Happy Birthday, Dr. Hélène Maloigne! 🥳🏺 Hope your day is one for the history books and filled with amazing discoveries! 📖🎂 Cheers to another year of digging into the past and bringing history to life! ✨🏛️

Almost didn’t recognise you with your smile on.

My research topic du jour is death by antimony poisoning. As well as the Charles Bravo case, I’ve come across three other homicides involving the poison including one very famous poisoner and another case in which a senior police officer used the evidence – poisoned fish hooks – as souvenirs!

​From Valletta to Southampton! Off on my first @pocruises.bsky.social gig as a guest lecturer on the Aurora. Proud to represent my company @pastpreservers.bsky.social on the high seas. Let’s talk history! 🌊📜 #Founder #CEO #MaritimeTravel

He’s stealing my look

Excellent new episode by lovely @mrssbilton.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts from pca.st/episode/3a85...

Today I’ve been uncovering the historical murder case behind the death mask of Robert Marley who killed a jeweller’s assistant in London in 1856. There is surprisingly little information available online and so I’ve delved deeper into the primary sources to discover the truth for a Substack post.

Wheeeeeeeee! The Water Chute, Marine Lake, Rhyl. From the wonderful The People’s Collection Wales

Really excited by this talk on the 12th June (am one of the experts) Rethinking Lipstick Three Experts - Three Myths - Busted It's free, online and can be booked by registering via chmsn.wufoo.com/forms/qffw9z... Part of the Cosmetic History and Makeup Studies Network Salon programme

I was watching a crime drama last night when the detectives mentioned using forensic gait analysis. Victorian police detectives used to visit prisons to study the gait of known offenders and there were cases where they identified a suspect by the way in which they walked. Everything has a history!

Today is Music Hall & Variety Day created by The British Music Hall Society in memory of Roy Hudd born #OTD This year's given theme Seaside! Here's a clip from my #TPTV series of that famous seaside song with last verse. #RoyHudd #MHVD @musichallsociety.bsky.social @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

My next online talk celebrates the centenary of the most picturesque #seaside village in Britain. #Portmeirion was the brainchild of Clough Williams-Ellis, a labour of love that he built over fifty years. Always a hotel, join me to learn about its unique history www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry

You know what’s better than worrying about the state of the world?

What a brilliant night at Sci-Fi-London: Chatlines is fantastic - check it out when it comes out in a few months!

Hells yes summer is here

This week on Untitled History pod we talk about the origins of the EBU, Eurovision and its weird historical quirks and borders And of course there was only one person I was getting back on for this... @jonnelledge.bsky.social #history #eurovision Available on Youtube and your pod app of choice!

That would be cool.

Oho! This looks good & will be added to my light reading list 👇! It also gives me possibly my only chance to mischievously add 'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!!'

Transported for stealing boxes of matches. Shipped to the other side of the world, never to return. The history of penal transportation is dark, brutal and surprisingly well documented. Out now – essential reading for true crime fans and family historians drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/getting-th...

Extremely funny that a couple of friend got the Invisible Rainbows launch party as a suggested event on Scruff 🐻 (I’d assume it was auto picked it from outsavvy or the venue)

Was about to say “not now, John Carpenter’s The Thing” but at this point I’m willing to listen to what It has to say

Can anyone recommend a history of mine warfare that deals with all types of mines please? Most seem limited either to naval or land-based mines - I'm looking for something which encompasses mine warfare generally. Thank you!

Periodic reminder that ballet permanently changes the human bone structure. Puberty blocking drugs do not.

I love writing for my Substack and sharing my investigations into crime and detective policing in the past. I’m thrilled to have 1,000 fantastic subscribers and I really appreciate everyone’s support 🔗 drangelabuckley.substack.com

Following @seasideferry.bsky.social 's talk on the influence of #FestivalofBritain on seaside architecture, I revisited Jean Symons' fascinating FESTIVAL HALL NOTEBOOK (2000). It records her time as an architecture student shadowing the clerk of works on the Festival Hall.

Gratulerer med dagen! 🇳🇴🎉🇳🇴🎉🇳🇴🎉🇳🇴 17 Mai !

What an honour to have Invisible Rainbows in the window of one my favourite and one of the best bookshops in the world @gaystheword.bsky.social! A year ago, my former publisher was about to go bankrupt for the second time, but now the book is real and people are reading it! I’m so happy! 😁

WE MADE A COOL THING Is it a game? An improvised story? A short film? YES! Tune in for tragedy ❤️‍🩹 and warmth 🫂 and drama 😱 and spookiness 🧟‍♂️ 🗓️: This Wednesday! ⏰: 7pm BST 💻: twitch.tv/EUphoriaAP

I genuinely don't know where to begin with this. USS Arizona is a war grave. There might be grounds for maritime archaeologists to conduct dives for research purposes but this just seems crass - an obscene 'playground for the elite' seems to sum it up. And the same goes for the wreck of the Titanic.

If there’s anything better than fly fishing beneath a landslide while a snowstorm approaches in mid-May, I haven’t discovered it

Me marvelling at Noël Coward’s piano Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Have a good week Bluesky, keep on singing! #NoelCoward @sirnoelcoward.bsky.social

Funding is obviously really crucial to any #seaside #regeneration project so the opportunity to hear from and ask questions of @archhfund.org.uk is not to be missed!

If I wasn’t teaching about the Vikings in England on those exact dates then this’d be right up my street…

🚨 Urgent Call Out: Cruise Speaker Vacancy 🚨 We need a speaker for a 6-night Saga Cruise from Tromsø to Dover (June 30 – July 6, 2026). 🎤 4 x 45-min talks required 💰 £800 Fee ✈️ Flights & transfers included for you + a companion! 📧 Apply asap to [email protected]

Lovely #artnouveau cover to this #blackpool guide

In this episode of A Curious Appetite, I’m joined by food stylist Dorothy Barrick (@dotscookin), whose work brings food to life on screen in ways that are often invisible, but absolutely essential! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

I say it’s World Cocktail Day! #Jeeves #WorldCocktailDay

New science for all your horror writers to build off: bacteria in airborne moisture are thriving. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Just how many lines from Cher's Believe did I manage to fit in an article about gravitational wave autotuning? More than you might think! 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/this-wasnt-r...

Gearing up!

What role did Polish mayors in enabling the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust? How do we investigate this difficult history? On the latest episode, I talk with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe about his important work on this topic. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Today's belated #MapMonday can only be this Google Earth image of the Donbaik chaung, still mostly paddy either side.This is a dangerous area today, but I'd love to go and have a look where the three Valentines fell into the chaung to the right of the label, survivors went R to L ending on the beach

Absolute DISASTER! bSky have blocked my Chat function (no idea why?!) so DMs are down. However, there is a work around! If you would like to come to our London meetup on 1st then send a message via our (very basic!) website independenthistoriansnetwork-wulpv.wordpress.com/contact/

This sounds like a wonderful project 🙂

Congratulations @drcarpineti.bsky.social! I am so thrilled to be holding Invisible Rainbows, an incredible book about unseen light told by an extraordinary group of queer physicists. I loved this book and I know the world will, too!

A really interesting and disturbing story here. See below. (h/t to @jmcn.bsky.social for pointing out) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Say hello to these fabulous beasties who live on #Birmingham's Church of St Martin in the Bullring. Met them at the end of a fab stillwalking.org walk- Devilish Details. Always #lookup! #Architecture #gargoyles #grotesques

#InvisibleRainbows is here!! Pre-order page, book launch and tour! linktr.ee/theastroholic In the best bookshops from next Thursday!

Toby Carvery are on Deliveroo which feels like some kind of culinary warcrime