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Nick Hall
@nickhall.bsky.social
I am not Mog. I am a historian of film, TV, media at Royal Holloway Uni of London, UK

Books: The Zoom (2018), Hands on Media History (2019). New stuff coming on indie TV production and (separately) TV transmitters.

http://tinyurl.com/nickhallrhul
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"the councillor for Sheffield"
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
seriously, ban Excel
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Why is this made??? £62.99
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Daughter spent some of her birthday money on one of those instant cameras that prints onto thermal paper, and she's used it to make Tele-Snaps of #Strictly
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
what an auspicious day on which to go into Waitrose for some bits. they were celebrating by having absolutely no bananas
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
file next to this
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
brits can have a little protest, as a treat
October 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
almost a year since we moved house and ever since then my noticeboard has been empty and awaiting the return of the things that were once pinned to it

at last, today, I have returned my favourite motivational newspaper cutting to its rightful place
October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
look at this awesome tree!
September 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
autumn comes at you fast
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
found a Sunak Table

the name and purpose of these are lost to history
September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
MS Spirit of France has a 2000 passenger capacity and made one of 12 crossings of the channel today for P&O alone, so I guess a lot more than 1,000 people crossed the channel today, but I suppose the headline wasn't long enough to explain we're only cross about the dispossessed and the desperate
September 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
hmmm
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
how your email finds me
August 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
we're through the looking glass, people
August 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
And if possible make the logo look like that of a political action committee supporting Democratic candidates in Mississippi
August 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Genuine LOL at this
August 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
August 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There were scenes of calm last night in Guam as news of the tidal wave spread
July 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
the BBC News website auditioning here for that page in the A level Media Studies textbook where they demonstrate how you can juxtapose a headline about shenanigans with a picture of someone looking super shifty
July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
could be about tennis, could be about teething problems at a 1930s GPO exchange
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
saw this on the side of a van earlier. a new pinnacle of corporate meaninglessness
July 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
sometimes I hear ghostly dialup modem noises
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM