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gregjenner.bsky.social
~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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MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in historic vote

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My daughter just called us up to her room, saying she couldn’t sleep because she was scared of “space goats” I don’t know what to do with that

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The corn god's appetite for blood is never ever sated.

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By the way, thanks to your support, the kids from this school did brilliantly in Vienna! 😀 www.farnhamherald.com/news/victory...

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Many historians are quite bad at remembering historical dates

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The average author income is about seven grand a year.

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Not only does “AI” produce mediocre garbage, it has a huge environmental footprint *that we cannot measure*. The government is allowing these companies to act like literal outlaws. They steal our data, they will enjoy relaxed building regulations and they refuse to disclose their water consumption.

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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! 🙏 📚😎

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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

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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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