Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Here's a still from the BBC report about the late, lamented Enkidu's visit to the boatyard site the better part of twenty years ago. And nothing has happened since.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here's a still from the BBC report about the late, lamented Enkidu's visit to the boatyard site the better part of twenty years ago. And nothing has happened since.
Aeneid 7:107-27 is the invention of pizza (and thus also the proof that the Trojans have reached their final destination in Italy).
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Aeneid 7:107-27 is the invention of pizza (and thus also the proof that the Trojans have reached their final destination in Italy).
The chatbot thinks you have a playbook.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The chatbot thinks you have a playbook.
This reminds me of something I published not so long ago.
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This reminds me of something I published not so long ago.
For #WorldWalrusDay, my 2014 #walrusselfie (on the occasion of my mum's 75th birthday) with the one-and-only Horniman Walrus (of course).
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
For #WorldWalrusDay, my 2014 #walrusselfie (on the occasion of my mum's 75th birthday) with the one-and-only Horniman Walrus (of course).
It's an odd-shaped image, but let's see if this works.
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's an odd-shaped image, but let's see if this works.
A flying visit to Oxford, so I popped in to see the cat.
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A flying visit to Oxford, so I popped in to see the cat.
Lieutenant LEONARD STOPFORD BROOKE, 110th Squadron RAF, reported missing 25th September 1918, later unofficially reported killed in action, Western Front, aged 23. He's one of only a very small number of Allied servicemen buried in Germany, at Bad Bergzabern Cemetery. My great uncle.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Lieutenant LEONARD STOPFORD BROOKE, 110th Squadron RAF, reported missing 25th September 1918, later unofficially reported killed in action, Western Front, aged 23. He's one of only a very small number of Allied servicemen buried in Germany, at Bad Bergzabern Cemetery. My great uncle.
Here he is with Josephine, in September,
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Here he is with Josephine, in September,
Émile de Laveleye, Le Gouvernement dans la Démocratie:
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Émile de Laveleye, Le Gouvernement dans la Démocratie:
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Inauguration of a new Bialetti machine.
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Inauguration of a new Bialetti machine.
Not *especially* Tory these days (a West Londoner writes).
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Not *especially* Tory these days (a West Londoner writes).
Jo was interviewed by de Volkskrant, who asked about Ptolemy.
www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...
www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...
September 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Jo was interviewed by de Volkskrant, who asked about Ptolemy.
www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...
www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/de-we...
@claireon.bsky.social I saw that you followed me On Here, looked at your bio, and wondered if you might be interested in the fact that I have a watercolour by (my first cousin) Charlotte Brooke (1740-93) above my desk?
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@claireon.bsky.social I saw that you followed me On Here, looked at your bio, and wondered if you might be interested in the fact that I have a watercolour by (my first cousin) Charlotte Brooke (1740-93) above my desk?
Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Spot the difference between the idealists and the materialists.
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spot the difference between the idealists and the materialists.
This is from the chatbot, so may be horseshit, but I ran a version of your query through it, and this is what it said:
August 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is from the chatbot, so may be horseshit, but I ran a version of your query through it, and this is what it said:
For #WorldElephantDay, here's J.-P.-L. Houël's classic depiction of elephants having sex in 1803 (from the British Library):
(h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)
(h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)
August 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
For #WorldElephantDay, here's J.-P.-L. Houël's classic depiction of elephants having sex in 1803 (from the British Library):
(h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)
(h/t @diderotesque.bsky.social, author of the magnificent article "The Book of Job & the Sex Life of Elephants", Journal of Modern History vol. 91 [Dec. 2019]: pp. 739–75.)
No cheating, post your lock screen.
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
No cheating, post your lock screen.
A flying visit to Oxford, where it is delightful to see Ptolemy in his habitat.
July 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A flying visit to Oxford, where it is delightful to see Ptolemy in his habitat.
Chris Smith is the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
July 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Chris Smith is the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
BBC will no longer broadcast ‘high risk’ performances
July 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
BBC will no longer broadcast ‘high risk’ performances
Also!
This photo of the two of us makes me laugh:
This photo of the two of us makes me laugh:
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Also!
This photo of the two of us makes me laugh:
This photo of the two of us makes me laugh: