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25 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The roar can be heard on the Baltic coast…
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Refreshing Twitter can be so exciting
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MASSIVE SPORT
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25 Sep
This week on @TheRestHistory, we released 3 new episodes: a 2 parter on the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, & a survey of the decolonisation of Africa.

Here is the first of our two episodes on the Persian invasion:
And here is the second part:
And here - featuring the brilliant @tomowolade - is the episode on African decolonisation:
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21 Sep
Some lunchtime listening for your pleasure.

Listen well, for tonight you listen in Hades...
Go and buy my Herodotus translation, everyone!
May have done.
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20 Sep
The 1st of a 2 part special on @TheRestHistory, commemorating the 2,500th anniversary of Xerxes' invasion of Greece.

Today: the road to Thermopylae. What brought the King of Kings to the Hot Gates?

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/98-…

open.spotify.com/episode/1pIZ3Y…

play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-…
Feel it would be remiss of me if I did not use this opportunity to indulge in some shameless self-promotion…. hachette.co.uk/titles/tom-hol…
And here’s my @PenguinClassics translation of Herodotus. (Apologies, but a chap has to live…) penguin.co.uk/books/35604/th…
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19 Sep
At the Spianada in Corfu - one of the most characterful cricket grounds in the whole world - @AuthorsCC are batting. @AdamRutherford & @jonawils to open. Despite the fact that I have scored precisely 0 runs in my last 3 innings, I am batting at 3. #EliteSport Image
I score a blistering 3, before selflessly sacrificing my wicket in the cause of accelerating the scoring rate.

Any youngsters watching - this is what is meant by THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET
Oh dear. My show of team spirit in getting out is for naught, as @AuthorsCC are bowled out for 104.
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18 Sep
With temperatures on Corfu high & sticky, & my stomach the victim of a mild attack of Roumeli belly, what better time to join my fellow @AuthorsCC heroes for an afternoon of punishing but ever elite sport? Image
After @saadi & I LITERALLY blast out the Corfiote openers, a massive 180 run partnership sees Γυμναστική Εταιρεία Κέρκυρας make 223/4 off their 30 overs.

I sustain an #EliteSportsInjury by falling flat on my back.

@pfiennes & @ahmpreston to open for @AuthorsCC Image
Cloud masses, lightning flickers, as prospects of an @AuthorsCC victory darken.

We currently need 132 off 12 overs to win. Image
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9 Sep
To @V_and_A, there to visit its show on Epic Iran with - who else? - @aa51_ansari
5,000 years old, & eerie as hell: the cap with ibex horns & the wings of the bird of prey draped over his shoulders hint at a being who is himself part animal & bird #EpicIran
Three absolute babes from mid-2nd century BC Susa #EpicIran
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