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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have long suspected you of being a FIFA sleeper agent and now at last you are unmasked

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly everything comes around again, right? Starting to think the apocalypse may not be linear…

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks for inviting me, Frank, and for your controversial argument that the truest expression of America 250 was…the World Cup

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Scrutinising all of her history art for the real meanings

CRT portrait of Washington by knowing child

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really shouldn't have sent my kid to CRT Elementary

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Went on Times Radio to decry the media coverage of the Arday affair, so inevitably the youtube version has about nine hundred hostile comments. But I thought this one - a response to my nine-year-old kid's clay model of Mount Rushmore, which was behind me during the interview - took the biscuit

In conclusion: The statue behind him - the removal of the faces of US presidents (Mount Rushmore) and
their replacement with the faces of "natives" reflects more than anything a DEl activist. Sadly, academia in Britain is no longer the "crown jewel" of our society. It is more of a human sewage
suffused with racism & stupidity.

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks! And I don’t mind being dragged, it’s grimly helpful to see how toxic the discourse is

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Just head to the comments to see me being by dragged by literally hundreds of people with user names like "The Dirty Dragon"

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Follow the link and use the discount code AAFLYG6 (catchy, eh?) and you should get 30% off - though I'm not sure how long this is valid, so don't delay if you're in the market for a lavishly illustrated history of the US global.oup.com/academic/pro...

global.oup.com

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Can't quite believe this has finally arrived - thanks again to all the brilliant contributors, and the editorial and production folks who made it happen. Will paste the 30% off code below in case you'd like a copy

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thanks Ben! Here's the full piece. Let's stay in touch because you'll have a ton of good ideas for the work we can do over here...

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as a lily white republic that rigorously excluded Black people. Join us next week - online or in person - for a frank discussion of race and racism at the founding of The United States. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

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Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race

Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race in New York - Checkout. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines Thomas Jefferson’s complicated and often contradictory views on race and...

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thanks for having us, Liz, and you have inadvertently given me a new pseudonym 😎

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Filled with the spirit of America 250 I wrote about two new general histories of the United States, though I think I can only recommend one of them alas

photo of the review mentioned in post, too many characters to transcribe

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

oops should have said that we are also giving you free cake and wine though obv that's not the only reason to come, oh no www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

philanthropy.cam.ac.uk

The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

philanthropy.cam.ac.uk

The United States of America at 250

Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence. 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 5.30pm, Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hang in there, summer arrives next week right?!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It's so cold in the UK this week that it feels like February, and our supposedly left-wing government is disintegrating in slow motion, so I humbly offer this photo of my cat in a plant pot as a tiny distraction from the gloom

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

agreed! plus for UK academics in particular, I'm not sure there are vast riches to plunder with appeals to vanity (or anything else)!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The last message I got did a pretty good job of summarising the book, but then I remembered the pub date was like three days ago and the whole thing seemed grimly non-human in its enthusiasm and efficiency

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

oh no!! You DID the dance already! At least they didn't actually take you down for cash!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

we should definitely take some of these guys for a dance and see where it leads, though I guess trying to exhaust an LLM is a fool's errand

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

well that part is often true! Though not with MY lovely press, of course!!!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

shit i didn't get emojis, clearly they know I'm over 50

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I like the idea of a kind of back-end vanity publishing dynamic, where you didn't actually pay someone to publish your book and just when you think you're safe you run into the same scammers with a new set of blandishments

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

the nice thing about having written a bunch of books is that you are properly cautious about *anyone* thinking they might be important

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Obv happy to do anything to help genuine book clubs and keen to extend apologies to all hard-working influencers/strategists who *abhor* the use of generative LLMs, these are tough times for human beings!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historians who've published in the past 2-3 years - did you get a wave of requests for 'modest contributions' from book clubs, influencers, & 'strategists' desperate to platform your "groundbreaking" book? Has never happened to me before and I fear this is yet another malign effect of Chat-GPT

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just not sure these are the right guys to lead us back toward the light

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sending congrats to my brilliant colleagues on the new Oxford Illustrated History of the United States for their *starred review* in Library Journal, cannot wait for the book to hit the shelves next month

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thank you, Nick! You are a true friend and a gentleman to boot!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

And that's not all! We'll be appearing tomorrow in Oxford at the Rothermere American Institute at 5pm to talk about Jefferson's Wolf with the equally lovely Lige Gould. There *may* be books for sale at this event, too, though there's still a proper air of jeopardy about this

poster for Oxford event described in post

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Cambridge friends who insist on working on bank holidays: Christa Dierksheide and I will be talking *today* at 4pm in the Sibilla Room at Jesus College about our new book Jefferson's Wolf! We've roped in the lovely Patrick Griffin to ask the questions and Heffers to sell some books. Come if you can!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I got my permanent job at a university in 2008 (after 8 years hourly-paid) and now face redundancy. My salary has declined in real terms for my entire career. The graph for senior management pay in a broken sector looks very, very different. This is not an accident.

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Has there ever been a more corrupt and reviled sporting event than the 2026 World Cup? I had not imagined I’d be nostalgic for Qatar and Russia and yet…

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026