Merry Christmas and/or Merry New Book Day to all who celebrate!

#newbookalert Love more Maggie B! 🌹🌹🌹 @historylauren.bsky.social

FORGOTTEN VIKINGS paperback out in the wild at Limestone Books, in Settle, in the Yorkshire Dales! Keeping good company too, alongside @marcmorris.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @catjarman.bsky.social etc!

The Failures of Henry VIII, Guest Post by @JudithArnopp: Tyrants aren’t born, they evolve, just as saints do, their characters are slowly shaped over time. The early Tudor chronicles provide no hint of the embittered man Henry was to become. historicalfictionblog.com/the-failures...

Queen Mary I - 'The author gets to the heart of Mary the girl, Mary the woman.' - Review mybook.to/thw @JudithArnopp #HistoricalFiction #Tudors #Audible #KU

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Absolutely LOVED the Mary Queen of Scots series. Q: If it was more or less understood that Bothwell abducted and raped her then forced marriage, why did the Confederate Lords turn against her instead of seek to liberate and restore her? They seemed to completely dump her @theresthistory.bsky.social

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

A fun church crawl to Winchester Cathedral today, my highlight was seeing the Winchester Bible under a medieval wall painting of a scribe at work! 😍📜

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

of course i love a new #princessshow but i cannot get over Jaime Lannister as WTC. Also I wish it wasn't in English, if that makes sense. #kingandconqueror

“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

I think I'm starting to like ChatgPT... @theresthistory.bsky.social

Fiddling while the world burns 🔥 BL Add 11695; Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse; 1091CE - 1109 CE; Spain, N; f. 86r

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."

Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."

Listening to TRIH out of order depending on my interests any given day, and the one absolute constant across nearly every episode is a reference to "The Ladybird Books," of which I'd never (as an American) before heard, and now understand they're the only books, ever. @theresthistory.bsky.social

my boyfriend bought me new bewks! @theresthistory.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Poisoning, blinding, blood eagle, infanticide... Society, bias, motive... Decoding the stories to see if they're true, and what they might really be telling us: mybook.to/MIASE

This…

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

words, both

For Handmaid’s Tale fans.

WATCH - @jessicatarlov.bsky.social on Fox: “If that was a Democratic dogemaster who showed up with a shiner and there was a report he did so much Ketamine he couldn’t pee straight… you would be leading your show with it.”

Morning.

This is exactly the paper on confirmation bias I was looking for!!

Harvard isn’t bending the knee, Donald, so you better get used to the courtroom beatdown. youtu.be/CQW1P8TAN4M

today I got the bar to change the tvs from fox news to cnn. not heroic. but baby steps. if we're stuck with extremes, I'd rather a blue extreme. 🥂

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

wistful for @westminsterabbey.bsky.social

granting grace and giving space s/p #SLOMW szn 2 binge 🙏🥤🍆

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

Ali: He woke up dead!? G: [In all seriousness] I don't think it was that he woke up dead. Made me LOL 😆 #semifinalC @rexfactor.bsky.social

@theresthistory.bsky.social #RIHC The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1). How much we learn!

Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens

Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."

Ooh, just noticed the Kindle edition of Ladies of Magna Carta is just 99p on Amazon UK at the moment. If you haven't read it yet, its an opportunity not to be missed... #womeninhistory www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089CWG59C

#newbewkalert from Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, MA @regina-saba.bsky.social #boleyn

Horrified that Graham, Ali AND THE PUBLIC all ranked Elizabeth Woodville last in Group D... and Aethelflaed deserved better. Looking forward to the semis! @rexfactor.bsky.social

Very late, but I need @holland-tom.bsky.social to debate #DanJones on Henry V. That's all I'll say about that. Other thought - I think Henry 8's charisma helped him overcome the stigma of "son of a usurper," & he has his grandfather Eddie 4 to thank for that. @theresthistory.bsky.social #worldcup