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13 Nov, 14 tweets, 8 min read
Only 45 minutes to go now until kick off in @TheRestHistory #KingsAndQueensWorldCup!!!!

Full details of what is undoubtedly the biggest sports tournament of the year here:
Great to see the fans getting in the spirit!

A huge sense of excitement in the air!

Let's hope for a tournament full of classic matches, stirring performances, & right royal knees ups!

And may the best king, or queen, or lord protector win...

[KICK OFF IS AT 10 AM]
Very disappointing.
AND WE'RE OFF!

So no real upsets in the first round of the #KingsAndQueensWorldCup. All the seeds are through. Those monarchs going through to the quarter-finals are:

Elizabeth I
Elizabeth II
Henry V
William the Conqueror

A particularly good day for fans of Elizabeths.
I think this is true. There was obviously huge disappointment in the Windsor camp when Prince Philip was knocked out in the first round of the World Cup of Gods - but this a tournament that is very much being played on the Queen’s home turf
Anyway, all eyes now will be on the second round of the Super Sixteens. Can any of the non-seeded monarchs cause an episode? How will the tournament’s most controversial entrant, Oliver Cromwell, do?

@TheRestHistory for all the action.

Kick off at 10! #WorldCupOfKingsAndQueens
And here it is - kick-off in today's round of the Super Sixteen!

The Classico
Strictly neutral in this one...
A man who chopped off the heads of his wives vs a man who collected stamps

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To @NHM_London’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year show!
Coelacanth!
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Some weekend listening for your entertainment.

First up: a two part special on ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

Here is the first part:
And here is the second:
Then, on the anniversary of the ending of the First World War 103 years ago, we released this episode on how the rituals of remembrance evolved
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12 Nov
Tomorrow sees kick off in the most hotly awaited sports event of 2021: @TheRestHistory #KingsAndQueensWorldCup.

Here's a preview of the action to whet your appetites!
Here’s the draw, staged this morning in the glamorous surrounds of @jonawils’ flat #KingsAndQueensWorldCup
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11 Nov
On the 11th day of the 11th month, @TheRestHistory looks at how the Great War has been commemorated: the origin of the various rituals, their evolution over the past century, and their status today.

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23 Oct
On Thursday, I went to @warstudies to see an extraordinary dramatisation of the Yazidi genocide: a 12 minute virtual reality tour through the horror that destroyed Sinjar & its neighbouring villages in 2014.

I wish everyone could see it - especially MPs.
I felt myself transported back to the scenes of devastation I witnessed back in 2016, when I visited Sinjar, & saw how utterly the lives of the Yazidis had been destroyed. It was though these photos I took then were coming back alive. All it needed was the heat & the stench.
When I spoke to this man, I assured him the world would not forget the Yazidis. He told me otherwise. 'Muslim countries care about Muslims, Christian countries care about Christians. But there are no Yazidi countries."

So far, he has been proved right.
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22 Oct
To Dune!
Spicing up my life…
Well, I thought that was pretty stupefying. Like Lawrence of Arabia, only with giant worms. What's not to like? #Dune
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