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Emma Southon
@emmasouthon.bsky.social
Roman Historian
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Big news! My upcoming book, Rebel of the Regency, is now available for preorder in the UK and Australia!!
It's not listed in every online store yet, but I have spotted her avail for UK preorder @blackwells.bsky.social and for Australian preorder @booktopia.bsky.social links below!
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Olivia Nuzzi's greatest contribution to the world is making everyone else (mainly me) feel much better about their own writing ability
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Depends if you've been spelling it c'nt, I guess
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Doing final proofs of the new book and I've somehow managed to get the word "cunt" in three times so far.
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Obsessed with this person who has given a popular non fiction book one star for the crime of using contractions.
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We have an answer!
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Don't suppose anyone younger and cooler than me recognises the person in the b&w poster here?
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Happy gazpacho soup day to everyone who still cringes to death over something they did that absolutely noone but them even remembers
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written!
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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There's the history podcast I make with @emmasouthon.bsky.social where we answer the questions you don't have time to research yourself
historyissexy.com
History Is Sexy
historyissexy.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Actually I would really like a 5 hour podcast that had none of the Greek stuff but told me about what the Persians were up to in eg Tajikistan or Pakistan or Afghanistan aka the 99% of their empire
I do wish it was possible to tell the Persian story narratively without such heavy emphasis on Greece though
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A new Fall of Civilizations episode is always great but this most recent one is a special delight because it reminded me that there was once a Persian King of Kings called Arses
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
For fully the last 15 mins of Del Toro's Frankenstein all I could hear in my head was Garth Marenghi.
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?

Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The context in which the Day Today skit is put into this documentary made me laugh so hard my friend asked if I was ok
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.

www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
The Ban
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Bro did you just flank my phalanx. My macedonian phalanx bro, you're flanking it aren't you. Why would you do that dude, I thought we were friends and here you are casually flanking my goddamn phalanx
November 18, 2023 at 12:15 PM
Every time I get a copy edit back I end up feeling like I should send the copy editor flowers to apologise for my shoddy typing.
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Been responsible for a child for three days and I feel like I've been run over seventeen times
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Here’s the final version of the cover of my upcoming book REBEL OF THE REGENCY! Truly an object of beauty, I couldn’t be more thrilled! Thank you to @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social for taking a chance on me!

The book is released in February; get all the links to preorder at rebeloftheregency.com 🤗
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Burst out laughing at the bishop of York claiming that today's world is "more polarised than ever" while celebrating the king having out with the pope for the first time in 600 years because of all the BURNING EACH OTHER ALIVE people did in the 1500s
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM