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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 8h

So does Old Hamlet count as someone who dies in Hamlet? #thetraitors

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 8h

It’s proper telly innit

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 9h

Love the way Claudia clomps like Hans the sagacious horse

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 18h

quite splendid BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 hour of sparkling philosophical discussion of the universal topic of ‘the good life’. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
with Sophie Scott-Brown, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Rachael Wiseman
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What is a good life?

Matthew Sweet and guests explore what it means to live a good life.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! They seem to have mixed up a Missy book with a Master book here…

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot emphasize enough how much the 1915 Italian adventure film THE JOCKEY OF DEATH lives up to its advertising campaign

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 4d

Well thank you *very* much, Sophie Scott-Brown, Rachael Wiseman, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie and Sudhir Hazareesingh for coming on to FreeThinking to discuss the Good Life. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5d

Jean Béraud's picture of a gentleman's club (1904) is painted in a few warm, deep colours. There is no central figure, and the men are positioned in such a way that their faces are either partly or entirely hidden. Privacy in a private club.

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 5d

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week
pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 5d

Afternoon’s work for Barbara Cartland

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 5d

Gurkha's in Syndenham was a delight!

Listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social talk about this South London gem, and the many wonderful books Matthew has both written and read so far this year. @quercusbooks.bsky.social

FULL EPISODE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOs...

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6d

Some thoughts on on the Manchester synagogue attack:

1. This is the first deadly attack against Jews in the UK in my lifetime. That's a big contrast with the US and France, which have seen numerous fatal antisemitic terrorist attacks in recent decades.

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The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social · 6d

🚨NEW EPISODE!

@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social, author of 'Bookish', based on the hit TV series starring @markgatissjp.bsky.social, Polly Walker, Connor Finch, Buket Komur and others, meets @jackaldane.bsky.social at Gurkhas in #Sydenham.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 9d

#DoctorWho postcards materialising in my Etsy shop soon. 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories.

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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d

Big thank you to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for joining me at Gurkha’s in #sydenham to talk about #bookish on @bookingclubpod.bsky.social – out soon!

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 9d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Jack Aldane @jackaldane.bsky.social · 9d

Ahead of dinner with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for @bookingclubpod.bsky.social...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 9d

Urban wildlife of south east London

A Henry Hoover sans nozzle contemplating freedom on the streets of south east London

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 10d

Said goodbye to an old friend today. Stood at the lectern in the c.14th church and did my reading. He was born in the village, lived here, died here. Seems an amazing achievement.