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🤼 1880s boxing & wrestling historian 🥊 London's Cockney, Cumbrian, Caribbean pugilists ✍🏻 Moscow, Munroe, Goodson, Wannop 👊 Advisor #AThousandBlows 👩🏻‍💻 PR @britsciassoc.bsky.social 🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea 🖤 www.grapplingwithhistory.com

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Re. savagely specific: I once overheard two young blokes talking about me on a bus and one said I was "fit" and the other replied "mate, she lives in a coffin though". Not even mad 🤷🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️

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If you're interested in electoral data, take a look at this - it's tremendous

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On a big flat mushroom or two with a little breadcrumb!

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Call me a bit woke or something, but why does EVERY single activity for babies and toddlers in my area at all the leisure centres, church halls, libraries etc take place during Monday to Friday office hours? Except for Baby Ballers football and 'Dad's Club'. Which are, of course, on Saturdays...

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It's always a rare victory when doom scrolling through page after page of shit you have no interest in on your streaming service that you just fall ass-backwards into an amazeballs show that flew completely under your radar A Thousand Blows on Hulu/Disney+ is 😘 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt21874900/

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We're making a film about a man who started collecting other people's pocket diaries after discovering something dark in his own childhood diary – something he'd repressed. More about that later. For now, I wanted to share a few of my favourite tender, funny or laconic close-ups!

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My favourite thing about Jack Wannop is that there are a lot of stories where he is in a pub but precisely none about him being a drunken menace. Never kicked or bit or threw a bowl at a cop. Never jumped on a sailor. Never did a murder. A veritable angel amongst 1880s pisshead pugilists 🥹

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In the 1880s Jack Wannop boxed and wrestled world champions like Evan 'The Strangler' Lewis and George Godfrey. In the 1910s he worked as a carpenter in a Deptford, South London, biscuit tin factory, then fell on hard times. I recently found this 1922 clip - a former trainee hoping to be reunited...

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The world might be terrible right now, but at least you're not an Edwardian man who had a foreign object removed from his bum (torch, pebble, broom, anti-aircraft shell) or willy (needles, toothbrush), put in a glass case at a museum, and used for comedy material a century later 👍🏻

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'FRIENDS who found an unexploded bomb on Clacton beach said they "thought it was a rock" and "started throwing it against a wall".' 'I actually called a war shop first to see if it was worth any money but they told me to call the police.' 😆 www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/2512149...

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Why is this making me laugh so much

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Warmest day of the year so far, looking forward to taking my kid to the beach after work, lovely evening walk... Huh 🧐

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Really enjoyed Amber Butchart talking about Regency era British seaside dress and behaviour change at @histfest.bsky.social yesterday. In April 2025 Clacton town centre, where it is 17 degrees - very pleasant, but still only 17 degrees - several British males have simply stopped wearing shirts 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Just going to quickly get deeply engaged in post war football brb 🥹

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Kate talking about significantly taller than average buxom lady Emma Hamilton just sort of running around jiggling around freely and then fainting dramatically on top of weedy one-armed scarred up little guy Nelson and him then fainting too will live on in my brain for a good while I reckon.

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FINAL spring book tour talk about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, Mon April 28, 5:30pm, King's College London. And a conversation with @philipcball.bsky.social! Reception follows. Free registration! 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-...

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@sophiemhistory.bsky.social stares very ominous

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I was informed the other day that St George's moved this year and is actually tomorrow. Which is great, because here's Jem Smith again 👍 Have an egg and a sherry for breakfast to start your week and you too can have thighs like Jem!

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Exciting career highlights thanks to @histfest.bsky.social - last year I bought Brian Cox (Scottish, no relation) a latte and today I get to say the words 'whores and harlots' on the stage of the British Library 🤜🏻

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