Turns out that 20 minutes on the Tube then walking across London and sitting under lights means ... that I sweated right through my jumper when filming this. Ah, dignity ...

"This is virtue signalling!!!" they cry. Isn't this what they're supposed to do? It's a fucking church ... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund

Some of Britain’s wealthiest financiers, including Sir Paul Marshall, have given a platform to critical coverage or are linked to its leading opponent

theguardian.com

The bots have found this on Twitter/X. But it remains very hard to think of a more stupid thing to say about Britain’s relationship with slavery.

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History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 4w ago

David Olusoga's new series Finding Britain's Slave Traders airs tonight at 9pm. In anticipation, we are resharing an article from Dr Michael Taylor on the West India Interest, the pro-slavery lobby in Parliament, where many members had a vested interest in the continuation of slavery.

Trapped. Send help.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the best way to lift a bad mood is to listen to REM’s early albums

You know it’s September when it’s simultaneously the end of the cricket season and of Manchester United’s chances for silverware

Nothing in writing is more certain than signing off on the proofs then seeing a colossally stupid mistake the first time you pick up a physical copy of the book

Last match of the season at the weekend. This may not have been my first beer.

Unsurprisingly, using AI does not make us smarter!

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here’s the study — and the introductory abstract papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Currently reading a book that is so badly written that I think I am forgetting how to read

As I have said on the other place: - instructing Carter-Ruck is never, ever a good sign; - just because the people making the allegations of plagiarism are obnoxious, it doesn’t mean they are wrong

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 3mo ago

After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.

I am not terribly active here, but if you have recently seen me posting enthusiastically about dodgy gambling websites, crypto, Trump, and what appears to be erotic fan fiction ... I was hacked 😂

The current cover art for the US edition of the coming book. I think I like the chaos.

Finalising the plate section of the book and I am including images of both the execution of Louis XVI and Beyoncé’s performance at the Super Bowl, which seems about right …

The very worst part of writing any book is getting permissions for plate images, and I will not hear any dissent on the matter

6 years, 6 books (sort of) = very tired me

Well, hello there

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A large cat surveys her domain #caturday

Hi, @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social ... I've just finished writing a history of the Illuminati and the conspiracy theories that came afterwards, and much enjoyed your episode on the topic ... if either of you would be interested in reading a copy, could you let me know?

Any really good repositories of historical maps that anyone could recommend?

Chris has brightened my day enormously by revealing that Nigel Biggar, of Uncritical Colonialism fame, seems to have been awarded a well-deserved third in his undergraduate History degree.

Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Times on Saturday 31st July 1976, printed that year's Oxford Modern History class list on p. 14. Is it the man himself or someone else w. the same surname? Well, the other details--initials, school, college, & degree subject--match up with what's reported on his Wiki page, so I think it's him.

The "Britain spent 1.8% of GDP on suppressing slavery" claim is mostly nonsense Even the academic article which first made the claim - which *cites itself* and provides no other evidence - states that the actual cost was only 0.14% The remainder? Estimated opportunity costs

There is something dreadfully dystopian about all of this

Richard Ovenden@richove.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

Third lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on the New Psychology and ideas of the self. (1/2)

The James Ford Lectures in British History

The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

history.ox.ac.uk

Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Second lecture now available online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on how people learned the language of social science and how we historians learn what they learned. (1/2)

Came close a while back to writing a book about the “nearly men” of professional sport - the guys who worked away but didn’t quite make it, and had little to show for it. This is much better than anything I’d have written.

Every night. Well, every time I dream. Same tooth every time, the one that got mangled playing cricket in Delhi. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?

Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences

theguardian.com

Impressive guy guarding National Museums Kenya