Andrew Roberts
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British historian, journalist and broadcaster. Author of 'Napoleon the Great', 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny', 'George III'. Member of the House of Lords
London, England
Joined November 2014
Prince Harry's remarks should remind the Palace how IMPERATIVE it is that Prince William's family never travel anywhere all together, as they did by helicopter in the past. What a King Harry & Queen Meghan could do to the monarchy & nation doesn't bear contemplation #PrinceHarry.
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For Channel 4 to entitle its film 'Churchill's Secret Apartheid' is a disgrace. He chaired the War Cabinet meeting of 13 October 1942 that concluded about the US Army, 'They must not expect our authorities, civil or military, to assist them in enforcing a policy of segregation.
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If Churchill had only cared about the Empire, he would not have fought against Hitler, who offered to guarantee it. Polish independence, European security, human dignity, the Nazis' threat to civilization, were why Churchill wanted to fight the Nazis, not colonialism #Churchill.
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The tone-perfect broadcast by The Queen last night reminds us yet again that there is an indisputable argument for having a Head of State who is separate from and above day-to-day politics, and who has solely the interest of her country at heart. #coronavirus #themonarchy.
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In January 1940, Churchill said of the Finnish resistance to Stalin: ‘Finland-superb, nay, sublime. In the jaws of peril, Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent.’ .Today he would apply those same words to Ukraine #Zelensky.
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It didn't take long before Bridget Phillipson's disgraceful decision to dump the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act resulted in a gross infringement of freedom of speech at Cambridge. As President of CUCA, I guarantee that the meeting WILL go ahead.
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Sad to see a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society advocating the pulping of history books but that's the inevitable end towards which such radical wokery is taking us. You could also burn them, but that might invite historical parallels from which even Dr Pinarbasi might shrink.
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The antifa thugs have, ironically enough, defaced the statue of the greatest anti-Fascist of them all, who fought - literally so - for equal rights before the law for all colours and creeds. The defacing of Lincoln's statue proves their utter historical illiteracy too #Churchill.
I will always tell the truth (as I see it). I will always listen to opposing points of view and read widely. I will always be polite. But I will not be silent while people attack the foundations of our splendid ancient heritage and its great heroes. This is a disgrace.
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I'm proud to be part of History Reclaimed - which opposes woke campaigns 'to rewrite the history of western democracies in a way that undermines their solidarity as communities, their sense of achievement, even their very legitimacy' #History.
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My Washington Free Beacon article on Tucker Carlson & Darryl Cooper's attacks on Winston Churchill: #Churchill #WinstonChurchill.
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A strong PM wouldd prorogue Parliament till 30 March as soon as it became clear that Parliment was about to flout the will of the people. She would be well within her constitutional rights, and protecting democracy.
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Wonderfully ironic to see neo-Nazis sieg-heiling Churchill's statue, considering that he imprisoned Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. What ahistorical idiots they are not to know that Churchill utterly despised them #Churchill #churchillstatue.
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My 60-second speech in the House of Lords on Thursday on the problems faced by the IDF in Gaza:.
@aroberts_andrew Lord Roberts of Belgravia importantly stresses that the 2:1 civilian to combatant casualty ratio in an urban conflict such as in Gaza is a difficult accomplishment for any army, and commends the IDF the efforts it takes to limit civilian casualty.
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I've been asked about the endpapers of 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny'. They show all the places Churchill went as PM during WW2, when & how he got there (plane ship, train). 120,000 miles in his 70s, often in freezing, unpressurised cabins within Luftwaffe radius. #Churchill
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My 2015 documentary about Napoleon will soon be available to watch via streaming on Amazon Prime video It presents a very different Napoleon than the hopeless, childish, underperforming twerp portrayed in the Ridley Scott movie #Napoleon #Napoleonreview.
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My piece in the excellent Washington Free Beacon on why Hamas are qualitatively (though obviously not quantitively) worse anti-Semites even than the Nazis were: #HamasTerrorists #IsraelPalestineWar #Israelunderattack #Israel.
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My Spectator review of Tariq Ali's appallingly error-strewn book on Winston Churchill: It's fine writing about someone you hate on political grounds, but you ought to get the basic facts roughly right. Simon Heffer's Telegraph review found even more errors.
