Nicholas Best

Cambridge author (fiction, history, translated into many languages), former literary critic for the FINANCIAL TIMES.

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Charles Dickens self-publishes A Tale of Two Cities https://t.co/FeymldF9KD

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#CharlesDickens
#ATaleofTwoCities

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Future U.S. President John Adams meets King George III https://t.co/3Ste7hikb2

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Sir Thomas More is sentenced to a terrible death https://t.co/GxJw77d7oZ
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#SirThomasMore #WestminsterHall #HenryVIII #TowerofLondon

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'Publish and be damned', says the Duke of Wellington https://t.co/WUSa8xMVgW

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#DukeofWellington #RoyalOperaArcade

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King Charles I walks to his death https://t.co/Q930ioB3PC

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Benjamin Franklin has crisis talks with William Pitt https://t.co/1NCW4TIDmU

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#BenjaminFranklin #ushistory #DeclarationofIndependence

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Queen Elizabeth I sees off the Spanish https://t.co/ewH5tOy3bk
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#QueenElizabethI #SpanishArmada

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Jimi Hendrix moves in next door to George Frederick Handel https://t.co/XMo7fcFoxg

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#handel #jimihendrix

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Lord Queensberry leaves his card for Oscar Wilde https://t.co/G79tTHEXfX

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#OscarWilde #MarquessofQueensberry #LordAlfredDouglas #DoverStreet

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Oliver Cromwell's head is blown down https://t.co/fqlnfyx9yl

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All X marks the spot posts: https://t.co/cp64DtSpq9

#WestminsterHall #OliverCromwell #KingCharlesI #SidneySussexCambridge

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Anne Boleyn's stiff upper lip crumbles after her death https://t.co/iMaDihSb1N

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#HenryVIII #HenryVIIIwives #AnneBoleyn #TowerofLOndon #ThomasCromwell #Elizabeth1

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Anne Boleyn's stiff upper lip crumbles after her death https://t.co/iMaDihSb1N
#HenryVIII #HenryVIIIwives #AnneBoleyn #TowerofLondon #ThomasCromwell #ElizabethI

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W.B. Yeats loses his innocence to a married woman https://t.co/bAmxXAf5Ve

#WBYeats #MaudGonne #GBShaw #EzraPound #RupertBrooke

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Sir Thomas More is imprisoned in the Tower of London https://t.co/nb2P1PVGsi
#SirThomasMore #TowerofLondon #HenryVIII #BellTower #TraitorsGate

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Jack the Ripper leaves a grisly clue https://t.co/p97XYB8GKz

#JacktheRipper #MitreSquare #CatherineEddowes #WentworthDwellings

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Jane Austen comes to stay https://t.co/YG2cZCCQs5

#JaneAusten #HenriettaStreet #CoventGarden #PrideandPrejudice

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The Cathedral Gate https://t.co/U932pDH1M6

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Richard III axes Lord Hastings https://t.co/LxrofSDWMC

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Break a leg. The first night of Shakespeare's new play? https://t.co/yG6Lv6r8PF

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Dickens and Thackeray attend a hanging https://t.co/YrIEJ5USqU