Simon Hall

Historian and author of Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World. I work at the University of Leeds. Views my own.

[Simon Hall @simonhallwriter]

My new book - published with the amazing @FaberBooks - is now available for preorder! https://t.co/b6orDknBfa

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

In 1850, there were a total of eight graduate students in the US. By 1900, there were 5,700 (including five of the original eight, who claimed to be “very close” to finishing their dissertations).

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

The churches should promote a long, medieval Christmas-Epiphany lasting forty days. This would 1. Ensure almost annual white Christmases; 2. Banish the January Blues; 3. Undermine travel adverts and 4. Allow Advent to revert to Advent.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"It may be no surprise to see Australians taking cricket seriously, but it is an education to travel through a country where the game is so readily available and publicly embraced.""

I too, on my travels, felt such emotions - wistful envy & regret.
https://t.co/JaOA9L3e5f

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The amount of damage done to this country because a troubled man could not accept defeat is epic and continues to this day. The riot at the Capitol was one of America's darkest chapters. No pardons or rewriting of history can erase it.

https://t.co/NZuLJxey9R via @NYTimes

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

No president has ever more clearly deserved impeachment, conviction, and disqualification than Donald J. Trump after Jan 6, 2021. The failure of most Senate Republicans to do their duty will echo for eons. They should be forever defined by their disgrace, cowardice, and betrayal.

[Will McAvoy @WillMcAvoyACN]

The failure to remove Donald Trump from office immediately after verifying the electoral college on January 6 remains the biggest mistake in modern American politics.

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

A snowy Tuesday evening in a small country town in January, a full church, a brace of baptisms, Byrd sung beautifully. An Epiphany. Something really is stirring.

[C20 Society @C20Society]

❄️ Brrrrr. Snowfall this week on Sir Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North, bracing against the best and worst of the British weather since 1998.

📷 © @StevenLomas10

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

Today I learned there are Jacobite Pretenders to Henry the Hoover:

[Cheltenham Town @CTFCofficial]

Back to winning ways ❤️

#ctfc♦️

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

2026 looks promising for readers who enjoy German & European history in all its unsettling complexity: societies under pressure, wobbly systems, ordinary people caught up in it all.
No light reading but perfect for our times. A book preview in ZEITGEIST👇
https://t.co/U0IALPrGyW

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Happy New Year’s Eve from Faber. We hope you’re celebrating in style tonight.

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

Being German, I wish you all a "guten Rutsch" or "happy slide" into 2026! Being a historian, I do so with a GDR postcard from 1954. May you get to the New Year safely and joyfully, and may 2026 bring you much health and happiness!
Guten Rutsch! 🥳🥂

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

‘The Gospel for the Nativity of our Lord, or the Birth-Day of Christ, commonly called Christmas-Day’ .A very blessed Christmas to all my readers.

[Jon Palmer @JonPalmerSport]

Merry Cottsmas, one and all🎄

(* not an accurate reflection of the current scene at Whaddon Road!)

[Stefan Boscia @Stefan_Boscia]

The true meaning of Christmas

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

That is the happiest I’ve ever seen him 😭

[James Treadwell @James_Treadwell]

Please everyone help. I am trying to do a Christmas miracle and make someone happy. Yesterday (21/12/25) in @Bullring we found this lost platinum wedding band. It is name and date engraved, and has more detail. I want to reunite it with its rightful owner. Retweets might help.

[Simon Hall @simonhallwriter]

Delighted that Three Revolutions is one of the Times/Sunday Times history books of the year (h/t
@dcsandbrook). Buy copies as Christmas presents for your loved ones - available at all good book retailers (the book, not - necessarily - the loved ones)!