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Historian and lecturer; enjoys cooking and baking. he/him. Manchester/Sheffield.

Manchester, England
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James
7 months
How long it took to settle on “Bring Back My Girls.”
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what’s your favorite obscure Drag Race moment?
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5 years
Watching McQueen and Isabella Blow looks like a cocaine-fashionable Theresa May
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2 years
Unlocked the next level of middle-classdom: free shopping at M&S.
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1 year
@sophielouisecc And are the manufacturing jobs in the room with us now?
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5 years
@piersmorgan It’s the truth though. Do you only want nice history that suits what you want to hear?
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2 years
Attempted @Nigella_Lawson ’s hot cross buns; maybe a touch over, but they taste good.
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5 months
@cstsher I love Samantha and Miranda’s relationship. Even though they had tension, when Samantha gives her salon appointment to Miranda when Brady is a baby is well done
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3 years
Amazing second-hand purchase today
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5 years
Bathrooms in Kubrick films appreciation tweet
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7 months
@EssexPR She made a profit selling a house. God you’re pathetic.
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4 years
Passed my PhD viva this afternoon. Now for some wine to celebrate.
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3 years
Made @Nigella_Lawson ’s lemon and polenta cake. I added some candied lemon peel
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4 years
It may be immodest but I am proud that I got a PhD. I self-funded for 6 years, worked 6 jobs inc. teaching, working in bars & retail, and struggled with rent for many years. It’s great to have a qualification and something tangible to show for it all.
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3 years
Love Berlin
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6 months
@jrdzvl The audience just giving nothing like they’re there against their will.
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7 years
Sarah Harding: an icon.
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9 months
@ollyw1ll If people like it, does it matter?
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4 years
PhD submitted
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3 years
It’s been a gloomy week, so made @Nigella_Lawson cavolo nero & ‘nduja pasta with a side of burrata and peaches
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5 years
@TyronWilson Them answers couldn’t be more Lib Dem could they
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5 years
In school today and we’re chatting about Valentines Day and one of the boys casually mentioned he’s on a date with his bf. No one batted an eyelid. My heart 😥
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3 years
Today’s bake: pastéis de nata
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1 year
Made a new friend
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3 years
It was a day for @Nigella_Lawson ’s chicken in a pot.
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9 months
@ollyw1ll “Please watch more films”is condescending. If people enjoy things let them, it’s not for you to pass judgement
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5 years
My university doing this for trans and non-binary communication is good and important
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6 years
She can’t catch a break
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4 years
Dr Brocklesby
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6 years
You know where really needs a Greggs? Euston. All the northerners waiting for the train wanting a bake
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9 months
@ollyw1ll I haven’t taken it personally. I just think the tone of ‘I’ve watched more films so I know what is edgy’ is rude to those who enjoyed it. Everyone can have an opinion, but i don’t think one which pisses on everyone else’s bonfire is constructive.
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1 year
@sophielouisecc Are you not exhausted having a problem with everything that happens?
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4 years
Corrections finally accepted so guess I am now *officially* Dr. Brocklesby.
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2 years
@sophielouisecc Do you not know the difference between a bill and a fine
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3 years
You just can’t win. @Botanygeek
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3 years
A good second-hand buy.
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3 years
Thirty-three. 🎈
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1 year
@sophielouisecc You’re missing his point. Is the fact it was all a lie and what we were told wouldn’t happen has happened. £2 doesn’t matter, it’s the principal. You know this though but just bang on about sovereignty as some vague rational argument
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4 years
Moving whilst teaching everyday was awful. Nevertheless, I’m in.
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1 month
@scottygb @jasebyjason God bless the IOC and their priority of profit over audience
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4 months
36 🎈🎈
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2 years
PhD? Completed it, mate.
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1 year
Also so bloody nice to see a big event in the UK that isn’t wrapped in jingoism and the royal family. #Eurovision2023
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5 years
I do love 3D maps of underground stations
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2 years
Signed a contract this week for a lecturing position in Sheffield 🥺
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4 years
Can give each team £300 a day on Bargain Hunt but no prizes for a drag Queen.
