Great evening at UCL celebrating the launch of UCL Press Education Books & Journals "Teaching Slavery" resource - an amazing British history focused cutting-edge & highly readable work by a great team. AND THEY'VE MADE IT FREE! #history #blackhistory #british uclpress.co.uk/book/teaching-…

Was delighted (if terrified) to write this list for Society for Army Historical Research but very glad for the chance to big up the amazing work of Dale Cox! #History #BooksWorthReading #AuthorsOfTwitter

"But what is a good example of positive, joyful British working class culture in this miserabilist modern age?" "Well..."

Love #Sport, Love #Boxing, Love #History? Donate for a plaque remembering two great 19th Century Boxers at the site of their #pub - right where National Gallery is in Trafalgar Square today! Be part of bringing history back into the fabric of today! gofundme.com/f/blue-plaque-…

Hey Journey Through Time & David Olusoga & Sarah Churchwell, absolutely loving your work! I would very much like to talk to you about the largest successful enslaved uprising in American history, & how it has been forgotten by the US... and Britain - who helped it happen. #History

In 1909, during the State Opening of Parliament, suffragette Muriel Matters boarded an airship intending to "bomb" Parliament with 'votes for women' leaflets. In 1939, she reminisced about her aerial adventure: bbc.co.uk/videos/c88zzvj… #history #womenshistory #HERstory

One for you Dr Zack White & other #Napoleonic history friends! A fantastic discussion on This Guy Sucked about a French leader we all know so very well. open.spotify.com/episode/7N1Fvg…

It's nearly #Xmas & #BooksWorthReading are always perfect #gifts. Love military history? Love #adventure? Have a relative who does, buy "Black Redcoats" & share in the revival of an incredible history! #history #military #raisethecolours #british #america

Via National Army Museum - 19 Dec 1945, Viceroy of #India Archibald Wavell awards a posthumous Victoria Cross #VC to the widow an Indian Army soldier. Her husband was a British hero and she is wearing a #burka. 13/30 Indian VCs were posthumous in #WW2. #History #Burma Jack Bowsher - Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945

It's getting pretty punk in The Royal Society just saw their motto Nullius in Verba graffiti'd on a bridge over the M1 near Luton. #Latin #History #science

A huge thank you to all those who have contributed to the History Syndicate this year 🙏 46 eps in having started in Feb 25, it has been an honour to interview all the guests about their fab historical work All the best for 2026! See you there for more History Syndicate

In 2003 in #Iraq British soldiers took down Commonwealth War Graves memorial panels at #Basra #WW1 & #WW2 cemetery in expectation of renovation, this never happened. Does anyone know where the panels went? #history #optelic #army #British #raisethecolours

Reading "West African Way" about 5th Gold Coast Regt (#Ghana) in #WW2, they're fighting after building 73 miles of road thru #Burma jungle. A full pan-#african event, with #Gambia troops first engaging, followed by #Nigeria w/support fire from #Sierraleone #History Jack Bowsher - Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945

Good to see the 44th East Essex, a very fine re-enactment group indeed who've helped me at Apsley House and Wellington Arch, in today's #London New Year's Day Parade! Celebrating another glorious year of #Britain in the greatest city in the world! #History #Pride #LondonNYEFireworks

Come and listen to me be *very uncomplimentary* about the #UnitedStates at just the moment I may need to helicopter-proof my garden! #History #Politics #Currentevents

Oh yes, let's just aggravate the Americans when I don't even have a decent anti-Delta Force insurance plan. #History