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Local history division of the UK’s largest dedicated history publisher. Promoting and celebrating regional history across the UK.

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Author Mark Cummings talks fondly of Westonbirt Aboretum in his new book 'More Adventures in Glorious Gloucestershire' – learn some things you might not know about this wonderfully calm haven and place of natural beauty here: https://t.co/5fVbtKVIGX #Westonbirt

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#OnThisDay in 1931 British actor, singer and model Diana Dors was born: https://t.co/fwlraHBRQI #History #womenshistory #womeninhistory

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Amelia Earhart's disappearance: who was American aviator, and what happened to her? (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/OY0Sk2gjSI #History #womenshistory #womenshistory

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Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/n4QCtMxTdm #History #twitterhistorians

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This medieval king ruled a vast empire and inspired the pope. He also didn't exist (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/PIl35uB9AA

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America's anti-Chinese laws: a forgotten #history (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/z0NtC1FlYU

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A royal romance that captured headlines a century ago (via @BBCNews) https://t.co/XpLPpswjWy #History #twitterhistorians

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Is East of Eden based on a true story? Inside the new Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/H1cYs5Uz3A #History #twitterhistorians

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Everyday life in a slave trading town (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/czCdOPQheW #History #twitterhistorians

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Death under the black mountain: surviving the 1966 Aberfan disaster (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/n4QCtMxTdm #History #twitterhistorians

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Jane Eyre Goes to the Theatre.
When it arrived on the Victorian stage, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre had a cast of new characters and a new social order (via @HistoryToday) https://t.co/ftzBqZPMU7 #womenshistory #womeninhistory

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#OnThisDay in 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War. Read more about her life here: https://t.co/w0zk1C7RHQ #womenshistory #womeninhistory

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"No votes, no golf!": how the suffragettes made sport a political battlefield (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/BabIbypAhS #twitterhistorians #womeninhistory

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War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America (via @HistoryToday) https://t.co/8755MtDP9L #History #Americanhistory

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This medieval king ruled a vast empire and inspired the pope. He also didn't exist (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/PIl35uB9AA #medieval #medievalhistory

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#OnThisDay in 1910 the hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, was launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Find out more in RMS Olympic by Mark Chirnside https://t.co/RYebIWp7rk #OTD #Titanic

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It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – so why was it destroyed three times? (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/cHQ7WGuedg #History #twitterhistorians

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Alexander the Great's empire crumbled into chaos after his death. How did it fall apart so quickly? (via @HistoryExtra) https://t.co/YeGbbBkvAp #History #AncientHistory

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Omens from the Thirty Years War (via @HistoryToday) https://t.co/633erBnCEC #History #twitterhistorians

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#Medieval objects help tell Bayeux Tapestry story (via @BBCNews) https://t.co/ndRvznb8ZZ #Medieval #History #BayeuxTapestry

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The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party (via @HistoryToday) https://t.co/AP7QB5sawb #History #twitterhistorians