Mari van den Bron

History and Politics Teacher 👩🏼‍🏫 Trained by the best at UoN

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Super cool graph for the history buffs out there. All the emperors of the Roman Empire from start to its divided finish.

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

@simonmontefiore Can’t wait for this. Desperately need by so many today.

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

@jameson_uk @dcfcofficial Derby v. Leeds. Play off semis 2019

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

These lunatics somehow try to act as if burning and vandalising a tram while saying that Jewish people are a cancer would somehow help Palestinians.

No, this sort of idiocy and antisemitism does nothing to help Palestinians whatsoever, it is just toxic and corrosive nonsense.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Here are some great history books for reading pleasures this summer. From this year. This doesn’t include fiction – I ll do another list of those sometime. But here we go

The Eastern Front @nick_lloy Prof Nick Lloyd is one of the books of the year and a masterwork.

Izabela the Valiant is a work of such urbane and worldly charm and delight a biography of the great 18thC collector and Polish patriot and lover Princess Izabela Czartoryska by Adam Zamoyski.

All His Spies The Secret World of Robert Cecil is a biography of the chief minister of Elizabeth and James I and it is one of the greatest biographies, a masterwork beautifully intensely written and researched by Stephen Alford.

Theodoric is one of my favourites because it tells superbly a period of Roman history that is always left out @uli_wiemer. Steve Coll’s Achilles Trap is simply brilliant on Saddam, his life and career and his relationship with America.

Looking back a thousand years to the birth of modern Europe, House of Lillies the history of the early French kings is the best sort of dynastic history @mediaevelrevolt and on the same period The Middle Kingdoms a new history of central Europe is really superb by Martyn Rady. Both have been so useful for my world history, The World ...

From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane the Reawakening of Mongol Asia is really a proper biography of Tamerlane which is so much needed and its excellent by Mongol maestro Peter Jackson.

Two books on post colonial states explains how Egypt and Indonesia plays special parts in the creation of the world we see today. Indonesian history is little covered usually: David van Reybrouck’s Revolusi tells the history of the creation of Indonesia – again a much over looked story. @davidvanrey.

Nasser is a titanic fascinating gifted figure and in We Are Your Soldiers: how Nasser Remade the Arab World @alexjrowell tells Nasser’s history through his oft disastrous effect not only on Egypt but on Iraq Lebanon and Yemen & Syria.

Focusing on Middle East history, an outstanding read is also Damascus Events by Eugene Rogan on how the Druze – Christian clashes and massacres in the Ottoman vilayets that are now Lebanon and Syria helped create the countries we see today. Kings of Algiers about the Jewish families that played key roles in the Barbary states is v enjoyable original and fascinating @juliekalman. The best indeed the essential and compelling read is Palestine 1936 The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict @orenkessler.

Heres some ancient history, I adored new biography of Justinian @peter_sarris -superb & as a companion I hugely enjoyed the excellent double biography Belisarius and Antonina by David Alan Parnell. Herod the Great is a short but excellent biography of the last great Judean king – essential for understanding todays Jerusalem and Israel by the great Martin Goodman. Emperors of Rome by Mary Beard is great fun and greatly authoritative @wmarybeard and Tom Holland’s Pax is just the latest in his brilliant series on Imperial Rome – I could put either down of these - both are wonderful @holland_tom.

If you want to understand Russia and Crimea and Ukraine, one way is to read A Seditious and Sinister Tribe by Donald Rayfield a new history of the Tatar Khanate of Crimea and the fate of the Tatars after 1917 to today's Putinist repression. I spent much time on the khanate when i was writing my Catherine the Great and Potemkin, the pair who annexed s Ukraine and Crimea and founded Sebastopol. anyway this book is entertaining compelling and important and covers a neglected but fascinating world,. its by the great Donald Rayfield author of Stalin and the Hangmen on the NKVD; Edge of Empire a history of Georgia also important and fascinating and neglected but also a masterwork of Russian literary history Chekhov that is also essential reading

Finally I must mention a couple of masterworks that is about to come out: Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart: the Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - its superb.

So is the latest volume of Ronald Hutton's Cromwell trilogy: Oliver Cromwell Commander in CHief. already its simply brilliant and refreshing and revelatory....

There. A few books for the beach. Enjoy. let me know how you like them....

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Those who attack Jews in the UK are not striking a blow for Palestine: they are behaving as antisemites always have | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian https://t.co/hKHdXPXYxs

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

This, by @VictoriaPeckham, is such a timely reminder that some victims of war in the Middle East are so unfashionable as effectively to be invisible.

(I remember how the genocide of the Yazidis in 2014 was blotted out for weeks by coverage of Gaza…) https://t.co/NKxsSF4bpy

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

@tv_lions @MillwallTT @TheMillwallFans

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

Thread 🧵 p.1 - Just went with my boyfriend who is a big @MillwallFC fan to watch the Millwall v Blackpool at the Bridge Tap in London Bridge which is part of @Stonegate_Group. However we were told they couldn’t show it as it ‘attracts a certain crowd’.

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

🧵part.2 even as a Derby fan I was stunned by the sheer stereotyping and ignorance. Shameful that two people who just want to watch a football game can’t because of misconceptions. #millwall #football

[Mirror Breaking News @MirrorBreaking_]

BREAKING Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant dies at 93 with tributes paid to 60s pioneer https://t.co/hfre2laFbL

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, remembering the vital role of the much-missed Mo Mowlam.

The contribution she and other women made to the peace process is too often overlooked. We won’t forget. ♥️

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

On Intl. #HolocaustRemembranceDay, we remember the 6 million #Jews, & millions more, who lost their lives at the hands of the #Nazis.
As #antisemitism rears its ugly head once again, we must speak out against it to ensure that #NeverAgain means something.
#HolocaustMemorialDay

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A brief history of football, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar:

(including why some people call it soccer)

[Andrew Topping @AToppingJourno]

BREAKING: Devolution deal worth £1.14bn agreed for East Midlands.
Govt says deal is worth guaranteed annual £38m income for 30yrs, with new elected mayor to be created in the region for first time.
I'm heading down to Derby today to find out more and speak with leaders and Govt

[Mari van den Bron @mcvdb1]

@cskirchner 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Light at the end of the tunnel.

[Tom HB @hb_history]

Quick Medicine in Britain thread for everyone sitting the paper tomorrow (Thursday) morning: #gcse

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

In a continued effort to make the teaching of AQA Power & the People more inlcusive, Year 10 will be studying the Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners movement of the 1980s with some guided reading on the topic. Their answers to the significance question could now be more nuanced.

[Sarah Hartsmith @sehartsmith]

This is what it looks like this year. The changes made to the EQs, and the content that they cover gives us a far better range of breadth, depth, locality and diversity than before /3

[Tom Sims @tommole]

An A Level Politics ‘story, source, scholarship’ (obligatory h/t @mrwmhistory) looking at ‘Partygate’, the Ministerial Code and the Constitution. Link here: https://t.co/D8Hv1AhPf7