Tom Holland @holland_tom
New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory tom-holland.org London Joined January 2011-
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Well, that escalated quickly…
Not to mansplain or anything, but you wouldn’t get this kind of detail from Diarmaid MacCulloch…
Not to mansplain or anything, but you wouldn’t get this kind of detail from Diarmaid MacCulloch…
🚨THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA🚨 🇨🇳 One of the most powerful and formidable rulers of all time! ⚔️A tyrannical autocrat who controlled the First Chinese Empire with an Iron Fist, conquering and uniting the seven warring kingdoms mercilessly, but at the cost of relentless…
Conclusive evidence that secession from the UK would not prevent Scots from continuing to enjoy top flight political incompetence
Conclusive evidence that secession from the UK would not prevent Scots from continuing to enjoy top flight political incompetence
Some lunchtime listening for your entertainment. Best enjoyed with an elixir of immortality…
Some lunchtime listening for your entertainment. Best enjoyed with an elixir of immortality…
An important bracketed qualifier in this tweet
An important bracketed qualifier in this tweet
Many thanks to Tom for the shout-out in this episode as well as mentioning my book, "From the Wall to the Water"! It's available at amazon.com/gp/product/B0B… @EarnshawBooks
Many thanks to Tom for the shout-out in this episode as well as mentioning my book, "From the Wall to the Water"! It's available at amazon.com/gp/product/B0B… @EarnshawBooks
Morning. On today's @TheRestHistory we head east, for the unbelievably thrilling story of ... THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA. An empire rises. A Great Wall is built. A Terracotta Army assembles. And the Emperor searches for the secret of eternal life ... 🇨🇳 linktr.ee/restishistory
This week sees the Feast of St Catherine of Siena who is not only co-patron of Italy and a Doctor of the Universal Church but she *even* received the honour of a full @TheRestHistory episode
This week sees the Feast of St Catherine of Siena who is not only co-patron of Italy and a Doctor of the Universal Church but she *even* received the honour of a full @TheRestHistory episode
Tomorrow’s episode of @TheRestHistory is on THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA
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Here is lost footage of Donald Trump’s 2004 SNl Sketch titled “Donald Trump’s House of Wings.” This sketch is still missing from all SNL DVDs and streams.
Approaching CB Fry levels of achievement
I catch my first ever fish. Huge thanks to @Greenheartgeoff for achieving the impossible, and coaching me to this level of proficiency…
And all this on the day I win the first @RathbonesGroup Award of the 2024 season!
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@holland_tom The TV adaptation of his book is worth a watch if you have the time for it. youtu.be/M_ysYTAV-gk?si…
@CUPBookshop @AndrewBowyer4 @uqpharri @CUPReligion @CambUP_Religion I am soooooo delighted to have this. Long long anticipated (@johnmilbank3). A game-changer of a book
@holland_tom Bernard Beatty, in his address, said he was a great poet and a hero, and then paid tribute to his generosity, before saying something along the lines of… “was he also flawed? Of course. But this place was built by flawed people for flawed people” and I thought that just right.
@holland_tom @TheRestHistory You guys are seriously the very best podcast ever. I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying all the history that is well beyond my own early modern England/Scotland echo chamber! Just brilliant ✨
@guardian This is definitely one for @holland_tom...if he can peel himself away from the Byron binge for moment 😅
I have to say how brilliant the @TheRestHistory pod is. I just marvel at @dcsandbrook and @holland_tom. Little wonder it’s huge. It’s perfect.
@holland_tom I'd say yes. Consider popular entertainment, which in PRC requires a degree of gov approval. A tetralogy of TV series depicting the rise of the Qin Empire and portraying First Emperor as a great ruler came out in 2008, 2013, 2017, 2020. Caesar could only dream of such attention
It’s no coincidence that, though traditional orthodox accounts of Chinese history portray the First Emperor as a tyrant, for years now the PRC has been rehabilitating his image
“Progressive measures.” A 1973 editorial in the Maoist journal Red Flag, describing the First Emperor’s burning of books and his burial alive of Confucian scholars.
In a fabulous new discovery—in the arches under a large staircase in the Region 9 excavations—a series of #gladiators are in perpetual combat. Murmillo versus Thracian (armed with a curved sword) sketched in detail in charcoal alongside a stylised phallus painted in red #Pompeii
@holland_tom Still a common Orcadian slight, though over the years has lost a lot of its impact and is now often used in affection. 😉