historycompany.bsky.social
Journalist/historian. Medical and nursing history
👤 Joined on 10 November 2024
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@historycompany.bsky.socialHorrific fashion faux pas on Antiques Roadshow, a Henley, top two buttons undone, worn with a double breasted jacket. I was affronted.
Show PostGreat moments in Scottish philosophy history. David Hume uses his iPad to google for the causes of Shiny Toe Syndrome.
Show PostGreat moments in Scottish military history. The Duke of Wellington, finally tired once and for all of tourists asking him directions to the Castle - despite the fact you it's clearly visible *RIGHT OVER THERE* - instead points the other way and sends them to Leith
Show PostOTD in 1928 penicillin was discovered. I didn’t know that a team of 6 women was recruited to ‘farm’ penicillin inOxford.Nicknamed the ‘penicillin girls’ they were Ruth Callow Claire Inayat Betty Cooke, Peggy Gardner Megan Lancaster Patricia McKegney. #womenshistory www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/backfromthed...
Show PostGot an email sent at 3:30am by a bookseller who says they finished my book at 3:00am and loved it, and I'm just... No words. My heart is so full <333
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