New in Historia! The winning, highly commended and shortlisted authors and stories in the 2025 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. Find out who they are and what makes them special at historiamag.com/hwaddss25-winner-shortlist #HWADDSS25

Thames - ancient Tower of London - old City - new #London has it all.

#Dunnett Lyon 😁

Fourvière Lyon #Dunnett

#Dunnett sort of but without the Princess 😂

#Dunnett Irish wolfhounds in a suitable setting!

@spiderbill.bsky.social Hi, not sure if you're still playing the casting game but I have a couple for you. Jack Lowden for Lymond Siobhán Cullen for Oonagh. #Dunnettcontent

British Library - calendar scene for May showing a boating party, from The Golf Book 1520-1530. Simon Brening, Bruges (posting Dunnett related content to cheer myself up and enjoy a nice feed online today). #dunnett

The Lady and the Unicorn six tapestries woven around 1500 for the Le Viste family, merchants of Lyon. The set is on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris and they are stunning. #Dunnett

On the day that his grannie was killed by the English, Sir William Scott the Younger of Buccleuch was at Melrose Abbey, marrying his aunt. -The Disorderly Knights- Dorothy Dunnett #Dunnett Portable altar - Musée de Cluny. I was surprised by how small this is but perhaps not the same thing?

What the celebration at the castle had been, Austin Grey never discovered. -Checkmate- Dorothy Dunnett Going to Paris and staying in the Latin Quarter so picked up 'Checkmate'. Long time since last re read and just amazed to rediscover how brilliant #Dunnett is already can't put it down!

House Democrats sing “We Shall Overcome” following Rep. Al Green’s censure:

@lebassett.bsky.social nails it in @thecut.com www.thecut.com/article/demo...

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

Al Green after he was THROWN out: 🔥 "It is the best way to get on the course to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility."

Donald Trump is laser focused… on giving tax cuts to billionaires while your family shoulders the burden.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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BREAKING: “They have been invaded by Russia. This is Russian aggression and the quickest way to end this conflict is Russia to stop the aggression and we need to be really clear about that” Prime Minister Keir Starmer 👏

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

I swear one day I'll kill him. Kill who? The man next door, Richard Barclay, rock journalist and overgrown schoolboy, is who. - Dead Beat - Val McDermid

Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

On Friday 25 October, exactly one week before the first body was discovered at the Dupayne Museum, Adam Dalgliesh visited the museum for the first time. -The Murder Room- P. D. James

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

Philip was the first of the group to the island. He'd had to drive overnight but it was worth the effort to get there before the morning high water, before the day trippers crossed from the mainland in their cars and coaches to buy ice cream and chips. -The Rising Tide- Ann Cleeves

There is a pirate in the basement. (The pirate is a metaphor but also still a person.) (The basement could rightly be considered a dungeon.) The pirate was placed here for numerous acts of a piratey nature considered criminal enough for punishment... -The Starless Sea- Erin Morgenstern

#Dunnett my old paperback versions 😂 I think there might be better covers would love to see some others.

This is a remarkable moment. Trump and Vance sit there in silence, as a bishop pleas with them to lean on their better angels and not follow through with their depraved campaign promises that target the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. Never seen anything like this.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

"One day toward the end of April, between classes, I unzipped my pencil case and found a folded triangle of paper between the pencils. I unfolded it to see what was inside." - Heaven - Mieko Kawakami

"In October there were yellow trees. Then the clocks went back the hour and the long November winds came in and blew, and stripped the trees bare.' - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

There has been an appalling lack of scrutiny from the UK media about Labour’s plan for further NHS privatisation. This was highlighted yesterday, in the coverage of Wes Streeting’s speech. My newsletter today is about this- you can sign up here 💙 👉https://jujuliagrace.substack.com

Labour to announce £10bn AI project in Northumberland backed by pro-Trump billionaire www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"It is said that when the new Queen saw the old Queen's baby daughter, she told the King that the brat must be got rid of at once." - Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison

"When Red wins, she stands alone. Blood slicks her hair. She breathes out steam in the last night of this dying world. 'That was fun', she thinks, but the thought sours in the framing. It was clean at least." - This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone

"NORTH CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER Action Now! Ecological Convention On the day the world ended, Lenk Sketlish - CEO and founder of the Fantail social network - sat at dawn beneath the redwoods in a designated location of natural beauty and attempted to inhale from his navel." - The Future Naomi Alderman

"ENTRY FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH IN THE YEAR THE ALBATROSS CAME TO THE SOUTH-WESTERN HALLS When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the three Tides. This is something that happens only once every... - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

" - 0307 hours, Wednesday 29 August, 2062 Hartford, Connecticut Sigourney Street Abandoned North End - I never sleep if I can help it. So when somebody starts trying to kick down my door at 0300 hours on a rank hot summer night, it isn't quite the surprise for me... - Hammered - Elizabeth Bear

" -St Oswald's, September 2006- I often find that men like you understimate women like me. You think we must be damaged, somehow. That we seek power to compensate for some real or imagined injustice." - A Narrow Door - Joanne Harris

"Mr Campion, piloting his companion through the crowded courtyard at Burlington House, became aware of the old lady in the Daimler, partly because her chauffeur almost ran over him and partly because she gave him a stare of such vigorous and personal disapproval that he felt she must either... /1

"That night in Bath was the third time Sam's beer bladder had got him into trouble. The first involved a bus, an empty bottle and a terrible underestimation of its volume." - Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman

"A boy is coming down a flight of stairs. The passage is narrow and twists back on itself. He takes each step slowly, sliding himself along the wall, his boots meet each tread with a thud." - Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

"On the morning of the first murder Miss Muriel Beale, Inspector of Nurse Training Schools to the General Nursing Council, stirred into wakefulness soon after six o'clock and into a sluggish early morning awareness..." - Shroud for a Nightingale - P D James