JudithFlanders
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
The look of betrayal!
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The look of betrayal!
And the competition is fierce!
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And the competition is fierce!
Thank you, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @quietriotpod.bsky.social Your year update took me all the way through marmalade-making!
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thank you, @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @quietriotpod.bsky.social Your year update took me all the way through marmalade-making!
Reposted by JudithFlanders
Yeah, dude. Being holier than thou is sort of the job description for being Pope.
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yeah, dude. Being holier than thou is sort of the job description for being Pope.
Yeah, dude. Being holier than thou is sort of the job description for being Pope.
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yeah, dude. Being holier than thou is sort of the job description for being Pope.
This is lovely. Happy Christmas everyone.
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
December 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is lovely. Happy Christmas everyone.
Reposted by JudithFlanders
If Hollywood wasn't full of cowards they'd have made a Muppet Fitzcarraldo where the only human was Kinski
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If Hollywood wasn't full of cowards they'd have made a Muppet Fitzcarraldo where the only human was Kinski
Ahhhh, simple pleasures…
I love this country and its traditions, perhaps none more so than how Smithfield butchers are treated like rock stars on Xmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Ahhhh, simple pleasures…
Among the many shocking and disgusting revelations in the Epstein files: the discovery that the Andrew formerly known as Prince had a valet from the age of TWO.
As Hemingway said, the rich are different: they’re batshit insane.
As Hemingway said, the rich are different: they’re batshit insane.
December 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Among the many shocking and disgusting revelations in the Epstein files: the discovery that the Andrew formerly known as Prince had a valet from the age of TWO.
As Hemingway said, the rich are different: they’re batshit insane.
As Hemingway said, the rich are different: they’re batshit insane.
Very adorable Christmas closing post by the Rijksmuseum's library: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/s...
Rijksmuseum Christmas 2025
After hours, when the Cuypers Library falls silent, a little holiday magic slips in.
Santa appears. The night becomes a dance floor - until his phone lights up and brings him back, just in time for C...
www.rijksmuseum.nl
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Very adorable Christmas closing post by the Rijksmuseum's library: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/s...
David Remnick slowly peeling off the 'educated NY liberal' mask. Soon there are going to be the first-person articles about how this long-time anti-POC, misogynistic 'liberal' has 'now found himself politically homeless'.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
David Remnick slowly peeling off the 'educated NY liberal' mask. Soon there are going to be the first-person articles about how this long-time anti-POC, misogynistic 'liberal' has 'now found himself politically homeless'.
Reposted by JudithFlanders
The French (French Canadian?) term for egg nog (= “chicken milk”) is such a delight.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The French (French Canadian?) term for egg nog (= “chicken milk”) is such a delight.
Just received an invitation to appear on Fox news' streaming channel. Granted, to talk about the history of Christmas, but I'm guessing they don't check historians' social media posts before issuing invitations.
I gave them the polite version of 'Thank you, but I'd rather set my hair on fire.'
I gave them the polite version of 'Thank you, but I'd rather set my hair on fire.'
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just received an invitation to appear on Fox news' streaming channel. Granted, to talk about the history of Christmas, but I'm guessing they don't check historians' social media posts before issuing invitations.
I gave them the polite version of 'Thank you, but I'd rather set my hair on fire.'
I gave them the polite version of 'Thank you, but I'd rather set my hair on fire.'
Hey, UK journalists, time to look at the Prince formerly known as Andrew’s relationship with Peter Nygard, Canada’s own paedophile sex-trafficker. Looks like a whole new avenue of depraved acts in the Epstein release to be examined.
www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-...
www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-...
Le FBI a demandé à interroger l’ancien prince Andrew dans son enquête sur Peter Nygard
Une lettre à cet effet, datée d’avril 2020, a été publiée parmi les documents liés à l’affaire Epstein.
www.ledevoir.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hey, UK journalists, time to look at the Prince formerly known as Andrew’s relationship with Peter Nygard, Canada’s own paedophile sex-trafficker. Looks like a whole new avenue of depraved acts in the Epstein release to be examined.
www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-...
www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-...
