Peter Frankopan
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Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. Environment & Climate Change. Co-host of the Legacy podcast
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Well. Here it is !
#EarthTransformed
. Out on 2 March 2023 in all good bookshops near you….
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Most serious moment since Tiananmen in 89. Hard to see the genie get put back in the bottle. A soft touch needed; a hammer much more likely to come next. And then who knows…
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Main takeaway here: the new variant was identified in Kent in late Sept. If it has caught fire since then and now accounts for 60%+ in London and SE, it shows that gov policy and response not just been wrong re Christmas - but have been wrong for months.
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PM Cameron in Witney - no longer a Conservative seat
PM May in Maidenhead - no longer a Conservative seat
PM Johnson in Uxbridge & Ruislip - no longer a Conservative seat
PM Truss in SW Norfolk - no longer a Conservative seat
Astonishing. The most telling stat of the night
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NOTE: despite being invaded and at war, Ukraine added *114 times* more onshore wind capacity than the UK last year.
#EarthTransformed
‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms
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Huge proportion of Russian war casualties from Tuva; Buryatia; Krasnodar Krai; Chechnya and other regions. Almost none from Moscow. In other words, Russia sacrificing minority peoples in the war against Ukraine. Fascinating discussion
@Cambridge_Uni
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#GE2017
will one day be seen as the moment the UK could have chosen to pull back from the brink.
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One of my all time favourites. Have a good weekend everyone.
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How uneven was the impact of the monetary reform and the Byzantine re-coinage of 1092 in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Glass of something special - so happy to be able to celebrate becoming Professor of Global History
@UniofOxford
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So. Here it is. I’ve written a new version of
#SilkRoads
for
@KidsBloomsbury
. And here is a video of what you can expect ! Hope you enjoy it. And feel free to RT if you like it. It’s
#amazing
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#Chess
set designed for the
#EastIndiaCompany
c1850. Not black vs white: but
#Sikhs
vs
#Afghans
(draw your own conclusions)
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Athens & Sparta fell into terminal decline, writes Machiavelli, because were foolish to treat foreigners badly & not recognise their skills
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Wow. Lots of possible scenarios for the Dugina assassination; but all of them woudl seem to be problematic for Putin and his inner circle.
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Utterly appalling
Shocking footage shows unimaginable destruction in📍
#Gaza
city, including our health centre.
+70% of civilian infrastructure- including homes, hospitals & schools- have been destroyed or severely damaged.
84% of health facilities have been affected by attacks.
Nowhere is safe.
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Hope one or both of these might be helpful for anyone trying to get some perspective on what has and is happening in Afghanistan, C Asia and beyond.
#JustSaying
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So. I’ve written a new book - which will be out in November. It’s bursting with
#optimism
. Probably.
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Chengdu. The crowd chanting I want freedom or otherwise death.
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Thrilled to see this magnificent new translation of Strabo’s Geography by Sarah Pothecary
@princetonupress
. A huge honour to have been asked to write the foreword.
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Orthographical error has led to the Byzantine trade privileges granted to Venice in 1092 being wrongly dated to a decade earlier by scholars who do not read Greek and/or do not understand the indiction dating system.
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Since the Brexit vote in 2016, we've had FIVE Prime Minsters; SEVEN Foreign Secs; SEVEN Home Secs; and NINE Ministers of Education. All from the same party. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Astonishing to think that in the space of just seven years, we have had seven Foreign Secretaries...
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Brilliant political acumen to leave Suella in place - then sack her as soon as Farage safely on a plane to Australia, where he will be kept busy for weeks eating kangaroo testicles.
#Outstanding
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A masterclass on how to read a witness statement; or for that matter, how to deal with primary sources. The skills of a formidable lawyer and a first class historian on display here from
@davidallengreen
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Some glories from the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kyiv.
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Finnish fans chanting ‘Christian’; Danish fans shouting back ‘Eriksen’. There’s something in my eye.
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Even I, as a fan of the longue durée, reckon this is pushing it
🔵 How William the Conqueror’s land grab stoked Britain’s housing crisis
Roots of the country’s problem lie in the Norman king’s system of lease and ownership
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The magnificent Arbore Church, Arbore (Suceava) in Romania - built in the early 1500s.
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Heroic translation of the FSB report floating around. Looks and sounds 100% legit to me.
🧵My translation of the analysis of the current situation in Russia by an active FSB analyst. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far & wide. The full text is over 2000 words. This is a highly insightful look behind the curtain - covers many subjects.
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Escalation in the last 72 hours might have taken the PM by surprise; but this has been weeks - MONTHS - coming.
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Sooo pleased to see this - paperback of the
#SilkRoads
for younger readers is out next week. Thank you
@KidsBloomsbury
!
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I learn from Liam Fox that the plague of Justinian (540s) ‘contributed to the fall of the Byzantine Empire’ (1453).
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Huge privilege to be able to visit the
#NeuesMuseum
in
#Berlin
after hours last night and to spend some time with
#Nefertiti
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Advice from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1918. Might as well run it again now. Just putting this out there.
#LessonsFromHistory
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You have got to be kidding. Again. And different stupid air fryers.
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He’s in for a shock if he tries to find ‘Russia’ on maps before Ivan the Terrible.
Putin, in full philosopher-tsar mode, peers over a Louis XIV map from the 17th century, which he says proves “no Ukraine ever existed in the history of mankind”
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Glorious
The Library of the Sakya Monastery, southern Tibet, built in 13thCE, one of the largest collection of Tibetan and Indic manuscripts and block-printed books, over 44,000 texts, shelves reach height of 10 meters. Cataloguing began in 2005...
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In other news. I’ve written a new version of
#SilkRoads
for younger readers - brilliantly (and beautifully) illustrated by Neil Packer. Here it is !
