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New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory
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"But I have lived, and have not lived in vain..."
Today on
@TheRestHistory
, the climax of our series on LORD BYRON, as we follow his life in exile: horror by Lake Geneva; sex & scandal in Venice; martyrdom for liberty in Greece.
THE DEATH OF A VAMPIRE?
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I’m a huge admirer of the modesty Modi showed in naming the world’s largest cricket stadium after himself.
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All of us in the UK who are not Jewish - an immense, an overwhelming majority - have a responsibility in these troubled times to make our Jewish fellow-citizens feel valued & safe. A responsibility that clearly right now we are failing to meet. It shames the country.
My column in tomorrow’s Sunday Times: now British Jews know
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Really want someone dull & grey who understands accountancy to be prime minister, not going to lie
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If Shakespeare has taught me anything, it’s that royals talking to ghosts never ends well
Prince Harry says woman with ‘powers’ gave him message from his late mother Diana
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Please make it stop
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It would be nice to see a Yazidi girl - perhaps one of the many abducted, enslaved & raped by the organisation that Shamima Begum so enthusiastically joined - given a similar chance to tell her story
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Not always a good sign for countries when leaders start pulling that trick...
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Heroic is the word.
A solemn day for
#Syria
.
The remains of heroic Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al-Asaad have been found near Palmyra today.
Al-Asaad was beheaded at 83 by ISIS in 2015 for refusing to lead them to the locations of Palmyra’s hidden antiquities.
He can now finally rest in peace.
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Not to be a pedant, but if there’s one thing cricket does have, it’s boundaries
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On a train, a father is making his son laugh so uncontrollably & joyously that everyone else in the carriage has stopped talking to listen & smile
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The Coronation standout for me was, I think, Penny Mordaunt’s magnificently imposing performance as Athena
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Not really, because secularism & Dawkins’ own brand of evangelical atheism are both expressions of a specifically Christian culture - as Dawkins himself, sitting on the branch he’s been sawing through and gazing nervously at the ground far below, seems to have begun to realise.
Bizarre from Dawkins, who wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’ claiming religion was a deeply malevolent, dividing force in the world.
Now he’s calling himself a ‘cultural Christian’? Find it odd to use religion to extend your secular political points.
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A supposedly liberal newspaper whipping up a Two Minutes Hate against a writer for commercial gain - how utterly repellent.
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Up bright & early for today's stroll through the capital: a tour of Roman London. We shall walk the line of the city walls, and then visit the sites of its vanished monuments. (The archaeological sites, alas, will be shut, but there is always the imagination...)
#Londinium
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RIP Prince Philip: a cricketer who always called Istanbul Constantinople, had a fascination with UFOs, & who was - as the Queen still is - a living link to the heroism of the generations that lived through the Second World War.
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“Not the actor” will be on my tombstone…
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Honestly, who needs the hassle of international travel when you can go on holiday to Cornwall?
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The statue of the man who warned against appeasement has to get boarded up to stop it being vandalised by anti-fascists; the statue of the man who visited & praised Hitler, & insisted that the Nazis were arming "for defence, not for an attack," doesn't.
It's all so confusing...
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I'm not convinced that the Tory launch - which seems to consist of insulting people who died in a fire & comparing Labour's plans to mass murder - is entirely displaying the mastery of 21st century viral marketing that we were promised.
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Amazed people don’t seem to have liked
#LineofDutyFinale
. I thought it was perfect. There is no criminal genius conspiracy - only contingency & incompetence. A perfect 2021 conclusion.
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Oh, there's a new Spiderman trailer out, is there? And there I was thinking the reason I'd suddenly got 1,000 new followers over the last 24 hours was because loads of people were interested in my tour of historic cricket grounds ☹️
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Congratulations to
@RosamundUrwin
for having the courage & determination to get this story into print, & give a voice to women who previously had been voiceless.
And to have done it all while pregnant & then on maternity leave - heroic…
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This is a Yazidi I met in a roasting refugee camp, with his 2 surviving children. He lost 2 daughters (both under the age of 12) to the beds of ISIS rapists, & his 2 elder sons to brainwashers who turned them into killers for the Caliphate.
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As ever, the inability of American liberals to understand the world beyond the US in anything but American terms is a thing of wonder.
(The likelihood of the right-wing party in the US choosing a Hindu as its leader is, I would agree, effectively zero.)
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It's stupefying that France should be suffering boycotts over a bunch of CARTOONS when China's incarceration of the Uighurs seems barely to raise an eyebrow in Muslim countries.
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I neglected to mention in this clip that Putin also launched a chemical attack on my home city, which is another reason I don’t like him much…
Historian Tom Holland Debunks Putin's Historical Inaccuracies in Tucker Carlson Interview
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Agrippa has the absolute look of someone who'd be good at rugby.
