"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
Lloyd Bowen
@lloydbowen.bsky.social
Early modern historian of Wales and Britain (esp. British Civil Wars) at Cardiff University. Also work on petitioning, duelling, political cultures. Edward Vaughan book free to download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-trials-of-edward-vaughan/
Absolute heraldic overload in the Dome Church of Tallinn. Tiny sample of the heraldic funeral coats of arms in this magnificent cathedral #skystorians #heraldicbling #lookatmyblazon
This is a wild piece of political trivia from the BBC about Burnham’s wife that I am shocked @popbitch.bsky.social hasn’t clocked yet…
Still haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Thomas Cromwell.
Every nonfiction book is called like Republic of Cheese: How Gouda Saved Democracy and Created the Modern World
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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🧵Bittersweet in the bonfire of UKHE, and some personal disappointment from my Uni, but receiving recognition from my peers is the most incredible honor, and I'm lucky in so many ways. A huge thank you to the Social History Society for awarding me the book prize. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/30...
Cardiff University historian receives award and multiple nominations
Dr David Stefan Doddington has won the Social History Society’s (SHS) Book Prize 2026.
cardiff.ac.uk
Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron
Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
People say that academics spend an inordinate amount of time exploring niche research questions, but this is unfair. We also make exaggerated claims about the significance of these questions
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time
Madonna of Milk Enthroned with Child, by Jean Fouquet, 1452-55 (flipped)
Show him a book so seemingly relevant to his project that he orders it on interlibrary loan. Now make it completely useless
Prince William and Kate celebrating Aston Villa’s Europa League triumph.
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
"Reform's manifesto for the Senedd election says the party will tell museums how to display history if it wins, saying they will present events in chronological order and "in context"." So, History Reclaimed but in government. History without rigour, compassion, or reflection. #skystorians
Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.
bbc.co.uk
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
@branchuk.bsky.social announces a search for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History @anchistjournal.bsky.social. Apps to include c.v. and a 1-2 page cover letter, sent to ANCH co-editor, and incoming BrANCH Chair, David Doddington (doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk) by 01.05.26. Pls share!
Well this took a turn www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
