Michael Taylor
@mhtaylor.bsky.social
Historian, cat-guardian, legal consultant, and diminishing cricketer
Every night.
Well, every time I dream.
Same tooth every time, the one that got mangled playing cricket in Delhi.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Well, every time I dream.
Same tooth every time, the one that got mangled playing cricket in Delhi.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?
Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every night.
Well, every time I dream.
Same tooth every time, the one that got mangled playing cricket in Delhi.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Well, every time I dream.
Same tooth every time, the one that got mangled playing cricket in Delhi.
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Reposted by Michael Taylor
Impressive guy guarding National Museums Kenya
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Impressive guy guarding National Museums Kenya
This is a cat who does not care about the wreckage of fur on the sheets, or the fact that I cannot reach the book without risking terrible injury
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is a cat who does not care about the wreckage of fur on the sheets, or the fact that I cannot reach the book without risking terrible injury
Reposted by Michael Taylor
The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
Nigel Biggar misrepresenting people, while also accusing other people of lying? Surely not
Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...
Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery
By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…
alanlester.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nigel Biggar misrepresenting people, while also accusing other people of lying? Surely not
How does an Allen Lane paperback by a Wolfson Prize winner get the name of a prime minister wrong?
September 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
How does an Allen Lane paperback by a Wolfson Prize winner get the name of a prime minister wrong?
Plotting the chapters for the final section of the book I'm writing and, out of context, it looks like I've finally cracked:
August 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Plotting the chapters for the final section of the book I'm writing and, out of context, it looks like I've finally cracked:
After the Know-Nothings in the 1850s and the Union Party in 1860, the biggest third-party delegation in U.S. congressional history (25 reps) was the Anti-Masonic Party in the 1830s.
They believed that the Illuminati and the masons were corrupting the world. Plus ca change.
They believed that the Illuminati and the masons were corrupting the world. Plus ca change.
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
After the Know-Nothings in the 1850s and the Union Party in 1860, the biggest third-party delegation in U.S. congressional history (25 reps) was the Anti-Masonic Party in the 1830s.
They believed that the Illuminati and the masons were corrupting the world. Plus ca change.
They believed that the Illuminati and the masons were corrupting the world. Plus ca change.
The Spectator in 1921:
"Mrs. Webster shows what a bad influence certain sections of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe have played in fomenting revolution ... Our own strong impression is that [she] is getting on the right track in connecting the Protocols and llluminism"
"Mrs. Webster shows what a bad influence certain sections of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe have played in fomenting revolution ... Our own strong impression is that [she] is getting on the right track in connecting the Protocols and llluminism"
August 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Spectator in 1921:
"Mrs. Webster shows what a bad influence certain sections of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe have played in fomenting revolution ... Our own strong impression is that [she] is getting on the right track in connecting the Protocols and llluminism"
"Mrs. Webster shows what a bad influence certain sections of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe have played in fomenting revolution ... Our own strong impression is that [she] is getting on the right track in connecting the Protocols and llluminism"
Serendipitous discovery that the first (and maybe the last) Englishman to meet and write about Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, was Henry Crabb Robinson during his German years
August 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Serendipitous discovery that the first (and maybe the last) Englishman to meet and write about Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, was Henry Crabb Robinson during his German years
Bizarre dream in which I went back to my old college. I was given palatial rooms (study, library, living space, ornate furnishings) for life, free food, and a massive wine cellar.
Then I realised I had just become a fellow.
Then I realised I had just become a fellow.
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Bizarre dream in which I went back to my old college. I was given palatial rooms (study, library, living space, ornate furnishings) for life, free food, and a massive wine cellar.
Then I realised I had just become a fellow.
Then I realised I had just become a fellow.
Truly the worst day of the year as I attempt to wrestle this creature to the vet for her checkup
July 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Truly the worst day of the year as I attempt to wrestle this creature to the vet for her checkup
Alcaraz dedicating his victory to the Code of Justinian
June 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Alcaraz dedicating his victory to the Code of Justinian
Ahem
For obvious reasons I would not post this on the other place, but when the Trump-Musk combustion happens, the fallout will be glorious to witness
June 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ahem
It's (online) publication day!
Delighted to have edited the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@alexpreston.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Delighted to have edited the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@alexpreston.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest volume | Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series | Cambridge Core
Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series
www.cambridge.org
June 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's (online) publication day!
Delighted to have edited the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@alexpreston.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Delighted to have edited the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@alexpreston.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yep. Immensely learned work, but not sure I agreed or enjoyed it
Michael Taylor @mhtaylor.bsky.social reviews 'Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age', by Peter Harrison
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Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, By Peter Harrison
Having used his 2011 Gifford Lectures to explore whether the very notions of ‘science’ and ‘religion’ are modern phenomena, Peter Harrison’s 2019 Bampton L
academic.oup.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Yep. Immensely learned work, but not sure I agreed or enjoyed it
I endorse this message … and thank you to @nigella.bsky.social!
There’s a character in one of Martin Amis’s novels – I can’t remember which –who says “I don’t know much about science, but I know what I like.” I can’t say that I know much about science, but I do like to learn about it, and I loved this book – published in paperback today – when it came out. 1/2
May 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I endorse this message … and thank you to @nigella.bsky.social!
Do I want to pay £3066 to make a short book review available via OpenAccess? No, I fucking don’t
May 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Do I want to pay £3066 to make a short book review available via OpenAccess? No, I fucking don’t
Such a magnificent book
April 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Such a magnificent book
Men!
What’s stopping you from drinking under the watchful eye of the German imperial eagle?
What’s stopping you from drinking under the watchful eye of the German imperial eagle?
April 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Men!
What’s stopping you from drinking under the watchful eye of the German imperial eagle?
What’s stopping you from drinking under the watchful eye of the German imperial eagle?
Holidays are all well and good until you start missing your cat
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Holidays are all well and good until you start missing your cat
It is a source of endless delight that when the (real) Illuminati collapsed from 1784-87, they were essentially brought down by the Dowager Duchess of Bavaria.
A formidable, acerbic matriarch ...
A formidable, acerbic matriarch ...
March 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It is a source of endless delight that when the (real) Illuminati collapsed from 1784-87, they were essentially brought down by the Dowager Duchess of Bavaria.
A formidable, acerbic matriarch ...
A formidable, acerbic matriarch ...
Help needed. There is a quote from the Bavarian playwright Marieluise Fleisser about the Ingolstadt Minster looming over the city like "a mother hen surveilling her brood" but I can't find the original source anywhere ... any ideas?
March 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Help needed. There is a quote from the Bavarian playwright Marieluise Fleisser about the Ingolstadt Minster looming over the city like "a mother hen surveilling her brood" but I can't find the original source anywhere ... any ideas?
“Was ist Eurovision?”
March 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Was ist Eurovision?”
Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
March 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.