Nicholas Rankin
@RankinNick
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Author 6 Faber books inc 2023, Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau & Me, Telegram from Guernica; Maggie’s husband, Rosa's dad. Opinions my own.
Joined March 2013
Trapped in History is Book of the Day! .
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The author’s account of his youth amid Kenya’s 1950s anti-colonial uprising is an unforgettable mix of history and memoir
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RT @TheRickWilson: MAGA knows Trump is lying about Ukraine. They know Russia started the war. They know Putin in entirely to blame for t….
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RT @BurggrabenH: Excellent summary by former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, of this new era in geopolitics…adapt or die. .
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RT @Lit_Review: Norman Lewis was one of the great travel writers of the 20th century. His long life saw him travel to places as varied as B….
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Nicholas Rankin: Among the Bandits - A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis by John Hatt (ed)
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The ‘Trump-Putin Axis’ smells like the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939. Won’t end well, as bandits always fall out…
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Cet homme s’amuse bien a Paris avec sa femme Maggie Gee …
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RT @ClassicalAegis: 36,000 years ago, humans painted mammoths, cave lions, and woolly rhinos in a cave in France. The Chauvet Cave paintin….
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RT @RevdPye: 12 Feb 1942, Lt Cdr Eugene Esmonde, died, aged 32. Posthumously awarded Victoria Cross while leading Fleet Air Arm bombers in….
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RT @IHistorical: Amazing and of course we had a special message from His Majesty for the ceremony in Brest last year. @Commando_Ops @Britta….
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Service in Ramsgate marking 83rd anniversary of Operation Fuller, the doomed attempt to stop three German battleships dashing up the English Channel. Six Fairey Swordfish bi-planes of 825 NAS from Manston were all shot down. Their leader won a posthumous Victoria Cross.
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Remembering the heroic naval airmen of the Channel Dash -12 February 1942 - at a ceremony in Ramsgate. Helen Esmonde, Valerie Sayer, Malcolm Cornwallis and Carol Lee.
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RT @RevdPye: 11 Feb 1942, Germans launched Channel Dash, codenamed Operation Cerberus, with aim of running Kriegsmarine squadron of ships,….
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RT @UKDefenceBeLux: Today is the funeral of Andrée (Codename 'Nadine') Dumont, one of Belgium's #WW2 Resistance heroes. As part of the Come….
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RT @HistoryGirlBW: Empire Day Children’s Parade. 🇬🇧.c. 1914 to 1918. “You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could….
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Blimey! D.H. Lawrence once said that ‘Ugliness is the curse of England”. Et tu, Calpe?.
Awful. A massive and totally unnecessary edifice at the entrance to #Gibraltar. Why do we need more luxury flats here?
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Gibraltar’s tunnels are a wonder. Look forward to seeing them again!.
What an amazing new tourist attraction in #Gibraltar! So exciting to see such quality and thought put into a project. Thanks Gail! @RankinNick @maggiegeewriter.
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RT @MAstronomers: Absolutely MIND-BLOWING! A zoom out of the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million st….
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