look I'm sorry. I know sports teams have silly names and also they make lots of money that it's good to give to good causes. but I just don't feel quite right that Nashville Predators Foundation is supporting a children's hospital

Tomorrow! I’ll be interviewing @emmasouthon.bsky.social about her brilliant new book in the stunning Merchant Adventurers Hall

📚 Hey! Brilliant @emmasouthon.bsky.social 's brilliant book #Servus is out now and getting fab reviews (of course). Grab a copy and go see her on tour - if you come to @chalkefestival.bsky.social next month I'll be there chatting to Emma. www.chalkefestival.com #BookSky

I've been paying for Kagi for over a year and now every time I am forced to use Google on someone else's device I am repulsed by how useless and shit it is

Bought the Sunday times today because I'm reviewed (nicely) in it and now get to read the Times Rich List

My dear friend Emma is on her book tour! She’s awesome so if she’s at an event near you, go and hear about Servus, how slavery made the Roman Empire @emmasouthon.bsky.social #rome #ancienthistory #slavery #romanempire #book

If you’re in London, and can make it to Bárd Books next Thursday BOOK NOW to hear the fabulous novelist Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social in conversation with Caoilinn Hughes. www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Turned on actual telly for the first time in ages to learn that Martin Lewis has a tv show where he shouts about stocks and shares ISAs. there's a woman with a virtual wall. He's talking at the speed of light about child trust funds. what is happening. is this a reboot of This Time with AP

that is really funny tho

Told my vet that I can't bring Livia back for a check up next week because I'm going on book tour and her silent nod and smile response made me pretty sure she thinks I was her weirdo of the day

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Continuing my occasional hobby of finding the worst good reads reviewers, today I found a young person giving Adam Mars-Jones's Box Hill 2* because it fails to interrogate fatphobia.

This but all = footnote deleted in draft three.

Found out about book + researched book + ordered book from obscure location + waited week for book + read whole book + thought about book = half footnote.

Been on a cruise for 72 hours and I can feel myself becoming the soft humans in space from Wall-E

2026 Festival Season's nearly here & I'm thrilled to bring more #archaeology to @chalkefestival.bsky.social🏺 🎪 : - back w/ @livancworlds.bsky.social Hearth of Science - collabs with amazing heritage interpreters - & plotting something spectacular involving The Stone! Tix: www.chalkefestival.com

I am going on holiday in like 4 hours but before I go on holiday i have to have a meeting about a podcast with some people more professional than me and it is RUINING my pre-holiday vibe

If you like the gays, demons and murder mysteries then boy do I have the audio fiction show for you: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

Link to Pompei's e-journal for more info, complete with images of human remains pompeiisites.org/wp-content/u...

Not going to lie, the images of the man who tried to escape Pompeii using a mortarium to shield his head from falling volcanic material are really emotionally affecting. Poor guy.

Have a publicity person working with me rn who I think dislikes either me or my book and it's oddly invigorating. As a woman driven by spite I'm suddenly violently defending its importance, power and right to exist like never before

Edward Gibbon, early master of the drive-by footnote:

It really isn't fair to expose Alex Jones to Tim Heidecker like this, the media equivalent of giving a medieval peasant Doritos.

HUGE THANKS to @emmasouthon.bsky.social 🙌📚 for joining the livestream to rage that NO — Roman slavery was NOT a good deal for anyone! ⛓️⚔️ Brutal realities, taxed freedom 💰 and discarded slaves 🏺🗑️ 🎧 Out 21st May — early access on Patreon: www.patreon.com/historyrage

Read my first Pat Barker novel this morning and reading my second Pat Barker novel this afternoon. Can't believe no one told me that Pat Barker wrote such horrid novels (complimentary).

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end. The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.

Was idly wondering in the gym who the BBC would replace Attenborough with when he goes as they’ve stopped nurturing new talent and I realised it’s just going to be shows fronted by uncanny valley AI Attenborough isn’t it

Coming soon - join us for an evening with @emmasouthon.bsky.social tickets here www.waterstones.com/events/searc... @hodderbooks.bsky.social

🏺 Another very good Bes jar that I came across during my research at work today - this time from Brooklyn Museum. 📜 www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

Today I am reading an upcoming biography of Cicero and what I wouldn't give for access to Atticus's letters about Cicero. I'd love to know what he said about the bombastic little guy behind his back.

Finally read @rhigarthjones.bsky.social All Roads Lead to Rome last month and have not stopped thinking about it since. It filled in so many gaps for me and I highly recommend it uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

Listening to the new Patrick Radden Keefe and it's simply cruel to make Americans try to pronounce Loughborough

Classics friends may enjoy this. Some of the Latin pronunciation is a bit weird, but the essence is spot on! 😆

If you like having ART on your WALLS, good news: @jamiedrew.bsky.social has finally set up a PRINT SHOP, please buy beautiful prints, tyfyt jamiedrew.front.photography

The amount that I laugh every time I see 'Jo Nesbo's Detective Hole' written down is unseemly

Hate promoting on here but I'm going on book tour and please come

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison? SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin. SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

Hate promoting on here but I'm going on book tour and please come

One of the most famous non-300 accounts of the Spartans — Philip of Macedon saying if he invades, he’ll destroy them, and the Spartans responding “If” — usually leaves out the part where he *did* invade and *did* destroy them with little difficulty

The Spartans were a tiny parasitic class of truly horrible people in Lacedaemonia and not even THAT good at war

Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean was extremely bad actually

In Space, No-One Can Steer Your Cream

Today is the UK publication date for my book, REBEL OF THE REGENCY! Finally, readers in Caroline of Brunswick's (one time) home country can read about their uncrowned Queen. Pick up a copy in your local bookshop or buy online at rebeloftheregency.com

📚 Final cover for #SERVUS by @emmasouthon.bsky.social with yours truly (justifiably) raving about it on the front: "The most important book you'll ever read about Ancient Rome" Pre-order now! www.hodder.co.uk/titles/emma-... #BookSky

It Happened To Me: The true story of how I resisted the intrusive thoughts insisting that a fringe is a great idea

let's remember Caesar by this beautiful and inspiring quote which is still so relevant... "All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in our Gauls, the third. "

Extremely pleased that Michael B Jordan (deservedly) won but also thrilled to see what Chalamet will have to do now to get the one he wants so desperately