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30 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So proud.
Am I right that our most viral contribution to American English is ‘wanker’?
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31 Mar
Today, having already walked Roman & Anglo-Saxon London, it is time to move on to the medieval sites in the capital. These, of course, are concentrated within the walls of what had once been the Roman city, but not exclusively so. There is also Westminster, Southwark - & beyond. ImageImage
Already, by 1066, London was England’s largest, richest & most important urban centre. William the Conqueror, rather than advancing directly on the city after Hastings, made an intimidating march across the s-east before capturing it from the north. ImageImage
“It is a most spacious city, full of evil inhabitants, and richer than anywhere else in the kingdom. Protected on the left by walls and on the right by the river, it fears neither armies nor capture by guile” – Guy of Amiens (c. 1067) #EvilInhabitants
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30 Mar
“Because our middle class desperately ape everything they read in the New York Times, or watch on Netflix, so America’s history & discourse are transferred onto ours, a form of cultural imperialism our leaders are too conformist to resist” -⁦@edwest⁩ unherd.com/2021/03/its-al…
A theme we touched on here:
Tolkien was a particularly distinctive example of conservative opposition to American influence on England. His solution? "An insistence on speaking exclusively Old Mercian."
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28 Mar
Damn you, Sam Curran, for stopping me from getting on with work... #INDvENG
Ooof. By the barest of margins, one might say...
The only thing that would make this funnier is Kohli dropping one.
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20 Mar
Today is St Cuthbert’s Day, & - since I am unable to head for Durham or Lindisfarne – how better to celebrate it than by going on an insanely long walk in search of the scattered trace elements of #AngloSaxonLondon?
Anglo-Saxon London lacks the physical traces that makes a walk round Roman London so satisfying. For all that, though, it offers its own pleasures. Place-names, street-plans, churches: the stamp of the early Middle Ages can be found on them across the city.
“Anglo-Saxon London,” @Rory_Naismith writes, “is not reflected in any monuments that still stand today. Like Conrad’s London, it sits in a well-known landscape but hovers just out of our grasp in the shadow.”

So my walk today will be a grasping after shadows...
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19 Mar
'Tis the evening before St Cuthbert's Day - one of the most magical days of the year!

Even though I won't be celebratin it as I normally would, by drinking to the memory of the great saint with @jonawils & @PhilippeAuclair, I will not be letting his feast day go by unmarked.
First - I'm excited to announce that there will be a special St Cuthbert's Day episode of @TheRestHistory, available tomorrow.

Grateful to dour socialist @dcsandbrook for agreeing that we could do it.
Second - I will be doing a monster walk around #AngloSaxonLondon. Not just the old Roman city, not just Lundenwic, not just Edward the Confessor's great abbey, but some of the settlements, assembly points & trading centres that surrounded what was then London.
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19 Mar
My appreciation of ⁦@j_amesmarriott⁩’s good taste, already high, goes through the roof as he includes @TheRestHistory in his list of the best podcasts to listen to.

“Thoughtful, wise, informative and buzzing with clever ideas.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/best-p…
Indeed, The Times’ podcast critic names @TheRestHistory as his favourite podcast!
The only downside is that @dcsandbrook, previously described as Eeyore, has now been promoted to the rank of Owl.

I, however, continue to be described as Tigger.
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