NOTING THIS. 🫤

Roses are red
I like to sin

This weekend, Adventures of a Tudor Nerd hit a big milestone of over 10,000 followers! Thank you all for the love and support. Thank you for allowing a history nerd to share her love of history and history books with you all. Here's to even more history adventures in the future.

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Archive Research, Photography & Digitisation I offer archive research and document photography at The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum, alongside digitisation of privately held material. As a military historian, I regularly work …

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below:

lucybetteridgedyson.com/archive-rese...

In line with the statement I made a few minutes ago about keeping a physical diary - also write down your favourite recipes! Yes you probably screencapped it off Instagram a few years ago, but write it down now so when you're gone people who love you can make it and remember you.

One of my big fears as a historian is how few sources future historians will have because everything now is digital and easy to delete. So if you don't want a blog, please buy a paper diary and spend 5 to 10 minutes every evening writing something about your day.

Illustration: a dour looking pig. Speech bubble reads “Look at this absurd joke. It is a well meaning but ultimately doomed construct designed to distract us from our inevitable journey into nothingness I shall not be complicit in its foolishness.” Caption: Werner Herz-hog

Werner Herzhog.
#art

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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This image shows a memorial blue plaque in Leeds dedicated to David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian man who died in 1969. Oluwale migrated to Leeds from Nigeria in 1949 and faced systemic harassment and persecution by local police officers. He drowned in the River Aire near Leeds Bridge in April 1969 after being pursued by police.

David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian, died in April 1969 after being “hounded to his death” by Leeds police; his body was found in the River Aire on 4 May. Born in Nigeria in 1930, he arrived in Hull as a stowaway in 1949 and later faced homelessness and mental illness in Leeds. OTD 18 April,

Thanks to the efforts of one dedicated Reverend, this unassuming little late Georgian church survived against the odds, overcoming the very real possibility of decay and dereliction.

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I am going to miss this as I am up the other end of the country but the death of Elizabeth Tufts really is worth knowing about. She didn’t even get an inquest

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

The biggest internet swindle ever perpetrated was scumbags like Zuckerberg and Dorsey-- two of the absolute worst people who walk the earth-- somehow convinced us all to abandon our blogs and websites for their sites. And we all went along with it, like dumbasses. And now here we are.

"But $12 isn't a lot". It is when you're making less than $100. What if you only use Draft2Digital for library distribution and make $15 a year and this fee takes away $12, leaving you with only $3? What if you made less than $12 and now you're paying THEM? Fuuuck that.

Understanding D2D's Activation and Maintenance Fees - Draft2Digital | Blog A brief explanation of D2D's activation and maintenance fees, which accounts are subject to them, and what this means for you.

Draft2Digital just dropped the news on their blog that they'll be charging everybody who sells less than a hundred dollars a year a maintenance fee.

Note, they already make a commission off of every sale.

draft2digital.com/blog/underst...

Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May.

Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians

The 11th/12th century All Saints Church, Aston Upthorpe in Oxfordshire; part of the local Churn Benefice. Said to be the site where Ethelred spent time praying ahead of the Battle of Ashdown in 871. Roof 14th Century, spire Victorian, Door Norman.

I guess I need to extend my already long list of comparisons between Trump and King John to include 'has a fight with the pope'.

In April 1940 Evelyn Dunbar was appointed an official, salaried war artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to record UK women's contributions to WW2, particularly the Land Army. In 2015 some paintings were found in an attic.
#WomensHistory

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker. A Life of Thomas Arundel by Chris Given-Wilson, "a must read for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating figure that was Thomas Arundel." amymcelroy.substack.com/p/book-revie... @amymcelroy.bsky.social @bec1926.bsky.social #History #BookReview

Final hurrah of the school break took us to Ickworth House today - an intriguing place and a huge one. Designed in the after-glow of a Grand Tour, the building is almost Palladian, but you sense that Andrea might have held back from the overmighty scale of this place. 1/2

Cover of a small board game. The main image is 3 girls in fancy dresses having tea. Around them are smaller domestic scenes. The title is written in 4 languages: The diligent girl as lady of the house = La ragazza diligente come patrona di cassa = Das fleissige Mädchen als Hausfrau = La fille appliquée comme maîtrise de la maison

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of going through some of the boardgames in the Library of Congress collection. We found a game not in @boardgamegeek.com: The Diligent Girl as Lady of the House. More below, but: Can anyone help me figure out the publisher? Can't make a BGG entry without one! 1/

The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.

🚨 Job alert! History Today is hiring a PT freelance copy editor, either remote or in the office. Please share widely! www.historytoday.com/jobs

*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Photos of London's earliest public firefighters found in storage The images were uncovered during an inventory of the London Fire Brigade's historic collection.

In a world of madness, the faces of London’s first fire brigade have been discovered.Their identities have been paired with documents which help to tell their stories.
Forgotten humans, salvaged from history’s silence.

Photos found of London's first public firefighters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Moreton Corbet

A twisting country lane that’s a pathway into history - this is sunrise at Moreton Corbet Castle, near Shawbury. I could hear linnets singing their hearts out in the tree above me as I set up my tripod in the early morning light. The original fortified house on this site was replaced... #Shropshire

This time last week my toddler threw up in his bed. To say I'm paranoid and jumping at every noise from the baby monitor right now would be an understatement.

As if the world wasn't a dark enough place, just received world Averil Cameron has passed away. She was a scholar of monumental stature in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. Her work on Procopius made a tremendous impression when I was still an MA student. And that's just the tip of iceberg.