Helen McCarthy
@historianhelen.bsky.social
Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
As I am learning from these replies! I feel quite inadequate for my lack of beer-poking knowledge.
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As I am learning from these replies! I feel quite inadequate for my lack of beer-poking knowledge.
Right, by hook or by crook, I'm getting a reference to 'beer-poking' into my book.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Right, by hook or by crook, I'm getting a reference to 'beer-poking' into my book.
Aha! Had no idea this was a thing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Aha! Had no idea this was a thing.
Self-deprecation I can manage (see previous post) but not at sufficient pace or with adequate wit to qualify as banter.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Self-deprecation I can manage (see previous post) but not at sufficient pace or with adequate wit to qualify as banter.
Thanks for writing this - am thinking of taking my MA students to see it, and now I can tell them to read your essay first!
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Thanks for writing this - am thinking of taking my MA students to see it, and now I can tell them to read your essay first!
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
Or in other words, if I want to read a novel, I'll read a novel.
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Or in other words, if I want to read a novel, I'll read a novel.
Congrats Holly!
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Congrats Holly!