I’m now on Instagram @cheeseandpeople. Don’t get too excited - there isn’t much on there yet but give me a follow and hopefully there will be some cheesey content soon. 🧀

I’m now on Instagram @cheeseandpeople. Don’t get too excited - there isn’t much on there yet but give me a follow and hopefully there will be some cheesey content soon. 🧀

Join us on Wednesday 10 June at 5:30pm for Jamie Gemmell (KCL) speaking on 'John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship'. Free and open to the public in person at the IHR in Bloomsbury or online on Zoom. Please register (link below). #Skystorians

Can’t believe how UK media has failed to call out Pete Hegseth who used the D-Day commemoration to trot out a racist ideology the Nazis would have applauded. It takes an American historian Heather Cox Richardson to tell it like it is

Here are some sparrow chicks visiting my garden to cheer you up.

Here are some sparrow chicks visiting my garden to cheer you up.

Making a rare appearance on here to ask for thoughts on an embroidery from 1668. Do you have any idea what Old Testament story/stories these panels represent? Previously labeled as Abraham and Isaac but I’m not convinced. I think they may be the same figures in both. Thank you for your ideas!

Oh, I should probably mention that we're currently crowdfunding a new series of the Lovecraft Investigations.... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

A reminder that I do freelance work. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

***History at the "End of History"*** Prof Toby Green will be giving the 2026 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture on Thurs, June 18th at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, discussing the general crisis, political assaults on the discipline and the impact of AI. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

Nearly 60 percent of retired senior British military officers now working in the defence industry are quoted in the media as expert commentators without any disclosure of their commercial ties, new research finds. share.google/IhiM2P7lS1vL...

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Very much looking forward to Jamie Gemmell (KCL), talking about John Satia and the 1731 City of London ban on Black apprenticeship @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social All welcome in person or online, but please register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us in person at the Institute of Historical Research in Bloomsbury or online on Zoom Tuesday 9 June for 'The Man Who Made Planets: Kenneth S. Fagg's Journey from Air Age to Space Age'. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians

The new Devil’s Reef Souvenir Pack is now available on our Backerkit. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

Jimmy has been such a huge supporter of The Lovecraft Investigations and reached out to us in the early days so he could introduce us to the trucking community in the US (IKR?!) Here, he takes on some big questions and is kind enough to weave the ethos of our show into his philosophical musings. 🙏

Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is Farage’s Britain. A hellscape of racism and riots. Decency cast aside. No responsible media platform should have given him this opportunity. A disgraceful, disrespectful day. Yet another warning to us all that all Farage will ever do is hurt and ruin and divide.

For this week's Substack I have mostly been eating...https://rebrand.ly/CheeseOfTheMonthWakebridge

Britain’s greatest export, a hub of invention, innovation, a means of opportunity & integration, an attractor of foreign investment, a source of culture, wealth, creativity… Yep - let’s destroy it. Good old Blighty.

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

WHOA! This would be unjustifiable if the US was still a friendly state. But let's be clear: it is not. #Trump is a dangerous authoritarian, and an enemy of Britain. That his facistic big-money cronies should have access to UK data is unconscionable. Please be aware! share.google/dbxxODgU2ZfA...

Captain, my Captain 🫡

Reading about cheese is the most normal thing in the world. Right?

How many months have pants in them

Many congratulations to @emilymayvine.bsky.social whose excellent 'Birth, Death & Domestic Religion in #EarlyModern London' has been shortlisted for the RHS first book prize! 🗃️🥳👏

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?

wikimedia decides to shoot itself in the dick and fires some unionizing employees, everybody logs in immediately to cancel recurring donations how does 'doing business' always result in this same total replacement of worldview perhaps 'doing business' is actually a values-destroying illness

My new blog for the Social History Society on the loss of adult education centres in universities, with particular focus on history and the closure of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York. 🗃️

Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern

Our History degree (and all our degrees) have been doing embedded work placements throughout term time modules for years. We don't get a Guardian newspaper article about it. I guess it's only impressive if an RG uni offers it...

This is what happens when transphobia is "normalised" by government policies and pushed by powerful bigots like JK Rowling. The same people you can guarantee will find ways to try and blame trans individuals for attacks like this.

Good morning! Brand new episode is out and it's all about...Sparta! What did the Spartans eat? And who were they? Who worked for the production of food? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Listen, share, rate and listen again! Would you eat black broth? #podcast #history #foodhistory #blackbroth

📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢 May's post explores a Greenwich widow's will which exhibits some clear favouritism📜 One son received the bulk of her estate, the other 'one Shilling and no more because of his undutifull behaviour' 🪙 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #EarlyModern

Turnpike Roads, by Pam Smith. For historians, turnpikes reveal how people, goods and information moved across the landscape before the arrival of modern transport. how-to-history.com/2026/05/27/t...

📢 New 'Will of the Month' Post over at @materialwills.bsky.social For May we look at the will of Mary Skelton, who died in Greenwich in 1725, and used her will to call out her son's undutiful behaviour 👇 @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

‼️ *EMERGENCY TRANS DEMO* 🏳️‍⚧️ Unite for an emergency protest outside Parliament on Saturday 23 May in response to new EHRC guidance. Trans rights are under attack. We need to come together and fight back. Trans inclusion is not discrimination! *One struggle, one fight* ✊🏳️‍⚧️

Solidarity now and forever with my trans friends, family and colleagues, and to trans people everywhere who have been told yet again that they don't belong in public life. I will do my best in my very small area of influence to prevent this rule being used against them.

📣New Social History Society blog Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social on 'Losing Lifelong Learning' 👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Yet there you are, outside.

Join me for some historic London walking tours. The first one on London's pubs is next week! More will be added over time & listed on How-to History. Pubs, execution sites, Roman London, & early modern food tours are currently on sale. I'm excited to share my London with you. #earlymodern

It dawned on me that I haven't had any Greek historians and/or archaeologists on the podcast, so it was a great pleasure to speak with Mariana; someone whos work i've been following for more than a decade! Please listen to this episode, and share with friends, colleagues, family! Xxxxx

Are you on board yet? Early backer incentives are only available for the first 48 hours. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

What the hell is all this Lovecraft Investigations business? youtu.be/_vZrfmN_lCQ?...

It pleases me to no end that our Power of Petitioning book is still being downloaded hundreds of times every month from the @uclpress.bsky.social website, two years after it was first published! 6,828 readers can't be wrong, so download the #OpenAccess book here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Five minutes to launch!

The launch trailer. Because it's launch day. We are at (nearly) T-2hours. youtu.be/_vZrfmN_lCQ?...