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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Hello peeps. It's been a while. Have a close-up of Merry Guinea Pig's nostrils

Extreme close-up of a black and white guinea pig's face, showing one eye, lots of whiskers, and unspeakable levels of cuteness

Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hahahahahahahahahaaaaarrrrggghhh ***fiddles with extremely long hair*** Congregational Library, 7.1.5: "The loathsomeness of long haire" by Thomas Hall (1654)

Congregational Library 7.1.5: title page of "The loathsomeness of long haire" by Thomas Hall (London 1654)

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

In case @rorymuir.bsky.social hasn't seen it, apparently this was the front window of Hatchards in London this week... (Credit Anna Vakulenko)

Photo of the front window of Hatchards in London showing a display revolving around "Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen" by Rory Muir

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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Booking for our Wellington Congress 2025 is officially open! Head to this page to see what our programme has in store for you and to book your place! #WellingtonCongress2025 @zwhitehistory @napoleonicquarterly.com @latelordchatham.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@tomcw99.bsky.social has reviewed Quicksilver Captain -- and he's making me blush

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Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Booking for our Wellington Congress 2025 is officially open! Head to this page to see what our programme has in store for you and to book your place! buff.ly/4juc21N #WellingtonCongress2025 @zwhitehistory @napoleonicquarterly.com @latelordchatham.bsky.social @rorymuir.bsky.social

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Wellington Congress 2025

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Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A view of Nelson’s funeral at St Paul’s with the giant lantern illuminating the coffin below. The ensigns of captured French and Spanish ships hang around the mournful scene. Print after Charles Augustus Pugin. From British Museum. #skystorians #navalhistory

A view of St Paul’s with Nelson’s funeral being staged with a large crowd gathered in a bowl around the coffin which is under a plumed canopy. A tall cylindrical lantern hangs over the coffin with lots of points of illumination on it. The scene is framed by a large Spanish flag to the left and a large French flag to the right.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I have an announcement to make: I'm returning to librarianship! As of 6 January, I will be the new Congregational Librarian, working with the Congregational Memorial Hall Trust: tinyurl.com/4ru9b4c2

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The Congregational Library appoints a new Librarian | The Congregational Library

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is basically how I got into history, people

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

'The women were considered prostitutes and could be forcibly taken to the university’s private prison and sentenced to weeks of confinement by the vice-chancellor. More than 5,000 were arrested in the 19th century alone.'

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Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial

A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#OnThisDay 1794: Home Popham, attached to the British army in Flanders and a newly minted Master and Commander, writes to the Secretary at War asking to be provided with a 50-gun ship, 2 sloops of war, 6 gunboats, and 50 flat boats. Nice Christmas list. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

Close-up of the top third of the painting of Popham from the 1780s (https://tinyurl.com/3ae97nzs), showing a man in a naval lieutenant's naval uniform and wearing powdered hair. A speech bubble has been added, with the following words: "Dear Santa, I would like a bunch of boats, tons of artillery, a command, and a pony"

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Good morning from Merry and Pippin! It's #GuineaPig time and we're busy destroying our pile of morning grass (M+P: 1; Pile of Grass: 0). We hope everyone has a good day! #GuineaPigs

Two guinea pigs (on the left a black, white, and buff guinea pig named Pippin, and on the right a black and white guinea pig named Merry) destroying a pile of fresh grass in their run

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It's #GuineaPig time and the boys are looking super handsome today (as usual, obvs) #GuineaPigs

A black and white guinea pig named Merry enjoying his fresh grass

A black, white, and buff guinea pig named Pippin enjoying his fresh grass

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1786: Sir Harry Parker, Secretary to the Board of Longitude, gives Lt. Home Popham some advice: "The Beast [Lord Howe, First Lord of the Admiralty] deserves the trimming you have given him, but ..." (1/4) (pic: tinyurl.com/mrysxmdr) #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

Admiral Richard, 1st Earl Howe (1726-1799), by John Singleton Copley, from https://tinyurl.com/mrysxmdr.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

As I start to extract & then delete my Twitter account, I'm remembering the highlights. Like the time I discovered that a tweet ('Being a historian is all about muttering 'you f**ker' to long-dead prime ministers whilst alone at one's desk') got quoted in a book on historical methodology?!?

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 25/11/2024

Looking forward to my Cambridge debut!

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Good morning from Merry and Pippin! I came downstairs to find them both in "sphinx mode" (and Merry sitting on top of the cuddle sack, as usual) 😂 #GuineaPig #GuineaPigs

On the left a black, white, and buff guinea pig named Pippin, sitting like a sphinx with his front paws resting under his head; on the right a black and white guinea pig named Merry, sitting on top of (not inside!) a blue cuddle sack and also with his front paws resting under his head.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1799: Sir Home Popham writes to William Huskisson at the War Dept. to remind him he exists, has been promised employment, and wants "remuneration" for his services. He gets it: soon after he receives a pension of £500 a year. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory (pic: tinyurl.com/msk89ved)

Portrait of Sir Home Popham, circa 1800: bust in oval frame, with Popham wearing a bicorn hat with a large cockade and the uniform of a Royal Navy Captain. From the New York Public Library (https://tinyurl.com/msk89ved)

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Good morning from Merry and Pippin! The grass was definitely frosty today, but apparently still tastes yummy. #GuineaPig #GuineaPig

Top left, a black and white guinea pig named Merry, and below right, a black, white, and buff guinea pig named Pippin eating fresh grass in their run, surrounded by cardboard boxes and log shelters

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

More snacks for a handsome and obviously starving and neglected #GuineaPig?

