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Michael Wood

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2 years

Well …….look what arrived in the post! Completely updated and FIVE new chapters. Such fun to write about Penda and Abbot Hadrian, Æthelflæd, Wynflæd and Queen Eadgyth - EM women, and the most important African in our history imo.

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2 years

On 4 September 925 at Kingston Athelstan was crowned ‘King of the Anglo-Saxons’ . He had prob been proclaimed King of the Mercians the previous year. He will become the first king of all the English.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

‘May you replace me’ -a Georgian toast the elders speak when drinking with their younger guests. As an elder from Wythenshawe I so admire and respect @MarcusRashford Marcus ‘May you replace me’

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Michael Wood

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3 years

‘He who controls the past controls future. He who controls the present controls the past.’ Curtailing the study of history -along with the absurd idea that it should not be continually re-written, reframed and expanded is a dangerous move to control the narrative

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Michael Wood

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4 years

A fresh project - Just starting work on a new edition of ‘In Search of the Dark Ages’ which incredibly will celebrate 40 years in print in 2021! A major re- write with extra chapters on Penda, Æthelflæd and Wynflæd. It feels like coming home for Christmas !

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Happy New Year from me and Dora

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Michael Wood

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3 years

And now for King Æthelstan & the Making of England in the beautiful abbey of Malmesbury

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Michael Wood

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9 months

‘A fierce winter, longer than usual. In the middle of March a foot of snow fell on five consecutive days - many sheep and bees were lost.’ Its the winter of 893 as I return to Athelstan. I start as biographies should, with the years before he was born and I’m already excited!

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Happy New Year from me and Dora.

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to all .

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Michael Wood

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2 years

On @BBC s 100th birthday thanks to all the friends and colleagues who made our shows, from the Dark Ages,Troy and Alexander to the Stories of India, England and China with Shakespeare Ovid and Du Fu on the way! Public service broadcasting matters- Inform educate and entertain!

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Michael Wood

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2 years

I was also inspired by the BBC. When I was 13, ‘Look North’ did an item on the Wars of the Roses which so entranced me I wrote asking for the script. The producer sent it with a note: ‘TV is not just words-its images, sound & music - its best when they work together’. So true

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Michael Wood

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11 months

Publication day for the first full scale academic book on Æthelflæd- edited by Dr Rebecca Hardie. A result of the sessions organised for @KzooICMS by the great and much missed Prof Don Scragg. My chapter is on the ‘Annals of Æthelflæd’ which tells the story from her side!

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Athelstan died on this day in 939. Fifty years or so after the Norman Conquest William of Malmesbury wrote ‘there is a strong opinion among the English that no one more just and more learned in Latin letters ever governed the state’.

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Michael Wood

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3 months

Heading to ⁦ @ChalkeFestival ⁩ on a beautiful sunny day - really looking forward to seeing everyone …

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Meanwhile further on down the road …..

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Michael Wood

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5 years

The Vision of St Eustace

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2 years

It’s beginning! The pope is handing back three fragments from the Parthenon-, @ekathimerini . As the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @BCRPM argues, not only the British Museum but all museums in Europe who have fragments should do the right thing.

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Michael Wood

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9 months

Happy New Year from me and Dora

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Michael Wood

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3 months

Back at home with so much Athelstan merch! Have a great weekend - looking forward to the dig results. ⁦ @MuseumAthelstan ⁩ #Athelstan1100

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Thank you @foliosociety for creating such a gorgeous edition of the very first book I wrote !!

The Folio Society

@foliosociety

3 years

. @mayavision 's @BBC television documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages aired 42 years ago today. Wood wrote a book with the same name to accompany the series, which is now available as a richly illustrated and newly revised Folio edition.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

@campbellclaret When we thought we couldn’t be shocked any more. What an insult to the people of Ukraine who are laying their lives on the line to defend their freedom. Shameful.

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Michael Wood

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11 months

. Off to Canterbury on Wednesday and back to the ‘Dark Ages’ Looking forward to returning to a beautiful town and my favourite period!

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Michael Wood

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8 months

E P Thompson would have been 100 at the weekend. His Making of the English Working Class was an inspiration for our Story of England series on Kibworth- rescuing ‘the poor stockinger , the Luddite cropper, the hand loom weaver from the enormous condescension of posterity’

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Thanks to the brilliant Professor Jo Story for a fascinating day in Lambeth Palace library ⁦ @lampallib ⁩ . Lambeth ms 218 has Alcuin’s letters on kingship in a de luxe volume from (let’s say?) around 925. Many of the letters accompanied by poems laid out as verse. Lovely!

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Last night our next door neighbour found his terrified granny on the Poland/Ukraine border. A UK citizen, he applied for a UK visa for her on March 4th - yesterday told to travel 3hrs to Rzeszow for a meeting. Now there will be a 3-4 day wait for a visa. Still not good enough!

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Heading to Kibworth to talk about ‘The Story of England’ at a charity fundraiser in St Wilfred’s Church. Excited to meet up with so many old friends - see you soon!

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Michael Wood

@MichaelWoodMV

3 months

It’s the #Athelstan1100 weekend !

Athelstan Museum

@MuseumAthelstan

3 months

We've had a great start to this #Athelstan1100 weekend with a fantastic talk this evening in Malmesbury Abbey from Michael Wood. - The Lost Life of Athelstan - Further Reflections - Fascinating and engaging as always, thank you @MichaelWoodMV !

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Michael Wood

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11 months

The autumn wastes are each day wilder: Cold in the river the blue sky stirs. And today is publication day! Thanks to @simonschusterUK and Catherine Clarke @FelicityBryan and everyone else who helped.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Latest update on our neighbour and his Ukrainian granny - ‘they are sending us to Warsaw as they don’t have a special printer to print a visa in Rzeszow. So we are on the bus (it’s a 5 hour journey) to Warsaw to get it.’ Remember he applied on March 4th! STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

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Michael Wood

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3 years

What a beautiful day in Stratford-upon-Avon for a celebration of the life of Tony Sher.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

to be narrowed and access to be withdrawn. Right now the biggest threat to the planet is the climate catastrophe. So to re write Orwell - who can empathise with the past can empathise with the future. We need history for today and tomorrow, and it should be available to all.

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Michael Wood

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2 years

How exciting to be at the Glastonbury festival after a three year gap. The music is going to be incredible but the history is equally amazing. The claim that Glastonbury is the earliest Christian site in Britain first appears in the tenth century in Athelstan’s time.

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Michael Wood

@MichaelWoodMV

3 years

This is indeed vandalism - archaeology, history, arts, entertainment …..the list keeps getting longer. It is short sighted and philistine #bonfireofthehumanities

Guardian Universities

@GdnUniversities

3 years

Funding cuts to go ahead for university arts courses in England despite opposition

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Michael Wood

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4 months

Remembering all involved in D Day- my dad was at Haslar Naval Hospital in Portsmouth in the underground operating theatres. Blacked out, stifling, waiting thru the day till the wounded and dying started arriving back. Harrowing for a young pharmacist trained up in basic surgery.

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1 year

Thanks to ⁦ @Dauntbooks ⁩ and ⁦ @simonschusterUK ⁩ for a great evening launching #InthefootstepsofDuFu - A labour of love - out on 26th Oct

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Michael Wood

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4 years

I still feel the A303 tunnel project was an idea from an almost bygone age. And so is the thinking that limits the Stonehenge site to the area of the stones - the whole landscape must be seen as integral to our enjoyment and understanding.

Stonehenge Alliance

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4 years

Interesting account of evaluation work prior to 2019 #StonehengeTunnel Examination. Expressway would pass thro Neolithic and Beaker burial grounds and possible settlement remains. There is an option to allow no further impact: Abandon A303 road project.

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Michael Wood

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11 months

@Feargal_Sharkey I have swum in the Ganges, the Nile, the Congo and Amazon - but I’m drawing a line at the Kennet. Surely we deserve better?

