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~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑‍🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑‍💻
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The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.

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This lil’ beaut lands in less than 3 weeks! It’s a funny, fact-filled guide to the Stone Age for kids aged 8+, co-written with @brennawalks.bsky.social I’d be v. grateful if you lovely peeps might pre-order a few copies, as it makes a MASSIVE difference to the success of a book — thank you! 🙏 📚😎

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

A great life! For more on Sake Dean Mahomed, check out our episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me 👇

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Like many, I grew up on CBBC's Horrible Histories, which covered a wide variety of periods from the Groovy Greeks to the Blitzed Brits of WWII ...but it missed out the Fleecy Frisians! I was inspired to use the HH art-style to make an ident for a lesser-known historical period / focus

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Great profile of former Spurs goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman in today’s Sunday Times

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Devastating trolling for my Fathers Day 😂

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‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The deafening roar of the jubilant, jingoistic crowd… 😬

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it's kind of wild that tottenham hotspur threw a bigger parade than the us military

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Wow! 😮 youtu.be/iO24SGs4B_k?...

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Fortunate Son! An anti-war song about rich kids dodging military service!

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In the American Revolution, British satirists used elaborate French hairstyles to mock the rebel colonists, who got support from France against their mutual enemy. Fascinating to see this imagery come full circle with a very different meaning. #NoKings

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Great news! The incredibly funny, BAFTA-winning comedy Such Brave Girls is back soon on the BBC. If you’ve not seen series 1, do yourself a favour and find it on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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I do enjoy a mindbending Adam Curtis doc www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

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The news is terrifying right now, every day violence is escalating across the world

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It’s that time of year again when the people who design Father’s Day cards are convinced dads only like football, golf, gardening, racing cars, beer, fishing, ties or farting.

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Hot, flat songbirds update!

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I love writing for children but one thing I find very hard is working out how old the parents and grandparents of an 11 year old are likely to be, and all the calculations involved and assumptions of average ages of fertility. They never told me there'd be maths and statistics in fiction. #KidLituk

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