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4 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today on the podcast:

A Bomber Command recording which we believe to be unique. Steve Stevens DFC made an audio recording of a raid over Essen in 1943. 75 yrs later I listened to it with him for the podcast.

Please listen here: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hist… Image
Sadly Steve died two years after I interviewed him. But you can watch him and gear his story in this History Hit documentary:

access.historyhit.com/videos/the-unh…
I'll never forget him showing me the prayer book that he used to carry with him on operations. With the prayer he wrote out, memorised and would quietly say as he revved up the engines for take off. Image
A book about Steve's life:

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9 Jun
In which I get triggered for being called unpatriotic:
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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Today in 793 Vikings raided Lindisfarne:
"Never before has such terror appeared...as we have now suffered from a pagan race...The church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans."
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Nothing survives from the time of the raid, this carving known as the Domesday Stone, was part of the rebuild and depicts the End of Days with a horde of men wielding Viking weapons...
One monastery where there is evidence of a Viking raid is Portmahomack, Tarbat Peninsula, Scotland. It was wiped out by Vikings in 800. With no evidence left at Lindisfarne it is the only archaeological evidence for a violent Viking raid in the UK. Smashed skills & masonry
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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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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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8 Oct 20
'It is the democratic countries that are prosperous and responsive to the needs of their people.'

Ronald Reagan, June 1982.
'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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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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