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Michael Wood

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8 months

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Michael Wood

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2 years

As it’s National Book Day here’s a foretaste of my book on the wonderful Du Fu, out in September. ‘The state is destroyed, but the country remains.’

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Michael Wood

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10 months

@SaveStonehenge @Mark_J_Harper @thehistoryguy @holland_tom It’s bears repeating. Stonehenge is our greatest historical landscape . And that isn’t just the land round the stones - it’s about 16 sq km full of ancient remains. The tunnels massively encroach on that wider sacred landscape. This is sheer vandalism. Just think again!

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Michael Wood

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3 years

@Hardeep_Matharu @BylineTimes @BylineTV Such a moving interview. The fragility of civilisation.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Bye bye @CVHISTORYFEST thanks for having me. The valley looked especially beautiful this year - the love and effort that has gone in is there for all to see and enjoy. Thanks to all the organisers, the living history groups, the speakers and especially the fantastic volunteers.

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Michael Wood

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4 years

Time Team returns with the wonderful @CarenzaLewis - Great news!!

Prof Carenza Lewis

@CarenzaLewis

4 years

If you want to know the answer to the question I've been asked so many times - 'Could Time Team ever come back?@ - find it at #bringbacktimeteam #archaeology #archaeology_online

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3 years

‘Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent ……..’

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Arrived - and just look at those mullions! Haven’t made it to the abbey yet just dropping my bag in the hotel.

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Michael Wood

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5 months

Thank you to ⁦ @TheTLS ⁩ and ⁦ @Kit_Fan_ for such a lovely and thoughtful review of Du Fu … ‘a long -gone past that still speaks to our present and future’

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Having a busy 10thc couple of days! Straight off to Malmesbury Abbey to celebrate Æthelstan - giving a talk on the very day he died in 939. #WessexWeek

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Michael Wood

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4 years

We are in a time when teaching good history really matters

Historical Assoc

@histassoc

4 years

Nurturing history teachers and teaching in a time of Covid - reflections on the first month of academic year 2020-21.

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Looking forward very much to heading back to Leicester tonight for a lecture at the university for the Festival of Archaeology: it’s on one of the most extraordinary women in British history: ‘New light on the Lady of the Mercians ‘. Can’t wait!

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Michael Wood

@MichaelWoodMV

4 years

‘’Archaeologists speak with the dead to realise our hopes for humanity through and beyond our own mortal coil.’

Prof Carenza Lewis

@CarenzaLewis

4 years

Thoughtful and thought-provoking review of #TheDig , drawing out its themes of empathy, the fragility of life and communication across generations "archaeology is the glass to the wall, the telephone, the stethoscope for speaking with the dead"

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Michael Wood

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3 years

On the way to Tamworth to celebrate with the Mercians - See you soon @TamworthCastle

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Michael Wood

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2 years

Just been to the fabulous exhibition on Alexander the Great ⁦⁦ @britishlibrary ⁩ - pleased to be told by the Speaking Tree that I am on the right path to make my dreams a reality !

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2 years

Full house !

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Michael Wood

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1 year

Happy Birthday @britishlibrary Thanks for being a ‘common treasury’ full of wonders and delights. Excited for the next 50 years! #knowledgematters

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Michael Wood

@MichaelWoodMV

3 years

We were introduced to books that contained worlds we never dreamed existed. We were taught research skills, how to evaluate sources, and we were encouraged to develop empathy for other cultures, and for the people of the past around the globe. But now that is under attack.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

and restrict access to a core subject that tells us who we are. As an ordinary kid from Wythenshawe in Manchester I was given free entry into a lifelong passion. From the 70s more and more people were invited in as university numbers increased - and it was still free.

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3 years

and I fear that all the ground that has been gained since I went to school is being eroded. The history taught in our schools & universities does need a radical and inclusive rethink -it will stimulate and reinvigorate all of us. But it will not happen if we allow our horizons

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3 years

This is truly awful ……. I can’t believe how many times I say ‘I can’t believe it’ these days.

