Bill Locke

Head of Programming - History Hit

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

Really delighted to have been involved for History Hit in this remarkable film

[Broadcast Digital Awards @BroadcastDigi]

Next we have the award for Best Specialist Channel, and the winner is - @HistoryHit #BDA2024

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

@thehistoryguy @ancientstristan Epic levels of fashionista vibes

[Lytham St Annes CA @lsaclassics]

Thank you for a wonderful night and such a fascinating Q&A @ImmortalEgypt and Stephen - we covered everything from mummification to pyramid 🍰, pre industrial coal use to cats, Tut’s wines, Liz Taylor, @BarnsleyMuseums @WiganMuseum and much more!

[Austin Suther @platysaur]

@AgeOfEmpires Shameless plug but I did an article/interview on this with the professors and devs involved and it was a very fun time. https://t.co/jIgtsuq7RQ

[The InnerView @TheInnerViewTRT]

"Nobody wants to be lectured at by a woman!" is what British historian @bettanyhughes was told in the late 1990s.

Watch the full episode: https://t.co/m6vYK22bsI
#TheInnerView #history #bettanyhughes

[Kate McCaffrey @kateemccaffrey]

🌟LAST CHANCE🌟 - you now have until Sunday 12th November to come and see Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours (that we recently rediscovered!) and the rest of our gorgeous #CatherineandAnne exhibition before everything returns home! Come and join us @hevercastle while you still can💛

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Dear @michelledonelan -

As Science Minister, I think you owe the UK science community an apology for this nasty propaganda which undermines the community you are charged with representing.

RT if you agree...

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

@Matt_Pinner I'm pretty sure your Durdle Door photo is a sunrise - unless the sun set in the east that day...

[Exeter Cathedral @ExeterCathedral]

The team from TV and online channel, @HistoryHit , were at #ExeterCathedral last week to film a discussion on the fiery subject of dragons, with classicist @jasmine_elmer & local dragon expert, Dr Daniel Ogden, from the University of Exeter.
#YourCathedral @UniofExeter

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

And this is my mum, then Mavis Board, a Met Officer at Eglinton. Two extraordinary people.

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

The whole process has made me think a lot of my parents and their exciting and perilous lives with the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm just a few years after WWII - here's my Dad, George Locke with his Firefly

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

Last November I had a superb day's filming with @thehistoryguy and the magnificent @NavyWingsUK Swordfish at Yeovilton, though the pic suggests I've shrunk even more than usual...You can see the results in our film that launches on @HistoryHit tomorrow

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

Brilliant night for History Hit - award winners! Such an accolade for the whole superb team of multi-talented, hard-working history-heads!!

[Broadcast Digital Awards @BroadcastDigi]

Our next award is for Best Specialist Channel, and the winner is – @HistoryHit #BDA2023

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

Such a fascinating delight to make this film with @sixteenthCgirl and the amazing team @hevercastle

[Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl]

To learn all the gritty details about the discovery of Cromwell’s Prayer Book by @Alipalmer1979, @DrOwenEmmerson and @kateemccaffrey, watch my brand new documentary exclusively on @HistoryHit. Only @historyhit can turn a documentary around in a week! https://t.co/n5n1xQWwfJ

[Bill Locke @BillLocke3]

Just back from a great day filming @hevercastle with the brilliant @sixteenthCgirl featuring the amazing work of the curatorial team making this stunning discovery. Hitting the screen @HistoryHit next week

[Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl]

Such a thrill today to hold this book that the team at @hevercastle have convincingly identified as once belonging to Thomas Cromwell!

See @DrOwenEmmerson & @kateemccaffrey’s threads and for more do watch my documentary on it, exclusively for @HistoryHit & released next week.

[Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl]

Such a thrill today to hold this book that the team at @hevercastle have convincingly identified as once belonging to Thomas Cromwell!

See @DrOwenEmmerson & @kateemccaffrey’s threads and for more do watch my documentary on it, exclusively for @HistoryHit & released next week.

[Hever Castle @hevercastle]

“The most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation – if not more.” - Dr @TracyBorman

This book is thought to be the only object from any Tudor portrait to survive to this day & the first time the book has been lent from Trinity College since it was received in 1660. 1/2

[Tracy Borman OBE @TracyBorman]

It really is the most incredible discovery. I can’t believe it’s been hidden in plain sight all this time. Huge congratulations to the brilliant team at @hevercastle

[Owen Emmerson @DrOwenEmmerson]

We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. @TracyBorman has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”