🎶 Called up Hezbollah, said I’m friends with with their militia, yo 🎶

The blog post draws upon Dr Ridgwell’s article for the journal, available to read online in advance of it appearing in print.

New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...

Highlights of his professional debut available to watch as a series of woodcuts.

Would say history for football, but then realised what “as good, but no better” would mean in this context.

Love this

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If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

It was great to chat to Dave about WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED for the New Books Network podcast - listen here! #skystorians #histchild #coldwarhistory

What supporters of other teams think Gyökeres cost Arenal is the Spiny Norman of transfer fees, £55m + add-ons from snout to tail, but when they are depressed it could be anything up to £100 million long.

I dreamt last night I was walking up a hill in the dark and my eyes were too blurry to see the road name and I also knew on some level I was actually in bed and therefore not going anywhere and yet I kept going anyway and I don’t know what if anything it’s a metaphor for but it’s fucking depressing.

Laughed at this image for 10 entire minutes

Decided against going to the trophy parade today for a few reasons, but I hope everyone on the streets of Islington has a fantastic time. 🔴⚪️

Just feel the whole thing is borked by asymmetry. Between PSG and Bayern and the rest of their leagues. Between the Premier League and the other big leagues. Between the biggest leagues and the rest. And so on.

I didn’t really have an issue with the ref giving PSG the penalty or him not giving us the Madueke one as stand alone decisions - it’s the fact him giving PSG one and not us was entirely in keeping with how he refereed the game all evening.

There’s not much by the way of moral high ground in football and I don’t expect people who support rival clubs to shed any tears for us but anyone cheering a repressive state’s sportswashing project captained by someone who has literally been charged with rape win needs to give their heads a wobble.

Fuck’s sake.

I’m glad we got a goal, in the second half I’d like us to have a bit of the ball.

A-fucking-men

I was on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback today with @williamcrawley.bsky.social talking about "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" - listen here from 12:47pm! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I assume he's got an important message for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

My kids refusing to entertain my complaint about Rihanna’s original sin, which is that at the start of the video for Pon De Replay she says she’ll make the DJ turn the music up, but he doesn’t.

Oh yay, the new Bulletin of the History of Medicine is out! It features my positioning paper on objects and materiality in the history of medicine. After years, it is finally out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Me to the 6yo: “For the last time, stop annoying your sister.” Translation: “For the last time, stop annoying me.”

Using AI to have famous dead political figures appear on Question Time rather than engage in Mortal Kombat-type death matches is a sad indictment of our decline as a society.

What do the French ‘wine laws’ of the 19th/20th centuries tell us about international economic law? Negar Mansouri outlines a historical materialist account of geographical indications and a view of international economic law that challenges neoclassical accounts.

It’s giving this

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We may even have breached the previous high watermark

We have reached peak North London Cypriot

New research article: 'The Leathersellers’ College, Bermondsey: A National Centre for Technical Education in Leather Manufacturing', by Ian W. Stone: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research article: 'Villadom, Burglary, and the Criminal Suburbanscape of London in the 1880s and 1890s', by Shu-chuan Yang: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (54/3, 2026) has been published. Featuring ten new peer-reviewed articles of original research, two commentary pieces and six book reviews. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

JP Mateta is a fun player to watch during Palace games and even more fun to watch after them.

Battle of the southern suburbs of the capital cities (Croydon vs Vallecas)

Gordon could not believe his ears.

will feel like a gotcha but actually i think an interesting point re: the idea of what matters is what works vs ideology: would be keen to know the last time blair had an opinion that surprised you

Cocaine.

When Mikel Arteta came out to lift the trophy wearing the Arsenal kit on Sunday, I said it was like he’d never retired from playing, and OH asked me how old he was, and I said a couple of years older than me, and she jokingly asked why he looked like that and I didn’t, but tbf who does?

Neat microcosm of my taste in music: listening to my main playlist on shuffle, and it playing 'Subbacultcha' by the Pixies, bookended by 'Bella Notte' from Lady and the Tramp, and 'Do The Next Right Thing' from Frozen II.

Need to drop about half a stone in weight? This is a great playlist for anyone who wants to quickly lose a few pounds . Cos there's certainly a passage of it when you can run for about an hour to shed seven

I feel like seven down is trolling us as an entire sector here with this clue.

okay econsky i need help. years ago i encountered an econ history paper about the spread of coal in england. it argued that rather than deforestation being a cause of coal adoption, it was a consequence--coal drove down the price of wood, and landowners converted woodlots to farms aaAGH WHAT PAPER

Thinking about this drawing for no particular reason

He was caught on the crimson kings

He definitely upped our level when we signed him.

I added music for Phil Foden’s offside ass.

Fair play that’s the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen