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

i’m sure there’s psycho stuff in there i’d have missed at the time, but scott adam’s old books probably inoculated me from ever having linkedin brain or respecting anyone who told me they had a black belt in six sigma

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

Olivia Nuzzi's greatest contribution to the world is making everyone else (mainly me) feel much better about their own writing ability

Depends if you've been spelling it c'nt, I guess

Doing final proofs of the new book and I've somehow managed to get the word "cunt" in three times so far.

Obsessed with this person who has given a popular non fiction book one star for the crime of using contractions.

We have an answer!

Don't suppose anyone younger and cooler than me recognises the person in the b&w poster here?

Happy gazpacho soup day to everyone who still cringes to death over something they did that absolutely noone but them even remembers

It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written! Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone

There's the history podcast I make with @emmasouthon.bsky.social where we answer the questions you don't have time to research yourself historyissexy.com

Actually I would really like a 5 hour podcast that had none of the Greek stuff but told me about what the Persians were up to in eg Tajikistan or Pakistan or Afghanistan aka the 99% of their empire

A new Fall of Civilizations episode is always great but this most recent one is a special delight because it reminded me that there was once a Persian King of Kings called Arses

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

For fully the last 15 mins of Del Toro's Frankenstein all I could hear in my head was Garth Marenghi.

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

The context in which the Day Today skit is put into this documentary made me laugh so hard my friend asked if I was ok

Bro did you just flank my phalanx. My macedonian phalanx bro, you're flanking it aren't you. Why would you do that dude, I thought we were friends and here you are casually flanking my goddamn phalanx

Every time I get a copy edit back I end up feeling like I should send the copy editor flowers to apologise for my shoddy typing.

Been responsible for a child for three days and I feel like I've been run over seventeen times