Matthew Green

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3 years

Tory MPs have just voted to make it a criminal offence, with up to 4 years in jail, for Ukrainian families to arrive in UK without the right papers. This flies in the face of public opinion. As soon as voting lists are out, need to find out which callous Tory MPs voted for this.

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Michael Wood

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8 months

… and here he is! E P Thompson at Glastonbury 1986

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Michael Wood

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4 years

So enjoyed watching #thedig last night - the story of the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure in 1939 (Out next week on Netflix!) Wonderful performances by Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and in fact the whole cast. A very moving meditation on our connection with the ancestors.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Stunning picture

Ancient Origins

@ancientorigins

3 years

St Edward's Church, Cotswolds, UK

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4 years

Wow . The ancient gods are not dead

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4 years

It’s arrived!! I’m so pleased - it looks gorgeous. Big thanks to @FelicityBryan @simonschusterUK and also to @holland_tom for his generous words. Phew!

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Michael Wood

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3 years

A fabulous day @_UoW for a meeting of the three musketeers! Seriously though - honoured to be in the company of so many wonderful graduates from @WinchesterHist . All our histories will be in safe hands.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Thank you for another wonderful evening in the Sam Wanamaker theatre @The_Globe Travelling home after seeing a terrific performance of Measure for Measure with these lines in my head - ‘when once our grace we have forgot, nothing goes right.’

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Off to the wonderful @GlosHistFest today - talking at 6pm on #Æthelflæd - Lady of the Mercians in her home city! Looking forward to seeing everyone in person - what a treat.

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Just checking the tech for tomorrow night’s talk in aid of the beautiful church in Bradford on Avon. If anyone feels like helping a good cause and hearing about Æthelstan please visit

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11 months

Happy Diwali

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Michael Wood

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4 years

What a turn up - I had no idea this was happening. 'In Search of the Dark Ages' is being published in China! Its as if my bookshelves have been talking to each other behind my back!

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4 years

What a place!

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4 years

Our #ChurchoftheWeek is the largest and most complete Saxon church in England. Yes, we are at All Saints, Brixworth. The present church dates from 750AD replacing an original wooden structure which served Medehampstead Abbey. #LoveChuches #churchcrawling

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2 years

How lovely to receive the Italian and Brazilian versions on the same day. New and exciting adventures for The Story of China!

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3 years

Now we have unequivocal evidence of the deliberate targeting of civilians and the destruction of hospitals, maternity homes and schools, can Ukraine go back to the UN general assembly and ask for a UN protected humanitarian corridor?

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Michael Wood

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3 years

Facebook as the East India Company! I’m late to the party but this comparison helps so much.

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3 years

Our dearest, most wonderful, brilliant colleague Leo Eaton @EatonCreative has died of COVID in the US. He was the executive producer on every series we did with @PBS and was on the road directing a new show when he caught this awful virus. I am shocked and heartbroken.

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1 year

So pleased to meet these wonderful classics students from North Liverpool Academy who came to @ClassicsNorth last night. Brilliant questions and so much enthusiasm- the future of classics is safe in their hands!

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2 years

Happy Diwali

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3 years

19 years old - so clear, thoughtful and kind. Thank you for everything - can’t wait for the next chapter.

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@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Court circular hot from the assembly at Lifton in Devon- the king has sent word via Bishop Theodred that he is pleased and surprised and will share a few cups of mead with his thegns tonight in the royal hall. -But not too many, as there is still so much work to be done…

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2 years

Thank you .

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3 years

Looking forward to talking about Æthelflæd this Sunday evening as part of the wonderful @HistFestUK hosted by @eventsBL Hope you can join us .

