John Bull
@garius.bsky.social
He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
My Fantasy Premier League draft night is complete. 8 player league this year. I got first pick. Which is always a blessing and a curse. Still, I'm pretty happy with my squad. Especially the attacking line.
Just finished prepping my talk for the @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social annual conference on September 5th. Looking forward to introducing the audience to some animal history frameworks, Gallipoli makes a fascinating case study on the value of animal studies to military historians.
In Dec 2024, Mazraoui refused to use a Man Utd jacket with support to the LGBT cause because it was against his religion. Today, Man Utd has announced a partnership with a betting company & yes, he was seen wearing a shirt with the sponsor on it So just a raging homophobe hiding behind religion
Mazraoui recusou-se e jogadores do United não usaram casaco de apoio à causa LGBT
Campanha da Premier League envolta em polémica
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The latest GW Book Club is live and this time me & @miniaturerealms.bsky.social are talking about the 5th edition Warhammer Armies: Realm of Chaos book! #WarhammerCommunity #GWBookClub youtu.be/NjMT7VzH8fA
Revisiting Warhammer Armies: Realm of Chaos | GW Book Club
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imagine being this proud of the FIFA Club World Cup. lads it's not even as special as the FIFA Peace Prize. There's the Premier League trophy down the road.
You never know how being a kind, supportive person will affect the world. Go out there and help create the world you want to live in. Every little bit helps however it's done. What a lovely story.
small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1
I mean, adjusted for inflation a plane ticket from New York to London in 1980 would cost about $4,500 dollars today. It's not that air travel has got worse. It's democratised. If you pay the 'old' price in modern money you basically get the same, if not better, experience than you did then.
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
London friends, this gorgeous foster kitten and her adorable sister are looking for a home to establish their feline overlords lair. Contact @soapachu.bsky.social for details. And pls share prolifically!! @richd028.bsky.social @snig.bsky.social @katebevan.com @garius.bsky.social
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Squid Ink is a lovey guy & could really use your help. This 3-year-old sweetie is having a hard time healing after a collar got stuck under his arm & became embedded there — ouch! Please sign up to foster this gentle grandpa, or donate to PAWS' Medical Relief Fund while gifts are being matched 🩷
Operation Smolla Paula is go!!! Thank you, you heroes ❤️
Currently at 69% of our target (nice) -- we really need to book Mango & the wonky kittens in for scans & treatment ASAP. So here's our promise: if we hit the goal by the end of the week, we will keep wobbly dwarf kitten Chessie and name her Smolla Paula www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
I am not that old. In the early years of my career before i comprehensively put my foot down i would regularly find books in my work mailbox with notes from male colleagues instructing me to copy this chapter or that for them
Because admin staff were mostly women, female academics were considered equivalent. There to perform service, not to undertake intellectual work. Of course it was more complex than this, but that's the broad picture. #AcademicSky
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
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Proud to have contributed to this excellent and now award-winning collection!
Had some wonderful news yesterday - the WW1 Historical Association awarded Framing the First World War the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize for 2025! Very grateful to our wonderful contributors and their hard work, series editor Bill Allison and the team at @univpressofkansas.bsky.social -
Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...
Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700)
Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...
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Am having a little fun on my various socials during August with some #OTD posts focusing on who was doing what, where, and with whom during the first months filming of Some Like It Hot #NobodysPerfectProject
So lets start the dive into #OTD for Some Like It Hot on the 4th August 1958 - the first official day of filming. This work order (preserved in the Margaret Herrick Library) is from MGM where Ashton Productions - Billy Wilder and Iz Diamond's company - had rented space on their famous Lot 2.
sidenote: if you want my thoughts on Stevenage in general, as both a historian and someone who grew up there, then @grindrod.bsky.social was kind enough to invite me on his podcast a while back. we talked about how the town represents a future that never-quite-was. youtu.be/cpK86DUOxNo?...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Stevenage with Gareth Edwards
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small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1
absolute truth. there being One Brief Moment where your shitty little town felt cool was a right of passage.
Was just thinking that kids these days don't appreciate a) the excitement of learning that nerd shops actually exist and b) the fact that they inevitably closed down within two years and broke your heart.
small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1
tell me about your town’s weird mall
Anyone near St Luke's Church, at Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire? Wall tablet there to an RN officer I'm interested in. The text is on the Maritime Monuments Database, which is great, but without a photo of the tablet. Have emailed the Haslar society, but just in case... #MaritimeHistory
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)