Davey Cameron is a pie

Doing all this bloody work on a city that won’t bloody be here

Hanging out with 66.67% of my siblings

Helpston level crossing gates have failed twice in the last few weeks and if National Rail need me to go and give an illustrated talk on the history of level crossings on that particular stretch of line, I am available...

NAME OF THE WEEK is a typo. His name was Cook.

History on a Saturday morning

Rosalind Franklin Leaving her notes in a pile That she keeps by the door Who is it for? Awful James Watson Stealing the credit And snaffling all the awards Misogynist bore

Look, my kids' nicknames are Goose, Kitten and Beans. Priscilla could have it a lot worse.

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playing Nick's reaction to finding out Alan was a traitor to myself for the rest of the night. #CelebrityTraitors

The historian has fucked it, I repeat. The historian has fucked it.

Look I love him

Right, off to shatter everyone’s image of the railway as a lovely wholesome place to work, see you there if you’re coming!

Leonard BERNSTEIN

Florrie N, Bazalgette Antibiotics not just yet Poppies for malaria In the Fenland area

In the style of Billy Joel:

Trying to cover the history of nineteenth-century medicine in ONE PARAGRAPH because I am SUCCINCT

I wish BBIH would let you filter academic publications, not because I am a giant snob, but because it would be really helpful when doing a thematic search...

Brianna keeps getting written about, even if not especially her own mother, like she tragically killed herself rather than was murdered in a transphobic hate crime

We all stan Nick Mohammed right?

COME TO MY RAILWAY TALK… this one isn’t in it but it’s … pretty standard for the time One guy climbed out of the line-side window of a carriage and that ended badly

THIS IS TOMORROW! IF YOU LIKE THAT SORT OF THING!

It's Bonfire Night and the mid-Victorians had a bizarrely blasé attitude to gunpowder sophiemhistory.com/2021/11/04/b...

My endometriosis isnt killing me (this week)

Tragically, many Uruguayans have never heard of Fray Bentos pies. There's a great museum in Fray Bentos where the Anglo meat processing plant used to be, and every 6 months some English tourists bring them a gift of a Fray Bentos pie. They are thanked politely.

In other news, I've been playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and... French Robert Pattinson, I love you* *Yes, I know, shh

FACKIN WHAT?

You know I have no money or job from January and all these magnificent CfPs keep cropping up.

I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

TODAY, I shall read my railway chapter ALOUD to see what's MISSING because something is and it might just be an argument

I am a school governor, albeit in primary schools, and encourage parents to write to the governing board of these schools (which will typically be the Board of Trustees of the MAT) and *ask to see the evidence upon which this behaviour policy was developed*

Eldest has the day off college and is watching the original Scream movie. All I can hear is Neve Campbell yelling her bloody head off.

As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n

I treated myself to this candle and it is tiny and cost nearly £40 and I dare not burn it so following this thread...

Supremely professional. An LNER train is usually going around 125mph through Conington and it's about 8 miles from there to Huntingdon station.

Thinking a lot about the train stabbings and how fortunate it was that the driver was able to stop at Huntingdon, which is a stone’s throw from an A+E.

Horrible news from the ECML tonight. My thoughts are with everybody involved.

WHY DIDN’T VICKY TURN AROUND WHEN THE MUSIC DEMANDED IT? #scd

In Jan 1875, a young servant asked for and was given a Friday night off. She went home to see her boyfriend, who had five days leave, and he said... you should have more time off. Harriet, the servant, agreed. She wrote to her employer and said "I will be back on Monday"

Bong, two months to go

Spooky

OK, today I've been to Audley End and that's quite fitting because the Friday Murder: Hallowe'en Edition took place at Saffron Walden. In the workhouse. On 31st October 1898.

I’ve got a horrible Halloween murder story for you later… and it’s free to read. Ghastly treats.

I was trying to work out why people didn’t sue the railway following accidents in any great number in the 19thC despite the Fatal Accident act existing. Anyway, it’s coz the FAA was for the rich folks only

What the fuck did they find out?

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I am not a lawyer AND YET I find myself confidently writing about torts of trespass like I have any idea what that means

And yet I could doxx anyone in about four and a half minutes using records on Ancestry.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, COME AND LISTEN TO ME BANG THIS PARTICULAR DRUM FOR A FULL HOUR NEXT WEEK

Right lads, we are going with a (slightly amended version of) Diane Drummond's definition as a place where the economic, physical and spatial form of a settlement is either set or adjusted to meet the needs of a railway company.