Why are English TV series such as Midsomer Murders so popular in the UK – and beyond? What sets the Midsomer atmosphere apart from Poirot, Marple & Co.? My half-hour read explores this in an essay-like way. #SkyStorians #AcademicSky #🗃️

Why are English TV series such as Midsomer Murders so popular in the UK – and beyond? What sets the Midsomer atmosphere apart from Poirot, Marple & Co.? My half-hour read explores this in an essay-like way. #SkyStorians #AcademicSky #🗃️

🍰🔪 Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift – my impressions of the first performance of the stage adaptation, written and directed by Guy Unsworth at the beautiful Richmond Theatre. - 1/2

After I've not been around for a while, there's a link I'd like to drop. Not only am I writing a book about Midsomer Murders / Inspector Barnaby, but I also saw the stage adaptation of Graham's first Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift.

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.

Me on Sunday: Okay, Petra, the book manuscript is now really finished. Anything else would just water down the essence. Collegue (in a completely different context) on Monday: I recently read that this and that. I didn't know that at all. ... Well, neither did I, but it's very relevant to the book.

My first go at pulling together all the Midsomer Murders actors who are actually related! I’m sure there are still a few missing, but I’ll be adding more over the next few days. ➡️ midsomermurdershistory.org/real-life-re... #MidsomerMurders #InspectorBarnaby

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.

☑️ Mandatory lunar eclipse photo

Oh, it's already been two and a half months since I met Annette Badland. It was so amazing. And when she walked past me in the hotel corridor on her way to her room, I wished her “good night” and she replied “good night, darling”... 🥹❤️

Why are unpleasant emails so unpleasant? And why do I see emails as unpleasant when I'm just doing self-care? 🫠

In June 1826, 9 travellers with English-sounding names signed the guestbook in Klopp Castle at Bingen on the Rhine. However, I have only been able to identify 3 of them. The others either did not provide their forenames or gave no titles, making identification difficult. So how to identifying them?🧵

Friday. I've started researching the names (not too deep for the sake of numbers). And I'm already racking my brain. What do I do with all the ones I can't identify? I'll make a new thread for that. Maybe one of my followers who are researching Britain's Romantic Period will have an idea?

My first appointment tonight 🥄

My spring tradition: When it's 20 degrees outside for the first time (and I'm at home), I drink a glass of rum in the garden. This year: Don Papa Baroko. Cheers!

Envious of all the people from Teesside because they have the best English accent without having to learn it.

I thought it'd be interesting to see all Brits who signed the guest book at Klopp Castle in Bingen on the Rhine between 1826 and 1914, to see which honours and celebrities were there. Well… got. more than 2000 names, and I've already deleted the duplicates and entries with illegible surnames. 😵‍💫 🗃️

What I wanted to do: read a bit and do some freelance work. What I did: added a pillar page with texts & links to my website, designed the homepage with a new theme, lost my nerve several times because I couldn't find small errors in the Wordpress customiser, then finally found them and fixed them.

It's official, I have hay fever. Birch and house dust are my nemeses. (But the latter is not quite as bad.) Maybe my diagnosis of "chronic rhinitis" seven years ago was really hay fever?

Just read the programme for Midsummer in Midsomer 🙌. It's going to be so great. Look forward to lots of photos of film locations and plenty of food and drink.

I just realised that the actress who played Frances Le Bon in Midsomer Murders' Ring Out Your Dead is known for a quite famous role in a Monty Python movie.

"And so it is hardly surprising that the 1886 Laws of the Game are almost identical to the 1885 FA Rules. The big exception: the throw-in (in the form still used today) is Scottish! However, the Scottish offside rule was not included in the LoG."

The player escort kids at #InterPSV 🫶🤟

Oh wow, my UK ETA application has just been approved in less than a minute (Sunday evening!). The confirmation email I received a few seconds earlier said it would take an average of three working days. Well, I take that as a very good sign for #MiM25.

