Paul Schoon
paulschoon.bsky.social
Paul Schoon
@paulschoon.bsky.social
Moderately crumbly English local history freak. A Yorkshireman researching early modern social structures and networks in Bedfordshire. Kellogg College, Oxford. I’m here for fun, knowledge and respectful debate, so be nice. Keyboard warriors get blocked.
Four episodes down and I still haven’t a clue what’s going on.
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
When you get it to work it will have all the dynamism of a slug on temazepam.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Me, can’t say without embarrassing them but Mrs S’s interactions put mine to shame: FML Thompson, Joan Thirsk and AJP Taylor, who were, apparently, ‘all a delight.’
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
There was a document they wouldn’t produce as it was fragile - unless I agreed to pay for its conservation! I did mention with the amount I was paying for camera use they should have enough to do it themselves. The argument was lost on them. When I’m elected president, camera use will be free.
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Love books. Can’t get enough. Will soon have to move house to accommodate them.
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Even with an impartial SCOTUS it’s not possible without some sort of coup. The constitutional mathematics just don’t add up in the House of Representatives, Senate or States. There is unlikely to ever be another constitutional amendment.
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hope it works better than the three council debacle that is Bedfordshire.
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A country run by rabid evangelicals celebrating a pagan festival. The US is get more bizarre by the day.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It was an open sewer and I’m glad to have left.
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Excellent article, and it is great to see Leeds get some well-deserved recognition. It’s a beautiful city, full of lovely people, though some of us got married to southerners and moved to the flatlands.
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
One of the great history communicators.
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
She was a JP. I see a deluge of appeals.
October 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Seems to me it’s doing the complete opposite.
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM