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Guy Walters

@guywalters.bsky.social

Historian, hack, presenter, runner. Wears dodgy trousers at https://www.instagram.com/guydressesup/ guy@guywalters.com

2,801 Followers  |  131 Following  |  313 Posts  |  Joined: 21.09.2023  |  2.0998

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I've just looked up what you're referencing!

01.11.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously it IS possible to rock and wear a tie. See: Bryan Ferry, Robert Palmer, Angus Young, Avril Lavigne

01.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A belated Happy Halloween!

01.11.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Would be great to have you along!

30.10.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all true! Go if you can. The hotel in Poland is gorgeous & serves an excellent Negroni.

30.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Berlin games.

30.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted my tour of the Great Escape and Colditz is running in April '26. Do come! We go to Berlin, Silesia, GΓΆrlitz, Dresden, Sachsenhausen, and we stay in some great places, visit some amazing sights, learn a lot, walk a lot, eat a lot, and drink a lot.
telegraph.tripsmiths.com/tours/guy-wa...

30.10.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.

19.10.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 671    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 5

Prince Andrew still has his titles. He's just no longer using them. It would be far more meaningful if he were actually stripped of them.

18.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!

17.10.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A newspaper cartoon of a 1902 barmaid pouring a glass of beer while two men look on with consternation

A newspaper cartoon of a 1902 barmaid pouring a glass of beer while two men look on with consternation

Pinned Post about my research.

The Tyrant of the Bar: The 1902 Glasgow Licensing Courts and the Barmaid Question

In 1902 Glasgow tried to prohibit barmaids. Read about the panic behind it, the legal realities and the working class women affected.

oro.open.ac.uk/100192/

19.03.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Thank you Margaret xx

17.10.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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lady gaga is sitting in a chair and smiling with a tumblr.com link below her ALT: lady gaga is sitting in a chair and smiling with a tumblr.com link below her

Not your fault. You were born that way.

16.10.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorrrreeee

16.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an incredible thread about an extraordinary life in the Second World War, and the return to civvy street after:

15.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

15.10.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
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Look for this weekend in Berlin. Seems only suitable.

14.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pigeon and partridge #autumn

12.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

You're everywhere! Like a rash!

10.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Am I Chap? October Edition - The Chap am i chap?, am i chap, lord fairhaven, anglesey abbey, leather trousers

Always good to appear in The Chap! thechap.co.uk/am-i-chap-oc...

10.10.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Am I Chap? October Edition - The Chap am i chap?, am i chap, lord fairhaven, anglesey abbey, leather trousers

Always good to appear in The Chap! thechap.co.uk/am-i-chap-oc...

10.10.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr JΓΌrgen MatthΓ€us, we now know the identity of the murderer in this most notoriously iconic picture of the Holocaust. His name was Jakobus Onnen. He was a teacher. My piece in the Independent:
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

09.10.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

08.10.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Front row.

09.10.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're an author, DO follow George. He's doing a lot of good work for the likes of us. It may seem Byzantine, but it's important.

06.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're an author, DO follow George. He's doing a lot of good work for the likes of us. It may seem Byzantine, but it's important.

06.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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