I won’t be participating in big tech propaganda, thanks

Finally! Enlightenment has come to Minnesota. @k8lister.bsky.social

My copy of Ancient O arrived! Loved the interview on Betwixt. @jeansthoughts.bsky.social

@k8lister.bsky.social Big fan - Any idea when Flick will be available in the US?

"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer." open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

Princes in the tower

Wow.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Brian Klaas on fine form: "You only live around 30,000 days; today is one of them, and the world is far too fascinating a place to waste any more of them on something so destructively boring." And yes, I see the irony.

This is so good.

Anyone read this? It’s good so far www.versobooks.com/products/262...

I'm not feeling particularly patriotic this 4th of July for obvious reasons, but I wrote about the complexities of American culture, what truly makes America great, while wearing my cultural anthropologist hat to observe the US after 14 years of living in the UK.

@lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com Tremendously great read. Accessible to general public and a few laugh out loud moments that I don’t usually expect from a book on the Franks

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

“Being nice isn’t the same thing as being kind. It’s far more passive than that. Nice is about placating and soothing someone else, so they think well of you. Being kind, however, is an assertive and often radical act.” inews.co.uk/opinion/nice...

Beautiful day in Wiltshire.

This is a very good post and I'm comfortable saying that because Matt wrote most of it. His work on nostalgia is so fucking sharp. I'm a big fan. Someday I'm gonna work up the courage to tell him. Not today though.

It’s not *technically* out until Thursday. But I’m smiling.

Delighted to get my hands on a copy of this global account the outbreak of the FWW (even the angels are reading it… ) Thank you @alexchurchill.bsky.social

Such a great surprise in the post today! Fantastic study by @jakedyble.bsky.social. Digs really deep into early modern Italian archives and comes out full of original ideas. It won the British Commission for Maritime History Prize, too! Open Access: openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications...

VE Day 2025: Tower of London poppies to return to mark 80th anniversary

Page proofs are in, maps incoming, photos shortlisted. Basically, shit’s about to get real… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social Also, Nicolai has started a substack. His will be free as he’ll be posting when he can and he has other gainful employment to keep the lights on 😂 nicolaieberholst.substack.com

To quote Bette Davis, "Fasten your seatbelt..."

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Ann Telnaes says her Washington Post editor refused to print this cartoon depicting tech billionaires, including Post owner and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, paying homage to Trump. The free press is disappearing before our eyes. Brava to Telnaes for resigning in protest. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

I think it’s important for people to realize that the present is just the past, dressed up and with new technologies The same hucksters, liars, swindlers, fear-mongers, megalomaniacs, snake-oil salesmen, etc are all still among us, they just might have a different veneer

If you have been enjoying #WolfHall, you can learn more about Anne of Cleves and her “very evil smells” on this week’s episode of #BetwixtTheSheets. @nicolatallis.bsky.social is back to tell us more about this poor, POOR woman shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

Crew Agreements Advent Calendar, Day 1: Muster Roll, Plymouth, 1756 I said I should do an advent calendar and I'm nine days behind, so forgive me while I catch up. Anyway, we're starting with precursor to the Crew Agreements, a Muster Roll - more info to follow in the thread

Napoleon having a normal one.

Everything has taken a turn for the worse since Coco-Cola stopped making TaB

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that studying the past is key to understanding the present and shaping the future.

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For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

I cannot hope to even come close to the fantastic Caroline Janney, but here’s a short piece I did on just how US Army veterans of the Civil War attacked the Confederate “Lost Cause:” angrystaffofficer.com/2021/06/20/w...

Grading assistant

Another Twitter escapee - mostly here to see what other historians are up to, and pets.