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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22h

Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“it didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization”

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“it didn't quite meet the bar in terms of staying within scope and authorization”

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is no truth more universally acknowledged yet universally ludicrous than “a government is defined by its first 100 days.” Cameron: Brexit Blair: Iraq Biden: Afghanistan withdrawal Trump 1: covid George W: 9/11 Obama: healthcare Im not convinced it’s even true of FDR Churchill? Fair enough

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking for an old pic and stumbled across this one of me and Jerry Springer holding a WW2 US aerial bomb in a tv studio. No idea why or when.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone on the Today programme said that “China is flexing its muscles and threatening its neighbours like never before” and I think I am going to lie down for a bit in the woods.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Arguing about who is truly English while AI leeches into our lives is like the Mexica having a furious debate over a minor doctrinal issue while Cortes limbers up on the beach.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do wonder whether our only hope for getting a grip on AI is that it does something bad enough soon enough - like bring down a plane- making the case for regulation blindingly obvious Bit like Hitler starting WW2 before his U-boat fleet was built. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare and took months to disclose breach

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is one of the most bonkers stories I have ever seen. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fascinating to compare google maps with the local Chinese navigation app. Two screenshots, stationary on the same street corner.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

George IV was a drug addled, capricious, delusional monster obsessed with hyper gaudy interior design. He retreated from the real world and became convinced that he had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like most days, the solution to the challenges reflected in the news headlines is simply: global government.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Battlefield of Stamford Bridge has been found, solving a one thousand year mystery: Full story at historyhit.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last time the far-right won an election in Germany: 5 March 1933. Nazi Party: 44% Tonight:

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There was a very active critic of the history syllabus in the 90s. Very wise people scoffed at how much time kids were forced to spend learning about the Nazis and democratic decay in the 30s. Turns out we should have gone much harder.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Falklands have been British longer than California has been American.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Striking how the nationalist funding networks are so international.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Brits scoffing at each other for the mispronuncing Bayeux forgetting that the word Paris exists.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Going live immently, folks. Get your questions in at r/history

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Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com · 28/08/2026

WAR BORES! Want to watch the new Pressure film the traditional way? By boring your date with extra detail & muttering when it gets stuff wrong? Then watch @thehistoryguy.bsky.social & I discuss the actual events in this new History Hit episode & go to the cinema prepared! youtu.be/2tZUtNJBuZ0?...

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D-Day: The Final 72 Hours | As It Happened

YouTube video by History Hit

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 2025 trade unions gave £4.9 million to Labour. Individual donors gave £16 million to Reform & £9 million to the Tories. In total Labour raised £10 mill, Reform £19 mill & the Tories £21 mill. If the *unions* are blocking a donor cap, they've lost their minds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham has dropped his support for capping political donations, causing anger among activists and Labour MPs who have long campaigned for change to the way parties are funded.

The prime minister has decided not to back amendments to the elections bill, which would cap the amount a person or an organisation can give in a single donation, according to government sources.

The decision comes after a lobbying campaign from Labour’s trade union backers, who said amendments to the bill, which returns to parliament for its remaining stages next week, could undermine their ability to donate to the party. It is also a retreat from the support Burnham gave to the idea just a few weeks ago, when he emailed a campaigner for electoral reform to say he would support a donations cap of £500,000.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When I was a kid we were taught that emissions were warming up the atmosphere, increasing the probability of things like wild fires, even in chilly old Britain. We drew pictures. We wrote to MPs. This was my neighbourhood yesterday My anger at the deniers, obstructionists & shills knows no bounds

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Imagine having enough money to build a fleet of tall ships which could take kids across the wine dark sea, clinging to the yards, salt spray on their cheeks, light in their eyes, self belief coursing through them… but instead hunching over the phone advocating for crimes against humanity

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

From the top of that stadium you can see most of the territory fought over by the Brits and Americans in November 1776. Forts Washington and Lee, the Hackensack….a treat for the cheap seats.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If the Spanish fans had an ounce of wit they would have a banner saying: Las Malvinas son Españolas

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In summer 1806 an English general surrendered to Argentine forces in Buenos Aires. After a hopeful start to the campaign it was a humiliation.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“That unfortunate war destroyed me; it divided my forces, multiplied my obligations, undermined my morale. All the circumstances of my disasters are bound up in that fatal knot.” Napoleon on his Spanish war

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s odd how often you hear people arguing for dialogue, common-ground & consensus seeking, when historically the best policy is often utterly destroying vile ideas, humiliating their proponents, liberating their adherents & salting the earth so that they never seep out of a putrid morass ever again

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is the greatest and best country in the world.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th of July. A huge day in history! The British began the occupation of Paris in 1815 after their victory at Waterloo. Nice of the Americans to celebrate it ever since.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

‪The second and third Presidents of the USA, Adams and Jefferson, great friends and bitter rivals, both died today in 1826. 200 years ago. It was also the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.‬ Five years later, to the day, the fifth President, James Monroe also died.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today in 1941 Franz Halder, one of Hitler's senior commanders, noted that it was "probably no overstatement to say that the Russian campaign has been won in the space of two weeks." It's probably no overstatement to say that this was one of the biggest overstatements in history.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

‘Historic win against the Soviet Union can create vast German empire’ energy

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Edward the Confessor, Henry I, Henry IV, Edward IV, Henry VII and Charles II all at one time had to flee from their country and seek safety in another.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Meta are now scanning your photo album to train their AI. You need to change your settings.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There’s a problem with the ‘devolved powers are the answer’ theory- voters do not punish & reward appropriately. Say Reform win control of a region. They prove incompetent muppets. Everything gets worse. They blame Westminster. Voters punish national government for failure in a devolved area

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Alan, we’ve written a story about a guy who takes a decade to make a fortnight voyage; on which epic journey he sees his crew turned to pigs, eaten by giant cannibals, monsters and a one eyed giant and visits the land of the dead to chat with ghosts of family and friends. We can write it.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Imagine saying unprecedented when 250 years ago to the month the British were gathering the largest expeditionary force ever sent across the Atlantic to violently throttle the USA in its first summer of its life.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Malta is overwhelmingly Catholic yet the word for God is ‘Alla’

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The nearest analogy - which no one is drawing - would be the Midlothian Campaign in 1880. Gladstone had retired in 1875 and his party had chosen new leaders. But in 1880 he roared back, contesting the Tory seat of Midlothian. When he won, the new leaders resigned & he returned to the premiership.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Britain had one Prime Minister for the whole of the period of conflict in N America during the Revolutionary War. Result: Britain got rinsed Britain had seven Prime Ministers during the French Wars that followed. Result: British triumph PMs are not necessarily an indicator of national fortunes

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