Dominic Sandbrook
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Here's the THRILLING TRAILER for the colourful new paperback editions of my Adventures in Time history books for younger readers.
The perfect Christmas present!
Order your copies here:
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"The British Academy – the national body for humanities and social sciences – has awarded its 2023 President’s Medal to a podcast: The Rest is History, for the first time ever."
This is an amazing honour, and something we could never have imagined.
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It's such a disgrace that this is happening in our country. We should be ashamed.
We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.
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This is low, Tom. You should have talked to me first.
I'm part of a small group that run a very successful podcast and have been going for a number of years. Truth is, I hate the subject we talk about now, but feel stuck due to the income.
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An absolute disaster on the train as I settle down with my laptop to watch Episode 4 of Adam Curtis’s new BBC series about Russia in the 1990s.
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Just realised that this week marked the second anniversary of the launch of
@TheRestHistory
. We've recorded more than 250 official episodes and loads of other bonuses and extras. Thanks to our listeners - and guests - for all your support. And be assured: the best is yet to come!
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The last
@TheRestHistory
recordings of the year done and dusted. A four-part series on the origins of Nazism, the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, coming out early next year. There are no impersonations in this one, you'll be glad to know.
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We love an appeal for tribute on The Rest is History.
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If you're feeling confused by the BBC-Lineker saga, this is all you need to know.
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A huge thank you to
@POTUS
for showing us around the Oval Office today. It was such a thrill to discover that you and
@VP
are members of
@TheRestHistory
Club!
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A very happy Christmas to all
@TheRestHistory
's listeners. Thank you for all your support this year. I don't take it for granted. (Tom does.)
I'm signing off for a while but here's a little taste of what's coming over the festive season and in the New Year ...
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A big day for us tomorrow at
@TheRestHistory
, as we launch our big new series on the AMERICAN REVOLUTION ... and bid farewell to our American listeners.
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1. Producer of
@TheRestHistory
2. Executive producer
3.
@holland_tom
talking about his book
4.
@dcsandbrook
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Every square should be “Tom interrupts Dominic”.
Similar has been done before but here's my Rest Is History
@TheRestHistory
Bingo card
@dcsandbrook
@holland_tom
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This is very strange, because I am always reading that Churchill was an utter villain and is despised everywhere but Britain. Zelenskiy is in serious danger of being barred from important academic conferences with this sort of talk.
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The Inspector Clouseau-themed impression of Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives was the final straw.
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An essay on Ukraine, its history and the magnificent courage and resilience of its people.
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I thought the New York Times couldn't sink any lower, but I was wrong. No bacon. No black pudding. A "rimmed sheet pan ... drizzled with a dash of Worcestershire sauce". And most egregiously of all, olive oil.
#Vile
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Ever since, I’ve been unable to meet anybody’s eye and reduced to “checking my email” on my phone despite the fact that the Wi-Fi isn’t working. A shambolic scene, and another reminder never to leave the Shire.
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An essay for
@unherd
about how Britain isn't America and why it's demented to pretend that "it's coming ... it's going to happen here", and so on. It really isn't.
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Just recorded an absolutely epic new
@TheRestHistory
series, beginning next week - the controversial story of Christopher Columbus and the first European voyages to the New World. Four episodes of narrative and debate. Don't miss it!
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Gosh, thank you so all much for the lovely messages about the British Academy medal. We don’t have time to thank everybody personally but all the
@TheRestHistory
team are really touched. It means a lot to us.
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Just out of an epic scheduling meeting for
@TheRestHistory
. Coming soon: JFK, the Crucifixion, the Mongols, the Cultural Revolution, Agatha Christie, Herodotus, Walt Disney, the Habsburgs, Robin Hood, Orwell, Dunkirk, Cleopatra, the Puritans, Swinging London, the Jewish Revolt...
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Next week on
@TheRestHistory
: a real treat.
A mighty four episodes, coming Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, on everybody's favourite subject - yes, it's BRITAIN IN 1974!
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You might very well think that just after 9pm we'll be recording an emergency
@TheRestHistory
podcast to come out tomorrow morning. But
@holland_tom
and I couldn't possibly comment.
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Just recorded next week's
@TheRestHistory
- a veritable tour de force from
@holland_tom
on the ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR.
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Delighted to see that in tomorrow’s
@thetimes
, the excellent
@j_amesmarriot
reveals himself to be the most intelligent and discerning critic in the land.
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Just checking - we're definitely still the evil, selfish and uniquely incompetent villains? And the EU is definitely still the incarnation of selfless kindness and unmatched competence, as well as the inevitable endpoint of history?
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Here's one for Vlad and Tucker.
Morning. A special
@TheRestHistory
today on the long and tangled story of UKRAINE. From the founding of Kyiv, the Golden Horde and the first Cossacks to the Ruin, the Holodomor and the collapse of the USSR.
