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Author, God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England (April 2025); Caesar's Footprints; HA Research Fellow @ExeterClassics. Messy churchwarden

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COVER REVEAL - God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England - coming out in April 2025, published by Forum... This has kept me busy for quite a while... 🧵
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@WomackPhilip @AntigoneJournal @OldieMagazine And what a tedious world it would be if we weren't. I went on to that Blooski place the other day and discovered that there was an earnest debate there over whether some of my recent articles @TheCriticMag were thus...
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@AntigoneJournal @OldieMagazine One would think there has been - I shall enquire.
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@fbasboll "reads aloud well" - marvellous, what sinners we are for enjoying good prose...
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RT @fbasboll: And History and English taught together!
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@WomackPhilip @AntigoneJournal @OldieMagazine I think it's a bit more than 100, but certainly rather less than it was. The accompanying piece in the Oldie mentions porridge-faced academics trying to dissect PGW's genius and pouring out papers on the subject...
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@AntigoneJournal Henry Purr-cell every time. I wonder if you know this catch, another 17th c Classic on this very subject?
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Next Archbishop of Canterbury, sorted...
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New tactic: getting the three old to promise to his Archbbearship to be good in church before we leave
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@Melanie_Byng I have seen the cathedral in better order, certainly! Hope you enjoy the book.
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Church bells beyond the stars heard, something understood...
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this is the sound of civilisation 🫡🔔
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@BrianDu04700318 They have a marvellous and capacious new cloister which might have been preferable.
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@moveincircles Going to invade London Fashion Week with some noisy Benedictines. Fair dos
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Contrast - the beautiful sound of the Exeter Cathedral bells earlier in the day: Hyperion to a satyr.
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Bizarre fashion show with catwalk and pumping music on right now in Exeter Cathedral. Don't think this is the place for it.
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RT @LucySixsmith: There's nothing else for it THE GREAT BRITISH BISHOP OFF 1. Preach Week. All bishops to offer their signature homily,…
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St Thomas Aquinas looked just like Jasper Carrott? I'm not buying that..
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The face of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, revealed for the first time in 750 years.
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RT @Miss_Snuffy: Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP my open letter to her is below and here: https:…
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Splendid evening last night interviewing the pioneering travel publisher and intrepid adventurer Hilary Bradt about her new memoirs on travel and setting up @BradtGuides - this is the first in a series of new book talks in Lyme Regis.
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Statue of St Michael the Archangel in the closed Peek Chapel, Lyme Regis.
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