Nigel Hillpaul ن ‘A Colourful Welshman’ @TheHillpaul
Rural Antiquary, Byzantinist, Z' Troop veteran & Varangjar for the σκρίνιον τῶν βαρβάρων. A Byron Rogers Enthusiast. ‘Did I mention I rowed a Trireme?’ nigelhillpaul6.wixsite.com/sketches-of-a-… The Celestial Parish Joined November 2010-
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I am a djinn.
Who’d like a little train ride from Shorehan to Steyning? Why, that’s right. YOU would. youtu.be/VndcQ11o0dw?si…
You can never have enough Carry On.
You can never have enough Carry On.
One day historians will see Frank Field as the having had the same relationship to the late 20th/early 21st century as say William Wilberforce did to the early 19th or Lord Shaftesbury did to the mid-to-late Victorian era. While others virtue-signalled, he has always acted
Or indeed, being subjected to it at the pub.
Or indeed, being subjected to it at the pub.
‘Hello police, I’d like to report another murder. I think there’s a serial killer on the loose’. cc @yuanyi_z
#WorldBookDay Don’t worry, I have spares.
Anybody fancy a sammich?
Turks and Caicos Islands. Famous for their big game hunting.
Turks and Caicos Islands. Famous for their big game hunting.
‘Hey, I’d love a Babycham’. youtu.be/MshadyDLjnk?si…
I’ve been fascinated by the use of hand gestures since I read Aldrete, which makes this a fascinating thread.
I’ve been fascinated by the use of hand gestures since I read Aldrete, which makes this a fascinating thread.
I always had a soft spot for no. 6
I always had a soft spot for no. 6
Frank Field was possibly the last of a type of old-school Christian Socialists that were hugely important to Britain in the 20th Century: decent, determined, patriotic, rooted. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
St Mark’s Eve. Doors bolted, candles lit through the night and blocking my ears to voices calling to me from the shadows.
RIP Frank Field, arguably one of the greatest politicians of his generation. And at the least, a giant among parliamentary pygmies. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…
Happy 23rd of April everyone 🏴📷👏🏻
Tom Holland @holland_tom
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The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy
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ShadowsOfConstantinop.. @RomeInTheEast
41K Followers 352 Following Memorializing Eastern Roman civilization and the city of Constantinople. Follow and turn on notifications for academically sourced “Byzantine” history!🇺🇸/🇬🇷
Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung
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Arys🏺🪶 @ArysPan
64K Followers 4K Following History&Archaeology 🏛 lover of the arts 🗿photography, architecture and of coffee☕ •Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean, Classical Greece, Hellenistic period, Byzantium•
Pelagia @Ljiljana1972
8K Followers 2K Following Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet
Peter Sarris @peter_sarris
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MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @DrMichaelBonner
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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z
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Capel Lofft @CapelLofft
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Purpura @Purpura57912934
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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79
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Eileen Stephenson @byzyeileen
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Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos
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Rob Wilson @mrrjwilson
366 Followers 288 Following On a triathlon journey to smash the M50 AG in 2017. First step, swimming. Current PB for 400m pool sprint is 6:56, let's see what's possible over winter!
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Micheal o מִיכָ�.. @StuartPrower
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Kam Sun Villar @sun_kam31879
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Plashing Vole @PlashingVole
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Digénis Akritas @AkritasD
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Jack Keilo @Centrici
513 Followers 2K Following Lecturer @Univ_Savoie. Edytem&Mesopolhis. Spatial politics. #Maps. Toponymies. Heritage. RTs not endorsements. ORBIS MAIOR EST VRBE. ŒCVMENE Οικουμένη.
Bonnie Helen Hawkins .. @BHHillustration
2K Followers 273 Following Award winning Illustrator & Artist. I love stories, poetry, films & food. | Soc_of_Authors | Currently illustrating Under Milk Wood | Open for Commissions
Bucellarii Crusade �.. @Miguelbizantino
194 Followers 4K Following Hago cosas en un laboratorio. Me gusta la historia. Asturiano y Español. Si vis pacem, para bellum. Fuera Islam de Europa
Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson
23K Followers 8K Following Newshound, LL.M, author, traveler, conditional pacifist, tsundokuist, epicurean, 15y gov. service, no NATO, Eurasian Sovereignist, Doveryai no proveryai.
Tom Holland @holland_tom
327K Followers 1K Following New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory
Byzantine Ambassador @byzantinepower
20K Followers 4K Following The Emperor is indisposed, please leave a msg.
Varangian Chronicler @Varangian_Tagma
100K Followers 266 Following Medieval stories from Europe’s eastern frontier
The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy
88K Followers 3K Following Art, architecture, and history from Late Antique, Early Christian, and the Byzantine eras
ShadowsOfConstantinop.. @RomeInTheEast
41K Followers 352 Following Memorializing Eastern Roman civilization and the city of Constantinople. Follow and turn on notifications for academically sourced “Byzantine” history!🇺🇸/🇬🇷
Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung
42K Followers 6K Following Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath | Tutor @OxfordConted
Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith
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Arys🏺🪶 @ArysPan
64K Followers 4K Following History&Archaeology 🏛 lover of the arts 🗿photography, architecture and of coffee☕ •Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean, Classical Greece, Hellenistic period, Byzantium•
Pelagia @Ljiljana1972
8K Followers 2K Following Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet
Peter Sarris @peter_sarris
9K Followers 1K Following Historian and specialist in Late Antique, Medieval & Byzantine Studies. English, Cypriot. Agent Doug Young @pewliterary. Justinian, Politics & Plague
MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @DrMichaelBonner
10K Followers 4K Following Writer | Classicist | Historian of Iran | Arabisant | https://t.co/Qd1yAHzurz…
Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z
48K Followers 17K Following Assistant to the professor of international relations and international law. All views mine alone.
john milbank @johnmilbank3
23K Followers 4K Following Theologian, philosopher, poet, political theorist.
