The mysteries of tidying: found some old football tickets belonging to @t-daley.bsky.social in the bathroom
Vanda Wilcox
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
There’s nothing like waiting 161 years to leave a bad review
Proud to have contributed to this excellent and now award-winning collection!
David Morgan-Owen@dmorganowen.bsky.social · 17h agoHad 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 -
Spent 90 minutes on the phone with my husband this morning and neither of us remembered it's our wedding anniversary 🤣🤣 Managing a big international move is inherently antithetical to romance
They don't build library systems like this anymore: inside the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris in 1938, a librarian stands next to a pneumatic tube, holding a reader's call slip requesting access to printed materials (Jacques Boyer/Roger-Viollet) 🗃️
Our time in Milan is coming to an end and the husband has written a lovely goodbye to it 💔 When I moved here I thought nowhere could ever replace Rome in my heart, and it hasn't - but I've enjoyed it so much more than I ever expected. And I fear my daughter is a mini sciura-in-waiting
Terry, Daley @t-daley.bsky.social · 4d agoToday's the day that I leave, after five fantastic years, our wonderful home in Milan and return to Paris. I might never l live in Italy again so after 15 years there in total I hope you can forgive me for feeling emotional enough for a photo dump and memories of the best job I've ever had
Irresistible purchase 😍😍 in Paris we will drink caffè alpino
At the storage annex of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Versailles, loading up a van with works* requested by readers in the library on the rue de Richelieu in Paris in 1938 (Jacques Boyer; Roger-Viollet) *Just look at that basket – there's definitely at least one person hidden in there 🗃️
5 anni a Milano! 2021-2026, arrival /departure photos with two icons of milanesità (Esselunga & the San Siro) off back to Paris again next week alas (I don't expect much sympathy, to be clear)
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Fun with multi-lingual children: Aged about 6, kiddo produced a little rhyme in French to express that something was really simple: 'Facile fastoche, mains dans les poches!' Oh, I asked, what's that? She replied: it's the French for Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
FIFA so cartoonishly evil that they've managed to make UEFA into good guys
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
Moon shots. 1. The "Elk Moon" rises behind San Sebastiano church, Italy - 📷Marco Bertorello 2. The Buck Moon raises behind a transmission tower in Switzerland - 📷 Fabrice Coffrini 3. The moon rises behind Fanar Mosque in Doha - 📷 Karim Jaafar 4. The moon rises above Warsaw, Poland - 📷 Sergei Gapon
Time to say goodbye to this creative work of genius by @juliarsct.bsky.social dating back to Christmas 2020
Spent a few hours clearing out kiddo's bedroom preparatory to the move This basically means saying oh my god what the fuck is this over and over again while throwing away hundreds of euros of broken stuff you were once implored to buy
It's not guns that kill but their bullets... www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026...
The lethal history of the dum-dum bullet – University of Auckland
How a particular bullet came to cause a moral panic, be banned, but still remain in wide use around the world is the focus of a new book by Maartje Abbenhuis.
auckland.ac.nz
My dept is about to be reduced to 3 people covering 3 separate disciplines. The 25 PhD students will be left bereft of adequate supervision numerically and in terms of expertise. The government has decided that they should have no recourse (music to my university’s ears).
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago'Read it on a substantial train delay – alongside the promises made to students when the Office for Students (OfS) was created – it is something much worse. It is the formal expiry of the deal that was supposed to make marketisation safe for the people paying for it.' 2/2
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Managed to restrain my intense desire to sew kiddo's baptism dress for this weekend (really, really not practical with an international house move) but am making a hair ornament and trimmings for her dress from leftover scraps of silk organza from my wedding dress back in 2013
I can see the impact of these ardent enthusiasts in my latest royalty payment, wow!
Vanda Wilcox@vandawilcox.bsky.social · 2w agoExcited to have received my first book-club spam email promising that readers are keen to learn more about the imperial and colonial aspects of Italy in the First World War! I feel like a real author now 😍🤣
Excited to have received my first book-club spam email promising that readers are keen to learn more about the imperial and colonial aspects of Italy in the First World War! I feel like a real author now 😍🤣
Ok this article is, like, textbook antisemitism. We see that, right? They’re quantifying a person’s Jewishness based on how enthusiastic his support for Israel’s policies are.
The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · 2w agoSo just how Jewish is Ed Miliband? www.thejc.com/news/politic...
L'Odissea è la storia di uno che inventa un sacco di balle alla moglie sul perché è tornato a casa così tardi, nella speranza che lei, rapita dal racconto, dimentichi che lui è andato a Troia. #Odissea #riassunticinici
Spain became the first nation to hold both the men's and the women's World Cup at the same time!
Mary Bennet reportedly told to "let the other acts have time to exhibit" as she was escorted off the stage at the World Cup halftime show.