Meirion Jones Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I loved Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy - when I was about 10 I was doing a school project about Hampton Court & found a 3 volume history from the 1880s in Hampton Library - pages had not been cut I was first to read it - got me hooked on history https://t.co/TwpUI5LH9y

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Went to see Preview of C P Taylor's "Good" last night. David Tennant, Sharon Small & Elliot Levey on stage throughout this incredibly intense play. Would be unfair to describe it as a 2-hour version of Mitchell & Webb's "are we the baddies" sketch but there is something of that.. https://t.co/7bwySwEWqE

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@orncgreenwich @NatHistoryBuff You might want to mention Richard Baker who served on Leviathan (pictured in 1854) one of quite a number of black sailors who fought that day (not what white myth says). Moby Dick author Herman Melville speaks of meeting him at @orncgreenwich & talking about the great battle https://t.co/O7ZLUkdqxo

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@Otto_English A more conventional list of the worst PMs would go (1) Liz Truss (2) Boris Johnson (3) James Callaghan (4) Anthony Eden (5) Neville Chamberlain (6) Arthur Balfour (7) Duke of Wellington (8) Earl of Liverpool (9) Lord Frederick North (10) Duke of Grafton

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In 1941 Mavis Lever (soon to become Batey after marrying another codebreaker) cracked a message between Belgrade & Berlin which allowed Dilly's team to crack the Abwehr Enigma machines - like G312 which was stolen on April 1 2000. Maybe it was stolen as a joke originally but 5

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Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" Given Anderson spends most of the week at Westminster, for this to be true he must spend all of Friday, Saturday & Sunday in @McDonalds https://t.co/35uQTHuwXD

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@orncgreenwich @NatHistoryBuff You might want to mention Richard Baker who served on Leviathan (pictured in 1854) one of quite a number of black sailors who fought that day (not what white myth says). Moby Dick author Herman Melville speaks of meeting him at @orncgreenwich & talking about the great battle https://t.co/O7ZLUkdqxo

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This week was built for Marina. But makes me wonder if the Brexit Festival's rebranding as "Unchained: Creativity in the UK" was inspired by the title of "Britannia Unchained" Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's book on how to revamp Britain - how's that going? https://t.co/Z7yk0tFoTs