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A reminder that slavery isn't just something that happened centuries ago...
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Surprised how unsettling I find the news about the PM: largely, I think, because he is a man of such immense appetite, a man who so clearly enjoys being alive, a man I had rather assumed would brush aside the virus as though it were a 10 year old Japanese rugby player.
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A haunting photo of my great-aunt, taken c. 1910. She died aged 18 three years later. I can’t quite believe it’s not a painting. It certainly seems pregnant with a novel...
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Startled to learn from Trevor Phillips in The Times today that Britain has "more people of colour in high ministerial ofice than the whole of the European Union put together."
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A Britain without its Jewish citizens would be a maimed & diminished country indeed.
How awful & shaming that it’s reached the stage where such an eventuality can even be contemplated
Don’t worry UK -keep going like you’re going, you won’t have many Jewish people
living here in a few years. The rise in anti Jewish hate crimes soaring daily. The acceptable venacular. So many conversations w friends/acquaintances talking exit strategies. You’ll miss us I think
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Mark Antony.
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This "latest venture" being a women's refuge for survivors of domestic & sexual abuse?
What a total monster.
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This rests on two pretty dubious assumptions: firstly, that in this one case the notoriously unreliable sources for Elagabalus’ reign are to be trusted; and secondly, that Roman assumptions about gender can be seamlessly mapped onto those of British museum curators in 2023.
🔴 Roman Emperor was trans, Hertfordshire museum declares
The ill-fated Elagabalus will now be referred to as 'she', although experts say a transgender category did not exist in ancient Rome ⬇
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I have not the slightest objection to paying for media that I value & don’t want to see go bust
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Oh dear - I seem single-handedly to have destroyed prospects for the next Spider-Man in India.
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“I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Parsi, a Jew” - Gandhi
“Only a Hindu could say that” - Jinnah
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Franz Nopsca, the gay Hungarian aristocrat who, as well as studying the dwarf dinosaurs of Transylvania & pushing the radical hypothesis that birds were dinosaurs, was also the first man to hijack a plane, was pretty much the most stylish palaeontologist of all time.
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Great news for abandoned baby twins
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Huge thanks to the Hungarian builder who, seeing my mother in a terrible state of panic about a deluge forecast for tomorrow, went & unblocked her drains, & then refused to take a penny of payment.
I don't know your name, Sir, but you do us honour by being here.
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Everyone who was worrying he was a fascist now worrying he’s not fascist enough
the self-evident truth is that being in charge of this situation doesn’t sit easily with Johnson’s libertarian instincts and desire to be liked
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There are delicate & ethereal portrayals of the baby Jesus, and then there’s this absolute unit…
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I love the idea that a British university, by dropping Britain's most signficant female novelist in favour of an American one, is somehow decolonising itself.
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My kind of parenting
An avid history buff, Larry David, took his daughter to every one of the Civil War battlefields for a family vacation.
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Did you hear about the non-binary prospector?
They found gold in them/their hills.
H/t
@popbitch
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“A biographer of Napoleon, Patrice Gueniffey in Le Point magazine, attacked the film as a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history.”
It sounds brilliant!
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One ray of light: all the treasures and relics that could be saved have been saved - or so it seems. The crown of thorns has not been lost in Holy Week.
#NotreDame
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I would rather boil my head than use BCE/CE. Who does anyone think it fools?
BC/BCE AD/CE hoo-ha surely supports
@holland_tom
idea that Western secularism simply can't imagine itself out of Christendom. Western reality is Christian, none more so than when it denies it.
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One of us, having been given a tweed suit by Santa, is partying like it’s 1937, and one of us isn’t
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Inside an oak that is reputedly the last surviving tree from the Birnam Wood that Macbeth would have known
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Direct ancestors of King Charles had people hanged almost to the point of death, cut down, castrated, disembowelled, beheaded, cut into quarters and stuck on spikes
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Wonderful news. Congratulations to everyone who has fought the fight for so long.
Hoping the Government will accept this ruling, & save the £2 billion of taxpayers' money they were planning to blow on a shameful act of desecration.
#StonehengeTunnel
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Oh, my sweet summer child, what do you know of fear? Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, & the white walkers move through the woods.
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Delighted now to reveal that Thursday's episode of
@TheRestHistory
will be on THE CANTERBURY TALES!
Tom Holland says he has a big announcement coming tomorrow
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It must be a slight worry to the Lib Dems that their highest profile politician at the moment is Jeremy Thorpe
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England! with all thy faults I love thee still...
Workers on the Millennium Bridge, by reducing the headroom of the bridge while they work, have triggered an ancient by-law of London requiring that a bale of straw be hung underneath to warn river traffic:
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I don't get why disagreement - even over a deeply felt issue - should descend to the level of cruelty that is detailed here. The spectacle of a woman who has done so much, given so much being harried like this is horrible: like something out of Greek myth.
I've ignored fake tweets attributed to me and RTed widely. I've ignored porn tweeted at children on a thread about their art. I've ignored death and rape threats. I'm not going to ignore this. 1/11
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At the best of times this would be a grotesque decision, but at a time when the country is faced with so many bills, such a financial shortfall, this desecration of a World Heritage Site is the height of folly - an act of vandalism that shames Britain.
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This is the single best thing I’ve seen on the internet EVER
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What a wonderful thing for
@wmarybeard
to have done. Simultaneously a surprise and yet not a surprise at all.
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Why ever, if you had a spare £3 million, would you use it to buy a peerage when for that amount of money you could buy an entire dinosaur skeleton?
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A church in Montenegro has a fresco showing Karl Marx in hell. He is flanked on either side by Marshal Tito & Engels.
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Here's a Ptolemaic otter
Incompetent clowns in power and the opposition turning into a solipsistic personality cult. I'm so ****ing depressed. Send otter pictures.
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Very good
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This is the bind post-Christian America finds itself in. It can no longer appeal to a Creator as the author of its citizens’ rights, so has to pretend that these rights somehow have an inherent existence: a notion requiring no less of a leap of faith than does belief in God
Our rights as human beings don’t come from the Constitution, the government, Congress, the president, or the Supreme Court. They are inherent.
As our Declaration of Independence says: “[We] are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
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Wait till he finds out who built Constantinople!
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Jerusalem Was Built by the Ottomans; It Is Our City, a City from US
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How utterly monstrous that in the country that invented the blood libel such a placard should be paraded.
.
@metpoliceuk
I’d like to report a case of blood libel at today’s protest in central London.
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This would have come as news to Catherine the Great
Boris Johnson claims Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he was a woman
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Just putting this out there, since there seems to be some confusion.
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The assumption that heroes should be morally perfect seems yet another legacy of Christianity. We demand saints, not the often terrifying figures that the ancients knew heroes to be: men whose greatness was often to be measured by their crimes as well as their achievements.
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Why on earth would someone do this?
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A lump in my throat thinking of the Queen’s loss, & of how powerful & strange a ritual this is: the grief of one elderly woman in her mask a mirror held up to the grief experienced by so many over the past year.
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If you live in the West, no book has had a greater effect on your life than the Bible.
You don’t have to have read it, or even know the first thing about it, for that to be true.
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Happy to learn the 200,000 bees kept on the roof of Notre Dame survived the fire...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s writing desk in Kardamyli - at which, for the next 6 days, I will have the honour of writing…
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I love it when the BBC say ‘We tried to talk to someone from the BBC but no one was available.’
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I finish watching Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland - harrowing, brilliantly structured, with an incredible array of interviewees, all of them, across the political & sectarian spectrum, powerfully & often movingly articulate. The best documentary series I’ve watched all year.
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192 Athenians died in vain.
It’s the 44th anniversary of Marathon being renamed Snickers
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It’s like watching John Knox get repeatedly bested by Mary, Queen of Scots
Most of Scotland is upset and offended by Yousaf’s bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism, but we aren’t lobbying to have him locked up for it.
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"2023 marks the first time the Medal has been awarded to a podcast or any type of broadcast programme."
Very honoured that
@TheRestHistory
has won this year's President's Medal from
@BritishAcademy_
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I finish Lord Of The Rings. What a strange & powerful achievement it is: the foundational work of a whole new genre; a brilliant reworking of early medieval literature; a moving work of Christian apologetics; and a dark & at times Orwellian meditation on 20th century history.
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“The Nile water is pleasant to the taste, and may be enjoyed in great abundance without any detriment” - Karl Lepsius in 1843, shortly before everyone on his expedition to Egypt fell violently ill.
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It’s not just the evangelism, but the conviction that people who walk in darkness must be brought into light, that marks humanists as so irredeemably Christian.
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Final resting place of Sir Richard Burton, explorer, soldier, linguist, hajji, terrible translator of the Arabian Nights, pornographer, & owner of the best tomb in Mortlake
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Here are my daughters enjoying a walk along Hadrian’s Wall
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I can't take seriously a government that moans about statues & drapes itself in flags while cheerfully trampling on the chance to save Britain's oldest manufacturing company, a business that reaches back to the Tudor age.
Sad news for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The journey ends here. We tried our best.
#savethewbf
#savethewhitechapelbellfoundry
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