Greg Jenner (Historian)

The last Tudor to triumph in Europe at the battle of the Spurs was Henry VIII, and I don’t think Igor is following him any time soon

Best decision ever 🤪

I’m on Virgin Radio with Geoff Lloyd at 9pm tonight 👇😁

Ben Shapiro has new eyebrows

Holy shit, Ben Shapiro is Grouchomaxxing.

I won’t mind it!

I would watch the hell out of the bumbling adventures of Pubescent Clouseau!

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YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.

3 years of ballet and tap!

Fingers crossed I can pull it off

I’m going to be a guest on Virgin Radio live tonight, and so will miss the Spurs game… and I’m absolutely fine with that

The power of silly wigs 😁

Cheers!

I’m the dancing squire with William the Conqueror! This song was written by Dave Cohen and Richie Webb

Happy to report #Rooster is wonderfully funny and charming, and yet another instant smash hit from the king of warm comedy, Bill Lawrence — Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Rooster is one hell of a CV

The power of therapy — let it out, big guy

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Very well said. Spurs feel very akin to a Greek tragedy in our hubristic rise and fall; from Europa league to Euripides in one short season 😫

Superb thread on the hubristic tragedy of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, an institution that got so much right only to then get everything wrong 👇#COYS

As a historian of C18th northern England who recently published a social history of religion in northern towns I obviously had to see the Testament of Ann Lee, about the leader of a group popularly known as the Shakers, who originated in Manchester. It was *quite strange* THREAD

Deal! Speak to my lawyer

And I’m one of the many authors suing Anthropic, so i guess does anyone wanna sue me, and we’ll see far we can go with this “there was an old woman who swallowed a fly” routine! 😆

We’re trying it small at first to see what the workload is like, as we only have 6 weeks off between series production

Live tour starts in 2 weeks! #YoureDeadToMe

I would absolutely make that same mistake

Comedian hint: if you’re playing, say, Eindhoven, and somebody says they work for ASML, it would be handy if you pretended you had heard of Europe’s largest tech company.
Rather than saying “Oh, you whisper in people’s ears, sexily?”

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

holy shit

Victoria’s Secret by Fern Riddell - A timeless romance and an Extraordinary retelling of the emotional life of a queen. Albert was her first love… but he wasn’t her last

Mythica by Emily Hauser — the bestselling story of the real women of The Iliad and Odyssey

Congratulations to the marvellous Dr Fern Riddell and Dr Emily Hauser on their new paperbacks, out today!

Both books reframe what we know about famous women from history & myth

Thank you!

It’s International Women’s Day.

Luckily I am working on a new biography of an exceptional Irishwoman, Gráinne O Malley - you might know her as Granuaile or as The Pirate Queen in folklore >

#InternationalWomensDay2026