Dominic Sandbrook @dcsandbrook
81K Followers 11 Following Historian. Columnist @TheTimes. Co-presenter @TheRestHistory. Books at https://t.co/8PGLHUI7WH
Capel Lofft @CapelLofft
27K Followers 8K Following ✝️ 'Two Bottle Orthodox'. A fan of: Richard Hooker, detective novels, Charles King & Martyr, Ernest Bevin, political history, Benjamin Disraeli & Barbara Pym
Purpura @Purpura57912934
13K Followers 6K Following Purpura is dedicated to 2228 years of unbroken Roman state continuity from the founding of Rome to the Ottoman conquest of Theodoro.
The Hidden Face of Is.. @thehiddenfaceof
25K Followers 7 Following Licensed tour guide. Let's explore The Hidden Face of Istanbul together! @ysnkrbck34
Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79
45K Followers 940 Following Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii ~ https://t.co/FZNJ35FWZW
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4K Followers 322 Following We promote and preserve use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Celebrating 50 years of keeping the BCP at the heart of worship for the Church of England.
Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily
131K Followers 4 Following A daily quote from the poetry, prose & translations of Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Nick Lloyd @nick_lloy
3K Followers 505 Following Professor of Modern Warfare, King's College London | Sunday Times Bestselling Historian | Views My Own
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17K Followers 7K Following After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
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2K Followers 2K Following 18th cent Anglican priest in Somerset & Norfolk. 1740-1803. Writer of Diary of a Country Parson. (No affiliation with the Parson Woodforde Society).
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria
24K Followers 5K Following social historian of death & wales | exploring working-class histories 💀 interested in paupers, workhouses & lunacy 🧠 views are my own • she/her 🪦
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Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murra.. @SJ_Murray
62K Followers 8K Following Ph.D (@Princeton), EMMY-nominated, award-winning filmmaker. Translated the Ovide moralisé. Founded The Greats Story Lab. Professor @baylor, speaker @tedx
Mirela Ivanova @_mirelaivanova_
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326 Followers 1K Following İznik Nikea Nicaea Ab urbe condita 2723
Plashing Vole @PlashingVole
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Every book agent when they see @yuanyi_z’s reviewing their client’s book.
For @thetimes, I review Baroness Chakrabarti's new book in defense of human rights. A lazy and meandering effort—she can do better and she knows it. Unpaywalled link. thetimes.co.uk/article/b969c1…
If you thought that killing Achilles was difficult then spare a thought for Lleu Llaw who could only be killed by someone who worked on making a spear for a year only on the sabbath days. The spear would only kill when Lley stood up from the bath with one foot on the side and…
They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Matthew 21:7 Happy Palm Sunday, my friends! Holy week is upon us.🙏
Another @yuanyi_z book review, is it
For @thetimes, I review Baroness Chakrabarti's new book in defense of human rights. A lazy and meandering effort—she can do better and she knows it. Unpaywalled link. thetimes.co.uk/article/b969c1…
I’ve been waiting for them to make this argument for a while…
The ecstatic and bloody initiation of castration into the cult of Magna Mater, an act which put the priest far beyond the legal and social norms of Roman society, now sold as 'gender nonconformity'.
Spring holidays begin here today and end sometime in mid May: a wonderful result of embracing old religious Holidays but not giving up socialist ones. 🔥
One the rightwing guest on the show kept going on about ‘resilience’, a familiar refrain from the HE sector. It really means ‘the beatings aren’t stopping, so you’d better get used to it’. Don’t adapt, kids, join a union and resist.
@TheHillpaul lol, maybe, you never know
@TheHillpaul André Grabar is worth reading ...
Uncollected Cavafy poem, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC and not present in the Keeley-Sherrard Collected—about coins from the Indo Greek kingdoms after Alexander. These lingered in a swath from Afghanistan (then Gandhara) to Punjab, and even had some extensions in Gujarat
@Varangian_Tagma That’s a pretty cool map!
One day historians will see Frank Field as the having had the same relationship to the late 20th/early 21st century as say William Wilberforce did to the early 19th or Lord Shaftesbury did to the mid-to-late Victorian era. While others virtue-signalled, he has always acted
A good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you are wrong. Every single time. In every era. No matter the issue.
Explore Roman Ravenna with me! youtu.be/30x-iC3c5DA?si… @AncientRomeLive
460 years after his birth, always worth seeing this Shakespeare infographic again… 🥧
“You know who else was holed up in a building with bad men….”
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this but feel like the 'Britain's uniquely shit' Twitter takes ('rainy fascist island' etc) are often as parochial as the jingoistic fantasies.
Weekend listening: in the podcast, Robert D Kaplan (“The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China”) discusses the “Greater Middle East” and how think about democracy, order, and anarchy in this part of the world asianreviewofbooks.com/content/podcas…
Self-interest, imperial competition and new threats in Europe - T.G. Otte examines the complex 120-year long history of the Entente Cordiale with EI's senior editor, @_paullay. Listen to the full episode here 👇 audioboom.com/posts/8492424-…
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