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Stephen Barker

2 years

'The Flying #Sikh ' - Hardit #Singh Malik and the First World War available from @penswordbooks … Available from @HarperCollinsIN also in South Asia. Foreword by @ShashiTharoor #India #Pakistan #Punjab

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Stephen Barker

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5 years

A new mural in #Utrecht . The artist asked resident for their favorite book and then included those into the mural. #books

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8 years

Fab banner seen at Birmingham march tonight. #history Made my evening. #NoBanNoWall #BanTrumpStateVisit

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2 years

Beautiful abandoned miners' cottages in a disused slate quarry in Snowdonia, North Wales. The quarry closed in 1969 due to industry decline and because 170-years of working the site resulted in waste tips sliding into the main pit workings.

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2 years

Please RT: Time to remember WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944). This year is the tenth anniversary of the Memorial to Noor, so please bring your friends for a moment of remembrance at 3pm. Please save the date 13 September in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. @shrabanibasu_

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10 months

Great to donate my late wife's #piano to a young and enthusiastic player.

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6 years

People found themselves in #museums ! 😉

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2 years

A #flintlock alarm clock that ignited #gunpowder to wake you up. Made in the 1600s. #clock #horology #time

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4 years

Anyone own enough print books to do this? Hmm..?

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4 years

Oh my! A 17th century Ottoman three-mast tent made of silk and gilded leather. On display at the #Turkish Chamber in the #Dresden #museum #object of the day!

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4 years

Sikh veteran of WW2 photographed in his Birmingham home. A great pic from the 80s by Derek Bishton.

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5 years

Arch of the #Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, #Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna, #Libya .

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3 years

Photographed in 1974, freshly excavated 2000 year old #Terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before rapid deterioration. ( #China )

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3 years

Delighted to announce the contract signing with @HarperCollinsIN for the publication of a book about the #Sikh airman during the First World War, Hardit Singh Malik. Will be available later this year. With thanks to friends in India and the UK!

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4 years

Black #Victorians . Such beautiful images. Pictured is the Higdon family. This photograph was taken in the year 1898 in Britain. Part of the Hulton Archive @DavidOlusoga @Sathnam

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4 years

This #medieval house, located in #Argentan Village of #France , built in 1509, has been standing for more than 500 years.

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1 year

Just found this photo of young Mick Aston taken when he worked for The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. @TimeTeamFans @Tony_Robinson @CarenzaLewis @thetimeteam

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4 years

@rhiannonmay__ Well said Rhiannon.

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3 years

Delighted to have signed a contract with @penswordbooks for a book about Indian airman Hardit Singh Malik during 1894-1921, to be published in the UK later in the year. A @HarperCollinsIN edition will appear in the Indian subcontinent at about the same time. @WeWereThere2 #Sikh

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4 years

Imagine walking through a museum and finding a 100 year old painting of yourself from another life.. (William Bouguereau , The Broken Pitcher 1891). Amazing likeness! 😳

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7 years

@lordhankey @BBCTwo @BegumNadiya She's an excellent cook, a happy, constructive and positive force. She's going far I'm glad to say.

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4 years

The blood-soaked uniform Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing when he was assassinated in on this day in 1914. #museum #objects

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3 years

#Berlin

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4 years

One of first to join Leeds Pals, Pte Jogendra Nath 'Jon' Sen during the First World War. Gutsy bloke I'd say.

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3 years

William Neilson Hall, who earned a V.C. at the Siege of Lucknow was the son of former slaves from Maryland in the USA. He was the first Black, the first Nova Scotian and the first Canadian naval recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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4 years

Who said that wind turbines were not useful when there was no wind?

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4 years

Seats in #library of #Alexandria , #Egypt .

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7 years

Musicians of the #Indian Army during the First World War. #FWW #WWI #WW1

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4 years

The stunning tomb of Jules #Verne (1828-1905) can be found in the Cimetière de la Madeleine in #Amiens , #France . Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne's death mask to make the sculpture, which depicts the author breaking free of his tomb and reaching for the sky.

