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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

WHO’S THE BEST HENRY VIII? V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It’s publication day for Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England with Michael Joseph @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Pop by your local bookshop or order now - uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

VE Day from Hammersmith! Celebrating peace, freedom and civilisation. Stay frosty ✌️ #VEDAY80

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It comes step by step. Evil comes step by step.’ Auschwitz Survivor Marian Turski who died 3 months after being interviewed by Simon Schama for this chilling, deeply affecting, utterly essential film. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Two - Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This happened yesterday - the launch of #StoryofaMurder with some of my favourite authors and historians (and the group hug after the photo). #SuzannahLipscomb #sarahchurchwell #davidolusoga #bettanyhughes #jessiechilds #alexvontunzelmann #matthewparker #LindseyFitzharris

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Loving the spring blossom, but looking forward to The Blood in Winter! Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📅 #OnThisDay (March 24, 1603): Elizabeth I's illustrious reign concludes with her passing. 🌟 @jessiechilds.bsky.social challenges the notion of Elizabeth's tolerance in our Series 7 episode. Listen now at: pod.fo/e/18aeb8 #ElizabethI #Tudor #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dynamite review of #StoryofaMurder in today’s Sunday Times!

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

So well deserved! I’ve just heard the first two eps and they are BRILLIANT!! Bravo @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear more 🥳

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Looking for a new history podcast? Look no further! @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social join forces to shine light on obscure stories from the past in JOURNEY THROUGH TIME. First up is an explosive tale about a terror attack that damaged the Statue of Liberty in 1916 👇

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New on the writer’s bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @jessiechilds.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mathewly...

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The writer's bookshelf: Jessie Childs

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I love this - a detail from Alison Watt's extraordinary triptych of paintings based on Oliver Cromwell's death mask. Oil on canvas. Incredibly lifelike, even in death. It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

‘If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.’

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

No lovelier place of a winter’s evening than John Sandoe Books 🧡 Pic taken last night at the launch of Edward Wilson-Lee’s wonderful new book, The Grammar of Angels.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/02/2025

‘Two in five people succumbed in the first winter and the streets were littered with corpses. Most citizens trudged past them without a backwards glance. All that mattered was the next meal.’ @jessiechilds.bsky.social on the siege of Leningrad: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jessie Childs · Resident Bean Expert: Leningrad under Siege

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/02/2025

‘State broadcasts told of “hardship” and “shortage” – not “starvation” and never “famine”, a word that had been criminalised a decade earlier when the government’s collectivisation policy killed millions.’ @jessiechilds.bsky.social on the siege of Leningrad: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jessie Childs · Resident Bean Expert: Leningrad under Siege

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/01/2025

There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week. Read and follow them here: go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/01/2025

‘The man in charge of the city enjoyed butter on his bread and lashings of caviar while those in his care ate their pets, sometimes their neighbours, and fashioned tagliatelle out of slow-boiled strips of leather.’ @jessiechilds.bsky.social on the siege of Leningrad: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jessie Childs · Resident Bean Expert: Leningrad under Siege

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

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James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

BDSM, angels, the inquisition, the Chaldean tongue, Savonarola – my review of Edward Wilson-Lee's fizzing book about Pico della Mirandola's thought, for The Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee review — Italy’s pop star philosopher

The life of Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola quivers with intellectual fizz and sadomasochistic energy

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An incredibly powerful archive with warnings for today. www.whlcollections.org/testifying/

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Testifying to the Truth - The Wiener Holocaust Library

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is an extraordinary and original book by a brilliant writer and thinker - the perfect tonic to an AI world! Out next week

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Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A little teaser about my next book at the end too! Good fun - thanks for having me, Carol Ann!

