Tom Holland

I did not have a @holland-tom.bsky.social expression of endless love and admiration for Unai Emery on my bingo card but there it is! Check out @theresthistory.bsky.social episode 543. at around 38:30. Would follow him into the darkest Amazon jungle if The Mister said that was the plan! #avfc #utv

Phew

Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social (a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD’s CONGO) we have the great novelist, John Banville, on the extraordinary life and death of the Irish nationalist knighted for services to the British Empire, ROGER CASEMENT.

You can hear it here: therestishistory.com

WAY OUT

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Sorcery, secrets & angelically-inspired wife-swapping today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the extraordinary career of Elizabeth I's great magus: DR JOHN DEE.

Brilliant scholar, inventor of the phrase 'British Empire', & searcher after occult truths.
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Tomorrow’s episode of The Rest Is History is on the great Tudor magus, DR JOHN DEE

No nobler sight than Bamburgh

Today on @TheRestHistory - a coda to our recent series on KING LEOPOLD'S CONGO - the most famous work of fiction ever written about European colonialism: Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.

From Poland to the Congo to the Thames: the horror, the horror!
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Thursday's episode - a coda to this series - will be on Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS

Today on @theresthistory.bsky.social, continuing our series on HORROR IN THE CONGO, we reach the climax of the story: A CONSPIRACY UNMASKED.

The extraordinary story of Edmund Dene Morel, & how he revealed to an appalled world the truth about King Leopold's fiefdom.

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Courtesy of @genkigalcycling.bsky.social, a 1939 article about my great-uncle, Charlie Holland.

He was indeed a great all-rounder: not only did he race in the Tour de France & the 1936 Olympics, but he trialled for Aston Villa & Warwickshire CC

A very, very strong look

Ha!

That’s amazing - thank you! And he really was a great all-rounder: trialled for Villa & Warwickshire

Thank you - I hope you both enjoy it!

The evidence is that he survived!

The Rest Is History’s Tom Holland: ‘History doesn’t exist to teach us moral lessons’ The author-turned-podcaster on how he struck rich serving listeners turned off by the BBC

An absolutely top interview with moi in the Telegraph, which as well as noting - correctly - that I look 35, ends with the tremendous detail that I was the 2024 AuthorsCC Fielder of the Year www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

Yes

Tomorrow on @theresthistory.bsky.social - HORROR IN THE CONGO

The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (aka Tom Holland) The Roman historian who wrote The Lives of the Caesars would have been fascinated by the 47th US president. The Rest of History’s Tom Holland imagines how he would profile the Potus

What would Rome's great biographer of the Caesars have made of the leader of the world's current apex superpower?

I have hazarded a guess for @TheTimesBooks.

So here it is: The Life of Donald Trump by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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And then an otter!

Pondering the aftermath of Hastings, and Edith Swan-Neck searching the battlefield for the corpse of Harold, and what should I see?

I was reading The First European Revolution only this morning, and wondering how he was. I admired him so much, and learned so much from him.

I am so sorry for your loss.

I am so sad to learn this. Bob Moore was one of the great historians of his generation, and his books were massively influential (on me, FWIW, not least).

He was unfailingly kind and generous - a wonderful man.

My deepest commiserations to all his family.

RIP

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Today on @TheRestHistory, in the final episode in our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, we explore the humiliations & triumphs experienced by CLAUDIUS!

Snot, spindly legs, coups, gladiators, aqueducts, ancient Britons, adultery & mushrooms all feature!
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Magnificent work, @waterstones.bsky.social

"It is no simple matter to decide whether he behaved more disgracefully when ending a marriage, or living as a husband."

I complete a life of Donald Trump for @thetimes.com, written in the style of Suetonius.

He also trialled for Aston Villa

Today on @TheRestHistory, continuing our series on THE LIVES OF THE CAESARS, it's the most notorious Roman emperor of them all: CALIGULA!!!

Was he really bad? Was he really mad? What about the incest? Making his horse a consul? How & why was he killed?

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