@BloomsburyBooks
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This has made my year:
#SilkRoads
named as one of
@thesundaytimes
Books of the Decade. I’m humbled, honoured and over-joyed
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Thrilled, honoured and excited to be able to share this news
@RSAsianAffairs
The RSAA is delighted to announce that Prof Peter Frankopan is the Society's new President.
@peterfrankopan
is Professor of Global History at Oxford, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College
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This is what a locked down university town looks like - there are c20,000 students in oxford. Total silence everywhere - and not a soul in sight.
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Unprecedented to have a new Monarch and a new Prime Minister in the same week. What a moment.
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Mind-blowing new book by Baasamjav Terbish of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
@Cambridge_Uni
on Sex in Mongolia from the 13th-21st C. Started reading last night and couldn’t put it down.
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So very sad to learn that the great Cyril Mango, perhaps the most important scholar of the Byzantine world for the last century (or more) has died. He was a huge influence for me and for generations of scholars.
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PAGING ALL TEACHERS AND PARENTS ! New website dedicated to the history of the
#SilkRoads
now up and running 1/3
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Over the next day or two, I’ll be posting photos from
#Turkmenistan
&
#Ashgabat
. Apologies in advance. Here’s the new airport. It’s in the shape of a hunting bird.
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Historians all around the world scramble to work out which decade in the past was not decisive.
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Such an honour that the Government of Pakistan
@pid_gov
is using my
#SilkRoads
as part of the
#ReadToLead
programme to boost literacy across the country.
#VeryProud
#ReadToLead
will encourage people of all ages to rediscover the transformative power of reading – engaging in thought, exploring new perspectives, sparking the imagination, and growing the mind. 📚
~The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
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I am struggling to think of a catalogue of political fiascos at any time, anywhere in world history that comes close to current chaos in UK
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@my_precious_me
@BharadwajSpeaks
Yep. A mistake that only appeared in the first printing before being corrected. Historians are human and can make errors; many apologies
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Here’s a statuette of the goddess Athena, recovered during excavations of
#OldNisa
in
#Turkmenistan
. 2ndC BC
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It’s the anniversary of my favourite tax of all time: Peter the Great’s Beard Tax of 1698. The Tsar commanded smooth cheeks for all his subjects forcibly shaving his retainers in public. Paying a tax was the only way to keep one’s facial hair. Anyone else have a favourite tax?
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This stuff is serious and involves us all
#EarthTransformed
Dubai is experiencing major flooding as 1.5 year’s worth of rain just fell in a single day.
Nearly 5 inches (127 mm) fell in 24 hours.
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Rather beautiful - from Nisa, modern Turkmenistan, 2nd century BC
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Amazing report by
@lewis_goodall
on
@BBCNewsnight
showing life inside a hospital during
#CV19
. Heroic, brilliant and deeply resilient NHS staff struggling under immense pressure. Very moving.
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17. When the PM says 'No deal is better than a bad deal", I get shivers down my spine. What does this mean for
#cancer
patients?
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Amazing match-day highlights from the (virtual) Republican convention. Key theme: everything is everyone else’s fault.
There's that hopeful and uplifting message Trump talked about!
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Freshly printed and newly signed. These beauties are being released into the wild today….
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14. As a historian, I am concerned about periods of sudden change or destabilisation in societies. These tend to have dramatic consequences.
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A Level question in 2050
Who made the bigger miscalculation - David Cameron (2016) or Theresa May (2017)? Discuss with reference to
#Brexit
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@LibDems
24. 'The lamps are going off all over Europe' said Sir Edward Grey in 1914. That is how I feel today.
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Stunning funerary portrait of a wealthy woman (who was probably connected with the textile trade/industry) from
#Palmyra
. Circa 1st C
#SilkRoads
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Would greatly appreciate any spare prayers anyone out there might have for a lovely, generous and superb friend who is desperately ill in hospital 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@AuthorsCC
Happy Birthday to my lovely husband Niko. He's still in ICU fighting Covid - please take a big breath for him today and help get him home. Huge love & thanks to those taking such great care of him at Hammersmith Hospital 💙
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I’m doing some work on the
#Khmer
empire in the 11th-14C so here is a curious carving from the Ta Prohm temple at
#Angkor
. Of a boar. Or a rhino. Or a
#stegosaurus
dinosaur.
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Bored of Brexit ? Need something to remind you that there are other (more important) things going on in the world ? Then you are in luck !
#NewSilkRoads
is out today !
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Stunning faience torso of the goddess Aphrodite/Venus Anadiomene (‘Rising from the Sea’)
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Two-headed monumental bust, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan. c6500 BC. One of the oldest surviving figurative statues in the world.
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Into the final 48 hours to top and tail and finalise footnotes; then it's time to put away my pen for a while.
#NearlyThere
@BloomsburyBooks
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I'm so pleased and honoured by this.
🥳🥳Exciting news!
@peterfrankopan
,
@OxfordByzantine
Director, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature!🤩📗🧠Many
#Congratulations
! Read more here:
#twitterstorians
#thursdayvibes
#AcademicTwitter
#Fellowship
@RSLiterature
@UniofOxford
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@RoshanaMN
Authoritarian regimes can be fragile. The triggers for those can be many and varied - and quite a few of those around at the moment (some will pose big questions for all kinds of regimes !)
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Want to know about Iran, the straits of Hormuz & what’s at stake? Or why Turkey is buying missiles from Moscow? Or how China & the US are trying to reshape the world? And much more ? This for the price of 1.5 skinny mocha Frappuccinos
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Astonishing 👇
People were shouting: “Down with the Communist Party! “Down with Xi Jinping!” “We want freedom!”
Every of these slogans is enough to send a person to jail for 10 years or even a life risk.
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