Dan Snow
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Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Just when you couldnt be any prouder to be British, here's Joseph Banks describing Xmas 1768 on Cook's Endeavour
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
"all hands get abominably drunk so that at night there was scarce a sober man in the ship, wind thank god very moderate or the lord knows what would have become of us”.
US battleship classes are typically named after a state of the Union.
Montana, Hawaii and Alaska are still available.
No class has ever been named after an individual.
Montana, Hawaii and Alaska are still available.
No class has ever been named after an individual.
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
US battleship classes are typically named after a state of the Union.
Montana, Hawaii and Alaska are still available.
No class has ever been named after an individual.
Montana, Hawaii and Alaska are still available.
No class has ever been named after an individual.
Strong ‘Ming special envoy to the steppe people beyond the wall’ energy with this
December 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Strong ‘Ming special envoy to the steppe people beyond the wall’ energy with this
Venezuela is also not in North America.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Venezuela is also not in North America.
Radio 4’s Jane Austen season is absolutely brilliant and wonderful. There is nothing like Radio 4 anywhere in the world, it is so precious.
December 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Radio 4’s Jane Austen season is absolutely brilliant and wonderful. There is nothing like Radio 4 anywhere in the world, it is so precious.
Selim I wants a chat.
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Selim I wants a chat.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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📰 📝 Which #history and #archaeology stories would you like to see featured on Friday the 19th's A Whole Lot of History?
We've got a really cool #Viking story to kick off tomorrow's edition, and we'll be back again on Friday, so let us know if you've got any stories for us to consider!
We've got a really cool #Viking story to kick off tomorrow's edition, and we'll be back again on Friday, so let us know if you've got any stories for us to consider!
December 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
📰 📝 Which #history and #archaeology stories would you like to see featured on Friday the 19th's A Whole Lot of History?
We've got a really cool #Viking story to kick off tomorrow's edition, and we'll be back again on Friday, so let us know if you've got any stories for us to consider!
We've got a really cool #Viking story to kick off tomorrow's edition, and we'll be back again on Friday, so let us know if you've got any stories for us to consider!
Dawn on the coast.
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Dawn on the coast.
If you love history and archaeology, and want to stay across all the breaking news- this is a must follow.
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⚫️ Self-healing 'hot-mix' Roman concrete at Pompeii
⚫️ Compiling a Celtic Dictionary (with thanks to Roman curse tablets...)
⚫️ GOLD-inlaid Bronze-Age spearheads from Denmark
⚫️ Ancient Egyptian Cruise Ship
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⚫️ Self-healing 'hot-mix' Roman concrete at Pompeii
⚫️ Compiling a Celtic Dictionary (with thanks to Roman curse tablets...)
⚫️ GOLD-inlaid Bronze-Age spearheads from Denmark
⚫️ Ancient Egyptian Cruise Ship
#HistoryHit x #Substack
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December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you love history and archaeology, and want to stay across all the breaking news- this is a must follow.
To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.
The USA’s first foreign invasion.
It would be easy. They would be welcomed as liberators.
In 1775, 250 years ago, the US invaded Canada.
Here’s the story:
youtu.be/1QNaBmWnk4E?...
It would be easy. They would be welcomed as liberators.
In 1775, 250 years ago, the US invaded Canada.
Here’s the story:
youtu.be/1QNaBmWnk4E?...
How America Invaded (And Almost Won) Canada
YouTube video by Dan Snow's History Hit
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The USA’s first foreign invasion.
It would be easy. They would be welcomed as liberators.
In 1775, 250 years ago, the US invaded Canada.
Here’s the story:
youtu.be/1QNaBmWnk4E?...
It would be easy. They would be welcomed as liberators.
In 1775, 250 years ago, the US invaded Canada.
Here’s the story:
youtu.be/1QNaBmWnk4E?...
IF the Princes in the Tower were murdered and IF the oldest, Edward V, was killed first- THEN at the second of his death, his brother Richard would have become king, for an instant until he was killed.