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Coming next week on
@TheRestHistory
... a thrilling two-part epic on ALFRED THE GREAT AGAINST THE VIKINGS, in which
@holland_tom
sheds a manly tear at some stirring readings from a spectacular new history.
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Of course we in Britain have followed the progress of the American experiment with great affection and interest.
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Today's episode features what is probably the most excruciating impersonation ever to appear in
@TheRestHistory
, and I realise that is saying something.
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This is a sensationally good piece of journalism - perhaps the best I've ever read - and if you read it all the way through, you'll see why.
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Just recorded our forthcoming
@TheRestHistory
episodes about JRR TOLKIEN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. As this screenshot shows,
@holland_tom
rather ran out of steam at the end, gabbling something about being unable to recall the taste of strawberries. I had to carry him.
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My gamble on hiring Prince Andrew’s PR team is paying handsome dividends.
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The fact that one of our listeners has just written this about
@holland_tom
is the best birthday present I could ever receive.
@JosieAllan4
@dcsandbrook
@TheRestHistory
I’ve listened to the old crank for years. No more. The electorate told him where to go
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Just recorded a mighty three-part
@TheRestHistory
series on the glittering age of JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA, sweeping from the brothels of Constantinople to the battlefields of Italy, North Africa and Mesopotamia, with
@holland_tom
on stellar form. Out next week.
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Nobody loves this club and its members more than I do.
TODAY MARKS AN HISTORIC OCCASION - It has been 2 YEARS since we started our beloved THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB! Thank you to all our devoted members, upon whom the very foundations of this podcast are built
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Starting next week on
@TheRestHistory
, a truly blockbuster series on the good ship TITANIC - its origins, builders, passengers and fate. A deep dive, no less.
You can of course hear all SIX episodes in one go, by signing up at . Women and children first!
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Just finished the latest
@TheRestHistory
recording - an absolutely heroic performance from
@aipsmith
, with four full-length episodes covering the entire history of the AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. We even discuss its impact on cricket. Out soon!
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Will there be an emergency
@TheRestHistory
? But of course. We've just recorded it.
Will
@holland_tom
make a shameless bid for a Truss honours list peerage? Well, what do you think?
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Why do you hate Britain?
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Halfway through recording a new
@TheRestHistory
epic - a vast narrative sweep through the history of PORTUGAL and its impact on the world.
Four episodes on everything from Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama to the Lisbon earthquake, fado, football and Salazar. Coming soon!
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Coming tomorrow on
@TheRestHistory
: a special edition on the long, often troubled, sometimes tragic but always proud history of UKRAINE, from the arrival of the Vikings to the fall of the Soviet Union. Essential listening if you want to understand what is happening now.
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One day this brave man's story will make the most astonishing film. Let's hope he plays himself, and that it has a happy ending.
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Coming on Monday on
@TheRestHistory
- we kick off a series about the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade with a frankly bonkers curtain-raiser on ... THE REAL DA VINCI CODE.
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God morgen. A truly inspirational episode of
@TheRestHistory
today, as we tell the moving story of the RESCUE OF THE DANISH JEWS in late 1943. How and why did this small occupied nation save the great majority of its Jewish population from the Nazi camps?
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Utter, utter gibberish, completely divorced from historical and indeed political reality.
The one worry for Tory MPs tonight is that forcing out a sitting Prime Minister between general elections could appear anti-democratic.
The Conservative Party might not recover from this for years.
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Beyond parody, and yet so utterly predictable.
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This is an absolutely superb series, with
@holland_tom
on magisterial form. A real epic: one of our best.
We finish recording a 4-part epic on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR. Kings, longbowmen, damsels, evil schemers, the Black Prince - we have them all.
Includes powerful readings by
@dcsandbrook
from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's SIR NIGEL.
Starting on
@TheRestHistory
next week.
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This is almost exactly word-for-word what I said to
@TheRestHistory
after Tom's Marilyn Monroe's impersonation.
🔥🔥 This is an extraordinary outburst from Charles Walker(Tory MP) 🔥🔥
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A massive thank you to American listeners of
@TheRestHistory
for the wonderfully warm welcome this week. We loved doing the DC and NYC shows and meeting so many of you. We’ll be back, but in the meantime, thank you so much for your support.
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Morning. On today's
@TheRestHistory
, we welcome the great Jonathan
@Freedland
to explore an utterly riveting and haunting story.
It's the extraordinary tale of Rudolf Vrba, the MAN WHO ESCAPED FROM AUSCHWITZ - and then set out to warn the world.
🎧
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Just recorded two cracking new
@TheRestHistory
episodes on the heyday of the Roman Empire, with
@holland_tom
on magisterial form ...
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Morning. The HUNDRED YEARS WAR is still raging at
@TheRestHistory
, and it gets even better for England today.
The Battle of Poitiers, the capture of the French king and the victory of the BLACK PRINCE. This really should have been the end of history.
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A tirade about books which purport to show that our history is all a pack of lies.
How the culture wars came for history
@UnHerd
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Remember, you'll be able to hear the 22-minute version next week on History Hit.
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Starting on Monday: one of our most anticipated series yet on
@TheRestHistory
. We cross the Irish Sea to Dublin to kick off our series on IRELAND: THE ROAD TO THE EASTER RISING.
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COME ON COSTA RICA! Do it for Don Pepe and Dr Valverde!
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Morning. One great leap for humanity on today's
@TheRestHistory
.
MOONWALKERS - the story of the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon.
With special guest .... TOM HANKS. And yes, he does comment on
@holland_tom
's acting.
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Tomorrow on
@TheRestHistory
we launch our mini-series on the FALL OF THE USSR AND THE RISE OF PUTIN. Four half-hour episodes coming Monday-Thursday, covering all the key moments, from Gorbachev to Chechnya. Or you can get them all early by signing up at .
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Just recorded a cracking new episode of
@TheRestHistory
with the terrific
@AnnaLandmark
. Britain in the 1650s, the years of revolution and republicanism. Coming soon!
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@joshglancy
@holland_tom
@TheRestHistory
The fact that you rightly called one presenter a “totemic dork” and the other a “transatlantic power historian” shows what a penetrating and thoughtful interviewer you are.
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So farewell to New Zealand and Australia after a wonderful
@TheRestHistory
trip.
Thank you so much to everybody who came to our six sell-out shows, and thank you especially to everybody at
@TEGDAINTY
who worked so hard to make the trip a success. We've loved every minute.
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A first-class piece from my favourite Guardian columnist.
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So ... there'll be a special
@TheRestHistory
Club livestream this Monday evening about the history of RUSSIAN COUPS, from the Decembrists and the Kornilov Affair to 1991 and 1993.
It'll be at 8pm UK time. Club members will be sent the link (and should have it already, in fact).
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Top parenting.
What level of
@TheRestHistory
obsessed are you? I’m currently at partial reenactment of the JFK assassination with my my four year old using assorted Playmobil obsessed.
@dcsandbrook
was narrating, obvs.
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Morning. Today's
@TheRestHistory
begins the extraordinary story of J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, the man behind the atomic bomb.
The golden age of quantum physics - the Manhattan Project - the race against the Nazis to build a super-weapon ...
💣
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An epic
@TheRestHistory
recording session underway today, as the great
@aipsmith
joins us to record four episodes on the tragic history of COLONIAL TAX EVASION.
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Just finished recording
@TheRestHistory
's forthcoming series about the life and times of CLEOPATRA - a four-part extravaganza sweeping from Alexandria and Rome to Parthia and Actium. Complete with thrilling book readings and moving poetry recitals - an epic for the ages!
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Great coat. Terrible wall. But top marks for sucking up to the locals before we cross the seas to reenact the Bodyline tour.
Showing absolutely my favourite prime minister of Australia round one of London’s more interesting car parks
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A whopping FIVE episodes into recording a epic new
@TheRestHistory
series - and two episodes still to do. Coming in late November ...
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Merry Christmas. A festive
@TheRestHistory
special today.
Yes, it's TOM'S ROMAN CHRISTMAS!
Did the Romans celebrate Christmas? Is it a rip-off of Mithraism, or the cult of Sol Invictus? Or is it the reincarnation of the festival of Saturnalia?
🎅
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This is what truly progressive education looks like. Other schools should take note. Don’t let YOUR children miss out!
@dcsandbrook
90 copies of your book have just arrived at our school, on the recommendation of our Head of History, so that every student in year 9 can learn about World War 2.
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A mammoth
@TheRestHistory
recording day today, as we embark on our longest, most colourful, most action-packed, most fascinating series yet.
Cortés, Montezuma and THE FALL OF THE AZTECS - coming in October ...
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Morning. A sensational week for
@TheRestHistory
listeners - with FOUR episodes on BRITAIN IN 1974.
Today: A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
The premiership of Ted Heath. Surging inflation. An oil shock, a miners' strike and a three-day-week. What's gone wrong?
🇬🇧
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Just recorded our emergency
@TheRestHistory
about the LAST DAYS OF BORIS JOHNSON. Some absolutely first-class historical punditry on show. And some great characters: Caesar, Pericles, Toad, Thatcher, Moat. Out tomorrow!
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Morning. On today's
@TheRestHistory
we're joined by the brilliant
@AnnaLandmark
to explore the colourful world of OLIVER CROMWELL'S BRITAIN in the 1650s, from the Protector himself to religious fanatics, scientists, coffee houses - and Ireland ...
⚔️
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