📖 - Carter, Laura: Rethinking folk culture in twentieth-century Britain, in: 20th Century British History, 28 (2017), pp. 543-69. www.semanticscholar.org/reader/22f13... #20s30s 🗃️

📖 Forrest, Mary: Land allotment scheme in Cork City 1917–1923, in: Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society 124 (2019), pp. 29–46. researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api/c... #20s30s 🗃️

I know that referee announcements are currently being tested in football (m) in Germany (1st and 2nd Bundesliga, German Cup) and England (Carabao Cup). Are there any other tests in this second half of the season? I've already tried to search online, but the results are very location-biased.

Now it's time to get through all the texts I've saved, as well as the podcasts I haven't listened to yet. 💪

☑️ Milestone. You can't believe how relieved I am. Over the last few weeks, I've thought several times that I'll reach the milestone when I've done X after all. But then I realised that there were other related tasks that needed to be completed. Now all the tasks are done and there are no more left.

5 March 1888 | A German Jew, Eugen Salomon, was born in Wörrstadt. His family moved to Mainz, where he became one of the founders and chairman of today’s football club FSV Mainz 05 at the age of only 17.

The sun's out, the birds are singing, and it's day 3 of our podcast trailer existing in the world. Listen now below, or search Absolute Units wherever you get your podcast. Gosh you have no idea how long we've been waiting to say that. linktr.ee/the.merl

#SportsHistory #FootballHistory This is the 1965/66 West German Regional League Cup, but who is the creator of this curious trophy? Does anyone know or know where to look it up?

Well, at least it's a high-scoring game. #ManUnited

My cat has a bruised hip. She's been on painkillers since Thursday and has been jumping up and down on the sofa without a problem. Until tonight when she got into a fight with another cat. Now she is limping again and can only pull herself up on the sofa (but is otherwise behaving quite normally).

POV this morning #BTW25 #GermanElection

Famous quotes: „Who ARE you?“ „I‘m an archaeologist from the future. I dug you up.“

I've been on the fence about buying a used scientific book It was published over 50 years ago, but it's still quite expensive even as a second-hand book. Now I've now found one that's not too expensive. It's not in the right price range, but ... I finally bought it.

Some call it "purgatory" („Fegefeuer“), because shortly before death you are made aware of what you have done - and have not.

Sometimes I ask myself why I position myself politically in public. 😩 Oh, right..... Football is political. And: #NieWieder!

Only a few minutes played and already a big Palestinian flag is flying in the Celtic FC stadium. 🙄 🤦‍♀️ I’m really looking forward to seeing how the Schickeria will react at the second leg. (And the fact that Celtic has several anti-Semitic fans has been obvious and audible for years). #CELBAY

Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

#SportsHistory - Franziska Kaiser studied history and sports science, and her master's thesis was on how sports clubs and club cultures developed and behaved in 1920s' and 1930s' Germany. 🗃️ (Find the translation of her quote in my attached post, and the link to the podcast in the shared thread.)

Hier ist der Link, aber am besten abonniert ihr in eurem Podcatcher den Podcast, denn er ist gut und wichtig.

Letzte Woche hat Franziska Kaiser einen Vortrag über ihre Masterarbeit geschrieben (als ich danach auf der von @wortpiratin.de moderierten Podiumsdiskussion war), nun könnt auch ihr sie direkt im „Flutlicht An!“-Podcast hören.

So, as part of #OnePlaceWednesday, here's a quick look at the history of Chenies Manor in Buckinghamshire. This place has been used as a film set a bunch of times, including in #MidsomerMurders and #InspectorBarnaby.

I'm deep in a rabbit hole of Englishness. Rural idyll, countryside, landscape, green and pleasant land, the interwar concepts taken up by Thatcher, Bright Young People,... It's probably familiar and hackneyed to Brits, but I'm having one aha moment after another.

#KeytermsOfPublicHistory 1/ 13 So, I promised a sneak peak into the terms we've discussed in our book and we start with We start this series with one of the most colourful, dazzling (and sometimes hard to pronounce) words: #Authenticity! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...