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26 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"...a British author and cricketer also named Tom Holland..." #WorldNews #AuthorAndCricketer

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Being identified as a 'cricketer' in India, the home of Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Kohli, is - of course - a dream come true.

(Also, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I did once bowl the Crown Prince of Udaipur...) Image
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OK, so I may have mentioned bowling the Crown Prince of Udaipur once or twice before...
Whatever.

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28 Feb
London, Peter Ackroyd wrote, is "a spectral city, so filled with imitations of its past that it haunts its own inhabitants."

But what of the actual spectres? For today's walk through the capital, I am going in search of London's ghosts... Image
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Where else could I possibly begin a tour of #LondonsGhosts but the Tower? Easily the most haunted place in London, & quite possibly the world. Among its ghosts: Henry VI, the Princes in the Tower, Anne Boleyn, Margaret Pole, Lady Jane Grey, Lady Arbella Stuart, and a bear. Image
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25 Feb
Oh dear - I seem single-handedly to have destroyed prospects for the next Spider-Man in India.
My apologies to @SpiderManMovie. I should have remembered that with great power comes great responsibility.
Just for the record, & to save Marvel’s profits in India, I freely acknowledge that Narendra Modi is a man of immense humility, and that his naming the world’s largest cricket stadium after himself is in no way quite hilariously immodest.
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21 Feb
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
London, unlike most provincial capitals, was a purely Roman foundation. It emerged as it did for the same reason it has always been the greatest city in Britain whenever the southern lowlands are under a unitary authority: it is where the Thames is both navigable & bridgeable.
What did Londinium look like? This is the only known Roman portrayal of the city: a celebration of the recapture of Britain from rebel warlords by Constantius Chlorus, father of Constantine the Great. We know it's London because the letters LON appear below the kneeling figure.
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20 Feb
"Even among philosophers, the passion for fame is the last weakness to be discarded" - Tacitus
"That last infirmity of noble mind," as Milton put it...
The idea that I am on Twitter to promote such few, modest achievements as I have recorded over the course of the past ten years is, of course, an utter calumny.
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15 Feb
Fancy Burns to get a redemptive ton. #INDvENG
Well, he's started well. And in his helmet, there is more than a hint of Sutton Hoo. Backing my punt here.
Excellent.
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25 Jan
For this week's bout of Government-mandated exercise, @sadieholland67 & I are going to visit all the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme #OrangesAndLemons*

* The idea for this came from someone who messaged me about doing the same here on Twitter. Whoever you were, thank u!
#OrangesAndLemons is an ancient tune: people were dancing to it in the 1660s, & so its lyrics may bear the stamp of that fateful decade. But probably not - the earliest version yet found in print dates to 1744 (Tom Thumb's Pretty Song Book).
There are many versions of the lyrics. The earliest begins:

'2 sticks & an apple, Ring ye bells at Whitechapel,
Old father bald pate, Ring ye bells Aldgate,
Maids in white aprons, Ring ye bells at St Catherines,
Oranges & lemons, Ring ye bells at St Clements.'
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