A psycho-geography of Castlefield in Manchester: at a great confluence of rivers and canals sit the ruins of Roman Mamucium, across the road from a museum full of power looms and computers, which turn out to be the same thing! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

How the poorest county in England became the centre of the modern global economy: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Some thoughts on the Lake District, class warfare, archaeology, historiography, Romanticism, mountain climbing, and women's rugby. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

The Home Secretary says that pro-Palestine marches are "un-British." She is simply wrong. There is nothing more British than defending the victims of a genocide. What is "un-British" is arresting pensioners for protesting peacefully against that genocide. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

I do hope that the Home Office will consider that arresting British pensioners for protesting peacefully against the Palestinian genocide is perhaps not the best use of their resources at this time.

I first saw the indomitable spirit of the Jewish diaspora in England at Crumpsall, in the home of my wife's great aunt Estelle & uncle Harold (a Holocaust survivor).I ate 2 huge plates of food & 2 puddings, then listened to a bunch of alte mentshn tell their favourite Jewish jokes. #ManchesterStrong

@kellythompson.bsky.social The best place to read It's Jeff! is Waku Waku comics café in Manchester, England. Also they have great noodles!

Prime Minister Starmer's vision of Britain combines “the grit of the Lionesses, the swagger of Oasis, the strength of the Red Roses.” Well, two out of three ain't bad, mate. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

When you show up at school on Monday and your mates are like "dude, your moms just won the rugby World Cup!" Red Roses rule!

2 weeks ago, 100k Britons heard Tommy Robinson rant about a violent struggle for the soul of the nation. Yesterday in The Telegraph, Prime Minister Starmer said "You don’t need to be a historian to know where that kind of poison can lead." That's true. But it helps. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Some thoughts about what it means to be English, by an American who recently immigrated to this green and pleasant land. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

“What It Sounds Like” from Kpop Demon Hunters is my new Defying Gravity

Instructive contrast: In the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was found to have cheated on her property taxes. She resigned within a fortnight. In the US, if Vice President JD Vance were found to have cheated on his taxes, it would not be considered newsworthy, & would not even be reported.

Littleborough Towpath Taskforce go!

Here in Littleborough racist bastards have started St Georging rubbish bins, apparently not realizing that by doing so they are reducing England’s flag TO rubbish

Weird that it took me this long to notice that the flag of Lancashire has the same colour scheme as the flag of New Mexico.

Since Farage's lot of racist wankers have hijacked St George's Cross, I now show pride in my adoptive country by flying the arms of England's victorious Lionesses. College of Arms granted Football Association these arms in 1949: argent semy of Tudor roses three lions passant guardant in pale azure.

@altnps.bsky.social Well, I'm still writing about the history and politics surrounding national parks. But since I live in England now, I'm writing about Britain's national parks. Over here we try to help your good fight by ruining Vance's summer holiday. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

A brief history of wakes and rush-bearing in Lancashire, and of working class tourism in Blackpool: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

"Woke?" Superman is a European Jew who immigrated to America, changed his name, and now works tirelessly to make the world a better place for everyone, including immigrants like him. Fight me! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Updated with additional evidence that the fascist American regime is creating a "fabulousness famine" by driving queer folx to emigrate: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

The Western Sky--now written and published in Northern England! open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Not only does our local cafe serve a gorgeous vegetarian full English breakfast…the gents’ toilet is a TARDIS

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

Go, flight

No time for second guessing No time to go back to sleep It’s time to trust my instincts Close my eyes and leap

@altnps.bsky.social Beautiful at Arroyo Trail today partly cloudy light breeze picked up broken glass and plastic bottle government by the people shall not perish from this earth

@altnps.bsky.social Magnificent day here at OMDP. The Organ Needles would like to remind everyone that only Congress has the Power to make needful Rules and Regulations respecting Property belonging to the United States (US Constitution Article IV Section 3)

@altnps.bsky.social As Volunteer Acting Archivist of the United States, I present the following updated indictment against President Donald Trump and other criminals who currently control the U.S. government. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Actually hell would be NOT having a giant freaking boulder to push up a mountain every day this is just life

@altnps.bsky.social Acting Interior Secretary enjoying her breakfast pursuant to a grazing license lawfully issued by her Department

@altnps.bsky.social Updated! Use the word “deport” only to refer to the removal FROM the U.S. of a person who is NOT a U.S. citizen, TO a nation of which that person IS a citizen. Use “kidnap” or “abduct” to describe the removal of a U.S. citizen from the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

@altnps.bsky.social OMDP secure. No oil rigs just cows. I asserted a public easement along the correct Monument boundary as I do every day. Also, pretty.

@altnps.bsky.social Attention, Department of the Interior of Musk's Anus: open.substack.com/pub/lewiscal...

Dear Christians, As you celebrate Easter, please remember what Jesus said: If you kidnap the least of these my siblings and send them to a foreign concentration camp without due process of law, YOU DO THAT TO ME. (Matthew 25:40)

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@altnps.bsky.social Anarchist cows loose in the neighborhood! A lady and her dog got them back under the fence onto BLM land except for one whose horns were too long. Then I helped her catch her dog. Then I followed the longhorn along the fence and coaxed it through this gate back to its home!

I am shocked, shocked! that a man who cheats at elections, cheats at real estate, cheats at golf, and cheats on his wife would cheat at stock trading!

@altnps.bsky.social Cows enjoy breakfast al fresco as I serenade them with “Defying Gravity”