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

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

Nothing would reassure me more that I am on the right side of history - and a very normal human being to boot - than Louis Theroux asking me to be interviewed for his new documentary.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

The balancing on the email mechanic is completely fucked. You're meant to reply to emails, but when you do so, you're punished by almost immediately getting another email in response which then needs to be replied to. The player is disincentivized from engaging with the core gameplay loop.

This actually could be a review of Servus (out May 2026). Sorry in advance.

Producer Mark Burman and I travelled to Amsterdam and Spain to reveal details about the most extraordinary source I found: the Alpenpost, a hand-crafted child's newspaper. It was written from exile by 2 girls, Elisa and Alida, and sent to their papa Edo: head of a continent wide resistance network.

On Sun 8 March BBC Radio 4 will broadcast The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin - a documentary based on my research! It traces how I uncovered the lost archive of an anti-Nazi resistance organiser in a wind-rattled villa on the Galician coast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Briefly redownloaded Instagram and have ended up feeling appallingly sorry for actors promoting films who are now subjected to infinite knowledge tests, intimate q&s and demands that they review biscuits for rando websites while revealing their whole soul

I just had to lie to my wife about why I was tearful. It was because I'd been reading the Wikipedia page about Catherine of Aragon. What that woman went through. I had no idea.

Been reading a lot about 16thC Europe recently and man it's making me feel better about 21stC Europe

This feels like a question for a good number of people who follow me probably

My book REBEL OF THE REGENCY will burst into the world in just six days, on February 10!! You can preorder worldwide, find all the links & more info at rebeloftheregency.com

The book is El Arte De Invocar La Memória by Esther López Barceló

I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns

All these Epstein revelations are making me less and less skeptical of what Suetonius wrote about Tiberius on Capri.

✨CASTING CALL - PAID ✨ We are now casting three roles in our new show, The Lion and the Adder, a supernatural detective story set in 1920s London! 🔮 We’re looking to make 3 minisodes ahead of our crowdfunding campaign, and need to cast one principal role and two supporting roles - details below ⬇️

Finally got fed up of trying to find a game o like as much as Little Big Planet and just bought a PS3 and Little Big Planet off of vinted

Couldn’t be happier that my book release is coinciding with the new Bridgerton series! If you want to learn about some real-life Regency Era scandals, masquerade balls, secret affairs (and murder???) then you’re sure to love REBEL OF THE REGENCY, a new nonfiction book coming on Feb 10!

📚 #NewBooks post! Just finished #LostWorlds by the excellent @patrickwyman.bsky.social , and just received #Servus by brilliant @emmasouthon.bsky.social , both will be out in May! Pre-orders really matter for authors, get yours in: www.harpercollins.com/products/los... www.emmasouthon.com/servus

Got kids aged 7+? Book tickets to see me and @rikinparekh.bsky.social doing a Roman Britain double-act on February 17th at @southbankcentre.bsky.social, in school half-term. It's a funny, fact-filled event -- I'll do the talking, Rikin the drawing! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

How hard is it to write a book? So hard! How hard is it to publish a book? OMG I can't begin to tell you! How famous are writers? Less famous than the favorite uncle of a medium-sized Catholic family.

I am running out of documentaries to watch in the gym so will gladly take recommendations for long form youtube documentary channels along the lines of Folding Ideas, Defunctland, Summoning Salt, Bobby Broccoli, Jon Bois etc to stop me going mad in there

Distracted while trying to mulstitask (download a new episode of a podcast and walk through a door at the same time), I missed the door, smashed into the door frame and knocked myself out

I think it's a shame kids aren't exposed to boring old black and white films on TV at Christmas any more. If you're younger than me (an ancient man of the hills) BBC iPlayer currently has Bringing Up Baby, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, The Third Man & Suspicion. All bangers!

Sneaky peek of the first page of REBEL OF THE REGENCY. Have you seen a nonfiction biography of a British queen start with a quote from RPDR? You have now!! And you now get the special meaning of the lipstick-on-a-mirror font on the cover.

In 2025 I wrote the hardest book I've ever written and memorised all the countries in Africa in alphabetical order for no reason and celebrated ten years with my husband so all in all I'd say it went ok for me

The unbearable horror of a PERFECT book suddenly being published one month after I finished the final proofs of my slavery book yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Two separate people trying to restrain this lion from eating a toddler, and yet I find myself thinking: is it not also Christmas for lions? Ancient Animal Advent Day 18!

Spent today filming a TV thing and most of it was spent walking backwards and forwards looking with awe at things and my god it's like all my autism exploded. How do legs work. Where do arms go. Unbearable.

Big news! My upcoming book, Rebel of the Regency, is now available for preorder in the UK and Australia!! It's not listed in every online store yet, but I have spotted her avail for UK preorder @blackwells.bsky.social and for Australian preorder @booktopia.bsky.social links below!

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it