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realhistoryguy.bsky.social
Guy H
@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 H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 4m
It’s what murder looks like
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 13h
What I was going to say
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d
Recently wrote a book about the rise of Christianity and the end of Rome without a single mention of Peter Brown
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d
Restaurant owners playing bossa/samba/nightclub jazz covers of pop classics: can you stop now? It’s tiresome. Ditto people producing albums of same. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d
Restaurant owners playing bossa/samba/nightclub jazz covers of pop classics: can you stop now? It’s tiresome. Ditto people producing albums of same. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 5d
It’s *always* just a bad apple
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 5d
I guess there’s a difference between saying someone ought to be killed and threatening to do it. I mean, I think Stephen Miller should be hanged but I am not threatening to hang him.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 5d
Interesting seminar series on environmental history
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 6d
Is this some sort of antisemitic thing?
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Disappointed that they’re being served
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Favourite post today: someone saying that the US Left had three years to find an ideologically acceptable alternative to Newsom to stand for president. Sort of sweet really.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Every time I see his face I have an optimistic image of a grainy black and white picture of him flanked by two military policemen, having a bag placed over his head.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
It was very effective against a Macedonian-style pike phalanx. Less so against lots of other enemies. In pretty much every other case of Roman conquest in the West anyway, it was numbers, armour, training, logistics that explained why the Romans won.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Exactly. If anything I think it has a longer pedigree in the Uk left than among the conservatives (of the pre-Thatcherite bent anyway).
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Periodic reminder that hostility to 'useless' arts and humanities degrees is another (though much, much longer-standing) area of Labour/Conservative consensus.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 7d
Unless they meant principal figures/thinkers.. no I'm just clutching at straws here
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Well said
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations, Merle.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
What makes me so angry is that terrible work like Hicks', by providing the Empire-apologists with an easy target and a string of egregious errors, allows the reactionaries to tar the whole Empire-critical project as based on untruths and misinterpretations and thus dismiss critiques out of hand.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Graduates from these subjects earn less apparently, ... because income is obviously the only way to judge the value to the country of a job.
That said (speaking as a former history/archaeology professor), hostility to arts and humanities degress has always been a rare area of cross-party consensus.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Careful now.
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Well said, Sam
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Guy H @realhistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d
Damn right. This whole thread is (mostly) a disgrace that belongs in the bad old days Twitter.