Bringing on the big guns for tonight’s BBC Free Thinking. We’ll be talking power, politics, Tacitus, Byron, #Bluey and the ideology of kids’ TV, with mary beard, @helenhcarr, Tom Peck, Corin Throsby and Konnie Huq. Join us live 9pm BBC Radio 4

On BBC Radio 4 this evening, Helen Carr will be a guest on Free Thinking. Listen on BBC Radio 4 from 9pm or on BBC Sounds

I was late to collect this from QM but nonetheless thrilled to receive it! Thank you, Prof J. Firnhaber-Baker

In fact, he said “Many as are the virtues of the Moon Under Water, I think that the garden is its best feature, because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind the baby while Dad goes out alone.”

Join us to celebrate Gareth Stedman Jones's years School of History, Queen Mary University of London on 2 May 2024, 3-6pm. Social history, intellectual history, the history of political thought, history-politics-theory: qmul.ac.uk/history/news-a…… Royal Historical Society Institute of Historical Research Cambridge School Cambridge History @MileEndIn

People living in the 14th C were “not reflective people”, writes a well known scholar of medieval history.

Meet April, our resident tree hugger 🌿

And that was that! (Or do I have some more up my sleeve..?)

Thank you so much, Helen Carr & HistFest - as you can see from this thread, I've really, *really* enjoyed getting stuck into this course.

Signing off (for now) with a glass of the good stuff.

#ThePlantagenets 🏵

“History itself is the study of the past. It’s not *the past*.” — Helen Carr

This course on the Plantagenets from HistFest has been great all around, but the Q&As alone were well worth the price of admission. So much interesting discussion.

As we near the close of #WomensHistoryMonth , I hope you don't mind a shout out to HistFest, which I run.
The upcoming festival is going to be fantastic. Weekend tickets have sold out, but you can still grab tickets to some individual events: histfest.org/histfest-2024/

Important work. Congratulations The National Archives

Huge congratulations to the inimitable Dr Maddy Pelling on her superbly reviewed debut.

House of Lilies is out today in the UK!
It's been called ‘a mighty, panoramic history’ in The Telegraph's 5* review and 'one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years' in the Times. Even I am pretty happy with it.
penguin.co.uk/books/447110/h…

My paperback is out this week - it looks at how the natural world has shaped history; and how humanity has reshaped the environment (and climate) for better and for worse. It goes from the dawn of time to today/tomorrow and covers all corners of the earth. I hope you’ll enjoy !

An idle, immature and frankly stupid thread attempting to discredit the importance and integrity of history. I think this attempts to suggest we just chase our own tails and see how that goes.

One of the best books of 2023 was The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story by Peter Frankopan - it’s coming out in paperback on Thursday 28 March.

Everyday photographs that turned into accidental masterpieces - a thread 🧵

1. Girl with a gray towel

As ever, Hilary Mantel: 'I’m not asking for pious humbug and smarmy reverence. I’m asking us to back off and not be brutes.'

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/…

I just got mistaken for my children’s nanny and I am so flattered. (I dont have a nanny- i think this means i look young and exuberant).