Michelle Gwynn
@michgreig.bsky.social
Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. Undertaking a SGSSS funded PhD at University of Glasgow. Interested in space, conflict and 20C Britain.
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Laughing at testimony from the Port of London Solicitor. They never won a theft case in the West Ham quarter sessions, as all the households in the area were all dockers or stevedores relatives and workers who knew the defendants. PLA had never got a single conviction from the West Ham sessions...
February 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Laughing at testimony from the Port of London Solicitor. They never won a theft case in the West Ham quarter sessions, as all the households in the area were all dockers or stevedores relatives and workers who knew the defendants. PLA had never got a single conviction from the West Ham sessions...
Got excited about taking Jn to see Samurai at the BM. Tickets booked. Bounced all the way to school to pick him up like an excited Tigger. He mumbled 'K. whatevs,' I sloped all the way home like Eeyore. The days of running round the BM freaking out excited together about stolen stuff are over :(
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Got excited about taking Jn to see Samurai at the BM. Tickets booked. Bounced all the way to school to pick him up like an excited Tigger. He mumbled 'K. whatevs,' I sloped all the way home like Eeyore. The days of running round the BM freaking out excited together about stolen stuff are over :(
I have heard it said that as you age, you enjoy red wine more and have a sudden attraction to gardening. I'm not sure about that, but my god I am drawn to non-slip, an expensive and supportive pillow and Johnny Cash. #old
February 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I have heard it said that as you age, you enjoy red wine more and have a sudden attraction to gardening. I'm not sure about that, but my god I am drawn to non-slip, an expensive and supportive pillow and Johnny Cash. #old
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I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
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April 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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My God.....Mark Kermode did see Melania....🔥
Mark Kermode reviews Melania
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February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
My God.....Mark Kermode did see Melania....🔥
Writing up (or trying to) & thinking about former violent criminal who still couldn't confront who he had been/was, but said there'd been a moment when he realised he wasn't just being leary & having fun but that something had fundamentally changed & there was no way out. He was 12 years old.
February 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Writing up (or trying to) & thinking about former violent criminal who still couldn't confront who he had been/was, but said there'd been a moment when he realised he wasn't just being leary & having fun but that something had fundamentally changed & there was no way out. He was 12 years old.
Thank The Lord for Version History.
February 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Thank The Lord for Version History.
In other news, my husband's work invited my famous ex (not famous at the time we were dating) to come to do a Meet, Greet and Picture and it is the most delightfully awkward picture I have ever seen. I asked if he said Hi from me and he mumbled "no, best not to mention." Very English. Quite Right.
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
In other news, my husband's work invited my famous ex (not famous at the time we were dating) to come to do a Meet, Greet and Picture and it is the most delightfully awkward picture I have ever seen. I asked if he said Hi from me and he mumbled "no, best not to mention." Very English. Quite Right.
Writing out the bio for the main text of one of the armed robbers I interviewed. It has gone a bit LinkedIn. "..before eventually assuming a proven leadership role in full time Armed Robbery" ha ha. Not sure how you phrase it tbh.
February 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Writing out the bio for the main text of one of the armed robbers I interviewed. It has gone a bit LinkedIn. "..before eventually assuming a proven leadership role in full time Armed Robbery" ha ha. Not sure how you phrase it tbh.
In the 1960s, Stepney had a proportionately huge number of grammar schools, but the local kids were an often marginalised minority. Most of the kids came down the trainline from Essex. I'm putting this here as there is literally no one else bar the dog IRL that will find this as interesting as me
February 4, 2026 at 11:45 AM
In the 1960s, Stepney had a proportionately huge number of grammar schools, but the local kids were an often marginalised minority. Most of the kids came down the trainline from Essex. I'm putting this here as there is literally no one else bar the dog IRL that will find this as interesting as me
My 10yo son has quite the crush on Hannah Fry. I can't get him to watch anything other than football or Dr Fry explaining numbers/maths/household appliance science. Utter silence. My 10yo crush was Murdoch from the A team.
February 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
My 10yo son has quite the crush on Hannah Fry. I can't get him to watch anything other than football or Dr Fry explaining numbers/maths/household appliance science. Utter silence. My 10yo crush was Murdoch from the A team.
god I hate writing. I love researching, I like writing notes. I enjoye every single other aspect of it, but writing is torture. Utter torture. Bunch of Bastards.
February 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
god I hate writing. I love researching, I like writing notes. I enjoye every single other aspect of it, but writing is torture. Utter torture. Bunch of Bastards.
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i renamed a document and added two paragraphs
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
i renamed a document and added two paragraphs
I know people think Brinks-Mat has been done to death but it is one of the most interesting, complex and instructive UK financial event in the 1980s. This is my hill, and I am digging in.
January 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I know people think Brinks-Mat has been done to death but it is one of the most interesting, complex and instructive UK financial event in the 1980s. This is my hill, and I am digging in.
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just choked on my beverage
I didn't know gold bullion was exempt from CGT. Off I trot down the What Else is Exempt From CGT That Has Absolutely No Relevance To Me rabbit hole.
January 29, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I didn't know gold bullion was exempt from CGT. Off I trot down the What Else is Exempt From CGT That Has Absolutely No Relevance To Me rabbit hole.
In 1987, two 'deeply suntanned' men, one in his 20s, one in his 40s, wearing suits, clutching filofaxes and contactable by pager took £850 deposits on a newly developed flat in Wapping from 37 individual buyers who all turned up to move in on the same day. I can't stop thinking about Del Trotter.
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
In 1987, two 'deeply suntanned' men, one in his 20s, one in his 40s, wearing suits, clutching filofaxes and contactable by pager took £850 deposits on a newly developed flat in Wapping from 37 individual buyers who all turned up to move in on the same day. I can't stop thinking about Del Trotter.
Bloody Hell. Crimewatch is utterly terrifying. I have just watched one from June 1986 and I've locked all the doors, tooled up and made the dog rabid. So many murders of young girls and children and creepy reenactments. So many armed robbers. Off to sit with my shotgun in the dark.
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Bloody Hell. Crimewatch is utterly terrifying. I have just watched one from June 1986 and I've locked all the doors, tooled up and made the dog rabid. So many murders of young girls and children and creepy reenactments. So many armed robbers. Off to sit with my shotgun in the dark.
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IN OTHER NEWS, I will be speaking at this ONLINE event on 3rd March about a man we can reliably call A Proper Shit.
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A Cabinet of Curiosities
Victorian murder, abandoned towns, and a very peculiar indulgence feature in our new venture: three short, but reliably odd, talks in one.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:26 AM
IN OTHER NEWS, I will be speaking at this ONLINE event on 3rd March about a man we can reliably call A Proper Shit.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cabinet-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cabinet-...
£650 to fix the car window. No doubt plus vat. This where living in essex comes in handy and negociations start. My opening gambit is "£200 cash, 3 cartons of silk cut and the soul of my first born?" God knows how I am going to pay for even that. Cancel holiday and lose deposit but only way to go
January 28, 2026 at 10:24 AM
£650 to fix the car window. No doubt plus vat. This where living in essex comes in handy and negociations start. My opening gambit is "£200 cash, 3 cartons of silk cut and the soul of my first born?" God knows how I am going to pay for even that. Cancel holiday and lose deposit but only way to go
Tremendous morning. Small child being a dick, icy car, window snapped and fell into the panel. Drove and sat in ridiculous accident traffic for an hour with borderline hypothermia listening to Jonny Cash. Absolutely skint. No idea how to pay to make secure or fix damage.
January 28, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Tremendous morning. Small child being a dick, icy car, window snapped and fell into the panel. Drove and sat in ridiculous accident traffic for an hour with borderline hypothermia listening to Jonny Cash. Absolutely skint. No idea how to pay to make secure or fix damage.
Reading a 1980s transcript of an interview with a Port of London Prosecuter active in the 1960s/70s and it reads exactly as the 13th Duke of Wybourne - right down to the comments about him walking past a girls school on his way to work. Of its time. It is of its time.
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Reading a 1980s transcript of an interview with a Port of London Prosecuter active in the 1960s/70s and it reads exactly as the 13th Duke of Wybourne - right down to the comments about him walking past a girls school on his way to work. Of its time. It is of its time.
A quote from one of the organising Printers yesterday's 40th Anniversary of the Wapping Dispute that has multiple ways to interpret, "You could be a working-class hero and a working-class coward in Wapping." Been bouncing around my head all day.
January 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
A quote from one of the organising Printers yesterday's 40th Anniversary of the Wapping Dispute that has multiple ways to interpret, "You could be a working-class hero and a working-class coward in Wapping." Been bouncing around my head all day.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Wapping Print Dispute. The dispute changed the media, weakened (once more) the unions and laid bare the fractures and division within the communities on whose streets it played out. Honoured to have heard from some of those that were there today.
January 24, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Today is the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Wapping Print Dispute. The dispute changed the media, weakened (once more) the unions and laid bare the fractures and division within the communities on whose streets it played out. Honoured to have heard from some of those that were there today.
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