Historian, Emeritus Professor, Waratahs, Blue Jays, Winchester Cathedral
Joined December 2010
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Tom Watson retweeted
Our next online lecture is this Wednesday at 7.30pm, when Simon Marsh of the Battlefields Trust will be discussing the role of artillery during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. How effective were cannon in reality? More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/…
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May 27
The Kingmaker Sir Anthony de Blair has come out against Lord Protector Keir Starmer. Makerfield is currently under siege by the Earl of Manchester, whose march on London appears inevitable now.
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May 10
Everyone should read this article. Almost brings you to tears.
May 10
Staffordians are amazing people who have been utterly betrayed by a political system that forgot what it was for and who it was supposed to serve.— their Reform UK vote is a cry of despair
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May 5
Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Apr 17
This exchange between @AphraBrandreth and Olly Robbins is crucial: Starmer wanted Mandelson as US ambassador, so the Foreign Office acted on his orders and waived it through. The buck therefore firmly rests with the Starmer for making the appointment pre vetting.
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Tom Watson retweeted
Apr 2
Hi @DailyMail your “journalist” Perkin Amalaraj has taken this story from a report in the Kathmandu Post. The language is slightly different as it’s been re-written as a summary, but the details aren’t. You’ve ripped off the investigative work of a modest newspaper in Nepal and turned it into a real eye-grabbing story for you. You have mentioned the original story in one line and not even linked to the original report.
How do you want to fix this?
Apr 1
Everest poisoning scandal: Guides 'secretly lace climbers' food to trigger costly helicopter rescues' as part of £15million insurance scam trib.al/DK6tZ25
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Tom Watson retweeted
Mar 18
Just 4 days until my lecture and Q&A with @PStiffell for @TudorsDynasty! 🎉
Join us this Sunday at 2pm UK time (10am Eastern) for our 30-minute lectures and Q&A afterwards, all about Mary I and the precedent she set for Elizabeth I 👑
drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/0…
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Mar 12
Who was the 'pre-eminent' man remembered by the statue in @WinCathedral? It’s Sir John Clobery, one of General Monck’s agents in 1660. @Cromwellorg
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Tom Watson retweeted
I'm delighted to announce that I'm joining @TudorsDynasty and @PStiffell for a lecture event on "Queenship Before Elizabeth: How Mary I shaped the Foundations of Elizabeth I's reign"! 👑
Further information and tickets are available here: drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/0…
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Tom Watson retweeted
Mar 1
Interesting anecdote in the Mail today from AN Wilson. 20 years ago the brother of the editor of the newspaper he worked for became a foreign ambassador. Then the late Queen and Prince Philip came to visit…
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Feb 24
Just finished Anna Reid’s excellent ‘A Nasty Little War’ (2023) about the Allies intervention in the Russian Revolution 1918-20. Essential background to current war in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Deeply researched and very readable.
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Feb 23
#Cat joke in today’s Times: Dog and cat are at the Pearly Gate: God asked the dog, "Why should you enter Heaven?" Dog said, "I loved and obeyed my master, served him well." "Yes, you may enter." He asked the cat the same question. It responded, "you're sitting in my chair."
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Feb 21
This is the bHospital of St Cross & Almshouse of Noble Poverty, #Winchester. Founded by Bishop Henri de Blois in 1132-36 and considered to be the oldest charitable institution in England.
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25 Nov 2025
When German troops were England’s first line of defence at Kings Barton hampshirechronicle.co.uk/new…
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Feb 11
American mobster Joseph Barboza is shot and killed in an ambush in San Francisco. He was 43.
Barboza’s own attorney, F. Lee Bailey, says to the press “with all due respect to my deceased client, I don’t think that society has suffered a great loss.”
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Feb 5
A lovely line from @redhistorian: "Prime Ministers are like opera singers: they can take a very long time to die."
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Feb 5
It was "sunny" inside @wincathedral today but very wet outside. Luke Jerram's Helios sculpture is on display there for a month. It's been created from 400,000 photographs of the Sun's surface. There's a scale model of the Earth to compare - it's the size of a smooth golf ball.
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