We released 4 new episodes of @TheRestHistory this week.
Two marked the 2070th anniversary of Caesar's CROSSING OF THE RUBICON
Two marked the 2070th anniversary of Caesar's CROSSING OF THE RUBICON
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1480448406854193157?s=20
The second episode took us to the banks of the Rubicon itself. What did Caesar really say as he hesitated before making the crossing?
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1480810849271005184?s=20
Then we released two more anniversary episodes: this time to mark 1922, and to explore the degree to which the year stands - as Ezra Pound claimed it did - as the beginning of the modern.
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1481536084806975488?s=20
So a week full of variety: two marches on Rome, two civil wars, the classical & the modernist, dictators, novelists, pharaohs, British Prime Ministers behaving badly, Roman governors behaving worse, dice being rolled, proscriptions, radio broadcasts...
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1481883144974389250?s=20
No question, though, as to the week's real bombshell (featured in the second episode on 1922, should you wish to hear the in-depth commentary) #Becket #Paddington 
Who knows the true identity of this visionary critic?
https://twitter.com/josephevansgre4/status/1482316608424996865
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