Matthew Ward Hunter
@historyneedsyou.bsky.social
Castellan, historian, consultant for museums, film & tv
Good morning from the edge of the world! 🏴
September 3, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Good morning from the edge of the world! 🏴
We walked through a blizzard today, along the north east coast of #Scotland. The landscape was transformed to an engraving by the snow and grey winter light.
January 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM
We walked through a blizzard today, along the north east coast of #Scotland. The landscape was transformed to an engraving by the snow and grey winter light.
Palestinian girls playing in the snow outside Al-Quds, Palestine, Christmas 1921.
Merry Christmas one and all, and peace on earth for all who need it most.
Merry Christmas one and all, and peace on earth for all who need it most.
December 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Palestinian girls playing in the snow outside Al-Quds, Palestine, Christmas 1921.
Merry Christmas one and all, and peace on earth for all who need it most.
Merry Christmas one and all, and peace on earth for all who need it most.
Ring out solstice bells!
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December 21, 2023 at 8:45 PM
Ring out solstice bells!
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This majestic beech tree is a real sentinel of #history - guarding the gate to Forglen Auld Kirk in Aberdeenshire. This is where the relics of St Columba resided and from whence Robert the Bruce borrowed them for Bannockburn. The tree trunk is 4m in diameter so it is extremely old! #Scotland
December 14, 2023 at 6:56 PM
It’s a cold and bleak night tonight, but not as bleak as it was OTD 1745. Bonnie Prince Charlie reluctantly gave the order to his army to return to #Scotland. They had arrived in Derby two days earlier but, despite being so close to that London, they realised that no more help was coming. #history
December 6, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Bonnie Prince Charlie entered Derby with his army, OTD 1745. This was the high water mark of his 1745 adventure. If he had not turned back then, #history would’ve repeated itself. His army would’ve been massacred where Boudica was cut down 1700 years earlier.
December 4, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Bonnie Prince Charlie entered Derby with his army, OTD 1745. This was the high water mark of his 1745 adventure. If he had not turned back then, #history would’ve repeated itself. His army would’ve been massacred where Boudica was cut down 1700 years earlier.
The Aurora are glorious over North East Scotland tonight
December 1, 2023 at 7:12 PM
The Aurora are glorious over North East Scotland tonight
Some years ago I conducted some research with @a9630.bsky.social into the Haggis Chase Royale, which took place every St Andrew’s Day in the C16th. We discovered King James VI’s haggis hunting halberd in Stirling Castle - a great relic of Scotland’s #history
November 30, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Some years ago I conducted some research with @a9630.bsky.social into the Haggis Chase Royale, which took place every St Andrew’s Day in the C16th. We discovered King James VI’s haggis hunting halberd in Stirling Castle - a great relic of Scotland’s #history
Happy St Andrew’s Day - traditional start of the wild haggis hunting season in Scotland. Iron Age folk built Haggis habitats called brochs, to conserve them. Climate change has now made the true wild haggis a critically endangered species, restricted to the tops of the highest mountains. 🏴
November 30, 2023 at 6:26 PM
Happy St Andrew’s Day - traditional start of the wild haggis hunting season in Scotland. Iron Age folk built Haggis habitats called brochs, to conserve them. Climate change has now made the true wild haggis a critically endangered species, restricted to the tops of the highest mountains. 🏴
We paid our respects to the late, great, Betty Boothroyd MP, at St George’s, Thriplow, near Cambridge. Her motto, ‘I speak to serve’ is both wise and inspirational. #history
November 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM
We paid our respects to the late, great, Betty Boothroyd MP, at St George’s, Thriplow, near Cambridge. Her motto, ‘I speak to serve’ is both wise and inspirational. #history
I have just heard Florence Nightingale spinning in her grave, following the latest Covid inquiry evidence. Boris didn’t understand the statistics and graphs of the epidemic. FN invented the pie chart to teach Whitehall idiots the reality of disease in Crimea. #history
November 20, 2023 at 1:19 PM
I have just heard Florence Nightingale spinning in her grave, following the latest Covid inquiry evidence. Boris didn’t understand the statistics and graphs of the epidemic. FN invented the pie chart to teach Whitehall idiots the reality of disease in Crimea. #history
There are many More things on our stall today, but Eating with the Tudors is front and centre!
Found more at @historyneedyou2.bsky.social @historyneedsyou.bsky.social trading today at ARM. You can also pick up a copy of Eating With The Tudors from their stall.
November 19, 2023 at 12:28 PM
There are many More things on our stall today, but Eating with the Tudors is front and centre!
Happy birthday to brilliant Bonnie Greer - great champion of the #arts, heritage, education, human rights and concord. And, of course, writer, dramatist, broadcaster and inspiring truth-sayer.
Photographic portrait by Maud Sulter in the NPG
Photographic portrait by Maud Sulter in the NPG
November 16, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Happy birthday to brilliant Bonnie Greer - great champion of the #arts, heritage, education, human rights and concord. And, of course, writer, dramatist, broadcaster and inspiring truth-sayer.
Photographic portrait by Maud Sulter in the NPG
Photographic portrait by Maud Sulter in the NPG
Ne byð þæt fele freond, se þe oþrum facn heleð.
(He who harbours treachery against another is not a faithful friend.)
Wisdom from the Durham proverbs, written one thousand years ago. #history
(He who harbours treachery against another is not a faithful friend.)
Wisdom from the Durham proverbs, written one thousand years ago. #history
November 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM
Ne byð þæt fele freond, se þe oþrum facn heleð.
(He who harbours treachery against another is not a faithful friend.)
Wisdom from the Durham proverbs, written one thousand years ago. #history
(He who harbours treachery against another is not a faithful friend.)
Wisdom from the Durham proverbs, written one thousand years ago. #history
Wide ne biþ wel, cwæþ se þe gehyrde on helle hriman.
(Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.)
Truer today than when written, one thousand years ago. #history
(Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.)
Truer today than when written, one thousand years ago. #history
November 9, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Wide ne biþ wel, cwæþ se þe gehyrde on helle hriman.
(Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.)
Truer today than when written, one thousand years ago. #history
(Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell.)
Truer today than when written, one thousand years ago. #history
Captain James Cook, was tragically fortunate to have his life and career cut down, aged just 50. He had already descended into sad alcoholism and brutality. He has enjoyed 250 years of heroism but is now being critically reassessed for his role in colonialism. #history
November 7, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Captain James Cook, was tragically fortunate to have his life and career cut down, aged just 50. He had already descended into sad alcoholism and brutality. He has enjoyed 250 years of heroism but is now being critically reassessed for his role in colonialism. #history
Happy birthday to Captain James Cook, b1728. Explorer and avant-garde of colonialism. To some, a #Yorkshire hero, to others, the first cloud of the storm. #history
November 7, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Happy birthday to Captain James Cook, b1728. Explorer and avant-garde of colonialism. To some, a #Yorkshire hero, to others, the first cloud of the storm. #history
The latest depressing news from the artist formerly known as Twitter, has confirmed that I’ve ridden the last freedom moped out of nowhere city. Reinstating haters will drive away corporate sponsors. They will not want to float amidst extremist effluent.
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Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins reinstated on X
Their return, after bans for hate speech violations, has been criticised by campaigners.
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November 6, 2023 at 3:59 PM
The latest depressing news from the artist formerly known as Twitter, has confirmed that I’ve ridden the last freedom moped out of nowhere city. Reinstating haters will drive away corporate sponsors. They will not want to float amidst extremist effluent.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
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