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Jun 26, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read
I'm writing the acknowledgments section of my Agatha Christie book this afternoon and wanted to share some of the other Christie books I particularly rate. Thread.
hodderstoughton.aweb.page/p/a03b184c-789… First up, two previous biographers. I stand on the shoulders of two fantastic researchers and writers, Janet Morgan's fabulously detailed and scrupulous mega-life of 1984...
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Nov 21, 2020 13 tweets 6 min read
So here we are yet again, history-lovers.

Can you truly credit that this was the week in the year 2020 that a certain national newspaper yet again published a list of 'history books of the year' without including a single one by a woman?

#HistoryBooksByWomen I saw a comment on here yesterday that I now can't locate, but the tweeter summed it up perfectly:

Shocking if they did it deliberately.

But perhaps somehow even more shocking if it was an accident, and that they just didn't even think.

#HistoryBooksByWomen