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JamesHobson
@jameshobson.bsky.social
History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Labour Party Member, just about.
Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
One of the first things I remembered.59 years ago
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If you are happy with these British citizens displaying their flag ( its not the wrong way round- hold on there, keyboard pedants-its meant to be viewed from outside) then I agree with you.
If you like flags normally but can't be doing with this, then you a bigot or racist.
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Survivors of #Peterloo- taken 1884
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There was slop before AI slop
#peterloo
August 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
10 years ago ( agh!!) I exposed Thomas Dempster in the local press, pretending 'as a joke' to support Labour and vote for Corbyn.
Where is he now? Has he grown up yet?
August 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I have been reading this. Now I understand.
August 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Presently 99p on kindle in the UK
July 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Your Party? Shouldn't it be Our Party, or are you bigger and wiser than us and are gracefully giving us something?
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
99p on kindle. A no-brainer, as people used to say
July 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Our only republican government (so far) formed on #OTD in 1649
May 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Boy decapitated at work
Page 2, column 2. three lines
1802
April 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Law became national known at the impeachment of Warren Hastings. He took on Burke, Fox and others determined to get Hastings, making himself unpopular for a long time. Below is the first time he appeared in a carton.
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Edward Law/ Ellenborough was married to Anne Towry. A renowned metropolitan beauty compared to Law, who was short, ungainly and provincial. Law/ Ellenborough was punching...I tell her story in the book
#C18 #C19
March 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Here is Edward Law's father, Edmund Law, as Bishop of Carlisle. He was the key to the family's success; his father had been a curate and school teacher. Edward decided against the church, but his brothers became bishops.
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My new biography of Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough (1750-1818) was published yesterday. Here he is; a rather flattering portrait by Lawrence.
#C18 #C19
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
'Back then we didn't have much. Life was hard, work was dangerous and times were tough. But my God at least we had each other - the country was united. In my lifetime that has been thoroughly lost.'
February 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@georgianlords.bsky.social
Hi there.
We talked on twitter six months or so back when I offered you a copy of my new book. Get back to me if this is still of interest
February 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Remember this?
February 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@georgianlords.bsky.social
Could you contact me about this book- on twitter you followed me, and I asked if you would like to have a copy ( about a year ago)
February 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Out on 28 February.
More about Ellenborough's struggles against vice here

about1816.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/g...
February 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
More betting-gluttony in Georgian Britain
1807
February 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Came across this. 1809
#C18 #18century
February 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
99p on kindle UK today. Recommended
February 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Natural climate change does exist
https://buff.ly/4aafYAw
January 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM