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28 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Guten Morgen! A special edition of @TheRestHistory today, as we mark Sunday's election in Germany, & Angela Merkel's forthcoming retirement, by looking at her predecessors as Chancellor.

Rebels, exiles, Nazis, chain-smokers...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/102…

open.spotify.com/episode/1gtDWI…
Yes, an absolute lad! (Brandt was too...)
Scholz channeling the spirit of Schmidt (and signally failing to mention Schröder)
Very proud!
Goodness, there it is! #WilliBrandt

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29 Sep
A very happy #Michaelmas to all my followers! Image
According to Daniel, Michael is the particular protector of Israel. In Galatia, his shrine featured 'thaumaturgical fish-nibbling.' At Ravenna, he was shown sporting the purple cloak & buskins of a Roman general.

He was an angel with a truly multi-cultural appeal...
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27 Sep
Licensed to explore how JAMES BOND holds up a mirror to Britain's anxieties, neuroses & changing sense of its place in the world: today's @TheRestHistory is all Ian Fleming & 007.

Weirder than you might think...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/101…

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25 Sep
The roar can be heard on the Baltic coast…
Oh.
Refreshing Twitter can be so exciting
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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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