Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Me most of the time: oh I'm from the North East, it's okay nobody knows it that well - haha not quite Newcastle but Haway the Lads and all that!! :) Me during the General Strike centenary: THAT'S D-U-R-H-A-M TO YOU - IS THAT A MIDLAND ACCENT I HEAR? YOU *RAT*, I WILL ONLY TALK TO THE WELSH 000
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Now to celebrate my triumph with a coffee stout and some BBC Archive footage of old branch lines. 110
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Making a pancake out of Yorkshire pudding batter and using it as a rudimentary tortilla for a Christmas Dinner Leftovers Burrito is both my greatest culinary invention and my greatest crime. However, I did look extremely smug walking into the living room holding a full Christmas dinner in one hand. 110
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Twelve places in labour history sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in... 0125
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Responding to a threat to lock down my entirely sheep-based economy with "I'd rather die standing than live kneeling" Churchill wishes he was me 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Christmas Day 2025, also known as ground zero of Duncan's Catan phase 010
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Concluding our series on places in labour history, Greg Billam takes us to St George's Plateau, Liverpool, where crowds have gathered for more than a century for key social, political, and cultural episodes in the city’s history sslh.org.uk/2025/12/24/s...sslh.org.ukSt George’s Plateau, Liverpool: a place in labour historyConcluding our series on places in labour history, Greg Billam takes us to St George’s Plateau, where crowds have gathered for more than a century for key social, political, and cultural epis… 0155
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Christmas holiday reading off to an interesting start as I swing dramatically between Corinne Fowler and Tim Key. 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Is there anything as liminal as an intercity train at night? I have absolutely no idea where I am most of the time. This is probably what Purgatory looks like these days 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025So much easier to write this way! Where the blank Word document feels cold and hostile, there's almost something inviting and exciting about the blank notebook page. My go-to strategy for beating writers block is to ditch the laptop and pick up a pen! 030
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The future of England is a Sunday roast with Yorkshire puddings and Jolof rice and that is not a force that can really be slowed 415613
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025We have a new guide to archive sources for #co-operative #history on the website. You can download the 35-page PDF here sslh.org.uk/2025/12/07/s...sslh.org.ukSources for Co-operative History in the UKClick to download. The Society for the Study of Labour History has created a guide to sources for co-operative history in the UK. Compiled by the Society’s Archives and Resources Committee, the gui… 12823
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025In our continuing series on places in labour history, Mike Mecham argues that West Ham and Canning Town in East London form a cornerstone of the British labour movement sslh.org.uk/2025/12/08/w...sslh.org.ukWest Ham: a place in labour historyIn our continuing series on places in labour history, Mike Mecham argues that West Ham and Canning Town in East London form a cornerstone of the British labour movement. There is a good case for We… 0189
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Entered the pub and Liverpool were 2-0 up against Leeds. Wondered where the Liverpool I'd seen this season had gone? Five minutes pass and it's 2-2. Ah, there they are. 000
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonSociety for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The first three posts in our Places in Labour History series are now on our website. Duncan Hamilton on the County Hotel and Durham Miners’ Gala. Jane Donaldson on the 1938 co-operative movement pageant. Mark Crail on the burial place of Chartist writer Helen Macfarlane sslh.org.uk/tag/place-in... 053
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Great read, Mark. Always preferred Helen's hobgoblin to the more conventional spectre! 110
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Writing a bit about pubs in Chartism (Cooper advocates for them as meeting places in his novel but doesn't mention the whole, you know, drunkenness aspect). Having a fun moment getting to quote from the Chartist Circular's teetotal address that my 3x and 4x great-grandfathers both signed. 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Many thanks, Mark - had a lot of fun writing it up! 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025As much as I'm a scholar of Chartism, I'm also a Durham lad. It was great, therefore, to have a chance to write about one of the first sites to inspire my interest in British labour history, situated at the heart of the Miners Gala. 1132
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025My Thomas Cooper library grows in size and splendour with an extremely rare first edition of Alderman Ralph. Only the first volume, alas, but there's plenty of indecipherable notes in the back to keep me busy until Volume 2 surfaces! 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025My favourite ones are the ones that do posts about their busy research day and then two of the items on their checklist are "make reels" and "post tiktoks" Where is the "read book that literally makes you go insane" representation 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Aside from screaming it out of my system? I find changing out of work clothes helps sometimes, almost shifting persona in a way. Shirt and blazer me is often rather scholarly, loungewear/Oodie me has never had a thought in his life beyond Eat Pasta 000