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4 years

For any international followers who might be confused... #bollocks 😳😉

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4 years

The National Archives, has decided to make its entire digitised archive available for free during #lockdown . @UkNatArchives

National Archives makes its entire digital archive available for free

The National Archives, a repository of millions of government and official documents has decided to make its entire digitised archive available for free.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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3 years

'The Flying #Sikh ' - Hardit #Singh Malik and the First World War, now available for preorder from @penswordbooks Available from @HarperCollinsIN also from May in South Asia. Foreword by @ShashiTharoor #India #Pakistan #Punjab

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2 years

Causes of death in London in 1632

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Stephen Barker

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1 year

Lovely shot of Hardit Singh Malik at the outset of the First World War in 1914, in the #Sussex County Cricket Club nets. His kara is firmly in place on the right arm. Courtesy of @sussex #museum and #archive . The kara had been given to him by Sant Attar Singh. #Sikhism #sikh

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2 years

One of a number of previously unseen images of Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik during the First World War included in the newly published book 'The Flying Sikh' by @penswordbooks . Here's a link:

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5 years

Entirely possible for #Sikh to be on the Western Front in 1917. Hardit Singh Malik was with RFC. @WeWereThere2

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5 years

@PoliticalPics Dutch Prime Minister. Elected politician.

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Stephen Barker

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4 years

I found this funnier than I should have! 😃

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Stephen Barker

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3 years

Five #Indian nationals were recruited by the Royal Flying Corps between October 1916 and April 1917. Why? They were used as test cases when the #RFC fell short of airmen during the Somme battle. #FWW #WW1 #WWI #RAF #Jeejeebhoy #Welinkar #Sen #Roy #Malik

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Stephen Barker

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4 years

#Coronation Park in #Delhi is a graveyard for the statuary of the #Raj . These #statues statues were removed after #Partition in 1947. A reminder that statues remain only with the consent of communities. In 2018, the park was popular only with amorous couples. #colstonstatue

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4 years

#Sikh family sheltering from the Blitz in London, 1940 - a beautiful vision of Christmas peace, especially for @SwatLondon @SikhPA 🙏🏾🕊🌍 @WeWereThere2

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3 years

#Librarians of The Librairie Mollat In #France , get bored. I love these! #BookWorm #books #libraries #libraries #librarian

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2 years

Pauline (d.1950), Wife of the Artist, Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964), c. 1930, oil on canvas.

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4 years

Admissions to #Women 's Insane Asylum 1864-1889. #bookworm #novels #readinglist #MentalHealthAwareness

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Stephen Barker

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5 years

Hello, my late wife died ten years ago and my sons and I are doing a 'Ramble on the Ridgeway' on the weekend of May 11 and 12, Funds raised will go to the @OxfordHospCharity . Please RT and consider a small donation. Thank you very much.

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Stephen Barker

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4 years

@JennaEllisEsq "I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump," Jenna Ellis wrote in March 2016. 1/2

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5 years

Let's be clear: 'Pompeii' is the highest quality display put on in the temporary exhibition space @AshmoleanMuseum since the major refit. Aesthetically stunning, an excellent interpretation and the highest quality range of internationally important artefacts.

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4 years

The Art Nouveau style hotel Gran Hotel Ciudad de México in Mexico City. 1899. Designed by the Frenchman Jacques Grüber.

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4 years

These pebbles from a French beach were each painted by my late wife and sons. Such precious items. #lockdownmuseum #powerofobjects #materialculture

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4 years

2000 year's old Roman child sock found in #Egypt with its colors clearly visible @britishmuseum #archaeology #egyptianarchaeology #Roman

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1 year

First World War recruitment poster. A reminder that 1918 saw the most prolific & brutal recruitment drive in India. Translation of the Urdu: "This soldier is defending India, He is defending his Home and his family. The best way to help your family members is to join the army."

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3 years

Great to see representatives of First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) at #NoorInayatKhan commemoration yesterday.

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5 years

#Beauty comes in many forms.

