Maureen Wright

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Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

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#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

Thanks to the peerless scholarship of Dr Jürgen Matthäus, 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/...

Natch. The Star ⭐ always sits in the best seat!

Thanks @danellin.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to giving this lecture at the wonderful International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln in March. See you there !

Done.

Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of Rivals dies aged 88 after fall - BBC News

Excellent tribute from HMTQ 👑 to her late friend. 👇

A real harvest feel.

A valuable work space for scholars now open at the Bishopsgate Institute - I used the archives here while researching for my PhD. A positive development.

Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a …

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities.
womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

How did that happen?

Always to the Manor Born.

Auditioning for the next series of Riders, perchance?

Congratulations 🎉

‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London In 2010, the Galleries of Modern London opened at the Museum of London, and included a re-making of London’s Pleasure Gardens. Using an embedded ethnographic perspective at the museum, this paper e...

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

Image of badges with logo 'I know the value of history' and text 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it's time for a political response.'

"We live at a time of considerable uncertainty and peril. We believe this future will be easier (if never easy) to navigate with recourse to the skills and temperaments integral to a historical approach to life."

RHS President, Lucy Noakes, writes on the Society's blog bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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You got this via ChatGPT! Amazing. Psychologists, it seems, can b*g off. Can't help wondering what it might say to me...lost 4 skins...1 to go. Might be fit to be seen with soon.

True...you should have been a member of Spandau Ballet in their early days. (Extra marks for spotting my clever pun.)

You've bowled all the maidens over again! Natch.

But not very often seen!

Midlife? Guy is permanently 39.

Oh. My.

Going to read on the strength of this review.

I'm seriously impressed. You can't have gone to the same clerical educational institution as my husband. Not that he's a team sport player.

Champagne proof trousers will also be necessary for your book launch.

Maybe, just maybe, it's time to realise that WW2 shouldn't be treated as a foundation for defining nationhood. History should never be forgotten, but I would prefer to define Britishness through values and not victories, friendliness and not flags, and harmony rather than heroes.

You're giving Will something to aspire too.

There'll be more fivers soon, promise. I've just spent a micro fortune in Coles bookshop.
Delighted to learn you're not going to walk 100km in 'the' trousers.

Nazis, Spies & Fakes: Ten Years at the Coalface of History Nazis, Spies & Fakes: Ten Years at the Coalface of History eBook : Walters, Guy: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Many years ago I put out my historical journalism as an ebook. If you want to dip into pieces about the likes of Adolf Eichmann, Donald Maclean, Francis Drake and Simon Wiesenthal when you're on a train, then consider Nazis, Spies & Fakes for just £1.99!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EXPB7HI

Sometimes things do take the course of a meandering stream on here...but then, I've been in purdah in Devon for a week. Things will hot up on Friday.