A lot of history as a practice is reinterpreting stuff that is well known, but every now and then you get to research and write about stuff that is genuinely unknown or certainly little known and you feel like you're actually tangibly adding to our collective knowledge of the past. It's thrilling.

Reform is weaponising reparations claims for its white nationalist project. Far from ‘making great sacrifices’ to end slavery, Britain extended forced labour around the empire and penalised formerly enslaved populations with debt:

alanlester.co.uk/blog/british...

This is amazing👏🏻👏🏻

Here’s hoping it causes the destruction of AI 👀

It’s always this one!

@davidveevers.bsky.social 🤦🏻‍♀️

People who think Bruce Springsteen cares about losing fans over political songs, have clearly not listened to or understood the lyrics of Born in the USA

I’ve been saying this for the longest time!

I have been involved in the history, heritage and culture sectors for many years, but I sometimes wonder whether debates about who or what appears on a banknote really matter. At a time when the world faces so many pressing challenges and inequalities, it can 1/2

I’m in that in between stage of my life where I’m young enough that my GCSE grades are in numbers instead of letters, but old enough to have absolutely no clue what “67”means🤦🏻‍♀️

I would have said something😂

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Guinea coin

The guinea was a gold coin introduced by Charles II, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814. The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins came from.

#history #17thc #c18th

Not what I wanna hear when it’s one of my biggest career goals😖

Anywayyy if there are any history-related jobs in and around NW England, please do let me know 😊

Honestly makes me howl when companies have clearly used AI for their job descriptions, but then warn people not to use it for their applications🤦🏻‍♀️

And yet those who will never promote the use of AI in historical research can’t secure funding for their projects 🫠 the projected landscape of historical research is filling me with existential dread

Disappointing to see historians I admire promote use of AI in their million € research project aimed at uncovering marginalised voices!

AI has no role in historical research & should be rejected by every academic that cares about the future of our discipline.

Don’t let the fox into the hen house!

I'm super happy to say my latest article on Caribbean sinew populations has been published with the International Review of Social History. It is available (open access!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks, Lou. Will message you now

This is fantastic! We need more of what you're doing in this world. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

I apologise, I thought I’d replied to this! I’ve recently finished my MA in Early Modern History so I’m currently on the job hunt. But I want to do as much as I can in public history (writing, making bitesized videos about Britain’s links to slavery etc). I’d love to hear your thoughts though😊

WE ARE SO BACK!!! 🥳

This is *all* I'm going to be talking about for the foreseeable future! #BBCGhosts #GhostsTheMovie Would LOVE a Yonderland movie as well...just saying👀

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

Congrats, Lou! Would love to give this a read😄

THAT'S MY HOMETOWN!💚💚💚

YESSS THE GREENS HAVE WON! 💚

Yes, I did stay up to watch the by-election results. Glad to know I can still pull an all-nighter - I thought I'd lost that ability ages ago.

Could I have worded things more eloquently? Maybe. I'm not saying presenters from a Global Majority background don't exist, nor am I having a dig at White presenters, but I can't remember the last time I saw a GM person present a history documentary. If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

Arzu Dutta - 16/02/2026 - BBC Sounds Conversation and music for South Asian communities with Arzu Dutta.

I come in at around the 1:16:00 mark and there are music breaks in between.

I was evidently really intense when discussing the lack of Global Majority representation in the media/broadcasting world (one of my biggest career goals ever is to become a presenter).

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...