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Apr 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An episode of @TheRestHistory to mark #GoodFriday
I should probably just add that parts of it are quite gruesome.
There is one impression - & an absolutely superb one it is too, though I say so myself
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"But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness."

It's a measure of how desensitised by "2000 years of cross-based iconography"* we have become that we fail to recognise the sheer weirdness of this.

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To my native village, there tomorrow morning to embark on a 35 mile walk to Winchester in aid of @DKMS_uk.

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I love the idea that a British university, by dropping Britain's most signficant female novelist in favour of an American one, is somehow decolonising itself. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/0…
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I curl up with ⁦@Dave_Hone⁩’s very handsome-looking new book - which, he says in the introduction, “is ultimately about what we DON’T know about dinosaurs.”
“We have probably learned more about dinosaurs in the last 20 years than in the previous 200” - @Dave_Hone
“Such is the reliance of palaeontology on original descriptions & details of specimens that it is one of the few fields in the sciences that makes regular & copious use of research published not just decades, but even centuries ago.”

I love that!
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"I know a fascist when I see one."
Foot, so I learned from @dcsandbrook's 'Who Dares Wins,' grew up in a house containing “240 Bibles, 130 volumes by or about Montaigne & 300 by or about Milton, 3,000 tracts from the English Civil War & an entire room on the French Revolution.”
Here he is being accosted by a steward at Selhurst Park. Image
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