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28 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
On the fourth day of @TheRestHistory's Christmas:

- Herod slaughters the innocents of Bethlehem (c. AD 1)

- The Tay Bridge Disaster inspires one of the great poems of Scottish literature (1879)
Listening back to this, I realise that I inadvertently said 'Jerusalem' instead of 'Bethlehem' at one point - for which many apologies. My only excuse: I was racing to finish a chunk of writing for Christmas that featured Jerusalem a lot.
I also seem to have described Herod Agrippa as Herod's son rather than grandson.

Apologies - I'd had a rough day...
More on McGonagall's poem:
Billy Connolly reads McGonagall’s masterpiece in a snow storm near the site of the disaster (H/t ClaireJ on @TheRestHistory members chat)

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