Toby Groom

Freelance history TV producer & writer, undefeated Georgian cricketer and history obsessive. Founder of Epic History TV @epichistorytv

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@benpartridge It’s like watching a young Keith Floyd at the very peak of his powers.

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@Londonist The Blackfriar?

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@MathewJLyons I developed a pitch a few years ago to create an online, interactive registry, where people could post memories, photos, details of the names on the memorials.. everything in one place, linked to the physical memorial

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@_doughbull_ @CageyProlific First thing i did when i passed my driving test was play Sob Story at max.

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You can finally listen to De La Soul on Spotify. Praise the Lord.

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@AnnaLandmark Brilliant, many congrats Anna!

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@AnnaLandmark @DuffCooperPrize @ArabellaPike @wmcollins Congrats Anna!

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@PlanetofFinks It's conceptually impossible. It's like asking a sea to contain an ocean. Or at minimum, another sea.

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@northumbriana @holland_tom @dcsandbrook More worried about the headwear..

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@shitlondon Yes looks like the Brick Lane Mosque that was a synagogue that was a church.

[Epic History @EpicHistoryTV]

13 Vendémiaire 1796. A 'whiff of grapeshot' clears the crowds, and wins Napoleon promotion and command of the army in Italy. Scene from our new video, heading to Patreon in a few hours.

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Gosh, no, imagine if we ended up with a bad one.

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@simon_schama @holland_tom @TheRestHistory The Convention and Committee of Public Safety scenes in the Abel Gance Napoleon.. amazing.

[Epic History @EpicHistoryTV]

Thrilled to be The Week Junior's 'Channel of the Week'! A great honour, thank you @theweekjunior!

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Our next #HMSVictory video covers the basics of naval gunnery, amongst many, many other things! Here's a little taster. Out now on Patreon for all tiers, out Friday on Youtube https://t.co/uI4nBPauvX

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@holland_tom @W_T_Han Don't sci-fi & fantasy writers often browse maps of remote countries for name inspiration? I've heard a couple admit this, so maybe that's backwards!

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@AnnaLandmark Crownspotter

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘It’s surely time that McDonald’s gave up on the cheesy “I’m lovin’ it” and adopted instead Abbie Hoffman’s statement (though it appears to originate in Aardvark magazine) that ”Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”’

Colin Burrow on quotation:

https://t.co/NO9TVth5KT