I’ve been working on my upper body strength, because I’m thinking about a post-retirement second career in moving goalposts.

As an American, I still find it incredible to live somewhere where it’s an actual headline that the cops merely *pointed* a gun at someone who had an actual weapon… before simply arresting him.

Check out our latest article 'Persuasive Forests for Maritime Britain: Canada and Britain’s Maritime Power from the War of the Spanish Succession to the Seven Years’ War' by Yuichi Hiono: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

No Malaysians affected by 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan thestar.com.my/news/nation/20… thestar.com.my/news/nation/20…

Check out my latest book review on the fascinating 'Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters', by Efterpi Mitsi & Anna Despotopoulou (Routledge, 2025) for The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The first 50 people visitors get to access it for free: tandfonline.com/eprint/YYGWDBH…

Have a read of the recent book review by Chong Xu on 'History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives' by Shigeru Akita, Springer, 2025: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Someone in Tuen Mun forgot their empty bottles, cups, bags, etc. Spread the word! I assume they’ve forgotten where they left them and are desperate to get them back.

Check out the recent book review by Yianni Cartledge Yianni Cartledge of 'Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters' edited by Efterpi Mitsi & Anna Despotopoulou (Routledge, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/030865…

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*chef’s kiss* Great stuff everyone.

Have a read of our latest article 'The Social Transactional Exchange in the Development of Colonial Education in Baringo, Kenya, 1908–1947' by Karani Shiyuka: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

48 years ago today, Soap debuted. We don't talk enough about how brilliant and underrated this show was. This scene. 😂😂😂

Man, when The Onion hits, it HITS.

Breaking Bad has an alternate ending on DVD where Bryan Cranston wakes up as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle — revealing the entire series was just a nightmare.

Not to brag, but my date returned after using the restroom

This is a wonderful and moving book predicting the replacement of books by screens published in 1996. The author repeatedly apologises for how pessimistic he sounds. He had no idea.

Singapore is so beautiful this time of year

Any other academics remember submitting journal articles or book manuscripts by dropping them in the post? And going to the mailbox to fetch the copy-editing queries?

Hello everyone! The Chief here, Robert Parish! Go easy on me, I'm new at this.