Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've lost a follower. I was probably being racist or something so fair enough. 040
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What about whataboutery? Isn't it a really convincing tool for argument? 010
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Queen Victoria's Journals online have vanished it seems. Does anyone know more? 400
Reposted by Christopher Guyver stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Beautiful Manchester. And off I go back to the States. 111
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just signed off an e-mail: Dr Christopher Guyver FRHistS Cringe but not cringe enough for me not to show off about it 060
Reposted by Christopher Guyver Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Can anyone point me in the direct of nice images of early modern female scribes at work? 0611
Reposted by Christopher Guyver stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ok, one more from beautiful Birmingham. (I'm really not being fair. I'm on campus which is very nice.). 121
Reposted by Christopher Guyver stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Beautiful Birmingham (I'm visiting the UK). 011
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Flexible concept, but is Trump the most famous man to become President? 221
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can feel a very quixotic political opinion coming on. Haven't felt like this since Sarkozy fell in love with Carla Bruni. 000
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Are all people in wheelchairs unemployable or is it just an argument against Mitch McConnell? 010
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026quarter of a century deleting H-France e-mails 110
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026'First they came for the Nazis, but I was a Nazi so that was me screwed.' 020
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Just wish I could have any sense of shame removed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midtermsSpeaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from. 000
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026clever people: what did Edith Cavell mean when she said that patriotism isn't enough? She was being executed for helping escaped British servicemen, which she probably wouldn't have done had she been, e.g., German. 230
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026wonder what Quentin Skinner thinks about Celebrity Traitors 000
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If I had visited Germany in the 1930s (& to continue the counterfactual: if I looked the same as I do now), I would have found the SS & SA polite and considerate, because I wouldn't be at first sight the sort of people whom they'd beat up. 2152
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My book is currently on sale for £13.99 as an e-book and £69.99 as a hardback link.springer.com/book/10.1057...link.springer.comThe Second French Republic 1848-1852This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival re... 030
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The SS & other perpetrators of the Holocaust didn't put themselves in danger. The use of police to keep order, help out with round-ups, etc., bears witness to this. Whatever weapons they carried were for exercising violence, not for fighting. Cowardice wasn't the gravest evil but it was there. 130