I’m very proud to announce that my book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936 (Boydell & Brewer, 2024), has been announced joint winner of the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize. The award is given to ‘the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history’.

The many 1000s of times people have put me down, incl. family -people who had the need to crush someone else, became way too loud in my head in the last few days & I couldn't hold on to anything good about myself at all. Tbh my mental health was 1/10 yday. I was struggling to

“Men, for 58 years: football's coming home, it's coming home Women: oh for god's sake I'll get it myself”

A very sad loss. Allan wrote some of the best books about cats that have ever been written and I suspect most of my UK followers have enjoyed at least one of his works

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1) read 2) re-read 3) re-re-read 4) re-re-re-read 5) submit 6) typo

The Ahlbergs' Legacy When your work makes people smile... When your work makes people say "Again!"... When your work leads to a love of words & language & books... When your work sparks creativity... When your work warms hearts, in classrooms and homes... It's a legacy of joy.

Tariffs are taxes paid by American importers, not foreign govts, meaning the money “flowing in” is actually coming from US businesses and consumers, not China, India or anyone else. It’s like robbing your own citizens and calling it foreign income. For someone who claims to be a

[1] I hate to get political. But this is a bad sign for a lot of businesses who rely on trade with the US. I run my own business, 65%-70% of my customer base are American. The repealing of the De Minimis duty free allowance of $800 to $0 will mean from the 29th of August my US

This Sunday evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be opening my Etsy shop for a limited number of my Victorian ink bottle tiny posy kits designed to improve mental health & just 5 of my 2025 half calendars (29cm square, the photos can be framed afterwards). I’ve created both kits &

🚨Holy shit. Someone made a new ad for Trump’s ballroom and it’s absolutely perfect. Trump would hate if this went viral…

The work is now finished to Joseph Boussu’s grave. As you can see from the first photo, no one had looked after his grave for a long time. Today it’s been completely overhauled; a new cross, and a new plaque. A grave befitting for Joseph, “Mort Pour La France”. #ww1 #1gm #somme

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now listed in my Etsy shop-link below They include: ✒️an antique ink bottle - you can choose your design 💐a tiny posy of dried flowers 🧠a booklet explaining the neuroscience of how & why this kit can improve mental health, how to create

The old girl has undergone another make over, this time of the airborne variety. She’s slowly turning into a US airborne ambulance jeep. Just need to collect the stretcher frame now. #ww2 #ww2jeep #dday

Remembering Lieutenants Arnholz & Eaton, both of the 1st Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment, on the 107th anniversary of their death. Both men died on 28 Aug 1918 in Achiet as part of the Bn’s objectives of that day and are now buried side by side in Adanac Military Cemetery #ww1 #somme

Hurray Sheila launches her new blog here- please read Maison Dieu Dover Danielle Gonzales Edward Louis Canterbury Association for Medieval & Early Modern University Bookshop Canterbury kchh.org/the-nightingal…

Despite widespread claims, there are not many mediaeval pubs still serving. The ones that survive are all inns. The best preserved is the New Inn at Gloucester. We know from tree-ring dating that construction began in 1432 and it was first mentioned in the records in 1455 🧵

I’ve been too unwell to work for most of this year due to a breakdown. If you enjoy my tweets & photos, would like to support me & have a spare second or two might you be able to RT my workshop in my previous post? It would help so much. Thankyou 🌿

Thankyou so much for your RTs of my workshop. I've only sold one space which is scary. I haven't been well enough to teach for months & I'm now recovering which is good but maybe people don't want to learn or buy things from someone who's had serious mental illness? Maybe that's

Your daily reminder that historically, white clean headstones weren’t always a thing until biocide use…