Sign in

Cliff Williamson

@drcliffy.bsky.social
58 followers 39 following 203 posts

Historian, food aficionado, football fan. Currently writing about Ramsay MacDonald, also a book about the Mellotron. Cat is called Dexter.

PostsRepliesMedia
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see, does that help with tone and opacity? It is a while since I did hanga prints, switched to Lino as easier on the time and cost. Here is one of my last hanga prints.
100
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love that. Japanese printmaking is such a hard skill to learn so much to do in terms of process. Do you use nori to adhere the homemade inks?
110
Reposted by Cliff Williamson
Rob “Bloody” Valentine @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Joe, Joumana, Lucy and me talk Flat Earth Theory, the Cult of Mithras, Jules Verne console creep, implausible stunt wigs and the plausible lack of women in… The Masque of Madragora Part 2!!
052
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ham fam dream team: what happens when a scholar-artist, a writer and a librarian moderated by Joe discuss Dr Who: alchemy, esoterica, humanism and an reassuring amount of smut.
182
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For a deep dive into making of the cinema Tyler series is ace m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlj...
m.youtube.com
The Insane Planning That Went Into Full Metal Jacket’s Unique Cinematography
YouTube video by CinemaTyler
073
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sadly Wendy Smith was ill that night so it was just the 3.
001
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very true. Saw them live during the tour for the album.
100
Reposted by Cliff Williamson
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
1154027703
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nat Con to electoral con!
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A reptile. In his heyday with McCarthy no one not even Ike Eisenhower, who had defeated the nazi’s, criticised them until the blew themselves up in the Army hearings.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I did some printmaking over bank holiday first in over a year. ‘Pull your socks up’ 8 layer reduction linocut.
020
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer is so odd: Ambitious but Ambivalent. Follows Blair, Cameron and Johnson in bailing out. Harold Wilson stayed on as MP all the way to 1983 Jim Callaghan stood down as MP in 1987. Heath in 2001 37 years after losing Premiership. So much for public service.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Linked Quake, I played it that day as well.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also is Raymond Huntley, not ‘and introducing’ but sliding doors. He was the original theatre Dracula. He could have been the first proper cinema Count. But his rival Bela Lugosi did. Just think how different Goth Music would have been if Bauhaus had sang ‘Raymond Huntley’s Dead!’
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great episode as ever. But, you missed Leslie Dwyer in ‘and introducing’ as Mr Partridge the Punch and Judy man in Hi-Di-Hi, that is Adrian Mole’s Dad territory. Also tut tut for a Parliamentary sketch writer missing that Jimmie Handley was father of former Tory chairman Jeremy Handley.
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great update on previous WTDW podcast from back in the day. Looking forward to ‘The Way Ahead’. You will need to have a new category: ‘Was this the film that changed the course of Goth Music?’ Clue: read about the career of Raymond Huntley.
020
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is it exceptional he frames the book around the concept of home and brilliantly interweaves it throughout
010
Reposted by Cliff Williamson
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
502301526
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So it is. The cover of mine is different. Some find it shrill but I don’t
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I prefer the Jesse Norman version, but sublime it is
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
According to the Electoral Calculus user defined prediction model Labour 300 (down 112) Reform 119 (+116) Tories 116 (-5) Libs 69 (-3) SNP 19 (+10) Green 4 (nc) PC 3 (-1) others 20. Labour short by 26.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I always find it odd that they never name the university’s that they claim stifle free speech.
230
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Archives research Today.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Great work by Rob and Duncan negotiating Gettysburg this week on @warmovietheatre.com I first saw it on a hookey VHS transfer from a laser disc back in the day. Bought from the barras in Glasgow, also source of rave tapes and ripped PC games. Those were the days.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You can argue that George was also ill served by the systems failings. He passed the 11plus and was sent to Liverpool Institute a Grammar intended to set pupils up for university. He never had a desire for that. As he said all they want to do with is ‘to turn everybody into rows of little toffees.’
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It must have been a very bewildering but proud moment for Ringo as the only non Grammar School Beatle. Dumped into a Secondary Modern at 12 not even put forward for the 11+ and basically abandoned by the education authorities after poor health twice disrupted his schooling.
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Clacton: battle of the titans. Count Binface vs Count Torn Face.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It really did have Partridge vibes, reminiscent of the meltdown in front of Tony Hayers.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am not a crook vibes from Farage.
000
Reposted by Cliff Williamson
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Happy birthday Ringo Starr, 86 today. He still owns Maureen's red vinyl raincoat.
Ringo Starr photographed in 2025 with drum kit and wearing the red vinyl raincoat he wore for the Beatles' rooftop concert in 1969.
16753889
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nice FU from the Belgians.
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Totally craven but we can expect no different from this guy.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I know you both are big war-gamers. Have you played ‘Liberty or Death’? It portrays the American Revolution as both a civil war, counter insurgency and a land grab. It is playable on vassal. www.gmtgames.com/p-826-libert...
gmtgames.com
GMT Games - Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection, 3rd Printing
Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection, 3rd Printing
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sounds very familiar
100
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mad King has mad people proposing mad things. Steal Greenland and get all you can eat shrimp. Just delusional. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Disappointed Headmaster… Chef’s kiss. No notes.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The copters are out. Burnham arriving by train as Wilson did at Euston too I think.
020
Reposted by Cliff Williamson
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Still marvelling at a prime minister being forced to resign because of a by-election that his party *won*
1963981
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A Doctor Who lasts longer than a PM now.
030
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here we go again.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Great episode, have you read the Chips Channon diaries? They give a really amazing glimpse into Rattigan’s character right around the time of writing of Way to the Stars. Dambusters dog prize they are edited by Simon Heffer.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Or Dexter!
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Dexter looks like a car mechanic repairing an engine!
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They were a very unique band. It is always a lovely time in Glasgow, even when it rains!
010
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Blue Nile, I am impressed. The sound of rainy Glasgow.
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Yes,
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ether.
000
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Also on ‘I’m backing Britain’, at the end of Carry up the Khyber Sir Sidney Roughdiamond (Sid James) raises a Union Jack that has the words of the slogan on it. It was very much in the wider cultural either.
110
Cliff Williamson @drcliffy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Promotional postcard that I got when attending a press screening at the film in 1995.
110