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My Telegraph piece on how the 1973-2020 period was an historical aberration in our relations with the rest of the world. Good to be able to get the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals into a newspaper article! #BrexitDay #Brexit.
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Churchill wasn't responsible for the Bengal Famine, as ch 28 of my 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' shows. Nor was he a murder/ war criminal, etc as is easily disprovable by the sources. The gas used against the Iraqis was tear gas. Kelly's Space is between his ears. #Churchill.
@aroberts_andrew This tweet resulted in a national scandal in the US. What is your perspective?
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Here's the fab trailer for the new @Netflix 4-part TV series 'Churchill at War': It premiers on 4 December. I was an historical advisor for it #Churchill #ChurchillNetflix #ChurchillatWar.
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Now that @NewStatesman has done the decent thing & apologized for misquoting Sir Roger Scruton - - shouldn't the May Government & James Brokenshire MP do the same? His immediate sacking without reading the transcripts was shameful #RogerScruton.
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On 14 June 1940, Anthony Eden asked Britons to join for the Local Defence Volunteers, expecting a maximum 500,000. By the end of July, 1.5m had joined what as to become the Home Guard. Impossible not to see moving parallels with the NHS volunteer scheme today #coronavirus #covid.
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The National Trust's latest excursion into wokery - the latest of many - is to draw up a blacklist of its properties that are connected to Colonialism and Slavery (mixing the two very separate things up) & putting Chartwell on it: Sad & wrong #Churchill.
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I've just watched the new 'Journey's End' movie. It's absolutely brilliant. Incredibly moving without being at all sentimental. A really fitting way to mark the 100th anniversary of the defeat of the Ludendorff Offensive #journeysend.
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My Sunday Times take on the historical aspects of Ridley Scott's new movie Napoleon: #Napoleon #Napoleonthemovie.
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p182 of Winston Churchill's 'The Hinge of Fate' (1948) comments on how 'the unsurpassed bravery of Indian soldiers and officers, both Moslem and Hindu, shines for ever in the annals of war.' Is that the remark of a racist? Read history not spray-paint #churchillstatue #Churchill.
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Kamala Harris's statement, 'We're going to fill the sky with the light of a billion stars' is a typical politician's promise; it sounds impressive & hard to do, but in fact it's already been achieved by someone else.
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My Telegraph piece on what Boris needs to do now: A Gramscian counter-march thru the institutions so that we never again reach such an existential moment where one-third of the electorate vote for an anti-Semitic, pro-IRA Marxist #BorisJohnsonPM.
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As the first British Covid death was a month ago t'row, it's extraordinary to think that we have only just exceeded the number of deaths that were suffered on the First Day of the Somme Offensive - 1 July 1916. Imagine all the Covid losses telescoped into a few minutes #GreatWar.
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'Revolutionary hero?' Shame on @TelegraphNews Fidel was an evil torturer whose Marxism kept his country in the technological Dark Ages
Fidel Castro, a revolutionary hero - obituary #Premium
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This is about the one book you should read if you love (or indeed hate) Ridley Scott's new Napoleon movie. I promise I've never met or had anything to do with the brilliant author of this excellent piece! #NapoleonMovie #Napoleon #Napoleonlefilm.
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Looking forward to going to Parliament Square today to support the March to Leave marchers who have come 250 miles from Sunderland: The failure to leave the EU today is an outrageous affront to democracy #BrevitshouldhavemeantBrexit.
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Wrong. Churchill protected the Empire for as long as possible. It was destroyed by fighting & winning 2 world wars from start to finish, saving the planet from Wilhelmine & Nazi hegemony, and winning untarnishable glory in the process. Justified admiration isn't a cult #Churchill.
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My review of Nigel Biggar's 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' in National Review A brave book to have written in the present hysterical ultra-woke climate, bringing objectivity, evidence-based history &, frankly, sanity back into the debate #BritishEmpire.
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The Daily Telegraph has given front page prominence to History Reclaimed's excellent report on the way that the BBC has been rewriting British history recently: Several v distinguished historians are on board. Do take a look #history.
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My Daily Mail piece opposing the abolition of the remaining hereditary element of the House of Lords: #HouseofLords.
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My Mail on Sunday take on the statue controversy: Middle England needs to stand up for Churchill, not neo-Nazi thugs whose presence pollutes Parliament Sq. Rational debate not spray-paint will win out, hopefully #Churchill #churchillstatue.
