Duncan Hamilton
@dnhamilton.bsky.social
University of Manchester PGR researching the literature of the Chartist Thomas Cooper | Elizabeth Gaskell's House volunteer | IHR History Lab+ ambassador (North West England)
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
-William Morris
-William Morris
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
-William Morris
-William Morris
Last night I started David Olusoga's new Empire series (excellent and I hugely recommend it - David is a much better historian than he is a Faithful). Monday in the archive and the first pamphlet I open is a case of some good old Imperial Federationism from an ex-Chartist. Many, MANY such cases.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Last night I started David Olusoga's new Empire series (excellent and I hugely recommend it - David is a much better historian than he is a Faithful). Monday in the archive and the first pamphlet I open is a case of some good old Imperial Federationism from an ex-Chartist. Many, MANY such cases.
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all if forgiven, this show is perfect. #GameOfWool
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
all if forgiven, this show is perfect. #GameOfWool
Had a long-overdue haircut this week and made the decision to do a close shave afterwards. This proved to be a mistake but it has, at least, allowed me to complete the Carroll diagram of Duncan's Many Looks
Yes, I look good with the scruff and the cropped hair, I'm not ashamed.
Yes, I look good with the scruff and the cropped hair, I'm not ashamed.
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Had a long-overdue haircut this week and made the decision to do a close shave afterwards. This proved to be a mistake but it has, at least, allowed me to complete the Carroll diagram of Duncan's Many Looks
Yes, I look good with the scruff and the cropped hair, I'm not ashamed.
Yes, I look good with the scruff and the cropped hair, I'm not ashamed.
I am ~15 years into my Europa Universalis V game and I'm blown away. This is a simulation of the ENTIRE world for 500 years (1337-1821), yet still deep enough for me to lose myself in battling Devonian and Cornish tin merchants over their weird local legal system #SmashTheStannaryLaws #EUV
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am ~15 years into my Europa Universalis V game and I'm blown away. This is a simulation of the ENTIRE world for 500 years (1337-1821), yet still deep enough for me to lose myself in battling Devonian and Cornish tin merchants over their weird local legal system #SmashTheStannaryLaws #EUV
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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In Newport South Wales on November 4 1839 Chartists nearly succeeded in sparking a revolution. The crack regiment of the British Army shot 22 dead
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Newport 4th November 1839: 22 Chartists demanding the vote shot dead by the army
Newport 4th November 1839: 22 Chartists demanding the vote shot dead by the army It is 186 years on 4th November since the Newport Rising in South Wales. The events of that day may have had a revol…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In Newport South Wales on November 4 1839 Chartists nearly succeeded in sparking a revolution. The crack regiment of the British Army shot 22 dead
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Listen to Journey Through Time, available on all major podcast platforms 🎙️
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Listen to Journey Through Time, available on all major podcast platforms 🎙️
After an extremely full-on week followed by an even more full-on weekend (don't do 8hrs of trains in one day, kids) I fully reserve the right to swan around Hexham in various high-quality items of wool clothing
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
After an extremely full-on week followed by an even more full-on weekend (don't do 8hrs of trains in one day, kids) I fully reserve the right to swan around Hexham in various high-quality items of wool clothing
You know what time of year it is
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
You know what time of year it is
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An order of chicken fingers is called a hand. “Gimme a hand of fingies,” you say. If you want dipping sauce you ask for them to “paint the nails.”
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
An order of chicken fingers is called a hand. “Gimme a hand of fingies,” you say. If you want dipping sauce you ask for them to “paint the nails.”
Three bloody years on this PhD and I still get jumpscared by the low-contrast Thomas Cooper
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Three bloody years on this PhD and I still get jumpscared by the low-contrast Thomas Cooper
Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee on the language of politics is perfect (and very distracting) background noise to write to
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee on the language of politics is perfect (and very distracting) background noise to write to
There's a strange sort of enjoyment in seeing someone I massively respect and admire intellectually be so confidently wrong all of the time #CelebrityTraitors
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There's a strange sort of enjoyment in seeing someone I massively respect and admire intellectually be so confidently wrong all of the time #CelebrityTraitors
Starting my literature review with "*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering just how I got into this situation"
(I know this isn't the Sunset Boulevard quote but it IS the quote of the mythologised version of the trope ca. 2010)
(I know this isn't the Sunset Boulevard quote but it IS the quote of the mythologised version of the trope ca. 2010)
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Starting my literature review with "*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering just how I got into this situation"
(I know this isn't the Sunset Boulevard quote but it IS the quote of the mythologised version of the trope ca. 2010)
(I know this isn't the Sunset Boulevard quote but it IS the quote of the mythologised version of the trope ca. 2010)
Shopping at a pop-up market, upgrading my laptop with some new RAM (EUV get hype) and deep cleaning the entire flat after putting it off for, frankly, way too long. If anyone deserves burgers* and chips for dinner it's this guy
*big up Linda McCartney
*big up Linda McCartney
October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Shopping at a pop-up market, upgrading my laptop with some new RAM (EUV get hype) and deep cleaning the entire flat after putting it off for, frankly, way too long. If anyone deserves burgers* and chips for dinner it's this guy
*big up Linda McCartney
*big up Linda McCartney
I defy anyone to find a better Friday night than a sensible couple of beers and an Ealing comedy. Tonight's showing is The Titfield Thunderbolt, a film I refuse to hear a bad word about
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I defy anyone to find a better Friday night than a sensible couple of beers and an Ealing comedy. Tonight's showing is The Titfield Thunderbolt, a film I refuse to hear a bad word about
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The history and legacy of the British Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺 #history
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺 #history
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The history and legacy of the British Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺 #history
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺 #history
Late Chartism is wild. What do you mean Ernest Jones is coming out to bat for Thomas Cooper against Gammage's 'History of the Chartist Movement'? Whose side is anyone on?
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Late Chartism is wild. What do you mean Ernest Jones is coming out to bat for Thomas Cooper against Gammage's 'History of the Chartist Movement'? Whose side is anyone on?
Banger Young Ones reference from SOAS #UniversityChallenge #ToxtethOGrady
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Banger Young Ones reference from SOAS #UniversityChallenge #ToxtethOGrady
I currently spend my Mondays doing just about the greatest thing: cleaning and cataloguing pre-1930s pamphlets published by the co-operative movement. I would be lying if exposure to early CWS ephemera wasn't having a massive effect on my politics
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I currently spend my Mondays doing just about the greatest thing: cleaning and cataloguing pre-1930s pamphlets published by the co-operative movement. I would be lying if exposure to early CWS ephemera wasn't having a massive effect on my politics
Proud to pay my respects to KING DAVID HARTLEY OF CRAGG VALE and also this poet my partner likes I guess
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Proud to pay my respects to KING DAVID HARTLEY OF CRAGG VALE and also this poet my partner likes I guess
Uh, whose Wuthering Heights?
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Uh, whose Wuthering Heights?
Brilliant book but especially essential reading for anyone interested in the history of commons land management
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Brilliant book but especially essential reading for anyone interested in the history of commons land management