Profile avatar
benphillips1989.bsky.social
Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
44 posts 153 followers 73 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 14 Comments 35

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 7 days ago • 228 comments

Give the lad a follow eh

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢 My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️ 📆Tues 12 March 7pm 🏫Bookbag 🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

@martinjstephens.bsky.social Welcome aboard, king

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

River Cartwright from Slow Horses is the Jack Grealish of the espionage world.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Never watched football on Prime before and was unprepared for what a nostalgia fest it is. Jim Rosenthal! Les Ferdinand! Martin O'Neill! Emile Heskey! Andy Townsend doing the co-commentary! A carnival of Barclaysmen.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

A lovely Boxing Day walk from Starcross to Turf Locks and back.

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

Will no longer be offering my unwavering support to people! My support from now on will be wavering

submitted 175 days ago • 29 comments

Spindle #embroideredhedgerow

submitted 185 days ago • 9 comments

This Advent, please spare a thought for Nigel Hess, chained to a piano in the Classic FM studios and forced to perform Christmas classics around the clock for below minimum wage

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Already tortured myself with Villa v Juventus this week so might as well watch this, can't be much worse

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

Ed Miliband better hope he didn't forget to pay any library fines 15 years ago

submitted 188 days ago • 25 comments

I seem to have finally succeeded in 'training' the BlueSky algorithm by liking a @jonnelledge.bsky.social post about transport nerds. Interested to see where this goes

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

Powderham after Storm Bert. I would have taken more photos from the castle side but it was getting dark and the road was flooded.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments