Michael Wood
@MichaelWoodMV
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Historian/Broadcaster - Prof of Public history at Manchester Uni. Makes films with Maya Vision. In the Footsteps of Du Fu out now! https://t.co/8rBLdc6xBh
Joined July 2009
A last thought on today’s anniversary of Athelstan’s coronation 1100 years ago on 4 sept 925. That day he promised that he would rule society high and low with justice and mercy. He was not above the law. The birth perhaps of the idea of the community of the realm?
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Worried about links between acetaminophen and autism? Curious about the FDA's latest updates for your baby? The $5 billion debate awaits!
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The Siena exhibition at the National Gallery in London is really lovely. The medieval carried into the Renaissance in a startlingly unique way. If only we had Martini’s portrait of Petrarch’s Laura!
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The ‘Ancient India - Living traditions’ exhibition @britishmuseum is full of wonders. Here is a splendid grimacing Yaksha!
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Insights on every page about the process of approaching some of theatre's most seminal texts in the rehearsal room from former @TheRSC AD, Greg Doran, in My Shakespeare, a very readable account of his traversal through the First Folio – @MethuenDrama/@BloomsburyBooks.
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Treat yourself this Holiday Season 🎁 Educate yourself & Elevate your Trading alongside Profitable Traders! Link in Bio: Use code Q4 at checkout!
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Out on the 6th of March with @ProfileBooks Huge thanks to @MichaelWoodMV for the endorsement, and the team at Profile for the gorgeous design. If you are interested in finding out more about the history of pilgrimage, you can pre-order now #pilgrimage #pilgrimage2025 #publishing
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How exciting !!!
Proofs have landed - to much excitement in the RC household, principally from RC. Finding Belle, my first novel, published on May 8 2025
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Got the first hard copy of my new book today. Always an exciting moment. It feels good in the hand!
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13k listeners to date. Thank you all! Bit short of our target of 100k 😁but the 10 new episodes will help - now probably out next April.
I've loved recording these with @MulvilleJimmy (block the impostor @jimmymulville), and we are releasing another 10 episodes shortly in the new year: https://t.co/rOyhJxV8YN Listen up! Good not only for promoting @classicsforall, but as evidence of "impact" in the 2029 REF.😃
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What better way to confirm that the Lower River Roding around Wanstead & Ilford now has some of the most urban otters in London that this stunning shot by @TheCowboyBirder? It should give us all the incentive we need to protect & restore our river for all its creatures.
After my first sighting on the 2nd March, this happened today along the same stretch of the River Roding at Wanstead with @WansteadBirder. One the very few photos of a wild Otter on a London river @riverroding @standardnews #londonbirds
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So happy that our second album The Good Kind is now out in the world. Thank you for all the love!!! We’re celebrating with some more in-store shows this week - https://t.co/mfwJw0X3zW
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And also in the Medievsl Women exhibition @britishlibrary another wonderful discovery for me . Gwerfel Mechain - a medieval Welsh poet who has the wit and directness of Ovid ……
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Joan of Arc’s signature ! ‘The new exhibition @britishlibrary on Medieval Women is full of wonders
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Do people want the whole poem translated thus?
My new translation of the opening of Homer’s Iliad. In iambic heptameters.
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we have free beginners Ancient Greek lessons starting soon in Liverpool thanks to @classicsforall and @LivUni @LivAncWorlds open to state school students in Years 9 - 13. Classes are in person on Saturdays. Also available GCSE and AS classes https://t.co/PDAD7RvvUe
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Morning! Our new song The Good Kind is out now in all the places. Plenty to say about this one but for now we hope you like it 🧡 Listen here - https://t.co/RcVRMGjWmR
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An immigrant surgeon has just given me a knee replacement, an immigrant nurse took my blood, an immigrant nurse took my X-rays, an immigrant physio helped me to exercise, an immigrant cook fed me. I would be nowhere and nothing without immigrants. Thank you to all of them.
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