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5 years

This is a statue of Alan Turing commissioned by Sidney Frank, built from half a million pieces of Welsh slate. The shale originated from Llechwedd in North Wales, where Turing used to go on holiday as a child! #turing #statue #artworkalgorithm

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3 years

Excellent questions from a classroom wall. #History

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2 years

@Hstry_with_Cats So funny...there but for the grace...

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3 years

Grave of Indian cleaner at #Brockenhurst Church, had accompanied #Meerut Div. to France. Not permitted cremation as 'untouchable'. Died of pneumonia. #FWW #WWI

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4 years

Three of the coolest icons of the '60s posing on a motorcycle combo on the set of 'The Great Escape' - Coburn, Garner, and McQueen. Legendary director John Sturges stands to the right of 'the boys.'

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Stephen Barker

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8 years

Tweeted before, but seemingly apposite.

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3 years

Oldest post box in #India subcontinent. #Lahore . 1855. #Pakistan

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11 months

The flying suit of Hardit Singh Malik used during the First World War, whilst in a Sopwith Camel over #Passchendaele and in Italy. On display @IndianAirforce_ #Museum in #Delhi . #WW1 #WWI #FWW

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5 years

Seems like the battle to remind people of the scale of the #Indian contribution to the #British Empire war effort during 1914-18 goes on. Many know about Anzacs, Canadians, South Africans etc. The Indian contribution must be represented. #1917 #Sikh @LozzaFox

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4 years

This made me laugh. Via @Slatez on Twitter. "My brother's changed his photo on the staircase to Kim Jong-un and my mum still hasn't noticed after 2 weeks."

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4 years

Delighted to have been appointed as full-time 'Bucks Heroes Programme Manager' @BucksMuseum for the next few years. Fascinating post supporting the delivery of @HeritageFundUK project in #Aylesbury .

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4 years

In 1974, #Ramesses II was sent on a flight to #Paris for preservation and maintenance work. But since French law required every person, living or dead to fly with a valid passport, #Egypt was forced to issue a passport to the #Pharaoh , 3,000 years after his death.

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Stephen Barker

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2 years

Newlyweds HS Malik and bride Prakash in 1920. She is wearing an adapted sari! One of a number of previously unpublished images in my book about HS Malik during the First World War, available soon in South Asia by @HarperCollinsIN

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7 years

A Mosul Romance: Mohamed Ali, a Muslim from central India, served with the Supply and Transport Corps in Iraq 1915-1920. Near Mosul he met and married his wife, a Chaldean Catholic from a small Assyrian village. They had three sons and two daughters. via @jalilancs #WW1 #WWI

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10 months

A big thank you to Sqdn Leader Rana Chinna for organising the inaugural @MilitaryFest_23 in Delhi. A major undertaking on behalf of @USIofIndia

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4 years

Beautifil #Islamic art, Shah i Zinda Mausoleum complex #Samarkand #Uzbekistan

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4 years

#otd 28 June 1919. Germany and the Allied Powers signed the ‘Treaty of Versailles’, officially ending the First World War. It was signed in the Hall of Mirrors, five years to the day since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Here's William Orpen's painting.

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3 years

1/2 The single most important development of access to the records of #FWW soldiers since the development of #Ancestry et al. One million UK people of #Punjabi heritage can now access details of their #WWI forebears. @TheWFA @UKPHA @UniofGreenwich

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7 years

Football 'kickabouts' between Indian and British units in France & Flanders Girdwood Collection @britishlibrary #WW1 #WWI #FWW

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4 years

@alwaystheself Actually, the Germans are a model of how to learn from bad history. Americans less so.

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4 years

Circus Maximus in Rome in the 1st Century and how it looks now. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire. The site is now a public park. #CircusMaximus #rome #Archaeology

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4 years

Paul Nash, Oxford during the War, 1942, oil on canvas. From the collection of Worcester College, University of Oxford

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5 years

Always the highlight of @britishmuseum visit: Assyrian lion hunting friezes from the time of King Ashurbanipal in the 7th Century BC.