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7 years
Theresa May triggering article 50
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2 years
Students this week thought I was 29. Also told me I’m ‘cool for a lecturer’.
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2 years
Doctor, doctor…
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2 years
@darrengrimes_ Why do you talk and write tweets like you’re doing a GCSE English Lit exam
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6 years
Me after seeing Mamma Mia 2
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5 years
@JackBMontgomery @piersmorgan 4 years before she acceded to the throne. That doesn’t absolve slavery, and the text is in past tense anyway
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4 years
Feliz Navidad
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@darrengrimes_ It’s pathetic you endorse some crime because it aligns with your view.
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7 months
Dunno why but this kills me offS
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what’s your favorite obscure Drag Race moment?
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2 years
@darrengrimes_ Are you sad? Don’t think you’ve communicated your grief enough tbh
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6 years
. @MichaelaCoel interview in the Guardian is great and gosh she’s beautiful. We stan
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3 years
Made a focaccia
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2 years
Made proper pancakes
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4 years
Just recorded my lecture for next week and I really love to gesticulate a lot. It’s very distracting.
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9 months
@JonnElledge Really hate people who wait for the gates to close before tapping. You don’t need to!
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1 year
Spring
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4 years
@darrengrimes_ You might wanna read about the history of the church, Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries, Darren.
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4 years
Christmas Day walks.
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6 years
Straight people need help
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7 months
Call an election and fuck off, please. Country is a mess and it’s being led by idiots.
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3 years
Finally had my ears lowered.
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4 years
✌🏼
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4 months
@justjackmate I was pretty shocked when I received this. They’ve never had bad coms like this before?
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1 year
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4 years
Attempted Korean fried chicken.
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3 months
Spoke to some labour canvassers today and they promised me my Labour candidate/MP is a socialist. The same guy who was elected as a Tory MP in 2019, voted against measures to protect the climate, against raising taxes on banks, voted to make it easier to remove citizenship…
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2 months
Pretty in pink.
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7 years
And the next diva is: The Babadook
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3 years
Adopted a cat. Gonna call him Hugo I think.
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11 months
@darrengrimes_ It’s not just ‘our’ memorial but the national memorial for Empire and Commonwealth soldiers too. Palestinians fought for allies in ww2 and Palestine was a mandate. so it commemorates them as well. You really dont know much about british history, do you?
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4 years
I’m a historian and not once have I learnt anything from a statue.
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1 month
@darrengrimes_ Because you are far right, you fucking idiot. You don’t abet everything happening and then absolve yourself by saying ‘oh we’re ordinary people’. you need to be deeply ashamed of who you are and what you’ve become.
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1 year
Made some kimchi
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5 years
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3 years
Florals for Spring? Groundbreaking.
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2 months
@EssexPR You know a milkshake is different to a bullet right?
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5 years
The gin craze has gone too far
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4 years
Displaying my ‘ull civic pride today @BhsMuralHull
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5 months
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1 year
New specs
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7 years
Loved seeing Meghan Trainor on this season of Drag Race
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4 years
Seeing tweets moaning about a black woman being political because nature has helped her deal with events in the USA shows how vile people are. It’s not political to care about life. #Springwatch
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4 years
New shirt
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4 years
Got my first years to write feedback on an extract of my PhD today.. They gave it a low 2.1.
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4 years
So down at the mo: haven’t been into work for 11 months; haven’t seen friends in nearly a year; finish my PhD into a decimated job market; can’t see family. It’s all just so shit and so hard.
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4 months
I’m into embroidered shirts rn
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3 years
So sad and disheartened to see so many homophobic attacks in Liverpool. It is a safe and welcoming city but some people are just unnecessarily cruel. Solidarity to all affected.
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4 years
Some nice spring staging for today’s seminar
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11 months
For the love of god, call a fucking election.
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8 years
Spotted @katya_zamo on the tube
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@BarPopMCR This is a really crap apology
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