it’s not quite october 3 but it is october 2. and you know what that means: we’re baaaaack open.spotify.com/episode/5Bsc...

it feels like there’s too much history happening. why is history trying to ruin studying history rn

Happy September 4 everyone - a day otherwise known as the Death and Friends Season 6 premiere if you’re a patron. The rest of you will have to wait until October 2… or, you know, join the patreon. Happy True Crime History, skeleton army!

lately i’ve been thinking about jessica mitford a lot. she was a journalist that went up against the KKK. she exposed the greed in the american funeral industry. she was a member of the communist party during the US red scare. but the reason she’s been on my mind is bc of her family ⬇️

11/10 reply, this is the standard we are holding the rest of you to

YESSSSS IT'S HERE!! thank you!! @itsnashflynn.bsky.social @deathandfriends.bsky.social Also I got so many stickers I'm gonna put them on every stop sign on campus!!!

wasn’t us, we sent the mummy (1998) fan fiction that nash wrote herself into

Which one of you sent us the entire script of the Bee Movie

if any of you wanted to let elon know what you worked on last week, the email is [email protected]. don’t flood that email with anything else, though! that would be really hard for us to sort through

humanity has always been made of dreamers. just like dr adolf gutsmuth who demonstrated his safety coffin in 1822, complete with a soup tube. just a bunch of beautiful dreamers who dreamed they were gonna be buried alive and while they were waiting to be saved they might get a lil craving for soup

learning disenfranchised and marginalised history is a powerful form of resistance. happy black history month, friends. let’s celebrate a little louder this year

as a history podcast, we would love to see less history happening out there. let us breathe for a few mins

Absolute banger @deathandfriends.bsky.social ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Old stories are difficult to understand, so you have to read lots of them

What I find myself drawn to is the big political economy questions: How does capitalism work? Where does power lie? Under what institutions has it worked better and worse (and for whom), and how were those institutions put into place?

But now we’re in a phase shift. The recent past won’t be particularly useful for understanding the near future. I’m not sure “policy” is even particularly useful to think about in the face of bigger political shifts – democratic erosion, corrupt and reactionary courts, rising influence of oligarchs.

happy new year, lovers. quick, quote this post and explain your current research badly we’ll start! a guy invents a new method of measuring people and uses it to catch a mysterious anarchist for some reason

On this lovely Monday eve, it feels like the perfect time to remind myself of the time I absolutely nailed Only Connect because — checks notes — I listen to @deathandfriends.bsky.social

putting @itsnashflynn.bsky.social and @guerrillajokes.bsky.social on blast for this

I feel like I need a "Jesus Christ, Nash" mug

@deathandfriends.bsky.social whoa you guys have fucking MERCH???? deathandfriends.gay/merch

LOL @itsnashflynn.bsky.social i just started listening to death and friends. Finished the werewolf episode. Awoo-uwu-uwu 🥺👉👈 I'm cracking up 🤣🤣🤣🤣

i will never, ever tire of hearing you guys talk about death and friends, it’s my favourite thing @guerrillajokes.bsky.social and i put so much work and energy into this little show and it’s always so awesome when you guys reach out to tell us you found it

Spotify decided not to tell me how much @deathandfriends.bsky.social I listened to this year. Probably for the best.

academics/history loving folks of bluesky: tell us your favourite fact or story from your field of study

this is why we don’t let nash write episodes alone anymore

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

Leonard “Live Forever” Jones. -Ran for president/congress on the “High Moral” ticket -Declared the deaths of Lincoln and Taylor to be “divine retribution” for taking his post. -Called food a “Moral Poison” -Believed by living poor and fasting, one could live forever -Died at age 71 in 1868

That the Ottonians, Carolingians, and Byzantines, all claimed to be the inheriters of Rome's power, and both the Carolingians and Ottonians used art and architecture in an attempt to discredit the Byzantines.

absolutely when gov carver and friends landed at plymouth in 1620, went onshore, unburied some native graves and stole some grave goods, and then had a fucking hell of a hard first winter

what’s your fav historical “oops, all consequences!” moment? ours is in 1349, when scotland, hearing that england had been severely affected by the black plague, invaded them, only to end up bringing the plague to scotland

… sought to equip the entire guard with deliberately ostentatious uniforms, possibly just to annoy Calvin. (Although, as several historians point out, he’d also have stood to gain from the manufacture of said uniforms, as he was himself a draper by profession)

This week I learned that the Toronto Argonauts football team is so named because it was founded by the Toronto Argonauts rowing club, who needed something to do in their off season.

The Zhengde emperor (r. 1595-21) made up a fake general that he assigned a certain role to in a certain military campaign. At the time of the campaign he showed up in military gear claiming to be that general.

Organized sex work in Deadwood, SD began in 1876 and ended in 1980 when the last 4 brothels were raided for reasons that had nothing to do with the illegal sex trade.

the Cold War defence of the Alaska Hwy against Russian invasion was planned by a SS panzer commander who was interned in Canada…he was ‘officially’ sprung him from jail in a CDN lieutenant’s uniform

we are having the best time reading all these replies

This thread (and reposts) is full of the weird and wonderful. Great for a Friday night.

Robert Frost's eventual wife told the poet she wouldn't marry him until she had finished her education. He kept proposing anyway. After one refusal, in the most Poet Stereotype move ever, he put on his best suit, walked into the local swamp, and sat down and waited for death.

Decades before buying the seemingly perpetual rights to the Bond films, Cubby Broccoli, descended from the family the veggie is named after, along with a mobbed up studio exec & a leading actor, allegedly beat the founder of The Three Stooges so badly he died the next day. No charges, just careers.

Alexander I of Greece died from an infection he received from a monkey bite.

Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York had never seen each other before they married, but their marriage became a loving partnership. How much did they love each other? After Elizabeth died, Henry gave a list of qualities to look for in a new spouse; the list described Elizabeth. Henry never remarried.

I am a trivia host/writer by trade: the best story is the 1904 Olympic Marathon.

My favorite passage in Byzantine history concerns a mass mooning.

incredibly relatable tbh

Bram Stoker wrote an effusive and wonderful letter of love and admiration to Walt Whitman, adding delightful context to his depiction of sensitive and emotional male relationships in Dracula: www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/b...

The Lament of Khakheperreseneb is one of the world's oldest poems, and begins with a complaint that all the best turns of phrase have already been used.

In 1402, King David II of Solomonic Ethiopia sent an ambassadorial gift of 4 live leopards from the Horn of Africa to the Republic of Venice. The Venetians were pleased, but also slightly panicked, when confronted with the reality of transporting the animals around in Italy.

Immanuel Kant always went for a walk at 3pm, every day - apparently you could set your clock by him - except the day he got so engrossed in Rousseau’s ‘Émile’ he couldn’t tear himself away. That’s a pretty compelling book review, if you ask me!