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1 year

Great friends Hardit Singh Malik and great friend Harold Boston in #Cornwall in Sept 1919. The two had met during flight training. One of the previously unpublished images in The #Flying #Sikh (UK and N America) & #LionoftheSkies (South Asia) With a Foreword by @ShashiTharoor

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Stephen Barker

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4 years

@rodbishop15 If this had been a Corbyn government you'd be all over it.

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3 years

Proof that #knowledge doesn't matter when you can just look anything up on #google .

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8 years

#Armoured hat worn by Judge Bradshaw when he passed the death sentence on Charles I in 1649. Donated to the @AshmoleanMuseum in 1715.

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#Indian soldiers playing cards whilst recuperating at one of the hospitals in #Brighton c.1914-15. Courtesy of @britishlibrary #WWI #WW1 #FWW

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4 years

@darrengrimes_ @ReasonedUK You actually nodded along quite happily. You're kind are the reason #BlackLivesMatter exists.

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Thakar Singh of 51st Sikhs was killed on 1/8/1916, in Mesopotamia, leaving a young widow Basant #Kaur (pic) to manage a family. Her son remembers that "Every month she would go to #Jalandhar to withdraw her pension . . . She usually felt sad on that day.” #India #WWI #women

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7 years

Indian Army in #FWW mini-exhibition coming to #Oxfordshire & #Buckinghamshire in 2017-18 Other venues might be interested? #WWI #WW1

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7 years

Please RT. Images required for 'Indian Army in #FWW ' exhibition designed by volunteers with @UniofOxford @Voices_WW1 @SOFOtrust Thank you.

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2 years

Makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck. #HenryVIII 's hawking glove and hawk's hood. #powerofthereal #museology #heritage #history #HenryVIII #Tudors . On display in the Elias Ashmole Gallery @AshmoleanMuseum #Oxford

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7 years

Musket ball finds at #Naseby . Evident is flanking fire into Maurice's cavalry from Okey's Dragoons in Sulby Hedges. Also last stand of Rupert's Bluecoats. Look at how relatively few musket balls lie in the main battlefield compared to the Royalists' fighting retreat. #CivilWar

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2 years

Congratulations to elder son Jacob passing his viva this morning to successfully complete a #PhD in Psychology at the University of #Warwick . Fabulous Dr Barker! @JBarkerGesture #phdlife #phdchat #phdmemes @warwickuni

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4 years

Indian Rebellion #1857 . Fact: No #Sepoys anywhere in 1857 saw, let alone handled, the Enfield Rifle cartridges which had been greased with fats, including from both cows and pigs. #Mutiny #IndianMutiny #IndianRebellion Enfield Pattern 1853 Percussion Rifle cartridges.

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7 years

Lead toys discovered from the site of the Parliamentarian baggage train at the Battle of Edgehill during the archaeological survey of 2005-6

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4 years

1/3 My #museumbuddy @PoloDas & I are looking at how soldiers have been represented in the #UK & #India . In March 1918, Britain was short of 450K men! The shortfall was to be made up by Indian sepoys. Propaganda posters were produced and a major recruiting campaign began.

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4 years

Sophie #Scholl , who was executed on this day in 1943 for leading student resistance against Hitler. She was 21.

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3 years

I love the way these are popping up all over the UK! #library #telephone #book #bookworms

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4 years

@DavidOlusoga He needs to have his Honorary Fellowship removed by @FitzwilliamColl . @HistoryToday have acted quickly I'm glad to say.

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3 years

#Thread #1 A few connections between Hardit Singh Malik, @BalliolOxford , the @UniofOxford , #India and #EvelynWaugh ’s #Brideshead Revisited. #Malik attended Balliol as an undergraduate between 1912-15. He returned for an Indian Civil Service (ICS) probationary year in 1920-21.

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4 years

A #gun made for Francesco Morozini, Duke of #Venice (1619-1694). Pull the silk #bookmark to shoot while the book is closed. #book

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5 years

@ben_machell The hate which cannot speak its name.

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4 years

When I was growing up I used to wonder what my life would be like in the distant year 2000 aged 35. Somehow I've ended up at age 55 today and in #lockdown . 😊