Richard Hammond

Yeah same, has started to usurp Spidey to some extent here but again the songs are decent so again no complaints

‘Super hero on the beat’ is a classic. Good lyrics

The broader Spidey playlist is on a lot at our place/in the car at the moment and I genuinely don’t mind it. Some catchy songs. Take the small wins wherever you can find them I guess

Plea for help: can anyone direct me to any published and/or online *primary* sources regarding the Reorganized National Government of China/The Wang Jingwei Regime that are, ideally, in English and would make good talking points for final year UG students on themes of occupation/collaboration? 🗃️

Success! Avoided spoiling the result *and* got the desired result!
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Right, current challenge: stay off the web for the next 3-4 hours or so to avoid giving away the rugby result, so I can watch the recorded World Cup final after the kids are asleep.

Living the dream. ish.

Just caught up with the rugby semi final and was delighted with the result but also to see it featured someone who I once briefly taught (even if she missed much of the module to play WXV)!

O Canada! 🏉

📰 Just published! My latest article in @modernitaly.bsky.social looks at how Mussolini’s regime used the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) to expand Italy’s influence in Francoist Spain between 1936 and 1943. You can read it open access here:
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lots of it is very good but I’m not sure I could bring myself to eat Casu martzu.

I was more just curious why the lines appear to converge there

Does this map centre on Sardinia? Does that mean Sardinian food is in every category?

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Haha! Also have you written a book on ‘American military policy’?

How’d you manage to land a ‘paid grifter’ role?

Asking for a friend

Finally some good news

This document from @crusaderproject.bsky.social (who is fully acknowledged ofc) features in a forthcoming journal article of mine. I’ll post further details when it’s published.

I refer you to a previous post of mine some time back about cheese shortages in Sicily in 1940…

Just excellent.

Minor quibble that they didn’t actually launch many during the war, of course.

Reviewer 2 has entered the chat I see

A robust beer, full of depth, with intellectual (foot)notes

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Did they ever do a sequel about villainous Grandma Swag?

I haven’t read it in a long time but David Reynolds wrote that article back in the 90s that called the FoF the ‘Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century’, linking the global wartime and postwar impacts with some counterfactual discussion. Although I do remember thinking the argument was too Euro-centric

England celebrate becoming the champions

Well that was….better?

Did Chloe Kelly just pull a Daniel Larusso?

Can’t be doing with these penalty shootouts. How am I supposed to sleep after that?

Yeah a lot of overlapping text, especially over Europe

World map of German Armed Forces secret radio transmitter network, 1939

Today’s random find: a map of the secret radio transmitter network of the German Armed Forces, 1939.

Indiana Jones and the Quest for Quoracy.