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Guy Walters

@guywalters.bsky.social
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Historian, hack, presenter, runner. Sometimes wears dodgy trousers. guy@guywalters.com

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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 4h
The glamour of television.
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 11h
I do love my winklepickers!
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 11h
Modelling the autumn collection in Hamilton...
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Lightning Chris @lightningchris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reet Smart n That mate!
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Prague nights
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As a load of letters written by Nelson to Emma Hamilton come up for a sale for an estimated £6 million, I argue in the Telegraph that the country cruelly let her down and allowed her to die in poverty, despite Nelson's wishes. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Going full Lord Fairhaven for a drink this evening.
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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#WhatWereReading : Joe found Stealing Hitler's Rocket, by Guy Walters (pub @headofzeus.bsky.social ) utterly fascinating. Reading almost like a spy novel, yet all true, the remarkable ingenuity & bravery of the Polish resistance exposing the V2 secret to the Allies #books #livres #history
Bookseller Joe holding up a hardback copy of Stealing Hitler's Rocket, with a Nazi V2 rocket & launcher on the cover, in the Edinburgh Bookshop
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am SO Halloween ready
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Tim Rodie @timrodie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Inspired by @guywalters.bsky.social latest book (Stealing Hitler’s Rocket), I rode to Blizna today - home to V2 testing from late 1943. Brilliant little museum featuring cursed SS crockery
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With Bletchley Park in financial trouble, I ask in The Telegraph how the nation that cracked the Enigma code cannot work out how to fund places of national importance. The state seems happy to nationalise glory while privatising the cost of looking after it. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
God knows how I'll be dressing in another twenty years...!
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As Prince George starts at Eton, I argue in The Telegraph that it's time the school let in girls: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Mike Torrington. @torringtonmike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Risky... 😬
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pressing matter, which I raise in The Telegraph: Would you be OK if your sperm donor father was a Nazi? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP indeed.
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My Czech language classes are going so well, I can now even understand Czech book genres.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gather the other people is slagging this place off for "being kind". Bring it on. No way I could post this stuff there, so thank you. Xxx
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Fat Freddie's Cat @petersquires.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Actively encouraged, I believe.
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Stevie Rae Williams🍷🐈‍⬛ @stevie1666.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I remember you doing do once or twice in the old days? Haven’t been on there for a long time though. Glad you get to be you😊👍🏼
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sleepy head.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Minor laws ok? 🙏
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gather the other people is slagging this place off for "being kind". Bring it on. No way I could post this stuff there, so thank you. Xxx
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh dear. (From London After Dark (1954) by Robert Fabian.)
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once picked up a fair stack of books in a charity shop that had all been inscribed to a well known and fairly eminent British historian, from various appreciative former postgraduate students, colleagues and scholarly admirers. Clearly he’d donated them all in one go as a job lot.
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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
George Bernard Shaw allegedly found one of his books signed "To [redacted] with esteem, G.B.Shaw". He bought it and sent it to its previous owner, adding "With renewed esteem, G.B.Shaw"
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Had similar. Went for dinner. Took signed and dedicated hardback of new book as a present for hosts. Went to book sale in village a month later. There it was. I bought it, and then gave it back to them.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I had an email the other day. It was one of the nice ones, from a reader who had found a copy of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear in an Oxfam shop, bought it, read it, enjoyed it. It was a signed copy, dedicated to [redacted] & [redacted]. [redacted] and [redacted] are longstanding friends of mine.
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't know what's the most rebellious thing about this selfie. The cig or the skirt? The former, probably.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
www.maptap.gg August 16 100🎯 100🎯 94🏅 96🔥 100🎯 Final score: 976
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
God I hope you don't answer that question.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why would anyone want to own Eva Braun's knickers, I ask in the @telegraph.co.uk today... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fifty-five today! It's taken a long – and often painful – time to be open about all this, and I'm very grateful for everybody who has been so supportive.
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Best foot forward!
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blending in.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Hitler's Games: Berlin 1936 in Colour
The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler, Nazi propaganda and Jesse Owens' defiance
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Joyce Butler @joycebwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This was listed in the Best TV of the Weekend in my weekly @thetimes.com TV newsletter. With @guywalters.bsky.social as one of the talking heads is an added bonus.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Do tune into Channel 4 tonight (Saturday) to watch this doc on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's fantastic, despite me.
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Anthony Corona @anthonyscorona.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Holy moly! The social media account I definitely needed
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wonder if I could present history docs like this?
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Do follow @guydressesup.bsky.social if you you're ok with all this. Ta everso.
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Do follow @guydressesup.bsky.social if you you're ok with all this. Ta everso.
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Bob (he/him) @wobblyb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Guy, just finished Stealing Hitler's Rocket. What an utterly brilliant story, extremely well told. Thanks for shedding some light on the Polish Home Army. RV remains a legend.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excellent Withnail & I reference in Endeavour. Four floors up on the Charing Cross Road and never a job at the top of them.
A sign for R. Duck, Theatrical Agent. Representative of Uncle Monty.
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Guy Walters Collection needs to happen!
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Love that Tripsmiths have launched the 'Guy Walters Collection', which makes me sound like a fashion brand. Do join me on either – or both! – of these trips: Prague 1939-1989, 19-23 Oct 26 Colditz & Great Escape, 12-17 Apr 27 tripsmiths.com/guy
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Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"It's that bloke off the telly! Wearing a skirt!"
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If it’s 21 July, it’s the 84th anniversary of the arrest of German spy Victor Hauer outside a Cairo cinema, leading to the rounding up of a spy ring, but only after a British Captain had allowed a belly dancer to see his secret plans… probably best if you just read @guywalters.bsky.social’s account
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'Yvette', the spy who really wasn't
Or, how journalists can screw up the historical record
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Football, Falklands, fascism: The dark soul of Argentina... My piece in the Telegraph today... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Football, Falklands, fascism: The dark soul of Argentina... My piece in the Telegraph today... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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