Christopher Guyver

Historian, NHS employee, @odnb contributor. Currently writing a biography of King Leopold I of the Belgians. Beautiful Surrey.

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@NicholasOShaug1 what would Harold Acton have said?

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a very happy 4th June to all my Harrovian followers

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@9Kings1910 you're not pro-Castro?

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@MinooFramroze sorry to read about the LL (I hate change in general ).

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@nickfshort love those tables & chairs!

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@william_whyte @yuanyi_z I'm too dim to do it any other way.

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@Catholicizm1 OK. It used to happen in the US, pre-Vatican II. I don't recall, however, that every single Protestant became Catholic.

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@PaulBunyan1976 @pelagiusreborn @irvingbooks he's not exactly trustworthy...

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@LMSChairman That's how Napoleon's parents married

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@PaulBunyan1976 @pelagiusreborn @irvingbooks if David Irving said it...

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@nickfshort oh good I hope there's a new series as I need to learn more about WW1.

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@LMSChairman Chémeré-le-Roi has changed a lot in 24 years.

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@LMSChairman I think he was ordained by Lefebvre pre-1988, for what it's worth.

[Pascal Delwit @PDelwit]

4 juin 1831 : Léopold Ier est élu roi des Belges

Ce jour-là, après plusieurs mois d’expectative, Léopold de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha est élu roi des Belges.
Durant ses travaux, le Congrès avait très largement opté pour la monarchie constitutionnelle représentative, sous chef...
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@FlintDibble i love him

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The anecdote I was trying to remember recently (though I suspect that BR was as good a storyteller as Christopher Lee).

[Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦(@seththevoz.bsky.social) @SAThevoz]

Bertrand Russell recalled one of the most terrifying moments in his life was in 1889, when he was 17, and Gladstone came to dinner. The 2 were alone after dinner. Gladstone: “This is very good port they’ve given me, but why have they given it me in a claret glass?”

Port matters.

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@NicholasOShaug1 Evolution is an Enlightenment myth, as they say in Peterhouse.

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Better than both Wellesley & Grant was Wellington. He was the greatest of all tactician's.

[Nabulione @nabulionee2]

This poll is funny because Grant definitely is nowhere near as good a tactician as Wellington is.

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Happy Devon Day from Surrey!!!!!!!!!!