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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 1d

WHO’S THE BEST HENRY VIII?

V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social

Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Aug 28

So glad to hear this, Tony! Thanks for letting me know and I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

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Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social · Jul 19

Also @jessiechilds.bsky.social says so

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Jul 21

I do! It’s great 👍

Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · May 29

Massive congrats Jo! 🙌🌟

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Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social · May 29

It’s publication day for Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England with Michael Joseph @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!

Pop by your local bookshop or order now - uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · May 8

VE Day from Hammersmith!

Celebrating peace, freedom and civilisation.

Stay frosty ✌️

#VEDAY80

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 27

You’re very kind, Mathew! Thanks for sharing.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 27

Just aired on PBS. Different title.

www.pbs.org/show/simon-s...

Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

www.pbs.org

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thanks for reading the review! I think you'll love the book.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 27

Iain Pears’s latest book is non-fiction and I loved it. My review is in today’s Sunday Times @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/00d6...

The moving story of a Cambridge don and his Soviet lover

In Parallel Lives Iain Pears unearths the unlikely romance between Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina, two art historians from opposite sides of the Iron Curtain

www.thetimes.com

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 27

‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It comes step by step. Evil comes step by step.’

Auschwitz Survivor Marian Turski who died 3 months after being interviewed by Simon Schama for this chilling, deeply affecting, utterly essential film.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · Apr 3

Meta needs to PAY authors for what it has already STOLEN

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Apr 3

❤️

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · Mar 25

This happened yesterday - the launch of #StoryofaMurder with some of my favourite authors and historians (and the group hug after the photo). #SuzannahLipscomb #sarahchurchwell #davidolusoga #bettanyhughes #jessiechilds #alexvontunzelmann #matthewparker #LindseyFitzharris

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Mar 24

Loving the spring blossom, but looking forward to
The Blood in Winter!

Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Mar 24

📅 #OnThisDay (March 24, 1603): Elizabeth I's illustrious reign concludes with her passing. 🌟 @jessiechilds.bsky.social challenges the notion of Elizabeth's tolerance in our Series 7 episode.

Listen now at: pod.fo/e/18aeb8
<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#ElizabethI #Tudor #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · Mar 23

Dynamite review of #StoryofaMurder in today’s Sunday Times!

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Mar 23

So well deserved! I’ve just heard the first two eps and they are BRILLIANT!!
Bravo @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social
I can’t wait to hear more 🥳

Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · Mar 22

In less depressing news, I’d like to thank everyone who has been listening and sending lovely feedback to me & the brilliant @davidolusoga.bsky.social on our new podcast @throughtimepod.bsky.social. Thanks to you we hit No. 1 within a day of launching! We’re thrilled with the response. Thank you! 🥳

A screenshot showing Journey Through Time podcast at No. 1! Followed by The Rest is Politics, which makes me wonder if Alastair Campbell might be cross.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Mar 20

Looking for a new history podcast? Look no further! @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social join forces to shine light on obscure stories from the past in JOURNEY THROUGH TIME. First up is an explosive tale about a terror attack that damaged the Statue of Liberty in 1916 👇

Journey Through Time Pod @throughtimepod.bsky.social · Mar 20

"There’s something almost naive about the America of 1916..”🇺🇸

Watch or listen to the first ever episode of Journey Through Time now! 👇

🎙️https://linktr.ee/journeythroughtime
📺https://youtu.be/JBPQ-Hb2THQ

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thank you!

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · Mar 10

New on the writer’s bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @jessiechilds.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/mathewly...

The writer's bookshelf: Jessie Childs

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

open.substack.com

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Mar 5

I love this - a detail from Alison Watt's extraordinary triptych of paintings based on Oliver Cromwell's death mask.

Oil on canvas.
Incredibly lifelike, even in death.

It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · Feb 24

‘If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.’

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · Feb 24

The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial

America has turned on its friends - on.ft.com/3ERSO6o via @FT

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