Michael Taylor
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Historian, Tier 2 in Legal 500 for VAT (views my own); cricket with @authorscc ; shortlisted for Orwell Prize; new book “Impossible Monsters"; agent: @DonaldWin_
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IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS is out this week!
"Well-paced ... fascinating" - The Times
"Eminently readable" - Spectator
"Captivating ... four stars" - Telegraph
"Excellent" - Literary Review
Get your copy here:
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This just is not true.
The SPG, a missionary wing of the Church of England, owned and made money from slave plantations on Barbados from 1710 to 1833.
“The Church of England NEVER invested in the slave trade”
Professor Robert Tombs explains to me how Western history is being deliberately rewritten in order to disrupt social cohesion
Links to full episode in replies
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Gregg Wallace arriving at his local Harvester of a Saturday morning
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BREAKING. Draft exam questions for Sunak’s new maths qualification have leaked:
“If a person has seven bins, and pays no tax on meat, how long will he spend on a bus replacement service between Manchester and Birmingham?”
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Of course, the U.K. was *not* the first country to do this.
Haiti and Denmark had already abolished their slave trade, as had every US state except South Carolina. And the US federal ban came into full force before British abolition did.
217 years ago today, in 1807, the British passed the Slave Trade Act making it illegal to buy and sell slaves in the British Empire. The U.K. was the first country to do this, and it was largely possible because of the efforts of William Wilberforce.
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History Reclaimed have awarded £3,000 to History Reclaimed’s founding member Nigel Biggar for his “defence of objective, evidence-based historical scholarship”.
Last year, History Reclaimed awarded their £4,000 book prize to another of their founding members, Andrew Roberts.
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The last couple of episodes of
@EmpirePodUK
with
@DalrympleWill
,
@tweeter_anita
and Eugene Rogan have been a masterclass in dealing with so traumatic, controversial, and sensitive an issue as the Armenian genocide
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This, from someone who should know an awful lot better, is infuriating.
I really don’t think that historians of Britain are under an obligation to point out that someone else, somewhere else, in a period of history that we aren’t studying, might also have done a bad thing.
@thehistoryguy
And while Dan is knocking Britain - which certainly behaved badly - what has he to say about current abominations, in China and Ukraine?
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@MrWinMarshall
This is straightforwardly untrue. The Church of England’s missionary organisation, the SPG, owned and made money from slave plantations on Barbados for more than 120 years.
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To refine this point, an intense university education *should* train somebody to read, understand, learn, analyse, write, explain, and argue to the best of their ability.
Simply sitting in lectures and doing the bare minimum? Not worth it.
Each weekly essay that I wrote was probably 5-6,000 words had 20-30 items in the bibliography.
Was it fun? No, but it meant I had done most of my revision before exams came around.
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Good lord.
The Spectator, in 1920, called for a royal commission to inquire whether "the leaders of this world-wide conspiracy are as a rule Jews" and whether "those Jews" were aiming for "the destruction of the Christian religion, and as well as ... political revolution" (1)
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Finally, a sensible policy to stop the 12th man running onto the ground with drinks and fresh gloves every 15 minutes
Police snipers will be at T20 World Cup games in New York.
Security has been tightened before the first match at a temporary stadium in the city.
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I had the privilege of
@wmarybeard
(and
@PeterMandler1
,
@emma_edin
, Boyd Hilton, Mike O'Brien, and a good few others) teaching me these things.
The greyness, the ambiguity, the difficulty in deciding ... that's what the humanities teaches.
If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are no right answers. Do we need the humanities? Let’s hear it for yes!!!
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This is news to me … there was no British Empire prior to Britain’s abolition of slavery within its empire?
What exactly *were* the Canadian, American, Caribbean, and African colonies?
What were the Southern Department and the Colonial Office governing?
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I’ve written about Manchester, the Guardian, and their often ambivalent relationship to slavery (both American and British)
The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton
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I think this is the best possible explanation of the phenomenon: critical and methodical appraisal of the British Empire is taken by so many right-wingers as a personal insult, and so they react emotionally.
@englandincolour
@rhodanielson364
@amazon
@Sathnam
@BronwenEverill
@AdelePerry
@SeanCarleton
@OmeasooW
@AndreaMajor19
@GarethKnapman
No, serious historians would never think it reasonable, helpful or rational to say whether a vast sweep of history involving trillions of diverse & largely unrecorded experiences was ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
I think that the reason why you and many others are invested in such a simple,
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And for half-time entertainment, Jordan Peterson is going to kill and eat a cow with his bare hands
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Final(ish) draft submitted. 120,000 words, excluding 1152 endnotes, and a bibliography more than 30 pages long.
I’m gonna lie down in a darkened room until, I dunno, November.
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I’ve had enough of the elitist chat. The World Cup is the perfect place for showcasing the game, and developing nations like Australia deserve their place at the table
#ICCCricketWorldCup
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@DaveAtherton20
@amolrajan
@BBCiPlayer
@BBCTwo
@ChCh_Oxford
@EmmaCambridge
Good lord, you are going to be sued a lot
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Have just shouted "CUNT" very loudly at Sunak on the TV, and yet I think that is the mature and sensible response
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To add a little context ... the last time the Tories faced an electoral defeat this massive, they were in favour of slavery
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It will be a scandal if this quote, followed by the word "Discuss", does not appear in this year's Historical Argument and Practice paper at
@CamHistory
Ridley Scott on historians having criticisms about ‘NAPOLEON’.
“When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’”
(Source: )
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It's funny how the right-wingers screaming about woke cancel culture are actually the ones trying to censor academic research, isn't it?
Excellent from
@samirashackle
, pretty fucking terrible from the life fellows of
@CaiusCollege
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@LMcAtackney
But it’s not an official sporting anthem - it’s a song that tens of thousands of people have started singing as a means of uniting everyone - and it works
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Each weekly essay that I wrote was probably 5-6,000 words had 20-30 items in the bibliography.
Was it fun? No, but it meant I had done most of my revision before exams came around.
Complaints about reading one book a week as "too much" for undergrads blows my mind.
I read 6-8 books, maybe a dozen journal articles, and wrote c.4000 words of essays every week, and I wasn't even trying for a First.
If you're doing that little, join a book club. Far cheaper.
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Toby Esterhase in the all-cat adaptation of Le Carre’s great works
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Delighted to have recorded
#YoureDeadToMe
on Mary Anning with
@greg_jenner
,
@sarapascoe
, and the immensely professional research team that works on the show. Coming soon to
@BBCRadio4
and
@BBCSounds
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Look, it wasn’t my fault, but I have just sailed from Sicily with a massive army
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@rugby_ap
@francisaac87
Incredible analysis. Two Heinekens, one Challenge Cup, one Pro 12, one Top14, three 6 Nations and a Grand Slam in the space of nine years. But other than that…?
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