Ollie Randall

Writer, researcher, cartoonist. Studying for a PhD at @KingsCollegeLon, drawing events at

[Ollie Randall @RandallWriting]

My article on the cricket-playing of Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G Wodehouse and two other fascinating writers called George Ives and E.W. Hornung is now freely available online!

Something that might be of interest to @AuthorsCC @CCampbell_Agent @holland_tom @nicholas_hogg ...

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

How can studies of group activities inform our understanding of historical figures?

Ollie Randall's article, 'Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups’, explores the ‘Authors XI’, a cricket team of writers active between 1899 & 1912 https://t.co/5MRIQjYxPy #twitterstorians 2/2

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@Longshanks1307 @HistoryExtra What a week for you to object to freeeeeeeedom

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@PolitlcsUK She was also, as a junior minister under Churchill, one of the first female Labour ministers, which seems more pertinent

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@yuanyi_z I think that neither the seriousness of the college's allegations, nor the, erm, controversial style of the crowdfunder, were adequately addressed in the article, resulting in a confused, messy discourse on a significant topic. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

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@BarbaraRich_law It's a bad article and a bad crowdfunder, but the college's list of allegations against the faculty, which has now come to light, is pretty explosive:

https://t.co/9oYn49JGDQ

[Lakshmi Balakrishnan @lakshmipriyab07]

I appreciate some of the questions raised by the public after @BBCNews piece. Since I believe this is a public interest matter, I have decided to share the supporting statement of @QueensCollegeOx for the appeals process. I hope this answers some of the questions.

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@Castafi0re @danwaterfield Like you're right, but from the facts presented, it doesn't look like a positive outcome was ever a realistic prospect

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@Castafi0re @danwaterfield She makes plain on her GoFundMe page that she thinks her topic is the entirety of Shakespeare, which isn't a viable PhD topic, and by her own account she was repeatedly told that she was approaching it too uncritically, which she considers getting "cancelled"

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@Longshanks1307 In the face of invasion-related economic headwinds, someone had to choose between investing their hoard in long-term projects, or sticking to their clear fiscal rules which necessitated putting it all in a hole in the ground

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@7Cricket @gradecricketer Look I enjoy this video and I think it's harmless fun, but in future I'll bring it up whenever an Australian accuses the English team of being smug and disrespectful towards Test cricket. Same energy

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@WisdenCricket The most Bazball photo of all time?

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Couldn't resist

@bbctms @henrymoeranBBC @AlexHartley93 @ZakCrawleyFan #bbccricket #PAKvENG

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@Longshanks1307 If there had been an FBI at the time, they'd have been all over Wilfrid, so they'd have been able to vouch for it

[Matt Roller @mroller98]

Harry Brook is the first England triple-centurion of Harry Brook's lifetime

[Cameron Ponsonby @cameronponsonby]

Harry Brook arriving in Pakistan

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@TheCinesthetic

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@sturdyAlex @LizzieCostie @hilarybeevor @Omz2468 Presumably just coming from a place of incredibly bad faith? Because her point is so obviously fallacious

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@LizzieCostie @hilarybeevor @Omz2468 @sturdyAlex This is a baffling line of argument. So nobody with school age children should run for office? I.e. any prime minister this century except May. This is the opposite of "other people shouldering" anything - the boy was a house guest, for free, in a spare room

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@Longshanks1307 This is so perfect I had to go and check my copy to see for myself

[Camille Ralphs @CamilleRalphs_]

Losing my mind over this brilliant, detailed, attentive @LRB article about ... me?! Good grief. A thousand thanks to all responsible. See you at the pub.
https://t.co/iITOiuBRf6