Hugh Richards

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Delighted to see the excellent people responsible for History.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

His wiki page is mad. A catastrophically unlucky mariner…

But is the squaddie guessing, or is an old army comrade of Hitler speaking this stuff? That’s the question

So the “Hitler has only got one ball” marching song.

His medical records were clearly leaked/discussed by people with plenty of balls.

How maddening must it be to hear your enemy is singing about that en masse? I hope someone told him.

Makes you wonder if Himmler *was* ‘very simmler”

I just so happen to be teaching two different lessons about India tomorrow: Elizabethan exploration there with Y11 and East India Company rule with Y8. Looking forward to getting stuck into this:

A collection of interesting stories for History teachers from A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd. A thread. #history

Imagine emails were sent like post use to be- once or twice a day.

How would things change?

It’s sooooo dry

Within the first year of my daughter’s life, the Lionesses have won the Euros and the Red Roses have won the World Cup in front of sell-out crowds and huge tv audiences and it’s so wonderful to know she will grow up thinking that of course women play sport and of course everybody watches it

Today was Hampton Court, baby! First of three visits with Y11 for their History Around Us site study for OCR B. It didn't disappoint!

Hedgehog time!

Not anymore…

I was reading the other day that this is what they use to put the angel on top at Christmas

Just on the cover image alone they have just used asked AI to “make a more piratey Hugh Jackman” and left it at that.

@helenpins.bsky.social this gave me the ole’ twitchy eye…

It's not though and to say so denies Ukraine any agency.

DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.

I think it needs to have the impact of a Chadwick or a Rowntree report.

Important listen this - fascinating audio book!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

“Don’t worry, I’ll build him a hutch so he can get some air”

“Darling! Guess what! We won £30m on the lottery!”

“Oh that’s amazing! We could buy anything- we’ll get a new house, trust funds for the kids, we’ll give some to charity!”

“Oh. Well, actually, I’ve already spent it….”

It is genuinely weird. The palm has been there 17+ years but clearly decided this year was warm enough to try its reproductive luck

In ‘heat death of the planet’ news: my parents have a *fruiting* banana palm in their Cornish garden.

Exciting but ominous… 🍌🍌🥵

We do it towards the end, once they know enough to understand the debate and recognise the evidence the historian draws on

13 years ago today, I snapped this while crossing London Bridge on my way into town.

Such a moment of optimism and pride in London and these islands.

So what this country needs right now.

until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’