Reposted by JudithFlanders
9 of the remaining 10% is recruitment and supplies, which are entirely dependent on society and have massive consequences for society, and must be justified/legitimized by culture. You cannot make war if you don’t have troops, weapons, or food.
Also, gender. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Also, gender. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
90% of military history is about where the latrines are dug. You cannot make war if you have dysentery.
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
9 of the remaining 10% is recruitment and supplies, which are entirely dependent on society and have massive consequences for society, and must be justified/legitimized by culture. You cannot make war if you don’t have troops, weapons, or food.
Also, gender. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Also, gender. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Reposted by JudithFlanders
Glad to see what is happening to the BBC Written Archive getting a bit more coverage. Can I suggest people use the public consultation for the BBC Charter Review to raise this issue
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9febe15...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9febe15...
The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed
The Written Archives Centre has closed off access to most of its treasures, leaving historians in dismay
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Glad to see what is happening to the BBC Written Archive getting a bit more coverage. Can I suggest people use the public consultation for the BBC Charter Review to raise this issue
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9febe15...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9febe15...
Reposted by JudithFlanders
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
Reposted by JudithFlanders
My new favourite video of all time.
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My new favourite video of all time.
Anyone know why the @mainemorningstar.com , which I'm guessing is based in *checks notes* Maine, is using a photograph of a UK street (see both bus shelter that says 'Nine Elms', a district of London, and UK post box)?
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release mainemorningstar.com/2025/12/23/r...
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Anyone know why the @mainemorningstar.com , which I'm guessing is based in *checks notes* Maine, is using a photograph of a UK street (see both bus shelter that says 'Nine Elms', a district of London, and UK post box)?
Reposted by JudithFlanders
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Reposted by JudithFlanders
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
For the World Cup preparations, Canada has derogated to FIFA the right to hand out work/residency papers to 1000+ workers from abroad. With such an honourable, upright institution as FIFA, what could possibly go wrong?
www.ledevoir.com/sports/94362...
www.ledevoir.com/sports/94362...
Le Canada délègue à la FIFA l’accréditation de travailleurs temporaires
Certains articles promotionnels de la Coupe du monde bénéficieront aussi d’un congé de taxe.
www.ledevoir.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
For the World Cup preparations, Canada has derogated to FIFA the right to hand out work/residency papers to 1000+ workers from abroad. With such an honourable, upright institution as FIFA, what could possibly go wrong?
www.ledevoir.com/sports/94362...
www.ledevoir.com/sports/94362...
Does anyone, a historian of cookery/bakery perhaps, know what a baker's 'wriggling-pole' might be? It appears in double-entendre-filled 18th cent. ballads where the other tradesmen's 'tools' (ball-cock, needle, etc) are commonplace.
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This thread is the best possible response to:
1. Isn’t everything you need digitised?
And
2. Can’t AI do the research for you?
1. Isn’t everything you need digitised?
And
2. Can’t AI do the research for you?
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This thread is the best possible response to:
1. Isn’t everything you need digitised?
And
2. Can’t AI do the research for you?
1. Isn’t everything you need digitised?
And
2. Can’t AI do the research for you?
Found an envelope in the British Library, addressed in full to ‘Rudyard Kipling, England’. Next to that was written, ‘Try Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex’. That was indeed Kipling’s address.
I suppose it’s less a crazy archive story, more an impressive post office story.
I suppose it’s less a crazy archive story, more an impressive post office story.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Found an envelope in the British Library, addressed in full to ‘Rudyard Kipling, England’. Next to that was written, ‘Try Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex’. That was indeed Kipling’s address.
I suppose it’s less a crazy archive story, more an impressive post office story.
I suppose it’s less a crazy archive story, more an impressive post office story.