Mr Murphy
@murphyhistory.bsky.social
“Enthusiastic peddler of history." Head of Year 9 and DofE assessor. Sometime medievalist. Mountain Leader trainee. Scouter. Trying to stay focused on teaching...
When the cover email comes through #TeacherProblems
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
When the cover email comes through #TeacherProblems
For when you just can’t have an English enough headline.
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
For when you just can’t have an English enough headline.
Loving the effort that this guy put into his union election pitch.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Loving the effort that this guy put into his union election pitch.
One for those* interested in the niche crossover of father/son Lake District antiquarians/philosophers of history.
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One for those* interested in the niche crossover of father/son Lake District antiquarians/philosophers of history.
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
At this time of year some of the stuff you see (mainly from the excellent @mascotsilence.bsky.social and @remembrancewatch.bsky.social accounts) always makes me think of Sergeant Detritus at the site of Koom Valley in Thud:
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
At this time of year some of the stuff you see (mainly from the excellent @mascotsilence.bsky.social and @remembrancewatch.bsky.social accounts) always makes me think of Sergeant Detritus at the site of Koom Valley in Thud:
Really glad that the wheel of fortune has turned again and we are back to telling students to put blazers on after years of telling them to take their coats off…
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really glad that the wheel of fortune has turned again and we are back to telling students to put blazers on after years of telling them to take their coats off…
The largest exododus is history is actually the stuffed one at the Tring ZSL site.
(Full confession, a partly stolen joke)
(Full confession, a partly stolen joke)
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The largest exododus is history is actually the stuffed one at the Tring ZSL site.
(Full confession, a partly stolen joke)
(Full confession, a partly stolen joke)
32- The tale of how the most dangerous showdown of the Cold War was not the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but a mix of Soviet paranoia and American blundering in November 1983 which almost brought the world to an end without anyone really realising how close things were. #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
32- The tale of how the most dangerous showdown of the Cold War was not the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but a mix of Soviet paranoia and American blundering in November 1983 which almost brought the world to an end without anyone really realising how close things were. #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
31. The excellent ramblings of someone going for the round the world cycle record- definitely worked as an audio book! #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
November 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
31. The excellent ramblings of someone going for the round the world cycle record- definitely worked as an audio book! #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
30- Another @robertharrishome.bsky.social page turner, this time set against the backdrop of WWI and a Prime Minister with a scandal of (partly) his own devising… #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
30- Another @robertharrishome.bsky.social page turner, this time set against the backdrop of WWI and a Prime Minister with a scandal of (partly) his own devising… #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
That thing where the feed perfectly aligns? That…
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
That thing where the feed perfectly aligns? That…
That thing where the timeline perfectly aligns? That…
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
That thing where the timeline perfectly aligns? That…
29- Interwove the high politics of the GDR with the lives of the ordinary people that lived there, from its painful birth to its sudden dramatic collapse #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
October 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
29- Interwove the high politics of the GDR with the lives of the ordinary people that lived there, from its painful birth to its sudden dramatic collapse #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
“Now we turn to liars…”
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Now we turn to liars…”
"I can explain everything"
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"I can explain everything"
I am also both gobsmacked and completely unsurprised that this *three volume* monstrosity exists.
October 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I am also both gobsmacked and completely unsurprised that this *three volume* monstrosity exists.
28- An adventure what went wrong is a *very* apt description… #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
28- An adventure what went wrong is a *very* apt description… #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2025
When you go to the sea because the mountains will be too windy…
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When you go to the sea because the mountains will be too windy…
I have strong memories of that run-up, and 'quite' is an understatement.
October 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I have strong memories of that run-up, and 'quite' is an understatement.
Anyway we all know the job Starmer has really given Andy Burnham is to defeat the Mysterons in their war of nerves against the Earth.
September 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Anyway we all know the job Starmer has really given Andy Burnham is to defeat the Mysterons in their war of nerves against the Earth.
Of course he does.
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Of course he does.