@howtodohistory.bsky.social
Tours and tales, sometimes with a beverage in hand. History for those who see enjoyment and importance in the past. Run by Mr Cemetery Club (Sheldon K. Goodman) and Dr Battlefield Birding (Andy Lock).
Today, on its 26th anniversary, there will be an act of remembrance starting at the Admiral Duncan at 5pm and ending at St. Anne’s Gardens at 6:20pm. We remember those injured in 1999 and continue to fight for equality and being able to live our own lives with happiness and respect. #LGBTQhistory
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The Admiral Duncan bombing was part of a wider, targeted attack by neo-Nazi John Copeland, who had also targetted Electric Avenue in Brixton and Brick Lane in the East End between the 17th-30th April. An unattended bag containing a nail bomb detonated in the bar area, injuring 79 people.
30.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"To my son, Jordan. You'll never know just how much I could have loved you."
Those are the gut-wrenching words that Julian Dykes left with flowers at the funeral of his partner Andrea and their unborn son, who were killed on this day alongside her friends Nik Moore and John Light in 1999. 🧵
An extremely enjoyable day at Kenilworth yesterday. Something coming in the summer edition of English Heritage’s members’ magazine.
09.04.2025 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New substack is live! @bigandylock.bsky.social takes a look at recent developments at the Imperial War Museum!
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New substack is live! @bigandylock.bsky.social takes a look at recent developments at the Imperial War Museum!
open.substack.com/pub/howtodoh...
What IS Nelson’s Column?! Other than being a magnificent erection in one of our best open plazas. #history #london
10.03.2025 18:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is the terrifying way they used to go up it in the 70s. Almost impossible to believe the lack of H&S in those days…
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What IS Nelson’s Column?! Other than being a magnificent erection in one of our best open plazas. #history #london
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Happy International Women’s Day. As a pair of relatively well-meaning male historians, while not being ignorant of women’s history, we can’t do tours better than the exceptional team at Women of London. Please give them a look. www.womenoflondon.org.uk
08.03.2025 08:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1We are well beyond parody here.
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Photo of a clay tablet with round shapes impressed into is and traced drawings of objects separated into boxes
Photo of a clay tablet with traced drawings of objects separated into three boxes
For World Book Day, here is a clay tablet from ancient Uruk. It’s over 5,000 years old and preserves some of the earliest examples of writing.
The signs represent numbers and various products tallied up for a festival of the evening star, the goddess Inana (associated with Venus) #WorldBookDay
At Roland Garros tennis stadium today. The racquetty stuff is fine and everything, but this Great War nerd was rather more captivated by one of the ace’s prop blades which had once been rigged with a deflector to allow machine gun fire to go through it.
06.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Often regarded as one of the finest depictions of love at first sight…Sheldon describes his favourite painting at The National Gallery #arthistory #titian #renaissance #mythology
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How to do History does the Portland Vase! #britishmuseum #history #Roman #museum 🏺
03.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0How to do History does the Portland Vase! #britishmuseum #history #Roman #museum 🏺
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Often regarded as one of the finest depictions of love at first sight…Sheldon describes his favourite painting at The National Gallery #arthistory #titian #renaissance #mythology
howtodohistory.substack.com/p/love-at-fi...
We have a Substack! Join us every Wednesday with historical tidbits and trivia from the H2dH boys! #history #london #blog
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I’ve had a Bluetooth speaker taken off me at security. Foiled my plans for a rave in the Mesopotamia galleries
20.02.2025 19:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It is incredible to see what people bring with them when they visit The British Museum. Boxing gloves. Swords. Giant cuddly toys. Our advice? Travel light: get through the queues that much quicker. Give the security staff a break!
#britishmuseum #britishmuseumlondon #museums #london #queue
This was as silly as you would expect a Peter Hart book launch to be, but with excellent history behind it too. Looking forward to digging in to the book.
08.02.2025 11:55 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is superb - many thanks.
04.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is exactly the kind of thing we’re looking for. Another recce needed.
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An interesting day doing research at the Churchill War Rooms. Came across this fella on the transatlantic blower to President Roosevelt. #SIGSALY
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Prep time for a tour this summer means a trip to the archives. British Fourth Army approaching the Hindenburg Line in September 1918 anyone? #100days #WW1 #History
29.01.2025 18:22 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0What to see in the Egyptian collection at The British Museum…not the Rosetta Stone, we say. #britishmuseum #egypt #sphinx #giza
29.01.2025 10:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Hope Egyptology Bluesky doesn’t descend on us now 😬
29.01.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(Quiet believer that the Mesopotamian collection is more important and impressive than the Egyptian collection over here)
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