Sean Lang 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇨🇦

Historian, playwright, broadcaster. Chair of Govs. Hon. Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University. Author of British History for Dummies. And other things.

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @JoePKroll That's a very fair point.

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@DrugGovoruna @JoePKroll It does sound like a combination of ordering goods on Amazon and flying off on a stag weekend to one of the Baltic States.

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@ABrookfield1 Well done! I've never dared attempt it. (Nothing makes me prouder of Oxford than the way that odious group of utter sh*ts disgraced their university. Right, got that off my chest...)

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@ClassicFM @TitchmarshShow Sorry, Alan, but Edward VI came to the throne in1547, not 1537, when he was one year old!

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@godspeed_aflame It's usually historians who don't know how to write being envious of those who do.

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@ABrookfield1 Thinking very much of you, Amanda.

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@BBCLookEast I guess those lions were on a mane road?

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Hey @BBCLookEast where are you? We're getting @BBCLondonNews here tonight!

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What has become clear these past few days and weeks is that Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III have two things in common:
a) each combines religious and political supreme authority
b) neither is afraid of Donald Trump
Both of these set them apart from just every other world leader

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@TheRestHistory I haven't had time to check through the comments - has anyone given you the 1970s Spectator anagram competition entry? Denis Healey = Enid Eyelash.

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Superlative thread. Proper historical balance instead of tured old faux-patriotic posturing. Explains how an army that had triumphed in 1763 could not win in 1775-83. (Would welcome thoughts on the French contribution, too.)

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America 250th.

There's 1 thing I wish people knew about the Revolutionary War: the Brits didn't lose because they were slow and we had trees.

They lost because they were a high speed, low drag, tactically-adaptable force, whose gov't asked them to do the impossible.
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@ABrookfield1 The same applies in towns. There are wonderful stories in the buildings above the shop fronts.

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Not MAGA but gaga.

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@DrMatthewSweet You got to meet her??

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@PaulSuttonKing I'm sure I recognise that girl from somewhere...

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@scottygb I was on a train once when one of them sat on the seat opposite me. I had to restrain myself from greeting him like an old friend, because that's how they all seem.

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@hoyer_kat I remember taking students in 1991 and telling them "Well, it WAS here - somewhere", as if I was reporting a stolen car.

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Since we're still in Eastertide, I seem to recall that, on the cross, Jesus said a convicted thief on the cross next to him would be heading straight to paradise. Looks like Jesus was soft on crime too.

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@armondboudreaux Did they think she was a secretary and worked over the road from St Peter?

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@frankcottrell_b Brilliant museum. Used to love taking my girls there when they were little.