SO he would have been Richard III. Richard III of carpark fame would actually be Richard IV
SO he would have been Richard III. Richard III of carpark fame would actually be Richard IV
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
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December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
IF the Princes in the Tower were murdered and IF the oldest, Edward V, was killed first- THEN at the second of his death, his brother Richard would have become king, for an instant until he was killed.
SO he would have been Richard III. Richard III of carpark fame would actually be Richard IV
SO he would have been Richard III. Richard III of carpark fame would actually be Richard IV
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The entire project of advanced education is about believing it's worthwhile to do the hard work of learning to understand difficult things and express your understanding in your own words.
Bringing GenAI into the process is wholly destructive.
Bringing GenAI into the process is wholly destructive.
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The entire project of advanced education is about believing it's worthwhile to do the hard work of learning to understand difficult things and express your understanding in your own words.
Bringing GenAI into the process is wholly destructive.
Bringing GenAI into the process is wholly destructive.
Saturday: Forbidden City
Monday: Taunton Castle
Two world class heritage sites.
Monday: Taunton Castle
Two world class heritage sites.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Saturday: Forbidden City
Monday: Taunton Castle
Two world class heritage sites.
Monday: Taunton Castle
Two world class heritage sites.
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A Whole Lot of History - Friday edition!
AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!
It features:
⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒
⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴
⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓
⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫
...and more!
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AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!
It features:
⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒
⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴
⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓
⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫
...and more!
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A Whole Lot of History - Friday edition!
AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!
It features:
⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒
⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴
⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓
⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫
...and more!
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
AWLOH for Friday 5th Dec. is out NOW, history and archaeology fans!
It features:
⚫️ Roman sun hats ☀️👒
⚫️ Henry VIII 🤴
⚫️ Viking decapitation 🪓
⚫️ Prohibition 🍺🚫
...and more!
open.substack.com/pub/historyh...
American hegemony on the European continent benefitted the USA.
It was never an act of altruism. It was very clear what would happen if the Americans pulled back.
It was never an act of altruism. It was very clear what would happen if the Americans pulled back.
lol yes when you tell Europe to rearm, this is what happens, you absolute muppets
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau today slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
American hegemony on the European continent benefitted the USA.
It was never an act of altruism. It was very clear what would happen if the Americans pulled back.
It was never an act of altruism. It was very clear what would happen if the Americans pulled back.
The Dunhuang Solar Power Tower, Gobi Desert. One of the world’s biggest towers.
Mirrors focus the sun which super heats molten salt.
Mirrors focus the sun which super heats molten salt.
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Dunhuang Solar Power Tower, Gobi Desert. One of the world’s biggest towers.
Mirrors focus the sun which super heats molten salt.
Mirrors focus the sun which super heats molten salt.
250 years ago today!
The ensign of the Continental Navy was raised for the first time on an American fleet.
It was raised by a young lieutenant, John Paul Jones
The ensign of the Continental Navy was raised for the first time on an American fleet.
It was raised by a young lieutenant, John Paul Jones
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
250 years ago today!
The ensign of the Continental Navy was raised for the first time on an American fleet.
It was raised by a young lieutenant, John Paul Jones
The ensign of the Continental Navy was raised for the first time on an American fleet.
It was raised by a young lieutenant, John Paul Jones
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Spending my birthday carrying clobber through storm drains in the Gobi Desert.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
December 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Spending my birthday carrying clobber through storm drains in the Gobi Desert.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
There are not many places in the world further from the ocean than where I am now.
1,100 miles from the Bohai Sea.
It’s making me a little edgy.
1,100 miles from the Bohai Sea.
It’s making me a little edgy.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There are not many places in the world further from the ocean than where I am now.
1,100 miles from the Bohai Sea.
It’s making me a little edgy.
1,100 miles from the Bohai Sea.
It’s making me a little edgy.
The edge of the Gobi desert
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The edge of the Gobi desert
What to do about foreign talent?
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What to do about foreign talent?
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”