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Today on @TheRestHistory: JRR TOLKIEN.
We explore how Middle Earth was shaped not just by early medieval language & literature, but by the great events of the 20th century: industrialisation & world wars.
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Morning. Today's episode of @TheRestHistory features Top Leveller @TedVallance on one of the most remarkable episodes in European history: the trial & execution of saint & martyr/man of blood King Charles I
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Today's episode of @TheRestHistory is about 1940: Blitzkrieg, the fall of France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz.
Our guest is - who else? - @James1940
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Figures from Greek myth under lockdown, by Jonathan Muroya. H/t @SpenceMcDaniel
St George fights a pterodactyl.
(The illustration is by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who designed the @cpdinosaurs, & did genuinely seem to have believed that legends of dragons derived from ancient human encounters with pterosaurs.)
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In Diego Rivera's great mural in Mexico City, Cortes is portrayed - perhaps not entirely fairly - as hunchbacked, syphilitic & green.