Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

welcomed back from my maternity leave by my article appearing in advanced access for HWJ! open access an’ all. it’s about what we learn about the early modern state if we think about arrests as a performance, and draws on four years’ worth of practice-as-research. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Me opening my emails: Shall I at least set my lands in order? Me five minutes later: Hieronymo’s mad againe

bought the Waitrose mini hot cross buns in an attempt to stave off my lust for plump dried fruit and enriched dough. pro: I can eat one in two bites. con: I can eat one in two bites.

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

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Found the most bluesky board game possible.

all sources are “biased”, and that doesn’t mean they’re of no historical utility.

me until around 4pm: oh we’re having such a good day today, aren’t we darling? doesn’t really matter that you’ve refused to nap! me at 5:40pm, covered in eyeliner-streaked tears, banana and vomit:

having a twelfth century church on our doorstep wasn’t the main reason we stayed in Oxfordshire, but it’s a lovely bonus

parenthood is full of discoveries. for example, yesterday I got to experience what it feels like to be punched in the face by someone with a fistful of banana.

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.

just to be clear there is SO MUCH precedent for arresting a senior royal. just not any precedent where it ends well for them

it was as I vigorously lipsynched to the Lonely Island’s “Sushi Glory Hole” while folding laundry in front of my six month old that I thought, “gosh, my daughter is getting such a unique upbringing”.

Six (more) historians in my department have taken (been pressured into) voluntary redundancy. Since we cross teach, supervise, & tutor, politics staff now have more work to do. The solution? Pressure staff (those with the biggest caring & teaching commitments) to move onto teaching only contracts.

unforced error

Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?

📢FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY📢 ❓Celebration of 50 years of the Social History Society 📅 Fri 24 April 📍 Senate House, London 🫰£30 (£10 non members) Join us for panel discussion, stalls & tours, plus keynote from Prof. Naomi Tadmor. 🗃️ #EarlyModern socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

www.instagram.com/reel/DUlnE6d... I’ve started putting up some videos on my public Instagram, including this series I tentatively title “Star Chamber Mad Lad of the Week”. This week, it’s William Stanhawe’s fairly successful avoidance of arrest in 1609. #skystorians

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

And the England cricket team - who did NOT get whitewashed

disquieting to read the story about OUH maternity care today.

whenever someone I know in professional contexts discovers I’ve had a baby and writes me a congratulatory email, they foolishly activate my trap card: sending a raft of unsolicited photographs of the Nugget

‘Labour polled 11% in a seat that the party has held for 100 years’ is the headline news this morning. Feels like a headline going to hear a lot in the next year. (Also result - Plaid win - does show that the fissuring of British politics isn’t all to the right)

A periodic reminder that the ORIGINAL STAR CHAMBER CEILING from Westminster Palace is now in a hotel outside Liverpool. www.leasowecastle.com/dine

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

my baby daughter has started smiling socially and it is the best. thing. ever.

poppy, who’s not a fan of baths, got 2 of them today: one in the sink and one from panzer #cleanboy

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?" It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

this is horrifying. The NHS is failing trans people.

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers. I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

finally had the chance to take my first hot bath since I got pregnant. no lobster was e’er more delighted to be boiled.

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations statutes.org.uk/site/collect... #LegalHistory

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

American Idiot really holds up over two decades later. concept album of the millennium?

since I’ve had a baby I’ve read more news articles than ever before, simply because I need something one-handed to do at 2am when she’s feeding and I’ve stupidly forgotten to connect my earphones before latching her on

parenthood: trying to establish whether the scent of baby vomit has sunk into your cardigan or if it’s just the baby themselves (or a secret, worse third option)

my kid straight up looking like Tony Soprano getting the newspaper

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

day ??? of maternity leave. my house is an unending series of muslin hiding places and I’ve lost count of how many Waitrose mini sausage rolls I’ve eaten.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context: