Andrew David Stedman
@ADStedman
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Award-winning author and historian, LFC supporter, Alan Partridge fan, looks like an owl. Now writing fiction. Represented by: https://t.co/WPK0Ah5N9Z
Northumberland
Joined April 2021
Bravo to the awesome @jonesgarethp for this superb musical effort about my Chamberlain book! I can see Neville bobbing his head to it now... 🎶😆👏
Today @ADStedman requested a "ska-inspired twenty-second elevator pitch" for his book about Neville Chamberlain. So I made this.
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2 February 1931. Les Dawson was born in Manchester. He was best known for a curmudgeonly style of comedy, his comedy piano playing and jokes about his wife and mother-in-law. A typical example being: “The wife has run off with the next door neighbour. My God, I do miss him.”
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MAN OF THE PEOPLE. Bill Shankly at The Barras market, Glasgow 1970s. #LFC #Scotland #Glasgow #Liverpool
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At risk of reading about nothing except the interwar period, am looking forward to getting stuck into these. As my article for @Parlhistjournal argues, the chaotic Ross and Cromarty campaign was a compounding moment for the Liberals after the 1935 General Election disaster.
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.@LilliputPress has signed A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by journalist Martin Doyle and From Out My Heart, the ’astonishing’ new novel from Sue Rainsford 👇
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The Lilliput Press has signed A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by journalist Martin Doyle and From Out My Heart, the ’astonishing’ new novel from Sue Rainsford.
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Joked about it afterwards too. Chamberlain never joked about Munich... #JustSaying
The current geopolitical moment is often compared to Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938. But there is another point in history that could be used as an example equally well. In 1944, Stalin, sensing victory approaching, demanded that part of Poland be recognised by
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He put the words 'No Jacket Required' on the back of an actual jacket - which I thought was *genius*... 😆#AlanPartridge
30 January 1951. Phil Collins was born in Chiswick, London. He’s one of the best-selling pop-rock artists of all time with rock group Genesis and as a solo artist. Between 1982 and 1990 he scored 3 UK and 7 US No 1 singles as a solo artist. He’s also won 8 Grammy Awards.
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Don't miss #ukteenchat's 10 year celebration on Tuesday! 💖🥳
Celebrating 10 years of #ukteenchat the fabulous 1st ever guests Amber Caraveo & Jo Moult of @SkylarkLit will be joining me on Tues 3rd Feb 8-9pm GMT over on BlueSky. Hope you see you there 🙂 #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagents #SkylarkLiterary
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Just re-read the phrase 'Hitlerite penguins' in my ever-so-serious new history #WIP. It's staying in, I think. Ja. 🐧 😆 #Editting #History #AmWritingHistory
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29 January 1845. The poem The Raven was published in The Evening Mirror in New York City. It was the 1st publication under the name of Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man’s slow descent into madness.
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Douglas Bader holding a scale Spitire remote controlled model in 1982.
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of war Chamberlain envisaged longer-term (if war had to come at all). Much of this was rather foresighted and played an important role in British survival and eventual victory. 2/2
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Thanks for sharing, Andy - a great read. I've written about '4th Arm of Defence' myself (and am currently doing so again). Little appreciated are the accompanying *strategic priorities* Chamberlain and Inskip set out - how rearming in this way would impact on the *type* 1/2
Excellent piece putting Britain's 1930s rearmament in proper context. Contrary to myths still promoted by too many popular historians, Britain rearmed more effectively than its future enemies for war they would fight. Worth adding 1920s naval investment remained significant.
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'I would not have become a writer without being a reader first.'—@AlisonStockham In the National Year of Reading, we’re celebrating the power of books to shape futures. This #LibraryShelfieDay, #BorrowBoldly and #GoAllIn 📚✨
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Calum Douglas again sharing some fascinating primary source material on British rearmament in the mid-1930s. Once again demonstrating that we probably owe a bit more to Neville Chamberlain than he is ever given credit for... Check it out. 😀👏
This file is an absolute banger. 28th Feb 1934, stamped: MOST SECRET This is around when the machinery of the Empire really began to prepare for war with Germany. Chamberlain, in 1934 in the same MOST SECRET file commented: "it was apparent that 5 years was the shortest
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Join us tonight - Tues 27th January 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @authormturner, who will be chatting all about her new YA Thriller - Sweet and Sour 🍜 All welcome to come and join in the chat 🙂 @chickenhsebooks #YA #SweetandSour #Mukbang #Thriller #writerslife
Join us on Tues 27th January 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @authormturner, who will be chatting all about her new YA Thriller - Sweet and Sour 🍜 All welcome to come and join in the chat 🙂 @chickenhsebooks #YA #SweetandSour #Mukbang #Thriller #writerslife
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This peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies.
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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking over 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. As survivors grow fewer and antisemitism rises, today is more vital than
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