A black and white guinea pig named Merry gazing longingly up at the camera, begging for snacks

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Te midden van alle onrust blijven lezen! Dat zou het motto van de anti-bezuinigingencampagne op de Geesteswetenschappen moeten zijn. Foto zonet gemaakt hier in Cambridge:

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Scanning old pics, so here's Buddy, the world's most fabulous budgie, whom we brought back from the US. Talked beautifully ("Buddy!" "I love you!" "Buddy bites!" "Aargh stop it!"); loved napping on my shoulder; once escaped, but came home after a good flyabout. Died at 14 in 2007. Miss him every day

Me circa 2002, with a pale blue and white male budgie named Buddy on my head. Buddy is looking cheeky.

Me circa 2002, with a pale blue and white male budgie named Buddy in the process of abseiling down my face using my hair for purchase. I'm giggling and Buddy is looking like he's having fun.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era: I reckon I hit at least two "different era" boxes with this one 😂

Me, aged 17, dressed as a 1770s-era British Royal Artilleryman: tricorn hat with yellow lace and black feather; dark blue wool coat with red facings; white crossbelts; long hair tied back in a queue bag.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1812: Sir Home Popham, in Santander, receives a visit from Capt. Thompson of the Engineers. Thompson is very pessimistic about the chances of capturing the town of Santoña. Popham doesn't want to know. (BL Loan MS 57/108, 81+85) #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory (pic: tinyurl.com/ymadvdr3)

1813 map showing the British blockade of Santona, from Bridgeman Images: https://tinyurl.com/ymadvdr3

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I bet Popham invented the kedging cannon

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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...

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Securing Empire

This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of int…

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Good morning from Merry and Pippin! It's breakfast time, and later there will be more history posts from Pigmum for the other demographic of her followers :) #GuineaPig #GuineaPigs

Merry, a black and white guinea pig, snuffling eagerly around his run for extra fresh grass he might have missed

Pippin, a black, white, and buff guinea pig, has faceplanted in the hay pile and is (presumably) in piggie heaven

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

As most people who know me are aware, I read "The Three Musketeers" at 11 and had no idea history and storytelling could be combined so effectively. I've never looked back, really.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Good morning from the boys -- deep-frozen grass for all today 🥶 (plus cuddle sacks!) #GuineaPig #GuineaPigs

On the left, a black, white, and buff guinea pig (called Pippin), and on the right, a black and white guinea pig (called Merry) eating fresh grass in their run surrounded by their toys and shelters

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Marie Curie's notebooks, which are RADIOACTIVE & must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

A photo of the notebook, open to show the writing inside.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1804: Sir Home Popham is off Boulogne, having attacked the harbour with proto-torpedoes the previous month. He's also corresponding with Francisco de Miranda about a possible assault on South America. (BL Add MS 41080) #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory (pic: tinyurl.com/3b2f3new)

The Attack on Boulogne Oct 1804 The original title of this very detailed watercolour drawing, centre bottom, reads: 'A S. E. View of the Town and Harbour of Boulogne with the Encampments on the Heights. Shewing also the situation of the French and English Squadrons as taken at anchor by E. D. Lewis H.M.S. Tartarus off Boulogne'. The flagship, centre bottom is identfied as the 'Monarch', 74, Admiral Lord Keith, then in charge of the anti-invasion blockade. From https://tinyurl.com/3b2f3new.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Good morning from Merry and Pippin! Have a picture of some guinea pigs enjoying their breakfast! #GuineaPig #GuineaPigs

On the left, a black and white guinea pig (Merry); on the right, a black, white, and buff guinea pig (Pippin), both eating fresh grass

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Right, I just deactivated my Other Place account (not my guinea pig one; that one's still going for now). I guess I'm just on here for now.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Good morning Bluesky! My guinea pigs, Merry and Pippin, are here for non-history-related happiness 😊

A black and white guinea pig named Merry and a black, white, and buff guinea pig named Pippin tuck into an apple tree branch

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Dr Matthew Taylor, author of "Black Redcoats" @blackredcoats.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Want a unique bit of British, American, military, and black history? Want an engaging presentation filled with drama by an excited presenter? I love going live but also do online talks. Book me to talk about my book! blackredcoats@gmail.com #history #blackhistory #authorlife

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1816: The Admiralty Board endorses a binnacle and compass invented by Sir Home Popham, and recommends 10 sets be issued as an experiment on Royal Navy ships. (J.W. Croker to Popham, NMM, ADM 359/36B/101) #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory (pic: www.charlesmillerltd.com/auction/lot/...)

A binnacle, circa 1800, sold by antiques dealers Charles Miller Ltd.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The earliest European representation of a capybara from "A Relation of a voyage" (1698) - a reminder of my fellowship this summer @marshslibrary.bsky.social

Detail of a postcard image of an illustration of a capybara or "A CAPIVARD or Water hog at the foot of a Bananier" (text from next to image) from the 1698 text

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

#OnThisDay 1796: Capt. Home Riggs Popham appears before the High Court of Admiralty to appeal a decision to condemn his merchant vessel, Etrusco, as a prize (... long story, read the book). Here's an extract from Quicksilver Captain (pp.58-9). (Pic: anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/k...)

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Good morning. I promised you guinea pigs, so here are some guinea pigs. If you're here for the history, I'll get back to that later 😂

A black and white guinea pig and a black, buff, and white guinea pig tucking happily into some fresh grass.

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

*** edits the picture in my head to have Popham carefully stepping over a pile of cat poo while walking the quarterdeck***

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm updating a list here too – between the two of us, we'll hopefully catch everyone! go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw

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Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Good morning, and I've somehow managed to collect about 1,000 followers in 24 hours, so I guess I should probably start posting again 😂 Welcome all to the madness!

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Still a handful of places left - if you’ve asked and don’t see your name please prod - there have been a lot of notifications and I haven’t screened anyone. If it goes way over I’ll just start a part II… go.bsky.app/KNeAnRj

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂) go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv

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