showing variations on the same thing: close-up photo of book pages that include pixellated copies of a reader's annotations.
Photo of a hand holding a hardback book entitled Babylon: Surreal Babies. The colour cover image is a surreal image of lots of babies bubbling over from inside a cauldron.
Image shows the cover of the Underworld album, Barbara, Barbara, we have a shining future. The cover is grey and depicts a woman's face behind glass. The glass is covered with smears so that her image appears blurred.
Image of an album cover with a black background and stylized wood-like illustration of a little girl in a broomstick; below her is a small boy and a cat sits in the broomstick. The album title is Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word 2.
Photograph of two large collages on black frames. The collages are mostly black and white images and text from vintage magazines and newspapers.
Still from the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too, showing two girls and a man stood outside some houses on an estate.
Photo of two vintage Penguin paperbacks on a table: Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford and The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen.
Photo of an ad in a magazine. The header, in white text against a dark image of a sofa and some curtains, reads "Don't let your curtains kill you".
A photo of the book titled The Mini ADHD Coach by Alice Gendron.
Black and white and red advert advertising a closing down sale of up to 70% off at peripheralminimal.com.
Photo of a black cat laid on the floor on top of a large sheet of paper, which contains writing in black marker pen. The writing is bullet pointed suggestions and comments such as "less prep time in Term 2".
Photo of a hand holding a paperback book: Vera by Elizabeth von Armin. The cover is dark and depicts a woman in Edwardian dress silhouetted against a high window, with long drapes and patterned wallpaper at each side of her. The background of the photo is a garden, blurred.
Photo of a paperback book titled The Expert Dreamers: Science Fiction Stories by Scientists, edited by Frederik Pohl.
Photo of a hardback book on a desk, called The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock. The cover is black, white, and red, with a half portrait image of William Sargant looking directly at the viewer.
Photo of a zine on a sofa, with a black and white cat sat next to it and looking just off camera.
Photo of a garden deck and a table with a laptop on it. A black cat is sat on the table in front of the laptop and a black and white cat is standing on the floor.
Photo of a pink covered notebook containing handwritten notes. In the background is a laptop on an outside table, and a garden chair. We can see the lines of the garden behind in blurry focus.
Photo of a desktop covered in post it notes and a pen, with a hardback copy of Curt Siodmak's book Donovan's Brain taking up the main part of the image.
Screenshot of an email from academia.edu, saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper." There is a link underneath encouraging me to click through to this podcast, made out of a book review for the Reviews in History site.
Screenshot of a Scrabble app with the letters available to use being M, U, R, R, A, blank, and M.
Still from Ghost World in which two girls are sat at a table in a diner looking bored as a third girl, very emotive, stands and talks to them.
An exhibition poster depicting a stylized gallery wall covered in leaf design wallpaper, with four gold frames mounted on it. The frames contain a collage of a heart inside a book, an embroidered piece of a cage covered in flowers, a black and white photograph of a woman in old-fashioned dress holding up a transparency of an anatomical woman figure, and the bottom half of a poster about syphilis in the army. The text reads: "ReView. 7 to 22 May. Blyth Gallery, Level 5 Sherfield Building [Imperial South Kensington campus]. An exhibition of artwork by students on the BSc Medical Sciences with Humanities, Philosophy and Law."
Photo of a table top covered with vintage tins and medical equipment.
Photo of a hamd holding a paperback book with an abstract blue and yellow cover, The Night of the Puudly by Clifford Simak.
Photo of a desk with a pile of books on it, a glass of vitamin C orange water, a coffee cup, and an open A4 notebook with a blank page. A pen is resting on the middle of the page.
Photo of a book lying on top of a yellow corduroy cushion. The book is titled Time and Alcohol: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere! and is edited by Peter J. Howland. The cover is plain with the title etc. on a white band in the middle and the rest of the cover is a green colour.
Photo of a silver circular medal on a desktop. There are laurel leaves embossed around the edge of the medal and in the middle text reads 'National Temperance League Military Branch 1860'. The medal is attached to a short length of brown and blue striped ribbon, with another small 'medal' pinned to it noting that the wearer has been temperate for Two Years.
Photo of a display screen in a classroom showing the title slide of a Powerpoint presentation: Psychoanalysis and the Patient Voice. The image on the slide is of a couch covered with a terracotta patterned throw, which is the couch exhibited in London's Freud Museum.
Photo of a black cat wearing a bright pink collar, sat on the end of a wooden sideboard and looking straight into the camera. Next to the cat on the sideboard is a record player and a pile of books. In the background is red standing lamp in front of a window.
Photo of a black cat sat on top of an open book, looking into the camera.
Photo of a black and white cat curled up asleep on a yellow and grey bedspread. The cat looks very contented.
Photo of a black cat laid on its back on a duvet. A human hand is on the cat's tummy and the cat's front paws are wrapped around it. The cat has an unflattering expression.
Photo of 4 leaflets arranged on a garden bench. The titles of the leaflets are 1. Murder in the Garden: A Botanical Mystery Tour 2. A Guide to Myths and Legends in the Chelsea Physic Garden 3. Heroes & Villains 4. Petals & Prose: Literary Tales from Chelsea Physic Garden.
Screenshot from the abovethelore website, showing one of their products which is a light grey t shirt for women with the logo/title (in white) of Nigel Kneale's Beasts series on the front in white. The woman is standing on a beach and looking away from the camera. Underneath the image is a product description.
Photo of 2 DVD covers still in their wrapping: The Outsider TV series set and Hardcore starring George C. Scott.
Photo of a paperback Penguin book, The Whisperers by Robert Nicolson. The cover is black with yellow lettering and the central black and white photo image is an elderly woman peering though a gap in a door.
Screenshot from Fawlty Towers of Sybil Fawlty sat in bed wearing a bed jacket and curlers, holding a cigarette, and talking on the phone.
Film still from a black and white fil., The Whisperers. The still shows an elderly woman in the right of the frame, looking suspiciously to one side. She wears a nightgown and dressing gown and has a piece of bread in one hand.
Photo of a black cat laid on its back on top of a duvet cover. The cat has its front paws held forward and is glaring at the camera.
Photo of an open metal box filled with small blue cards that each contain 2 identical photographs, to be viewed via a stereoscope. Also in the box is a book, The Human Shutter by Robert L. Bowen.
Photograph of items on a white tabletop: a yellow box of Polaroid film, a blue box containing a new model Polaroid camera, a black Instax camera, and a green box containing a DIY Instant Digital Camera for children. In front of the boxes in a messy pile is a selection of old photographs, including 1960s passport photographs and Victorian photographs mounted on thick card.
Photo of a black cat standing on top of a wooden sideboard, and directly in front of a TV. The large face on the TV seems to be looking directly at the cat.
Screenshot of a website page displaying the cost of a hardback copy of a book: £2,499.99.
Photo of a hand holding a keyring: it is a light blue plastic globe filled with blue glitter and water and a tiny toy version of the Sanrio character Cinnamoroll.
Photograph of a light green coloured plastic instant camera laid on a table, next to a photo it has printed. The photo is on a rectangular strip of white paper and is printed in black and white: it shows a black cat looking away from the camera.
Photograph of a black cat sat in a grey cat bed, in front of a radiator. The cat is looking straight into the camera.
Photograph of a very contented black and white cat laid on a brown cushion. The cushion sits on a leather topped desk. There is the corner of a keyboard visible, and a forearm holding a mouse. The cat is resting his head on the hand.
Photograph of an almost empty glass bottle of Courvoisier, on a pavement.