HistFest

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4 years

A short thread on our exciting forthcoming talk with the inestimable @mayavision , Æthelflæd: Lady of the Mercians #HistFest2021 7pm, Sunday 11 April Individual tickets £5: Also included in weekend and day passes:

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2 years

Amid all this year’s cultural anniversaries a footnote for medievalists- at Michaelmas 1922 Armitage Robinson’s Ford Lectures began the modern recovery of the lost life of King Athelstan showing what can be gathered from charters and manuscripts. Still many riddles to solve 1/2

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4 years

Beautiful blue skies in London AND publication day in the US! Thanks to friends and colleagues who were so helpful and wise along the way Catherine ⁦ @FelicityBryan ⁩ ⁦ @simonschuster ⁩ ⁦ @SimonBooks ⁩ ⁦ @holland_tom ⁩ ⁦ @peterfrankopan ⁩ @ox_chinacentre ⁩

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4 years

Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Amazing that Guy Debord (‘The Society of the Spectacle’) predicted this before social media

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4 years

Important long read on the mob, and Trump's Big Lies by Timothy Snyder The American Abyss

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4 years

More destructive, short term thinking-We all accept traffic is a problem but this plan is not the answer. Please do the right thing- protect Stonehenge our precious World Heritage Site while considering more creative, sensitive and future-aware solutions.

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4 years

And by the way Slavery was a major part of British society from the Romans to the Middle Ages. Domesday Book stats suggest at least ten per cent but some think now more than a quarter of the population. Servitude is written deeply into our history

David Olusoga

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4 years

If there were no enslaved people in this country how come Glasgow University has found 800 advertisements for runaway enslaved people posted in British newspapers between the 17th and 19th centuries. You're too lazy to do even the most basic research. Pathetic.

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4 years

Just want to say (quietly) that I fully support the @nationaltrust as they look into all the histories connected with the properties they care for so well - Thank you.

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3 years

@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Æthelstan is unseeded today - he always was - but let’s not forget that he is the great early innovator. His vision laid down the template for English law, coinage, culture, assembly politics and sacred geography. He is the forgotten presiding genius - but this can be rectified!

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3 years

Absolutely - so happy to #welcomehomenazanin and she is right to ask why it took 6 years.

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Michael Wood

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4 years

Interesting how Turner intuitively understood the importance of the setting of Stonehenge - a prehistoric sacred landscape thousands of years old!

Uniformbooks

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4 years

[A303 / A344] William Turner, 'Stonehenge – Twilight', watercolour, c.1840 @EH_Stonehenge @SaveStonehenge #StonehengeTunnel

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2 years

Given all the discussion regarding the future of the Parthenon sculptures, it is interesting to note that in 1816 when Parliament was asked to authorise their purchase from Elgin, this amendment to the bill was suggested (but not adopted)

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1 year

On the train to Liverpool still juggling slides for tonight’s talk for ⁦ @ClassicsNorth ⁩. Don’t the classics have the best stories?!

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2 years

..before a full scale biography can be written which brings to life the story of England’s most Carolingian king. If ever ….

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4 months

Can’t believe I haven’t been to ⁦ @kettlesyard ⁩ before - I loved it. What a testimony to the value of art in all of our lives.

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2 years

@CatJarman Aethelweard says Edward the Elder was a primatis electus-chosen by the chief men; his son Eadred’by the election of the nobles’ in a charter of 946. Athelstan as always is esp interesting - ‘chosen king’ by the Mercians in 924 and then in 925 magno consensu optimatun electus.

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8 months

Looks as if Du Fu is being shown again late on Monday night on BBC4 - which means it will be up on iPlayer afterwards. Well worth a watch if I do say so myself!

BBC Four - Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Ian McKellen and Michael Wood conjure up the life, times and words of Chinese poet Du Fu.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

‘ The old Gods never left, we speak their names every day.’To be reminded of this (and Cavafy) gives such pleasure. As an etymology geek I find myself disappearing down rabbit holes every day - hmmm ... rabbetus ....

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'Panic' from Pan, god of the wild places 'Cereal' from Ceres, goddess of the crops 'Jovial' from Jove, king of the Gods 'January' from Janus, the two-faced God 'Wednesday' from Woden, one-eyed wanderer The old Gods never left. We speak their names every day.

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3 years

How wonderful !

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Ukraine Forever. New Scottish Tartan.

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