I have huge news to share - Sea of Darkness will be my next book! The background research to write the proposal alone has taken me a year. Now the real work begins! The Bookseller goes on to say…

On graduating medical school, Arthur Conan Doyle drew himself waving a diploma over his head with a caption: "Licensed to Kill." My book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell, who became the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Available for preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfitzharris

There are many things I often find quite surreal about being a well-known author, but few match that slightly creepy feeling when a stranger (with the help of AI) has written your ‘biography’ and is selling it online. Never mind the AI generated photo on the cover that looks nothing like you.

Despite the heat playing havoc with my focus, 'Story of a Murder' kept 100% of my attention. I consumed (too much?) true crime as a teen, and I was steeped in the Belle Elmore was a terrible wife/harridan narrative. Just like 'The Five', @hallierubenhold.bsky.social has rewired my brain again.

Also see: two types of people.

The Farage spectacle is evidence that, for a certain type of person, the absolute worst thing you can do is make them declare income and possibly maybe pay some tax

Of course he was going to interfere in the World Cup. Win by any means. Tilt the table. Load the dice.

UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because STORY OF A MURDER @hallierubenhold.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK for today only! amzn.to/4oZLgRK #StoryofaMurder #ad #amazonuk

Another week, another journey on an over-heated train without air conditioning, only 2 working toilets, no trolley service and broken plug sockets. The train before and the train after this one have been cancelled. Great work #EastMidlandRail. Making us all proud.

Fascinating, astounding in its detail and depth. #StoryOfAMurder #BookSky

It’s paperback day for #StoryofaMurder ! In honour of that, let’s answer a few questions about the Crippen murder… hop aboard…

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

After writing #StoryofaMurder I will never again be able to take Kwells without thinking of these two.

My advice to Andy Burnham as a fellow Humanities degree holder: before you take proffered advice (with which you will be inundated), use your degree’s critical skills. Which interests are being represented, with what evidence, intent and financial backing, for example? To whose benefit?

Welcome aboard #southwesternrailways where the rolling stock is so old that the air conditioning breaks when it’s too hot outside (or so I’ve been told). Inside temp is at least 30. we’ve been given water. I’ve got a 2 hour journey ahead of me.

The Shedunnit podcast is nichey and wonderful, and this episode with the great Hallie Rubenhold is particularly fascinating. Give it a listen. @shedunnitshow.bsky.social @hallierubenhold.bsky.social pca.st/episode/e8ad...

They seem to genuinely think that these jobs "don't count" because they're "posh" and therefore expendable. All while our university and creative sectors bring in billions 😡

I read a really interesting article that posited that humanities subjects are one of the main avenues to teaching critical thinking about narratives (and the best line of defence again propaganda)... and if you look at it thru that lens you could see why those in authority consider it "useless"

If young people are being taught by society/government messaging/their parents/schools that they won't be able to make a living if they study a humanities subject we are creating a vicious cycle. We must ask who does this messaging serve and why is our society buying into it?

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

It’s only June. Let that sink in.

Anyone else looking forward to the #ChalkeHistoryFestival this week?! I’ll be there on Thursday at the Moot tent at 5:30!

Don’t just share this on here. Stick this on your family WhatsApp group. Send it to your Brexit uncle. Print it out and give it to that neighbour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

I’ve recently realised that I now reference things that happened in the 90s the way my parents used to reference things that happened in the 60s.

We are doing this, and I am taking it waaaay too seriously. Historians will fear me… @hallierubenhold.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social

No one needs to be a trillionaire. Think of how much good could be effected with even a fraction of that sum. Then imagine being the sort of person who would never consider that, or who might consider it and think, ‘nah, not my problem’.

These were also my thoughts about Savage House. I adored it. It’s 18th century to its core. theconversation.com/savage-house...

@hallierubenhold.bsky.social What a wonderful book. The last paragraph of the epilogue moved me to tears. Will be recommending this book (and The Five) to whoever will listen!

I love Sophie’s theory of the ‘dead dress’ phenomenon - women dehumanised in death by the Victorian and Edwardian press. Exactly this happened to the Ripper’s victims and to Belle Elmore, the wife Dr Crippen killed. They just become a series of injuries and body parts, their true identities erased.

Historians, if you haven't already seen this - please be aware! @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social is currently seeking legal action. This is definitely a topic we need to be discussing.

Fabulous book launch tonight in the cool of the Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell, for @katewilliamsme.bsky.social ‘s new history of queens: #Regina! Always good to see Kate, @laurashepherdrobinson @hallierubenhold.bsky.social & everyone else!

Super excited to reveal the paperback cover for #StoryofaMurder ! On your shelves on July 2nd in the UK but available for preorder now. Looking forward to seeing you at #ChalkeHistoryFestival on the 25th of June and at other events throughout the summer and autumn. See Linktree for details.

I'm really trying to like The Rivals, but something just isn't working for me. The characters are all either pathetic or monstrous, there's no middle ground. It's basically panto, but panto that goes on for hours and hours and hours.

Already looking forward to September.

And congratulations for choosing History, Bille Jean.

I’m sure I’m not the only owner of a loft conversion bedroom looking at this weekend’s temperature forecast with abject dread and horror.

I’ve spent 10 mins on social media this morning and I’m already furious with the world. This, even before coffee.

It’s official, we’ve learned nothing from Covid.

The digitalisation of historical records used to be a net positive. But with the rise of AI, digitalised records now run the risk of being scraped, which leads to misinterpretations and erasure of key information. You cannot replace historical analysis with a machine.

The book scammers are back and this time they’re giving less than zero f**ks and just sending me AI generated blather devoid of punctuation. It goes on like this for paragraphs before I get asked if this resonates with me.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

“Iran Excursion” reminds me of “Special Military Operation” youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w?...

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Scammers use A.I. now to poke at writers' every hope and fear. Keep hope alive, but don't let them scam you. Follow #WriterBeware, learn about scams, and stay skeptical.

Good people, Story of a Murder has been nominated for a Fingerprint Award for True Crime Book of the Year, but it requires YOUR VOTE to win! (Please 🙏) www.capitalcrime.org/fingerprint-...

Stuck at home doom scrolling while a plumber fixes my boiler instead of attending the @hatchards.bsky.social party was not what I had in mind for tonight.

The arts and humanities have no value, they say. It’s too hard to monetise them. You can’t make billions from them. Therefore they are of no use to us.