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10 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read
I curl up once again with @SebastianEPayne’s forthcoming Broken Heartlands. I depart Sedgefield. I head for Wakefield.
“The most influential British politician in recent history aside from Tony Blair” - @SebastianEPayne on Nigel Farage
“The pair may be too similar to truly get along” - @SebastianEPayne on Farage & Johnson
One thing @SebastianEPayne is very good on: how much more nostalgic for the past the Labour Party tends to be than the supposedly conservative Conservatives.
Also how active Christians seem to be in their communities.
And Muslims.
And Sikhs.

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10 Jul
Some weekend listening for your pleasure. (We did an insane number of podcasts this week, so apologies should you not have a spare 4 hours.)

First up - history books for children.
Second up - a preview of England's semi-final against Denmark.
Third up - the Vietnam War.

(If you listen to only one of these episodes, I strongly recommend this one. I found it revelatory.)
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9 Jul
I curl up with ⁦@SebastianEPayne⁩’s forthcoming book on the Red Wall...
“No true civilisation could have produced such a town, which is nothing better than a huge dingy dormitory” - J. B. Priestley on Gateshead
“Blairism without caring about the causes of crime” - Dominic Cummings on the 2019 Tory manifesto
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7 Jul
After 90 minutes...
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6 Jul
“How valiant were their deeds against the Romans, how impressive their endurance!”

Slight Numantine War vibe about this game so far. Who will stand up and play Scipio Aemilianus for Italy? #ItalySpain
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus!!!!!!!!!
That was the thing - the Romans found the conquest of Spain an endless slog. Almost two centuries it took them. Every time they thought they’d crushed Iberian resistance, another war would start to blaze.
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4 Jul
To the Geffrye Museum!
Which I find has now been renamed the Museum of the Home. Sir Robert Geffrye has been cancelled - although his statue remains... museumofthehome.org.uk/what-we-do/our…
The herb garden as lovely as ever - much else expensively & handsomely refurbished.
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4 Jul
“5th & 6th century communities [in East Anglia] had a particular affinity with Roman material remains, & mourners were engaged in the conscious creation of individual narratives about people & place using old places & antique things” - @SarahSemple8
In north Wiltshire, @SarahSemple8 argues, the burials of people in or alongside the area’s prehistoric monuments fit “with the emerging political competition between the growing kingdoms of Mercia & Wessex.”
“The richest graves of the 7th century, those we might associate with an emerging kingly class, were frequently monumentalised, often experimental & ostentatious, & harnessed the apparent prestige or value of prehistoric monuments, mostly large barrows.”
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