What I've learned from my day at Wimbledon is the posh boys have learned about moustaches and as a result the "minor official in the British imperial government in Myanmar" look is very much back

Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire Happy release day @emmasouthon.bsky.social !

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys] 🎵Wouldn't it be nice 🎵To eat a Minion 🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god 🎵And wouldn't it be nice 🎵Though quite forbidden 🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob

Amazing work from NYT strands today to have a word puzzle ostensibly about Pride but without mentioning what Pride is about at all

I utterly adore the fresco of a fountain that was revealed in recent excavations in #Oplontis (room of the peacocks). The three spouts fixed on the wall each with a jet of water filling the marble basin which is supported on those beautiful curved legs. It silently creates an air of fresh coolness.

Today I came across a freed Roman slave called Amoeba and I think that one hasn't stood the test of time really.

Talking about Roman slavery with @emmasouthon.bsky.social this week on the podcast pod.link/1489560920/e...

90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this

Just saw a 14 year old smoking a real life cigarette for the first time in about a century and my immediate response was "nature is healing"

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Lot's of love in the comments for my conversation with @emmasouthon.bsky.social all about the lives of Roman slaves, and you don't want to miss.... The Prologue! youtube.com/watch?v=39iI...

I am lucky enough to have six nephews aged between 4 and 24 and today three of them were at an anti fascist rally and a fourth was running an inclusive event for young immigrants. I genuinely think that the kids are alright.

This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000. chuffed.org/project/1854...

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.

Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'

As always Richard is right

I'm more and more fascinated by the notion that all written works desire or need a visual adaptation. The notion that film/TV is the final form of all ideas

This book is so great. I think I have referenced it, directly or indirectly) in every interview I have done since I read it. Properly mindblowing on the meaning and impact of Rome globally.

June 1st

If you're thinking about coming to @chalkefestival.bsky.social, book now, tix £ increase tomorrow! Masses of fantastic talks inc me chatting to @emmasouthon.bsky.social; @prehistorian.bsky.social & Mel Giles; @eloi.se, plus experimental #archaeology, living history & music! www.chalkefestival.com

Being made to watch K-pop Demon Hunters by a youth and it's mostly making me really want to watch Josie and the Pussycats

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Life in Roman slavery meant constant uncertainty. @emmasouthon.bsky.social explains how fear and insecurity shaped everyday existence. A stark look at the realities behind the myths. ⚖️ 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/41ae66 #RomanHistory #AncientRome #HistoryPodcast #HistoryRage

The people who actually built Ancient Rome were the ones we tend to hear the least about - and that's the SLAVES... With her fantastic book SERVUS, historian @emmasouthon.bsky.social flips the narrative. Check out our lovely chat HERE 👇🏻 youtu.be/zYWqLzfVSqM

Have you enjoyed this week’s special? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Servus” by @emmasouthon.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Order the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/41ae66

this is a test, a test from God, who wants me to show my strength of spirit in not spending a beautiful bank holiday monday firing off the most rattled WELL ACTUALLY quote posts, i will succeed, i will prevail, i will trium-

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