Last call to sign up to my Zoom talk this evening, "Doyle and Cricket: A passion for the game". Starting at 7pm! wegottickets.com/f/22404

And the weather was so hot that we almost witnessed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian umpire.

For all the talk of what "this Bazball team" has been through, Root is now the sole survivor of the original team

Most people think Sherlock Holmes began at 221B Baker Street. But Holmes began somewhere far stranger: in a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, where surgeon Joe Bell taught students to read a body like a crime scene.🧵 Here's the US 🇺🇸 trailer for SLEUTH-HOUND. Preorder: linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...

You can sign up here for my talk about Doyle and cricket on Tuesday 1st July!

Writers in Whites has been out for a full month! It's the untold story of a clique of famous writers - from JM Barrie via Evelyn Waugh to Michael Morpurgo - who all played cricket together, and how their cricket-based friendships transformed English literature and culture. "Superb" - @lrb.co.uk

Fun fact: unless I've gone wrong somewhere, Clement Attlee and Ted Heath are the ONLY prime ministers in British history whose time as PM began with winning a General Election and ended with losing one. And both of them eventually lost to the same man they initially beat.

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

Bleak thread. I just got an article placed in a peer-reviewed journal. Yesterday I got the finalised proofs, with a 72-hour window to sign off on them. The journal's publisher has subedited with AI, mangling some sentences into nonsense. I refuse to have this inserted drivel published under my name

My only regret from yesterday's interview with the incomparable @norcrosscricket.bsky.social is that we didn't coordinate our outfits better

Lovely tea time chat between @ollie-randall.bsky.social and @norcrosscricket.bsky.social on the Surrey livestream, talking Writers in Whites 🏏 #Cricket

May highlight #1: launching Writers in Whites at a cricket match, and speaking on writers' affinity for playing cricket while proving, with my own inept performance, that this is not always the case

My piece, about Writers in Whites and the literary cricket culture wars, is out in The Times today: www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...

"I became a detective in women’s cricket and found treasure in an old Lancashire cowshed." The Women in Whites is out on 1 June! www.waterstones.com/book/the-wom...

“Westminster needs to wake up…” An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.

I'm still so pleased with how they put the book together

NOW ON YOUTUBE: Two bonus episodes: Bonus 1 - The Feldkirchian Gazette with Philipp Schöbi www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBm... Bonus 2 - ACD and Literary Cricket, with Ollie Randall www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGku...

And we're underway! Writers in Whites had a double-header book launch, with a cricket match in Oxford on Sunday and a pub event in Vauxhall on Monday. Somewhere between 150 and 200 people came to one or the other - there was lots of enthusiasm and goodwill. I'm tired and very happy.

Thank you to Doings of Doyle - I really enjoyed recording this podcast episode about Writers in Whites!

My book has arrived! It exists in the world!

HEY IT'S ME! (it's my book being reviewed, and it's an extremely nice review, and also an excellent essay overall, I recommend a read)

The first review of Writers in Whites is out - AND it's in the @lrb.co.uk no less, by Ferdinand Mount - AND it calls my book "superb"! I am, as you can imagine, thrilled at this terrific turn of events. You can preorder it here: fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers...

@ollie-randall.bsky.social thank you so much for capturing the joy at the launch of ‘The New Eden: Wildlife in the City and Discovering Our Shared Home’ …now out in the world. A book about how much more nature there is in cities than we realise & recognising it can make cities so much more liveable

My debut book, Writers in Whites, is due to be published by Fairfirld Books on 15th May! It's the true story of a coterie of cricket-playing writers, from JM Barrie in the 1880s to Michael Morpurgo in the 1960s, which left a permanent mark on English culture. fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers...

The new conservative position on gun control is apparently that lawfully carrying a licensed handgun means you deserve to be executed in the street by masked federal agents

Mary Beard commands you to "go read" my latest TLS article. Her words, not mine www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Hallucinating spires

Congratulations to all four! The results were announced at a very enjoyable gathering of historians yesterday

Ollie took his research to a new level by actually playing for @authorscc.bsky.social over the weekend!

My article on cricket and Edwardian writers has been shortlisted for an RHS prize - if you want to give it a read, there's a link in this RHS spotlight

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

It turns out that Dr Kill, self-styled figurehead of the night, may not be as benign as he first appears

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature Beth Bhargava, ‘The National Front and Environmental Politics, 1967–90’, Modern British History bit.ly/43DNNrR 1/2

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

@moudhy.bsky.social hi - we met briefly at your Blackwells event in April. PhD-writing has interfered with finishing your book until now, but I just got to the end and I loved it. I hope it's been as big a success as it deserves! Thank you for humanising the topic so well

I'm excited to be shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org's early career article prize, for my piece on Edwardian writers playing cricket! It's a really interesting and eclectic list: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/05/28/r...

It's fascinating watching Democratic Party politicians who are behaving as if careerism remains a viable strategy with a long-term future under authoritarianism when you are on the losing side.

I'm delighted to say I've received an award from the @acdsociety.bsky.social for my contribution to Arthur Conan Doyle scholarship! I'm thrilled to have been chosen, alongside some superb winners in other categories: acdsociety.com

It's publication day (again)! My article's been available online for three months now, but today is the OFFICIAL launch of the relevant volume of Transactions of the RHS. So here it is! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A reminder that if you’d like to attend this talk on Monday, you can still sign up to listen to @ollie-randall.bsky.social discuss his work on interwar literary cricket via the link in the original post! You have until Sunday at 6pm to join us either online or in-person at @ihr.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to this! It's on subject matter I'm working on at the moment, so it's all very fresh and exciting for me

As one of the co-convenors for the Sport & Leisure History Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social, we’re looking forward to our next seminar in 2 weeks with @ollie-randall.bsky.social presenting his work on interwar literary cricket & You can sign up via the link below ⬇️ www.history.ac.uk/events/inter...

I just got asked to submit my social media handle for a talk I'm giving in a couple of weeks, and I'm excited to realise that I'm going to give my BlueSky for the first time

I'm such a trendsetter

My Open Access article, about Edwardian writers playing cricket together and why it mattered, has just been published by Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...