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My Daily Mail piece on why Kemi Badenoch should win the Tory leadership: #KemiBadenoch #KemiBadenoch #Kemi4Leader.
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Thank you John: here's my response
@aroberts_andrew I respectfully ask that you take the so called historian Darryl Cooper to task. He has just conducted a highly inflammatory interview with Tucker Carlson in regard to Winston Churchill and WW2 in general. Your voice needs to be heard here.
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Actually, I do feel a twinge of guilt attacking the Napoleon movie, as it led to a bump of 28,500 extra copies of my Napoleon book being sold over Christmas, which I'm sure must please @RaveCozensHardy .Please do keep displaying that nice photo of me with Queen Camilla.
Why should @Sir_RidleyScott take any notice of a self important & jumped up social climbing jerk like @aroberts_andrew?.Did the person you are looking weirdly at tell you to behave like an idiot towards Harry on TV?
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My @telegraph piece on hoe global institutions invented by the West for the rules-based order are increasingly becoming unfit for purpose:
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After you've read my book 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' may I (hesitantly & reluctantly) point out that, at 1,105 quite physically thin pages, it's also very good value if you needed to put it to any further use in these troubled times #coronavirus.
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Whoever taught this vandal of Churchill's statue history ought to be ashamed: Hitler posed no strategic threat to the British Empire in 1939; the war wasn't fought 'sheerly [sic] for colonialism', indeed extreme imperialists opposed fighting it #Churchill.
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My National Review precis of my & Zewditu Gebreyohanes' Policy Exchange paper criticizing Churchill College's recent attacks on Churchill: The accusations are subjected to careful historical, fully-footnoted analysis, and each collapses under it #Churchill.
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I wrote that in 1993, and in the 27 years since have come across literally dozens of instances of Churchill standing up for the rights of non-whites around the world. So I've changed my mind, which is allowable everywhere except on Twitter, it seems #Churchill #churchillstatue.
@aroberts_andrew Yes. but where would people get this odd idea that Churchill was racist? Perhaps from passages like this in the wonderful book Eminent Churchillians by *checks notes* one Andrew Roberts! Irony is everywhere, it seems.
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My Spectator review of Geoffrey Wheatcroft's anti-Churchill book 'Churchill's Shadow': Packed with errors and vituperation, it throws all the old mud at Churchill, but fortunately none of it sticks, for a dire want of evidence #Churchill.
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It's rare for an author to say don't buy my book, but please don't buy 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' today. Instead, get it tomorrow, when it's an Amazon Kindle Daily Deal Book, and you can get it for £1!.#Churchill.
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Douglas Murray's new book 'The War on the West' is excellent, especially Chapter 2, about History, and the distortions of the ultra-woke lobby, which he correctly identifies as being much more interested in making political points than in genuine historical truth #DouglasMurray.
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As we self-isolate at home with our families, recall Queen Victoria's letter to Arthur Balfour during Black Week 1899: 'Please understand there is no-one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat: they do not exist.' #covid19UK #coronavirus.
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That's because I actually am in a hotel, on a book tour.
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My article for Weltwoche about Sir Ridley Scott's visually stunning but historically disappointing Napoleon movie: #NapoleonMovie #Napoleonlefilm #Napoleon.
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Tragically, these ahistorical attacks on Winston Churchill's reputation have immediate, real-world consequences. This attack on his statue in Edmonton, Alberta, took place only days ago: #Churchill.
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Very proud of Penguin's new signed, limited edition, numbered-copy publication 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny', brought out to coincide with Churchill's 150th Birthday this month: and & elsewhere . #Churchill #WinstonChurchill.
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My six minute interview on Sky News with Trevor Phillips about Sir Ridley Scott's new Napoleon movie: If the film sparks interest in the truth about him, read my 'Napoleon the Great' #NapoleonMovie #Napoleonlefilm #napoleonincinemasnow #napoleon2023.
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My History Reclaimed speech at Cambridge on why Churchill can't be cancelled, courtesy of the excellent Churchill Project at Hillsdale College, Michigan:.#Churchill #WinstonChurchill.
