Justin Hill - Author

Was ten years old and Lord of the Rings made me want to grow up and become and author... #JRRTolkien #LordOfTheRings #AuthorsLife

What were Tolkien’s Oxford students reading in the 1930s? We actually have a pretty good idea! Today’s video covers Tolkien’s Old English curriculum at Pembroke, what he taught, and how we can learn these poems and selections today. Watch here: youtu.be/ruvevoxXNgw?si…

Just putting the finishing touches to questions for the panels at the Herne's Arrow event this weekend. Really excited to be meeting so many fantastically talented cast and crew from the seminal Robin Hood series, Robin of Sherwood. #RobinHood #TheHoodedMan #Clannad #tvseries

On the road… #authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Looking for beta readers… 👇🏻

@morris160795 lol! I’m not…! But sounds v good

@JHillAuthor Thanks. Your kind words are much appreciated, Justin. If you're a football fan and even if you're not, this is definitely the book for you.

@JHillAuthor amazon.co.uk/Footballs-Poet… Hi Justin. Hope you don't mind my book promo. I wax lyrical about the FA Cup, Premier League, Champions League, my late and wonderful mum and dad, my grandpa Jack, World Cup, England, USA, football grounds, a eulogy to my lovely dad.

@MatthewHarffy lol! all those southern towns starting with c....

Looking forward to this immensely but don't get lost @JHillAuthor . It's in Chepstow not Cheltenham!

@For_Macragge you definately should. I bought it formy kids when they were young. there were some things that I wanted to pass on from my own childhood. Robin of Sherwood and Bagpus. 😂😂😂

@JHillAuthor My dad loved that show, although I’ve never actually watched it. I did inherit his DVDs when he passed, maybe I’ll give it a go!

Meeting my heroes this weekend. #authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords #robinofsherwood

One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.

@MadetojaStig that was it. With Clannad theme music. Swords and Scorcery style Robin Hood. youtube.com/watch?v=0bHM17…

@JHillAuthor I vaguely remember that series. Herne was a deerheaded apparition that fired a silver arrow that was self directed. Am i on track? Bring to the poor from the rich Will ya?

Jingdezhen shows what happens when a civilization takes one craft seriously for centuries. For more than 1,700 years, this city shaped porcelain so fine that it crossed courts, oceans, dining rooms, and trade routes. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, its kilns served imperial taste and exported huge amounts of porcelain to Europe. A cup was never just a cup. It carried China’s technical skill and visual taste across the world.

@MatthewHarffy @rock_swords Yeah... did you like it? Not sure I did, but that could make great listening!

@JHillAuthor another film for a @rock_swords bonus episode?

mid-12c., ****, in common law, "goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam" (the right to take what washes up on a shore originally was a crown perquisite), from Anglo-French ****, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse ***** "*****, flotsam" (source also of Norwegian, Icelandic rek), which is related to reka "to drive, push," and reconstructed to be from Proto-Germanic *****an (see wreak (v.)). The meaning "partial or total destruction of a ship at sea" is by mid-15c.; that of "a *****ed ship" is by c. 1500. Of road or railway accidents by 1912, American English. The general sense of "disruption of anything by force or violence" is from 1570s; the meaning "that which is in a state of ruin; remains of anything that has been ruined" is by 1713; applied by 1795 to dissipated persons. Compare wrack (v.), which is its doublet. *wreck*

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The WINNER of The International Booker Prize 2026

El sábado 13 y domingo 14 de junio voy a estar firmando libros de 11:00 a 12:30 en la caseta 111 de la Feria del Libro de Madrid. Nos vemos ahí!

19 May is the feast of St Dunstan, one of the greatest saints of Anglo-Saxon England, who died in 988. Archbishop of Canterbury during a transformative time for the English church and nation, he was also a talented musician, craftsman and devil-fighter. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-ang…

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This isn't AI, it's the Huajiang Canyon Bridge in Guizhou, China, the world's highest bridge at 625 meters above the river beneath it. It features a man-made waterfall created by diverting karst spring water discovered during tunnel construction.