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here’s a book to look out for in the new year: Helen Rappaport’s biography of Queen Victoria’s aunt Julie - the teenage bride who stunned Europe by bolting from the Romanov court. It’s beautifully written, incredibly moving & illuminates the entire age. Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Great fun, as always, to join Saul David, Roger Moorhouse and Richard Foreman on the Goalhanger Battleground Christmas Special. My military history (interpreted broadly!) #booksoftheyear include Helen Castor, @simonparkin.bsky.social & @jamescrossland.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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232. Battleground Christmas Special

Podcast Episode · Battleground · 22/12/2024 · 55m

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Now out in paperback in case anyone’s looking for a last-minute Christmas pressie 😉 And thank you, James, you wise and kind historian!

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And I forgot the 1954 coup. So 1949 (3x), 1954, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1970, plus failed attempts in 1956, 1957, 1963 and 1966.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A Russian bearer bond of the South-Eastern Railway Company (1914). Rather beautiful and I love the way it was sent to me. Amazed these stamps are still legal tender!

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Striking Ministry of Information pamphlet.

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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

NEW! Looking to try something a bit different in the new year? Why not sign up to our fascinating new online course? THE TITANIC: A HISTORY Setting the Titanic within its global & historical context, you’ll explore its multifaceted history & legend. Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-titani...

Course poster.
A black and white image of the titanic, with the text:
The Titanic - A new online course
Start date: 5 Feb 2025

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Early sketches of bugs by Robert Hooke, including (right) 'a kind of teek found creeping upon paper..April 11 1661’. (British Library Add MS 47495)

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Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Folks, I am stepping in for the fabulous @gregjenner.bsky.social and interviewing the equally fabulous @peterfrankopan.bsky.social at The British Museum on Friday night, in light of their stellar Silk Roads exhibition. Do join us from 6pm. www.britishmuseum.org/events/new-s...

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The New Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan in conversation

Travel from the Silk Roads into the present day with internationally bestselling author Peter Frankopan in this evening discussion.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I took part in Radio 4’s The Conflict programme, talking to Jane Corbin and Jonny Dymond about the events leading up to the creation of the state of Israel. Listen via the link, or on Radio 4 later this evening.

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The Conflict - Middle East - Israel Declares Independence (1948): Why did Britain leave its mandate in Palestine? - BBC Sounds

We take a look at what history can teach us about the conflict in the Middle East.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When we say we like to get our hands dirty in the archives, we really do mean it!

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New from @EmpirePodUK To coincide with the acclaimed Mughal Exhibition: Art, Architecture and Opulence @V_and_A we are today embarking on a major new series on The Great Mughals, telling the story of the lives, courts, writings, battles, art and architecture of the first six Mughal Emperors

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Cannabis in 17th-century England grew freely in cornfields & roadsides. Good for earache, jaundice & ‘causeth hens to lay eggs more plentifully.’

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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’ve finally made it here. What have I missed?

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Fantastic BBC radio programme about the intersection between history and food, featuring the magnificently knowledgeable Prof @peterfrankopan.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Food Programme - Frankopan on Food - BBC Sounds

Peter Frankopan, author of Silk Roads and Earth Transformed, on food, history & the future

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Friends of Bath! or indeed further afield, this will be wonderful: Miranda Raison to join Ralph Fiennes in new David Hare play Grace Pervades at Theatre Royal Bath | West End Theatre www.westendtheatre.com/262787/news/...

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Miranda Raison to join Ralph Fiennes in new David Hare play Grace Pervades at Theatre Royal Bath | West End Theatre

The Theatre Royal Bath has announced further casting for Grace Pervades by David Hare.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Me, leading people from the other place to #Bluesky! Welcome, newbies! I'm a medical historian who likes to remind people the past was pretty awful. If you ever wondered what would happen if you needed a leg amputated in 1832, or if you had a toothache in 1765 - look no further.

An illustration of a skeleton leading an old hunched man by the hand - presumably into death.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Morning! Here’s an ostrich drawn by 17th-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne - sent to his son in a letter in 1682. Now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social (BL Sloane MS 1847, f. 146г)

Sketch of an ostrich with its head out of the sand.

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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello! New here. This is me - 16th & 17th century history books - though the next one will be completely different… Lovely to see old friends & new 👋🏼

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