Neil Wholey
@neilwholey.bsky.social
UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics
rosatroupe.co.uk
rosatroupe.co.uk
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Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.
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I just constantly think about this result, showing what kinds of people young men interact with on social media versus in real life. The algorithm constantly feeds you unflattering comparison. How can you open your phone without worsening the vibe?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I just constantly think about this result, showing what kinds of people young men interact with on social media versus in real life. The algorithm constantly feeds you unflattering comparison. How can you open your phone without worsening the vibe?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
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Americans are more likely to visit Facebook and YouTube daily than other sites. Smaller shares are daily users of TikTok or X. www.pewresearch.org/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Americans are more likely to visit Facebook and YouTube daily than other sites. Smaller shares are daily users of TikTok or X. www.pewresearch.org/...
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kudos for the curator who decided Kenneth Williams was more culturally significant than Richard Burton.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
kudos for the curator who decided Kenneth Williams was more culturally significant than Richard Burton.
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We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
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Nice design touch here in this promotional card for the Holland Bros in the #archive of @musichallsociety.bsky.social They are 'British Athletes Advanced', 'A genuine Herculean Equilibristic Novelty' and they've got great centre-partings too.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Nice design touch here in this promotional card for the Holland Bros in the #archive of @musichallsociety.bsky.social They are 'British Athletes Advanced', 'A genuine Herculean Equilibristic Novelty' and they've got great centre-partings too.
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You can often find snippets of oral history to add to your research by searching newspaper archives for terms like nonagenarian, golden/diamond wedding, grand old lady/man. Older residents were often asked what their town/village was like when they were young. #oneplacewednesday
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You can often find snippets of oral history to add to your research by searching newspaper archives for terms like nonagenarian, golden/diamond wedding, grand old lady/man. Older residents were often asked what their town/village was like when they were young. #oneplacewednesday
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Hello 🦋 Swingers!
All our podcast episodes about Agatha Christie in the Swinging Sixties are available wherever you get your podcasts! podfollow.com/the-swinging...
All our podcast episodes about Agatha Christie in the Swinging Sixties are available wherever you get your podcasts! podfollow.com/the-swinging...
The Swinging Christies: Agatha Christie in the 1960s
Podcast · The Swinging Christies · Sex. Drugs. Rock 'n' Roll. Agatha Christie?? Agatha Christie may not be the first person you think of when you think of the Swinging Sixties, but her writing has muc...
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November 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Hello 🦋 Swingers!
All our podcast episodes about Agatha Christie in the Swinging Sixties are available wherever you get your podcasts! podfollow.com/the-swinging...
All our podcast episodes about Agatha Christie in the Swinging Sixties are available wherever you get your podcasts! podfollow.com/the-swinging...
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If you're a BMHS member, your Autumn edition of The Call Boy is arriving soon! Not a member yet? Join now to get our quarterly journal and enjoy 16 months for the price of 12 with our current offer. 👉 Learn more HERE britishmusichallsociety.com/join-us
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you're a BMHS member, your Autumn edition of The Call Boy is arriving soon! Not a member yet? Join now to get our quarterly journal and enjoy 16 months for the price of 12 with our current offer. 👉 Learn more HERE britishmusichallsociety.com/join-us
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Thrilled to announce that the #CockneyYiddishPodcast has been shortlisted for the independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... in the History and the Culture categories
@engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
@engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
Independent Podcast Awards 2025 - Our 2025 Shortlist
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October 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thrilled to announce that the #CockneyYiddishPodcast has been shortlisted for the independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag... in the History and the Culture categories
@engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
@engageqm.bsky.social @migrationmuseum.org @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
@thegentleauthor.bsky.social
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RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.
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1/ Today we published our new Every Story Matters record.
It is part of the evidence in our eighth investigation: Children and Young People (Module 8).
#EveryStoryMatters
It is part of the evidence in our eighth investigation: Children and Young People (Module 8).
#EveryStoryMatters
September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1/ Today we published our new Every Story Matters record.
It is part of the evidence in our eighth investigation: Children and Young People (Module 8).
#EveryStoryMatters
It is part of the evidence in our eighth investigation: Children and Young People (Module 8).
#EveryStoryMatters
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🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
👩🦱 Women in the arena? Rare, and often mocked. @belovedofoizys.bsky.social breaks down how female fighters were treated more as punchlines than professionals — and what that says about Rome.
#WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Gladiators
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/32a91d
#History #Podcast
👩🦱 Women in the arena? Rare, and often mocked. @belovedofoizys.bsky.social breaks down how female fighters were treated more as punchlines than professionals — and what that says about Rome.
#WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Gladiators
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/32a91d
#History #Podcast
September 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
👩🦱 Women in the arena? Rare, and often mocked. @belovedofoizys.bsky.social breaks down how female fighters were treated more as punchlines than professionals — and what that says about Rome.
#WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Gladiators
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/32a91d
#History #Podcast
👩🦱 Women in the arena? Rare, and often mocked. @belovedofoizys.bsky.social breaks down how female fighters were treated more as punchlines than professionals — and what that says about Rome.
#WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Gladiators
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/32a91d
#History #Podcast
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I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
September 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m on TV tonight! Check out the first episode of Britain’s Railway Empire at 8pm on Channel 4.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
It’s a new, two part series about the history of the railways, starting with the Victorian Era. It’s not just a story about tech and engineering, but covers the social and cultural impact too.
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that last one would be fun to half-sample with "pick a number, 1-10"
Absolutely obsessed with the latest results from @today.yougov.com :
- When calling a coin toss, most people call heads
- Rock is the most popular move in rock/paper/scissors
- When guessing a number from 1 to 10, the highest share choose 7
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
- When calling a coin toss, most people call heads
- Rock is the most popular move in rock/paper/scissors
- When guessing a number from 1 to 10, the highest share choose 7
today.yougov.com/topics/overv...
August 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
that last one would be fun to half-sample with "pick a number, 1-10"
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I've noticed this with regards to use of polling data - historians (popular or not) much more willing to cite a NYT article that includes a poll finding than to go to the original data file or topline. Given how poorly journalism has historically dealt with polling, that's a problem.
45. There is a reliance by popular historians on newspaper articles on historical events, rather than academic historical accounts or primary source material, leading to factual inaccuracies creeping into our understanding of things.
See @historyned.bsky.social’s discussion of this the other day.
See @historyned.bsky.social’s discussion of this the other day.
August 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I've noticed this with regards to use of polling data - historians (popular or not) much more willing to cite a NYT article that includes a poll finding than to go to the original data file or topline. Given how poorly journalism has historically dealt with polling, that's a problem.
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Revel in this 1977 advert for Benest's of Millbrook, presented by 'Major' Benest himself - imagine Bernard Matthews as a Winston Churchill stan and you're halfway there. Shown in ITV's Channel Islands region, Benest's became a local legend. And it's the best thing you'll see all day.
July 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Revel in this 1977 advert for Benest's of Millbrook, presented by 'Major' Benest himself - imagine Bernard Matthews as a Winston Churchill stan and you're halfway there. Shown in ITV's Channel Islands region, Benest's became a local legend. And it's the best thing you'll see all day.
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My mum's uncle Edward, 11, drowned in the Thames in 1906. She knew it happened but didn't know his name, when, or anything. So I found him, and the man who tried to save him. Mr John Bannochie turned out to be SO GOOD.
A printer and a printer’s son:
grapplingwithhistory.com/other-writing/
A printer and a printer’s son:
grapplingwithhistory.com/other-writing/
Other Writing
My great grandmother Agnes Court (née Casey) was born in 1875. She gave birth to her first child in 1895 and her twelfth – that we know of – in 1921. After Edward came Ellen, then Willi…
grapplingwithhistory.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My mum's uncle Edward, 11, drowned in the Thames in 1906. She knew it happened but didn't know his name, when, or anything. So I found him, and the man who tried to save him. Mr John Bannochie turned out to be SO GOOD.
A printer and a printer’s son:
grapplingwithhistory.com/other-writing/
A printer and a printer’s son:
grapplingwithhistory.com/other-writing/
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Bob Monkhouse (7th June 1986). Lord Charles demonstrates his ventriloquism skills to Ray Alan.
June 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Bob Monkhouse (7th June 1986). Lord Charles demonstrates his ventriloquism skills to Ray Alan.
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We've been working extensively on our archive for the past 18 months. Join us for our first 'Archive on Show' morning on Thursday, 7th August 2025, at our new location in Lambeth Archives. Discover some of our materials—details and booking link here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/britishmusic...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
We've been working extensively on our archive for the past 18 months. Join us for our first 'Archive on Show' morning on Thursday, 7th August 2025, at our new location in Lambeth Archives. Discover some of our materials—details and booking link here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/britishmusic...
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There is no more distant history than recent history. Everybody who has done broadcasting research has found themselves wandering around the recursive maze John stumbled into here, and it only gets worse the more recent the event you're researching actually is!
May 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
There is no more distant history than recent history. Everybody who has done broadcasting research has found themselves wandering around the recursive maze John stumbled into here, and it only gets worse the more recent the event you're researching actually is!
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This is a really interesting question!
What’s different about this question from many Qs in politics, is the *lack* of polarization—by party or by race. This dimension, which we can call “news engagement,” cuts across other dimensions, and tells us something your party & demographics alone cannot. Makes a potentially powerful tool.
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is a really interesting question!
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April 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM