Award-winning author and historian, LFC supporter, Alan Partridge fan, looks like an owl. Now writing fiction. Represented by: mariannegunnoconnor.com
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14 Sep 2023
Bravo to the awesome @jonesgarethp for this superb musical effort about my Chamberlain book! I can see Neville bobbing his head to it now... 🎶😆👏
14 Sep 2023
Today @ADStedman requested a "ska-inspired twenty-second elevator pitch" for his book about Neville Chamberlain. So I made this.
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ORCAS! The highlight for guests (and guides!) on our @shetlandwild tour last week. We watched this pod in Quendale Bay and on reviewing images and footage, the Scottish KW Photo ID team (Karen Munro, Saana Isojunno, Karen Hall and myself) matched them to encounters off Oban and Ardnamuchan in western Scotland a week earlier!
@Seasaver @NLFerries @saana_is @kasmunro @kazcustard @Shetnews
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16 June 1967. Jürgen Klopp was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He led Borussia Dortmund to 2 Bundesliga titles and Liverpool to a 6th European Cup-Champions League title in 2019. He also steered Liverpool to a 1st Premier League title since 1990 in 2019-2020. He resigned in 2024.
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11 June 2026. David Hockney died (aged 88). He was one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. In 2018, Hockney’s 1972 work Portrait of an Artist sold at Christie’s in New York City for £70M becoming the most expensive painting by a living artist.
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Sad news. Always found him fascinating in interviews. Few could 'do water' as well as the great man. RIP.
Jun 12
British artist David Hockney has died aged 88, his publicist has said bbc.in/4xqwEP4
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Jun 12
Huge thanks to @penguinrandom for a great job on the jacket for my new book, Churchill's Pirates, which will be published on August 6th. I will be doing a series of talks around the UK, including at @WeHaveWaysPod festival on Friday 11 September. Hopefully see some of you there!
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The conclusion of this last night will stay with me a long while. Superb stuff - very powerful. Great writing and acting. 👏
Jun 8
One of the best, and simultaneously one of the worst things I have watched in recent times. Incredible, incredible, incredible acting that really delivers punch after punch. RTD just gets these things across. A horrendous reflection, but everybody needs to watch it. #TipToe
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Agree - also the endless Chamberlain and appeasement analogies, often with next to no understanding of what Chamberlain's 'appeasement' policy actually entailed.
Jun 9
Nazi analogies and Weimar warnings are everywhere in politics these days. They usually backfire. Evoking the ghosts of Germany's past doesn't tackle present-day challenges.
Using Hitler comparisons is just bad politics, I argue in the Washington Post👇
wapo.st/4dTXw2s
ALT A protest against President Donald Trump in Berlin on Jan. 25, 2025. (Omer Messinger/Getty Images)
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Poetry in motion.
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Jun 8
The boys from Monty Python, 1976.
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Associate Professor of Special and Inclusive Education at #KingstonUni Dr Paty Paliokosta has written in @ConversationUK about The Correspondent by Virginia Evans one of the books nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction. 📚
Read the full shortlist👇
theconversation.com/womens-p…
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I hope you orrible lot are going to turn up at Duxford next weekend …
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Burt Ward and Adam West on the set of the Batman film (1966). 📷 Life magazine
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Jun 8
The famous Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place on this day 793, regarded as the start of the Viking age in Britain. ‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have just suffered from a pagan people,' wrote the scholar Alcuin.
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This is where I usually repeat my one 'ghost' story. I am absolutely certain I saw Brian Jones in Surbiton c 2007. The problem being he'd been dead nearly 40 years. 😂😬
8 June 1969. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts told Brian Jones he was being replaced in the group by a new member Mick Taylor. Jones had become unreliable due to addictions to drugs and alcohol. On the next day, Jones publicly announced his dismissal from the Stones.
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If you'd like to support my writing and ongoing cancer treatment, and treat yourself in the process, then why not visit my little Etsy shop which has dozens of Shell County & Natural History posters for sale, Japanese prints, English etchings and rare books - prices from £10, with more items added every day! Offers very welcome. etsy.com/shop/SourisdesMoiss…
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Check out @FXMC1957's spectacular array of D' Day images posted today. Some really vivid and moving stuff. Treat yourselves - and be grateful for what they did. 👏
6 June 1944. The 24,970 American troops who landed on Omaha Beach were met with the fiercest resistance on all the 5 beaches, but they fought their way off the beach. The Omaha Beach landing featured in the films The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. The D-Day invasion, captured on Radar (6 June 1944).📷 google images
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Jun 5
Help if you can and RT
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Jun 4
"I want to become one more of you." ✊
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