Greg Jenner
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
I’m not one to criticise awards (I’ve been on judging panels and it’s a real privilege), but I’m quite disappointed by the Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m not one to criticise awards (I’ve been on judging panels and it’s a real privilege), but I’m quite disappointed by the Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album
“Save £5,000!” is doing some real heavy lifting on the Black Friday sales at Andertons Music store 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Save £5,000!” is doing some real heavy lifting on the Black Friday sales at Andertons Music store 🤣
I didn’t know that Bluesky has automatic moderation that hides stuff you might not want/need hidden
Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish
Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I didn’t know that Bluesky has automatic moderation that hides stuff you might not want/need hidden
Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish
Go To Settings, Moderation, then click this purple Advanced button to make your own choices — some of this might be very welcome, but some of my settings were too prudish
Happy publication day to my fave Shakespeare scholar Professor Farah Karim Cooper for her illustrated children’s book ‘All The World’s A Stage’
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Happy publication day to my fave Shakespeare scholar Professor Farah Karim Cooper for her illustrated children’s book ‘All The World’s A Stage’
KUDUS ABSENCE KLAXON!
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
KUDUS ABSENCE KLAXON!
Mr Scorsese is such a superb documentary series on Apple TV — I learned tonnes about Scorsese’s life and work
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Mr Scorsese is such a superb documentary series on Apple TV — I learned tonnes about Scorsese’s life and work
Black Bag is a fun little movie — a 90 minute Soderbergh spy thriller in the Tinker Tailor fashion. It’s smooth, stylish, sexy and short. Good cast, with Blanchett & Fassbender on top form, and some funky music from David Holmes
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Black Bag is a fun little movie — a 90 minute Soderbergh spy thriller in the Tinker Tailor fashion. It’s smooth, stylish, sexy and short. Good cast, with Blanchett & Fassbender on top form, and some funky music from David Holmes
Here’s a video version of the above post about the Inspiring History Teaching Awards organised by Historic Royal Palaces — go nominate a brilliant history teacher!!
www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Here’s a video version of the above post about the Inspiring History Teaching Awards organised by Historic Royal Palaces — go nominate a brilliant history teacher!!
www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
Feel like Tel should play. And what happened to Odobert?
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Feel like Tel should play. And what happened to Odobert?
Hi! I’m joining Mr Dilly’s Non-Fiction November LIVE streaming event for UK schools!
Celebrate truth, curiosity & creativity in children’s nonfiction
✨ Thursday 6 Nov 11am
🏫 Free event + replay available for classrooms
🔗 Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-fictio...
#ChildrensBooks
Celebrate truth, curiosity & creativity in children’s nonfiction
✨ Thursday 6 Nov 11am
🏫 Free event + replay available for classrooms
🔗 Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-fictio...
#ChildrensBooks
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hi! I’m joining Mr Dilly’s Non-Fiction November LIVE streaming event for UK schools!
Celebrate truth, curiosity & creativity in children’s nonfiction
✨ Thursday 6 Nov 11am
🏫 Free event + replay available for classrooms
🔗 Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-fictio...
#ChildrensBooks
Celebrate truth, curiosity & creativity in children’s nonfiction
✨ Thursday 6 Nov 11am
🏫 Free event + replay available for classrooms
🔗 Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/non-fictio...
#ChildrensBooks
Got kids aged 8+? Get them my latest book! It's a chaotic rollercoaster ride through the Stone Age -- it's tonnes of fun, full of the latest scientific discoveries, is cowritten with the expert archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, and is illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Cheers!
October 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Got kids aged 8+? Get them my latest book! It's a chaotic rollercoaster ride through the Stone Age -- it's tonnes of fun, full of the latest scientific discoveries, is cowritten with the expert archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, and is illustrated by @rikinparekh.bsky.social. Cheers!
