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Guy Halsall

@realhistoryguy.bsky.social
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Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic

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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Bridge too Gatsby The Longest Gatsby Ice Cold in Gatsby
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine being the Piddington village idiot.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For sure… Though I have no recollection of mentioning either of these two!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026
Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Found a review that described my work as 'entertainingly idiosyncratic'. Given that the reviewer was John Gillingham, this is quite the acolade.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We seem to be in full scorpion season. Found this little fella climbing my study wall but when I opened the window to throw him out, there was a full-size one scuttling about on the outside wall around the window.
A small - not fully grown - scorpion on a wall
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I fear I have just been Reviewer 2
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pharaoh house crash @phchq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A decision was made here
Picture of a part of the wine shelf in Lidl, where someone seems to have left a small bottle of fruit juice.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026
Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
lol
Nathan Cofnas tweet: I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.

The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An astonishing development…
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And, another Guardian journalist making the same point: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The grand international project to pull the batteries out of the beeping smoke alarm, as it were.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is big.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Important 👇🏻
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 09/08/2026
The Israeli government is stripping entry permits from American Jews who've volunteered to protect Palestinians from settler violence. "If I’m the wrong kind of Jew for Israel,” one activist said, “Sure. Great.”
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Israel Revokes Entry Permits For Jewish Americans Who Protected Palestinians From Settler Violence
"Israeli-occupied territory is not a 'safe place' for all Jews," said one Jewish American activist.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tip for top education journalists: Dr James Orr of Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity's 'Key publications' list include "Being and Eternity: Phenomenology and Thomism in Edith Stein (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022)." Bloomsbury's online catalogue lists no such item. Time to do some hunting?
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James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So. Rod Liddle died. Anyway…
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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And yet the government keep on using X!?! Please @andyburnham.bsky.social get all ministries and MPs off that place and stop (financially) supporting a man who is inciting violence against politicians
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fake passports. A money laundering conviction. A mystery casino fortune in Montenegro... There's yet more revelations about who Farage chooses to surround himself with. Let’s start with George Cottrell. A man Farage describes as "like a son," and his former chief of staff 👇
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This thread 👇🏻
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Then, the moment the Electoral Commission called in the police over the Cottrell money, what did Farage do? He rushed through a restructure of his party that hides who really controls it. Having spent 15 years working in financial compliance, I'll say it plainly: this is not normal behaviour.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
No one can even get on a bus these days because they are full of poshos
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22/07/2026
Also at no point should we ever forget that deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure is a war crime and service members who follow illegal orders can be prosecuted for it (as, of course, should their commanding officers, including Hegseth & Trump).
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hard to see how, yet here we are.
CHURCH TIMES 12 April 2019
Death penalty made harsher.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England is the home of 85% of the world's chalk streams, a crucial part of the UK ecological system. Despite criminal convictions, water companies continue to destroy it by dumping raw sewage. I asked the Minister to revoke their licence to operate. Watch the Minister's reply.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
'My cousin José in Madrid... [is]... trying to revive the anti-French sentiment of the Peninsular War of 1808-1814. We all do our bit.' www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/what-a...
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What an ideal semi-final tie for me, a man still not over the Falklands War
WHAT luck! England vs Argentina in the semi-final of the World Cup, and me still not over a war between our countries that ended 44 years ago!
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@inigopurcell.bsky.social Was lovely to meet you at the IMC.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules
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Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property
The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Ibsen! Grieg! Amundsen! A-ha! The Sovereign Wealth Fund! Kvikk Lunsj! Roald Dahl! Munch’s The Scream! Harald Hardrada! HARALD HARDRADA, can you hear me?
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Stourbridge lad!
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
On the train back from @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Yesterday we had full-day programme in memory of Walter Goffart. Four sessions plus roundtable, 9h-20h. Last one was truly the climax of a great day, with reflections by Danuta Renu Shanzer, Walter Pohl, Michael Kulikowski & @realhistoryguy.bsky.social
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I could watch this all day www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: USA vs Belgium - USA suffer 'total calamity' at the back to gift Belgium a third goal
USA goalkeeper Matt Freese with a huge error in judgement as he gifts Belgium's Hans Vanaken the ball, leaving him with an easy finish that defender Tim Ream could've done more to stop. Errors all aro...
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
With thanks to Prof David Petts
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m hearing that Belgium bused in millions of illegals to score their goals. So unfair. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Important
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Bought a Senior Railcard. 😱/🙁
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Feast of Saint Martin to all who celebrate!
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Gregorius Turonensis: where art thou?
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Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Uh-oh. This didn’t end well last time.
Screenshot of a thumbnail listing upcoming England game vs Democratic Republic of Congo as ‘ENG vs COD’
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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