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Very proud to have been awarded honorary Texan citizenship by the Senate and House of Reps in Austin for my work on Winston Churchill. HR motion 1502 was passed nem con by the Texan legislature. Here I am with the bill, the giant gavel, and some fine Texan legislators #Churchill
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I had the very great honour of being Introduced as a member of the House of Lords yesterday. Here is the three minute video of the oath-taking ceremony:
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Delighted to say that 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' has reached No 7 in the New York Times bestseller list for non-fiction, in its 6th week on the list. Still some way behind Michelle Obama though! #Churchill.
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‘As Roberts shows in his magisterial new book, George III was certainly no tyrant. In this wonderfully readable biography, he gives us the life of one of Britain’s most successful kings.’.John Steele Gordon, Commentary.
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Not true. Her victory in the confidence motion means that Mrs May could indeed ask for a proroguing of parliament for 70 days. It happens several times a year when Parlt goes into recess, so it's hardly dictatorship. It's protection from Parlt subverting the referendum result.
@aroberts_andrew She can’t. The Queen can prorogue Parliament. The PM cannot. And the PM dare not ask the Queen for fear of refusal, which really would spark a constitutional crisis.
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Niall Ferguson proving yet again what an incredibly brave historian & commentator he is. This so needs to be said:
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My @spectator piece on the Gary Oldman portrayal of Churchill in Darkest Hour movie: Pleasing to see an unequivocally positive representation of him at last. #ChurchillShow #Churchill.
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While others are defacing statues of him, the Calgary Churchill Society in Canada is erecting a brand new one to Sir Winston Churchill in 2021. Find out more and support this excellent cause: It's wonderfully counter-intuitive & counter-cultural #Churchill.
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It seems like the International Churchill Society and I still have some work to do 150 years after Churchill's birth. Spot the anti-Semitism in this doctored photo, anyone? #Churchill #WinstonChurchill.
@Culture_Crit @aroberts_andrew Churchill was a degenerate drunk swindler that sold his Country to the money changers.
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My Commentary Magazine review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon movie: #Napoleon #Napoleonthemovie.
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Rare footage from a Churchill speech to Canadian troops in 1944 explodes the myth that he never spoke without notes: Over 4 mins with complex sentences, perfect syntax & uplifting peroration, with only a single self-correction. Remarkable. #Churchill.
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May I highly recommend the Norwegian Resistance museum in Oslo: It is really first class, with a huge amount of original artefacts from WW2 illustrating their heroic resistance to the Nazis. Plus it's only 50 yards from where Quisling was shot #Norway.
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The first review of my George III biography calls it ‘elegant and splendidly researched’.Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times.
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It's now possible to pre-order my new biography of Winston Churchill, from your local bookshop or from I do hope you enjoy it: I've been researching it for 4 years. There's lots of new material on him, which I think you'll find fascinating. #Churchill.
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My Telegraph response to Seaford School dropping Churchill as a house name & accusing him of being a 'torturer', which of course he never was: The level of ignorance & wokery is astonishing in a supposed seat of learning #Churchill.
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My appreciation for The Spectator of my friend Henry Kissinger:
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My & Zewditu Gebreyohanes & Nick Soames' reply for Policy Exchange to the attacks on Churchill at Churchill College this month: Using history & facts, we dissect, & hopefully rebut, the allegations of Churchill's detractors #Churchill #WinstonChurchill.
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It cannot be stated too often that Churchill did NOT justify or support the Amritsar Massacre, describing it in the Commons as 'an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event that stands in singular and sinister isolation'. Only ignorant trolls think otherwise #Churchill.
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July 1944: Tommy Lascelles notes at lunch, 'Winston said that the old notion that the Indian was in any way inferior to the white man must disappear. "We must all be pals together. I want to see a great shining India.”' Quotes from the 1930s need to be seen in context #churchill.
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My Quillette article on what Americans can expect if they concede world hegemony to China, using Britain's loss of her empire as a template:
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My Spectator piece on the disgraceful lauding of Fidel Castro: Still so many apologists for the tyrant #FidelCasto.
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I'm very proud that The Times should have chosen my George III biography as its Book of the Year for 2021: saying it is 'elegantly written, the fruit of extensive research'.
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I'm hugely proud to have won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for my George III biography: It's the 3rd literary prize the book has won, and this one was against stiff competition from some excellent shortlisted competitors #GeorgeIII.
