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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

9 Jun

https://twitter.com/jeremyvineon5/status/1402551639526068225

In which I get triggered for being called unpatriotic:

https://twitter.com/jeremyvineon5/status/1402551639526068225

Here are some things that I consider unpatriotic; showing a lack of regard for this nation's people, traditions and law.

First: illegally shutting down Parliament, and in the process lying to or, at best, not being totally open with the Queen.

Giving a seat in our legislature to someone who donates money to keep you in power.

If that was in Africa we would issuing high minded ethics lectures.

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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

10 Apr

@CatJarman

I'm on a VIKING ROAD TRIP!
The legend @CatJarman is guiding me across England on the trail of the Great Heathen Army from East Anglia where they martyred King Edmund to the edge of Salisbury Plain where Alfred won his greatest victory.

Very excited to be back in one of the most remarkable and important Anglo-Saxon/Viking sites in the country. St Wystan's church in Repton was a royal & religious centre of the kingdom of Mercia. The 8thC crypt was the final resting place of several Mercian kings.

The monastery was looted & smashed by the Great Heathen Army in 873. Only the crypt survives. The Vikings buried their own outside the church including the famous 'Repton Viking' who was hacked to pieces but buried with a Thor's Hammer around his neck, a sword by his side....

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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

11 Nov 20

100 years ago today London witnessed a revolution.

An unknown soldier, in a coffin of Hampton Court oak, with a crusader sword from the Royal Collection, was buried among the monarchs in Westminster Abbey.

A century before the dead of Waterloo had been robbed, tipped into mass graves, then exhumed for fertiliser & dentures!

Now in the eyes of many, including the Prime Minister David Lloyd George who grew up in a cobblers cottage, a soldier was a fellow citizen, a voter, an equal.

So at least four soldiers were exhumed, and one was chosen at random. He was awarded the Legion d'honnneur, accompanied by Marshal Foch and a division of troops, placed aboard HMS Verdun and arrived in the UK to a Field Marshal's salute.

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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

8 Oct 20

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008

'It is the democratic countries that are prosperous and responsive to the needs of their people.'

Ronald Reagan, June 1982.

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008

'Our sister democracies have proved that, even in a time of severe economic strain, free peoples can work together freely and voluntarily to address problems as serious as inflation, unemployment, trade, and economic development in a spirit of cooperation and solidarity.'

'if the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy.'

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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

25 Jan 20

I think we need to talk about Tristan da Cunha's place names.

Conventional Mt minor royal. So far so good.

Uninaginative.

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Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

8 Dec 19

Now in 1941 a brutal battle was being fought in Hong Kong here on the 'Maginot Line of the Far East.' As the Japanese advanced the British fought a tough but futile campaign to save the colony.