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1 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I am asked if I can post the links to the previous walks I did exploring particular periods of London's history.

It is ever my pleasure to serve...
First up, Roman London
Anglo-Saxon London
Medieval London
A huge prize for anyone who can guess the theme of my next walk
Here's a clue

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1 Apr
A new book I know nothing about, except that it arrived in the post today, looks right up my street, & I am now going to curl up & make it my Easter read... Image
Anne Wroe’s ‘biography’ of Pilate is a book I absolutely loved - so am definitely on for another about the man who, in the Creed, serves as the representative of all earthly power
"The writer of Luke - like the other gospel-writers - is totally uninterested in 'redeeming' the Roman prefect. That Pilate declares Jesus innocent deepens his guilt."

Dusenbury stimulatingly taking on the exegetical consensus there...
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31 Mar
Very grateful to everyone who has followed my walk today, and enjoyed it. If it has helped people to appreciate what an infinitely fascinating city London is, as doing it has certainly helped me to appreciate it, I am very happy!
If it is not too cheeky, could I ask anyone who is in a giving mood to consider sponsoring me on a monster 40 mile walk I am doing on St George's Day from one side of London to the other? It is along an #EliteSportsLayLine! And in the very best of causes. givergy.uk/tomholland/?co…
Anyway, thank you everyone.
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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.
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.
“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
So proud.
Am I right that our most viral contribution to American English is ‘wanker’?
🙁
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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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