Historian. Streamer. Tech Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Servant of Napoleon. Orient fan. @garius@mastodon.me.uk. Business: [email protected]
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Joined July 2007
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A few people have asked if I have a list of my history threads. I don't keep one as they're a spontaneous thing mostly. But here's a few I remember.
Let's start with how the Knights Hospitaller had one of the largest airforces in Europe after WW2. Really. xitter.cf/garius/status/11518328…
The Roman Army in Britain needed over a tonne of cheese to make it through the day.
On the pod this week we look at how the Roman Army revolutionised cheese production and consumption in Britain.
Available on Youtube and your pod app! open.spotify.com/episode/254…
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Join me down on the anime horse girl paddock for some #Umamusume.
Time to pick up the second half of our Bamboo Memory run. And chat the usual history natter of course twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
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Europa Universalis 5 is a flawed diamond of a game rn. The patch in open beta though makes it well worth playing, or picking up.
Join me for a "beginners guide" stream as Sweden, and general natter about #history twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
ALT game promo art showing a renaissance -era figure on horseback in front of various other figures in clothing from different periods of history.
Art! Crime!
This week Erin L Thompson joins me on the pod. We discuss a 1920s Italian anti-fascist, womanizing art forger who fooled American museums.
A man whose inability to carve imperfect breasts, put a pair gay art experts onto his trail... open.spotify.com/episode/5MJ…
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New Crusader Kings 3 run starts today!
Wily as the... Vixen? We're going for the Robert the Fox achievement, but in a gender-inverted game world.
Join me for conquest, murder and general historical natter about the Normans! twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
This week on Untitled History Podcast:
Dr Clarke joins me to look at the incredible last stand of HMS Glowworm in WW2.
The only time a Victoria Cross was awarded based primarily on a nomination by the enemy captain: Captain Heye of the Hipper
open.spotify.com/episode/52M…
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Join me for a chill evening down on the anime horse girl farm, as we chat history and train some #umamusume.
This week: Bamboo Memory. Who is apparently big into discipline. and bad fonts. twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
ALT anime horse girl in a long black coat looking stern with her arms crossed. "discipline for the win! is emblazoned on the screen in big, letters with a gradient on them and everything.
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Join me for some chill Sunday Crusader Kings 3.
Well. As chill as any game of CK3 can be.
There'll be the normal amount of murder, rebellion and general plotting.
twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
In 1958, with the French military in the middle of a coup, Charles De Gaulle took power in France. The result: the 5th Republic.
This week on Untitled History podcast, Charles Devellennes from the University of Kent and I talk De Gaulle's return open.spotify.com/episode/4yc…
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Join me for another evening training anime horse girls to win races, and generally nattering about history and stuff. #umamusume #history twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
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Join me for some chill dynastic murder and plotting in Crusader Kings 3. With cats.
We'll also natter about history, and the spectacularly cursed HOI4 multiplayer game option my Discord found. twitch.tv/gariusthebrit #history #gaming
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Join me down the anime horse girl paddock as we train up the absolutely perfectly normal uma that is T.M. Opera O.
twitch.tv/gariusthebrit #umamusume
ALT anime horse girl in extravagent opera gear.
On Untitled History Podcast this week, Greg Jenner joins me. We talk about the history of "celebrity". From 18th Century theatre to being "Pony Famous"
Find on your pod app, YouTube, or on Spotify below: open.spotify.com/episode/2Gl… #history
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Down on the horse farm training Copano Rickey
Watch this one if you had a university boyfriend/girlfriend who was WAY too into healing magnets, and you want to experience horrible flashbacks. Because I am. #umamusume twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
ALT game image of a happy anime girl with horse girl ears who - and trust me on this - never fucking shuts up about feng shui.
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It's happened. The all-conquering Carpathian Empire has finally come for Poland.
She may be outnumbered, but young Queen Helena has no intention of bowing to the terror from the steppes.
Join me for natter, tips, cats and CK3! twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
ALT A young blonde queen with braided hair stands defiantly in front of a game map, showing a vast Carpathian Empire trying to eat Poland.
Ever wondered how you destroy a Nazi radar station?
This week on the podcast, Matt Bone and I talk about the fighter bomber force that punched the hole in German radar for D-Day.
Listen on YouTube, below or your pod app of choice #history open.spotify.com/episode/6A3…
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Short stream today, so join me for a couple of hours of gaming and history natter. #gaming #history twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
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I've done my taxes for the year!
Let's celebrate by chatting history, and helping some anime horse girls become the best version of themselves. twitch.tv/gariusthebrit #umamusume
The biggest selling comic of all time is One Piece. The second biggest is not from the US or UK.
It's French.
DELIGHTED to welcome Julie Kalmnl onto Untitled History Pod to talk origins of Asterix the Gaul and how it made modern France.
Listen below open.spotify.com/episode/257…
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Join me for more #umamusume and general natter.
Today we will be training up Manhattan Cafe. Who is probably the horse girl 3rd most likely to kill us in our sleep. But she'd probably feel sad about it. twitch.tv/gariusthebrit
ALT an anime horse girl with long black hair and a black coat stands looking amazed in a hall of mirrors and dreams.