Greg Jenner (Historian)

Hi! I’m a Public Historian and I host the funny BBC podcast YOU’RE DEAD TO ME which pairs up expert historians with comedians I also write funny history books - 3 for kids & 3 for adults - and I used to work on the BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV comedy show I love TV, movies, books, podcasts & Spurs 😀

I am surprised and delighted to get a lovely shoutout from Richard Osman on The Rest Is Entertainment!

If you love history podcasts, I have a new one for you! My producer colleagues on YDTM — Dr Emma Nagouse & Dr Emmie-Rose Price-Goodfellow — have created their own indie podcast called Unruly. It’s co-hosted by Emma and Dr Gillian Kenny, and it’s out now! linktr.ee/unrulyhistor...

The digital library of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Gallica, is currently facing "a massive intensification in the harvesting of content by AI bots, which is degrading the service provided to our human users." What a dumb dystopia 😅

y’all will eat one meal and be like “oh i’m so full” but the moon has to eat for 29.5 days straight to get full ONCE so maybe check your privilege.

Exit polls suggest that the prime minister’s Likud party has lost around a fifth of the 32 seats it won in the 2022 election and that his coalition will fall short of a majority in the Knesset by at least ten seats

Writing this was horrible. A Substack plea, for help, for a hand to pull me up, as I continue looking for a job. It's been months, and every day feels the same, but I'm good at what I do, I know I am. Please, if you can, read and share #JournoJobs harrysherlock.substack.com/p/please-jus...

That is a stadium full of employees being replaced by AI in one email

Olise should have been higher

Delighted for Harry Kane! A triumph for the hard-working, modest, team player and family man. The best footballer in the world is ruthlessly brilliant and creative, but he’s also the model professional

📢 Calling all graduate students working on Anglo-Norman topics. The Marjorie Chibnall prize is a great way to build your CV and make connections in the field. #SkyStorians details here 👇 battleconference.wordpress.com/marjorie-chi...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Thanks to everyone who braved the storms to catch Ghosts this weekend. You’ve officially made it the number one movie in the UK!

I had such a lovely time at Norwich Book Festival — thanks to everyone who came! Also, Norwich is beautiful! So many gorgeous old buildings

Do you want to see the most cursed photo of all time?

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Curly historians, Assemble!

After YEARS of missing each other at historian events, and realising we’d miss each other again at Norwich Book Festival, I just randomly bumped into @k8lister.bsky.social at Norwich train station — Huzzah!

I say, I say, I say! Here is a joke I’ve been trying to write for a decade, but I think it only works as a diagram — so, BEHOLD! The fog on the Tyne is all mime

British intelligence should be James Bond in an underwater car, not a sycophantic chatbot

The #ClocksGoBack tonight in the UK, so here’s perhaps my fave episode of You’re Dead To Me about the fascinating history of timekeeping www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MIGHTY, MIGHTY TOTTENHAM!! Huge win, overturning decades of inherited pressure — we played smart, brave, energetic football and dominated against a supposedly stronger team. Bloody brilliant! Hopefully Madders will be back soon #COYS

No Maddison, no problem

Incredible goal from Tel!!!!

Justice is done! #COYS

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House is wonderful! Ghosts is the best comedy since Blackadder, and this film is a worthy coda to a perfect sitcom.

Get in!!

Palmer should have a red card

MADDERS INJURY KLAXON

Spurs somewhat blunt up front, and a few too many risks taken at the back, but this is much better - crisp and quick passing, Tel a good outlet, and Robertson a hard-running option. Need more from Kudus, and Madders would be useful closer to Marmoush #COYS

Such a good move! Spurs looking very neat and dynamic

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Here is Storm Boelo seen from space, covering the whole of the UK ⚠️

The Chelsea pitch is slower than a sloth in treacle — no more backpasses, please 🙏

Chelsea dropping Pedro helps. Spurs starting Madders helps Do we dare to dream? No. No we don’t. #COYS

Thoughtful new BBC Radio 4 series, presented by Ros Atkins, about how technology is changing both our societal values and what we personally value in our lives www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hello! I’m speaking in #Norwich tomorrow evening, and on Monday morning for kids — the first event is about the history of celebrity, and the Monday one is a very fun event about Roman Britain (joined by my book’s illustrator Rikin Parekh) Tickets here norwichbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/dea...

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

After 7 weeks, I’m happy to report my concussion symptoms, headaches and jaw pain — caused by a football in the face — seem to have healed. Sadly, my general level of incompetence remains unchanged

This meeting could have been an email And this email could have been a bean containing the reincarnated soul of Pythagoras’s dead friends. I’m just saying, is all…

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Fingers crossed for Mystery Actor, I loved him in Generic Reboot!

Merck/Moderna cancer vaccine cuts risk of death or recurrence from melanoma by over 40% reut.rs/4dRUKdJ

Look, if your business loses 80 billion dollars in just 6 months, I might suggest that’s not really a business… futurism.com/future-socie...

One of the glorious things about being an author is sometimes your words are translated for foreign readers Behold! My children’s book You Are History is now readable for Ukrainian kids 😁

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...