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Ben House

@bbh74.bsky.social

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Avid reader with the Edwardian era, First World War and the Balkans particular favourite subjects. Love a horse race, 90’s progressive house and Radiohead. Dad to two smashing lads both diagnosed ASD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 4d

By now you know what you’re going to get. And if you liked the first four books, you’ll like this one #Booksky

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 5d

@thetwomatts.bsky.social I always enjoy the podcast but thought Tuesday’s was exceptional.

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve dipped in and out of Manic Street Preachers since 92. More out than in but when I’ve connected with them, I’ve loved them. This is an impressive piece of work from @keithcameron2.bsky.social telling the stories behind 168 MSP songs with input from Wire & Bradfield #Booksky #ManicStreetPreachers

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 6d

Good to see Jonathan Ross channeling his inner Nicky Wire with his get-up in this Trojan horse challenge #Traitors #CelebrityTraitors #ManicStreetPreachers

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 8d

This episode is a great listen #Rave #90’s

Talk '90s to me @talk90stome.bsky.social · 8d

"There was a horse on the dancefloor?"

Free Party director Aaron Trinder recalls a very funny moment that happened at Glasto in 1990 when a party goer brought a horse on the dancefloor 🐎

Full episode out now 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome

📸: Alan Tash Lodge

#90s #horse #rave #freeparty

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 9d

Looks a beautiful day in Paris at Longchamp. Kalpana ew for me in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe #QPAT #Horseracing #Paris

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 11d

@footballcliches.bsky.social Goalhanger’s Tabby Syrett has to be a Cliches listener. 16mins 55s into her discussion with Dominic Sandbrook on TRIH bonus episode about L’étranger by Albert Camus she gives the game away

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 12d

Does everyone in Northern Ireland only call the police “peelers”? No “fuzz”, “cops”, “5-0”, “po-leese”, “pigs”, “plod”, “old bill”, “polis”, “rozzers”? #BlueLights

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 13d

An epic, towering story of Calcutta (Kolkata) in the 1940’s and the Second World War. Panoramic and cinematic the novel took Ruchir Joshi 25 years to write. Took me 2 weeks to read (900 pages) I was thoroughly absorbed #Booksky #GreatEasternHotel

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 17d

Stunning finish, Palhinha #COYS

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 17d

Surely even the most ardent believers in the “Dr Tottenham” principle didn’t see this continuing tonight? #COYS

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 18d

Sleeper - Inbetweener 25/9/2025 Tramshed, Cardiff

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 18d

Sleeper at Tramshed in Cardiff on the Inbetweener tour celebrating 30 years. They were brilliant. Louise has always been a magnificent front woman and she was so engaging last night whilst she and the band, who sounded superb, put on an such an entertaining show #Sleeper #Cardiff #Inbetweener

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · 26d

Looking at the state of the UK this century through the lens of football. Especially reading again about the Covid lockdowns I’m sure I’ve got PTSD. I’m not talking vet-returns-from-Nam type PTSD but that time definitely left its mark. Anyway, great book #Booksky #EPL #Football #PremierLeague

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 13

Where was the West Ham marking at that corner? Who cares? #COYS

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 12

Listen, fair play … #Radiohead

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 11

I loved how @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social starts his book with the assassination itself and then goes back to set the context and work his way through to 22nd June 1922. Before tackling the fallout and various theories on the decision to ultimately kill Henry Wilson. It’s a great book #Booksky

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 8

Loved it!

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 6

What a film that is, by the way. Three hours well spent #TheBrutalist

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Red Brigades in the ‘70’s & ‘80’s brutally terrorised Italian industry and the state, the oppressors of the workers they claimed to represent. They were, at times, slapdash, hypocritical and ruthless for ruthlessness sake. @footymac.bsky.social forensic study captures this time superbly #Booksky

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 4

The last little batch from the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social earlier today #Radiohead #TheSmile

Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 4

And some more from This Is What You Get at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #Radiohead #TheSmile

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 4

A few more highlights at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #Radiohead #TheSmile

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 4

A few highlights from today’s visit to This Is What You Get at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social in Oxford. An exhibition of the collaborations of @stanleydonwood.bsky.social and @thomyorke.wastehq.social over the last 30 years on the artwork for Radiohead & The Smile. So great! #Radiohead

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Ben House @bbh74.bsky.social · Sep 1

An account of the work done by Varian Fry and his brave colleagues working the south of France to evacuate exiled cultural Germans, often Jewish, who were wanted by the Gestapo following the Nazi’s lightening invasion of France. It’s non-fiction that reads like a thriller novel. Frightening #Booksky