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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2h

Restaurant owners playing bossa/samba/nightclub jazz covers of pop classics: can you stop now? It’s tiresome. Ditto people producing albums of same. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 18h

It’s *always* just a bad apple

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 18h

I guess there’s a difference between saying someone ought to be killed and threatening to do it. I mean, I think Stephen Miller should be hanged but I am not threatening to hang him.

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting seminar series on environmental history

SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 1d

📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE
Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preisler-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk
“About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads”
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

Is this some sort of antisemitic thing?

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Disappointed that they’re being served

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Favourite post today: someone saying that the US Left had three years to find an ideologically acceptable alternative to Newsom to stand for president. Sort of sweet really.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I see his face I have an optimistic image of a grainy black and white picture of him flanked by two military policemen, having a bag placed over his head.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

It was very effective against a Macedonian-style pike phalanx. Less so against lots of other enemies. In pretty much every other case of Roman conquest in the West anyway, it was numbers, armour, training, logistics that explained why the Romans won.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. If anything I think it has a longer pedigree in the Uk left than among the conservatives (of the pre-Thatcherite bent anyway).

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Periodic reminder that hostility to 'useless' arts and humanities degrees is another (though much, much longer-standing) area of Labour/Conservative consensus.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Unless they meant principal figures/thinkers.. no I'm just clutching at straws here

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Well said

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations, Merle.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

What makes me so angry is that terrible work like Hicks', by providing the Empire-apologists with an easy target and a string of egregious errors, allows the reactionaries to tar the whole Empire-critical project as based on untruths and misinterpretations and thus dismiss critiques out of hand.

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Graduates from these subjects earn less apparently, ... because income is obviously the only way to judge the value to the country of a job.
That said (speaking as a former history/archaeology professor), hostility to arts and humanities degress has always been a rare area of cross-party consensus.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Careful now.

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Well said, Sam

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Damn right. This whole thread is (mostly) a disgrace that belongs in the bad old days Twitter.

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

This fraud showing up in my timeline during a brief visit to the hell site that is Threads - long enough for me to block him - reminds me that I haven’t posted this for a long while.

Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · Jan 12

Now we arrive at the ‘finding out’ part of the proceedings.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core

Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography

www.cambridge.org

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going to stick my neck out here and predict that the party currently banging on ever louder about Britain being a Christian country will say that bishops have no place in politics.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

I’m going to stick my neck out here and predict that the party currently banging on ever louder about Britain being a Christian country will say that bishops have no place in politics.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

We can but hope that it turns out not to violate Federal law, I guess.

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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d

For any hacks writing about Newsom’s latest trolling, Marie Antoinette was *not* the last queen of France. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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