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Greatest game of all time. Old school cRPG about politics and Hegelianism with a Sea Power soundtrack? Banger 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025There's very little that gives me a rush like passing an 8% check in Disco Elysium 120
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025My grandfather emerged from the plains of Saskatchewan to become a professional ice hockey player in the 40s/50s and I will always defend the sport. It is completely insane. This is a great piece. Forget the shortform media content and watch people smash each other about on the ice as a replacement! 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Starmer has gone from a draconian head of the Crown Prosecution Service to a jewel thief in just over a decade. One of the most insane lateral moves of all time 041
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Bring back Chartist plays - not BBC Schools necessarily, just an absolute boatload of Chartist plays. A Director-General vote for Duncan is a vote for common sense 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Partner no doubt thrilled to be with someone who spends Saturday night gawping over fifty year old BBC documents 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Reading some old BBC Schools broadcasting notes because the incredible Thomas Cooper play (WRITTEN BY ALAN PLATER) is featured and - man, the Beeb used to be something, didn't it? Our Tom would have strongly approved of the educational angle. 120
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025William Morris's 'News From Nowhere' is actually a how-to guide on what we should do with cities 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The main planning document for this section is a diagram of a Witangemot as imagined by Chartism in the main and a diagram of a Witangemot-type meeting as imagined by Thomas Cooper. I am essentially playing a ~4,000 word game of Spot the Difference and brother are there DIFFERENCES 000
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Another lovely day working on my thesis about radicalism in the 19th century - now to spend several hours writing about Anglo-Saxon Witangemotsmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get hereALT: a man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get here 110
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. -William Morris 3474
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Last night I started David Olusoga's new Empire series (excellent and I hugely recommend it - David is a much better historian than he is a Faithful). Monday in the archive and the first pamphlet I open is a case of some good old Imperial Federationism from an ex-Chartist. Many, MANY such cases. 011
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonAriadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 09/11/2025all if forgiven, this show is perfect. #GameOfWool 54811
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Had a long-overdue haircut this week and made the decision to do a close shave afterwards. This proved to be a mistake but it has, at least, allowed me to complete the Carroll diagram of Duncan's Many Looks Yes, I look good with the scruff and the cropped hair, I'm not ashamed. 030
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Favourite development thus far is that because of the 1348 bubonic plague, all the clerks died. Ergo, there is nobody to work in the Stannary Courts and the local burgesses are forced to rely on the only courts with still-living bureaucrats - in London.media.tenor.coma cartoon of a man with red hair and the words trendisst on the bottom rightALT: a cartoon of a man with red hair and the words trendisst on the bottom right 010
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I am ~15 years into my Europa Universalis V game and I'm blown away. This is a simulation of the ENTIRE world for 500 years (1337-1821), yet still deep enough for me to lose myself in battling Devonian and Cornish tin merchants over their weird local legal system #SmashTheStannaryLaws #EUV 120
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry 261603623
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonK M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025In Newport South Wales on November 4 1839 Chartists nearly succeeded in sparking a revolution. The crack regiment of the British Army shot 22 dead wp.me/p15p2Q-8NHwp.meNewport 4th November 1839: 22 Chartists demanding the vote shot dead by the armyNewport 4th November 1839: 22 Chartists demanding the vote shot dead by the army It is 186 years on 4th November since the Newport Rising in South Wales. The events of that day may have had a revol… 096
Reposted by Duncan HamiltonJourney Through Time Pod @throughtimepod.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Listen to Journey Through Time, available on all major podcast platforms 🎙️ 1113
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Spending most of my time hiding in a crypt and playing dress up, as I usually do in heritage sites 020
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025After an extremely full-on week followed by an even more full-on weekend (don't do 8hrs of trains in one day, kids) I fully reserve the right to swan around Hexham in various high-quality items of wool clothing 120
Reposted by Duncan Hamilton🐈⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 31/10/2025An order of chicken fingers is called a hand. “Gimme a hand of fingies,” you say. If you want dipping sauce you ask for them to “paint the nails.” 15733167
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I have it on good authority that Lincolnshire is a fitting stand-in for Transylvania! However, it does pose further questions about his relationship with the Cross and with Chartism - we need someone to draft a screenplay for "Ernest Jones: Vampire Hunter" 110
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Do you know, I hadn't realised how appropriate it was for the day! Wishing I'd put it up in the window as a Hallowe'en decoration now... 110
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Three bloody years on this PhD and I still get jumpscared by the low-contrast Thomas Cooper 160
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee on the language of politics is perfect (and very distracting) background noise to write to 010