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Former NATO sec-gen & Spanish foreign min Javier Solana, in hospital with Covid-19, is reading my book Churchill: Walking with Destiny He says it's giving him ideas about leadership in the post-Covid world. Get Well Soon! #coronavirus #Churchill #COVID19.
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I'm excited to announce that my course, The Greatest Leaders in History, is now available at @petersonacademy Join me for an 8-hour journey through the lives of world-historical figures like Pericles, Julius Caesar, Churchill, etc. Their leadership, strategic vision and courage.
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My new book is available for pre-order at independent bookshops in the UK: and the US: A cradle-to-grave life of King George III, who wasn't the tyrant of the Declaration of Independence & Hamilton: The Musical #GeorgeIII #Hamilton.
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Decent of the BBC to admit their outrageous segment about Churchill & the Bengal Famine was unacceptably biased It's on record: they had no-one to put the tragedy into context, just a series of detractors spouting opinions rather than facts #Churchill.
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My Telegraph article on the Sussex imbroglio: Now they've gone nuclear, a clean break is needed. The honourable thing would be for them to divest themselves if they truly mean what they say. Or are their titles too important for the brand? #MeghanAndHarry.
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My interview by Darren Grimes' on his show Reasoned: I go into the various slurs against Churchill and at least try to set the record straight over some of the main ones #Churchill.
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Very proud 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' has made The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of 2018: 'Andrew Roberts, in this immensely readable biography, uses Churchill's imperfections imperfections to illuminate his many achievements.' #Churchill.
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I'm delighted that 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' has been shortlisted by the Biographers' International Organisation for their Plutarch Award 2019: It's a much-prized award as it's judged by biographers themselves. #Churchill.
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I'm absolutely delighted to have won the History Reclaimed Book of the Year Prize: What makes it all the better is that is was voted on by other historians, and the other shortlisted authors were all excellent, any of whom would have made worthy winners.
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Marc Sidwell and the excellent New Culture Forum have produced this superb 6-part history of Western Civilisation: Shorn of apology and woke breast-beating, it points out the benefits that the Judaeo-Christian tradition has bequeathed Humanity #History.
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Churchill wasn't a depressive, let alone a manic depressive or bipolar. He only mention Black Dog once, in July 1911 when it didn't have the same meaning. Manic depression is a debilitating illness & he couldn't have chaired 900 War Cabinet Defence Committee meetings with it.
@MattHancock @BorisJohnson I thought the idea that Churchill had depression was a myth (or at least debatable), and that there's only a single recorded mention of a "black dog" in all his correspondence? Thoughts, @aroberts_andrew?.
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My @Independent piece on the vicious new spate of Churchill revisionism: Most of it based on wrenching quotes out of their original context. You'll find the truth in my new book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny. #Churchill.
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Very excited about the publication of my new book 'George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch' out on 7th October. Available to pre-order now: @PenguinUKBooks
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It's not just Boris who has visited Peppa Pig World. As I show in Chapter 19 of my biography of him, King George III went there too, although it was a stately home called Paultons Park in those days, owned by Hans Sloane-Stanley.
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Very proud to join the Advisory Board of the Free Speech Union, a new organisation dedicated to defending the most important of our liberties: Please do hit the website, watch Toby Young's excellent speech explaining the dire problem, and join #FreeSpeech.
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On Thursday 30 November and for one day only, Amazon will be offering my Napoleon book on Kindle - which usually costs £5.99 - for only 99p here: If you watch the Ridley Scott movie & want to know the truth, here's your opportunity #NapoleonMovie #Napoleon.
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Proud to have been a co-signer of this letter to The Times with so many distinguished historians:.
In case you missed it, here is our letter in @thetimes today on reclaiming history through "a prominent national monument" remembering "our many forebears, both celebrated and unknown, who fought tirelessly against slavery, sometimes at the cost of their lives".
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The most recent committee of German historians & demographers put the Dresden death toll at between 25,000 and 35,000. To bandy numbers like 100,000 to 500,000 is to repeat Goebbels' 1945 propaganda, supported only by former-historian David Irving. Facts matter here #Churchill.
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The kindle of my 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny' is available today - & today only - at 99p as Amazon's Deal of the Day: In the great debate over his statue, read it to be informed about what he was really like #Churchill #churchillstatue #greatbookdeal.
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