Went to Hatchlands in Surrey and witnessed the two great sights in nature: a rainbow and a Frankenduck
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Went to Hatchlands in Surrey and witnessed the two great sights in nature: a rainbow and a Frankenduck
Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
![It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knlwbyvg36keh64h6awokbqx/bafkreieb4ejxbjcnu72il754xrnw4w66tsnbcifjptfg447jyvh7pkttde@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
Proper football over here. At least someone got the message
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Proper football over here. At least someone got the message
Here's some more details on the Inspiring History Teaching Awards UK, of which I'm one of the judges (along with top teachers and fellow historians @lucyworsley.bsky.social, @sathnam.bsky.social, and Dan Jones) www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Here's some more details on the Inspiring History Teaching Awards UK, of which I'm one of the judges (along with top teachers and fellow historians @lucyworsley.bsky.social, @sathnam.bsky.social, and Dan Jones) www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
You’re not a millennial if you don’t immediately call this a Britney Spears head mic
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
You’re not a millennial if you don’t immediately call this a Britney Spears head mic
One of the loveliest sights for any author, finding your own books in a bookshop — still makes me very, very happy
October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of the loveliest sights for any author, finding your own books in a bookshop — still makes me very, very happy
The Ian Watkins story was utterly horrific and shocking when it was first revealed. It also had a devastating effect on his former band mates in Lost Prophets, as explored in Ian Winwood’s sobering book Bodies about the dark side of the rock music industry
October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Ian Watkins story was utterly horrific and shocking when it was first revealed. It also had a devastating effect on his former band mates in Lost Prophets, as explored in Ian Winwood’s sobering book Bodies about the dark side of the rock music industry
Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social
In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)
In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social
In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)
In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)
This release comes just a week after my previous audiobook in the series, about Roman Britain, won an award for Best Children’s Audiobook - cowritten and narrated by me and @emmasouthon.bsky.social
Hopefully your kids will enjoy the high energy narration, comedy sketches, music, and SFX
Hopefully your kids will enjoy the high energy narration, comedy sketches, music, and SFX
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This release comes just a week after my previous audiobook in the series, about Roman Britain, won an award for Best Children’s Audiobook - cowritten and narrated by me and @emmasouthon.bsky.social
Hopefully your kids will enjoy the high energy narration, comedy sketches, music, and SFX
Hopefully your kids will enjoy the high energy narration, comedy sketches, music, and SFX
Happy to report Deep Cover (free to watch on Amazon Prime) is very funny, and features a top cast having a blast — a rare fusion of UK comedy talent and Hollywood action chops
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Happy to report Deep Cover (free to watch on Amazon Prime) is very funny, and features a top cast having a blast — a rare fusion of UK comedy talent and Hollywood action chops
Huge thanks to the organisers, the judges, our fellow nominees, the excellent host Bex Lindsay, all the wonderful people we met, our brilliant publishers @wfhowes.bsky.social and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social, my agent @donaldwin.bsky.social, and everyone who has supported the book along the way
September 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Huge thanks to the organisers, the judges, our fellow nominees, the excellent host Bex Lindsay, all the wonderful people we met, our brilliant publishers @wfhowes.bsky.social and @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social, my agent @donaldwin.bsky.social, and everyone who has supported the book along the way
Some lovely pics (by Will Ireland) of last night's The Week Junior's Children's Book Awards -- here you can see me and @emmasouthon.bsky.social in various stages of shock and confusion after our book, TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: ROMAN BRITAIN GETS ROWDY, won Best Children's Audiobook!
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Some lovely pics (by Will Ireland) of last night's The Week Junior's Children's Book Awards -- here you can see me and @emmasouthon.bsky.social in various stages of shock and confusion after our book, TOTALLY CHAOTIC HISTORY: ROMAN BRITAIN GETS ROWDY, won Best Children's Audiobook!
WE WON!! Best children’s audiobook!!!! @emmasouthon.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
WE WON!! Best children’s audiobook!!!! @emmasouthon.bsky.social
Off to London for my first ever book awards ceremony — thrilled to be nominated for Children’s Audiobook of the Year, along with my fabulous coauthor @emmasouthon.bsky.social for our Totally Chaotic romp through Roman Britain
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Off to London for my first ever book awards ceremony — thrilled to be nominated for Children’s Audiobook of the Year, along with my fabulous coauthor @emmasouthon.bsky.social for our Totally Chaotic romp through Roman Britain