Pete Langman
@elegantfowl
Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Today, all sales of Dancing with Architects from Bandcamp will be commission-free, so it's a great day to help Spotlight YOPD by listening to some seriously good music!
For those of you who didn't catch the first episode of this last night, it promises to be a grand little series full of special guests - especially (or so my spies tell me) episode three ... programme your VCRs immediately!
You've seen, of course, this early modern representation of the Cloud ...
Wanted: Spycraft from @YaleBooks has escaped from the Tower disguised as a paperback ... track it down at a bookseller near you today!
John 'Fingers' Fingleton's MCC jacket left on his customary seat at Lord's in tribute ...
Obviously, I have no recollection of where I found them being referred to by that name (typical, right?), but it took a long time to find anything about them - at least, I think that's what this is!
Very happy to be in both the acknowledgements and the footnotes of this fine volume!
Dutch pharmacy goes the extra mile following difficulties obtaining my usual order ... jury currently out on this new brand's efficacy! All meds are not equal.
What a line-up @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Yuval Noah Harari, @misswalsingham.bsky.social @soniapurnell.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social 🥂 Excited that my book #Spycraft @yalebooks.bsky.social , co-written with Nadine Akkerman, is included in SUCH good company by @economist.com !
What's this I see? Early modern espionage on the cover of the TLS? What Spycraftiness is this?
While one might not, under normal circumstances, believe anything that appears in the Daily M, the Irish version has a point, as Alexander Glover describes #Spycraft as ‘Enlightening’!
Ok. Grebes. How is it that this most graceful, beautiful and elegant of birds has a call that sounds as though it hasn't changed since the Jurassic period?
Oh lawks! #Spycraft goes to press in (begins countdown) ... ten days! Not too late to preorder and get your limited edition glow-in-the-dark cover ...
Nice to see a resurgence of pre-orders for #spycraft as we near the end of the proofs ... first edition glows in the dark (also includes Tudors and toads) - amzn.to/3GCOENa
Thrilled to be included in this majestic tome with my first co-authored piece with @misswalsingham - also available open access ... the next will be published in June! #Spycraft
Psst – can you keep a secret? We can't - we've got a new book on the way, and here’s proof! @YaleBooks Pre-order now: £20 guarantees you an exciting summer of #spycraft ... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...