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Spinal Tap Quotes @spinaltapquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

DAVID: No, we, we shan't work together again.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Has anyone still got a real job or is being a #Claudefluencer the next thing?

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...

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People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Did the radical preacher John Ball come from Thrandeston in Suffolk rather than Colchester? Did he ever have anything to do with York? Were the letters said to be by Ball written by him? Join us @essexarchives on 13 June to hear new evidence about Ball's early life: www.1381.online/media/?story...

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One reason why the discipline of History has been so easily weaponised in cultural wars is that it is simply too easy to call yourself an historian, due the absence of prerequisite hierarchies of knowledge of the type that characterise STEM subjects.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just finished Snyder’s ‘On Freedom.’ Left me in angry agreement with all of his points. His call for a government subsidised independent local press could be applied as strongly to the UK as to the USA.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Boxgrove Priory, resting place of Philippa Mortimer, great granddaughter of Edward III, successively countess of Pembroke, countess of Arundel and Lady Poynings, dying without surviving issue aged only 24 in 1400. A witness from within the elite to the tyranny and fall of Richard II.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Power in all royal courts revolves around three things - proximity, access & availability. No less true in 2026 than 1526.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Clouds building over the Nene valley yesterday evening.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social re.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I found this in my father’s papers. He was a journalist on #TheDailyNation in 1964. Any leads welcome. #Tanzania

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The English monarchy in the late middle ages was more open about its finances than it is currently.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I think the purpose of #History as a research discipline is to uncover that which was not previously known about the past, whether knowledge or sources of knowledge.

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Le Figaro @lefigaro.fr · 23/06/2026

«Le Brexit est perdant-perdant : les Britanniques sont solitaires et méprisés par les États-Unis, et les Européens ont perdu un grand pays dynamique qui possède un siège à l’ONU. C’est un affaiblissement», estime Michel Barnier, invité exceptionnel de l'émission Le Club Le Figaro International

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The fine earthworks at Castle Bytham, all that remains of impressive Norman and Angevin works.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Saxon and Romanesque features at All Saints, Earls Barton, are such a joy.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

As a History undergraduate in the early to mid 1990, I was told that each great power in the modern era had a century (or thereabouts) at the top. I once rejected that as overly schematic, but it now seems to have some validity. The USA’s failure in its Iran war might be such a turning point.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The death of Wat Tyler, on 15th June 1381, at Smithfield, at the height of The Peasants’ Revolt was one of the most significant turning points in English History. If that day had turned out differently …

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#onthisday in 1381 the leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt extracted concessions from Richard II at #MileEnd. This was the high point of the revolt in the southeast. Rebels elsewhere, such as in St Albans, were influenced by the news from London. The former abbey gatehouse witnessed the uprising there.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

North Northamptonshire at its finest this afternoon.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The story of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in St Albans is the most interesting outside London. Decades of conflict between the town and Abbey were catalysed by the crisis of 1381. Below, Abbot de la Mare and the gatehouse attacked by the 1381 rebels. #peasantsrevolt.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The 351st Heavy Bombardment Group memorial is well maintained on a fragment of the old Polebrook main runway. These men gave so much. 175 planes lost from the units here and 303 German aircraft accounted for. Hard to imagine the scenes in the skies over occupied Europe.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

By coincidence I stopped here on the anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. The immense courage of these young men is humbling. So many gave their lives a very long way from home. #401stbombardmentgroup

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Great skies this morning in Northamptonshire

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Beautiful spring day in the Nene valley. Richard, duke of York’s tower at Fotheringhay Church in the distance.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Love the Romanesque nave of the former abbey church at Peterborough Cathedral.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It may be time to revisit the European Defence Community, an idea that was seriously considered in the early 1950s until its rejection by France’s AN.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Norman Chancel arch at St Peter’s Tickencote is spectacular for such a small church.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Having loved ‘The Road’ and ‘The Border Trilogy’, I am now starting ‘Blood Meridian.’ McCarthy got me reading fiction again after a long break.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Whenever someone is introduced on a news channel as a ‘royal historian’ I set my expectations pretty low.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Remembering the brilliance of Robert Duvall. Such an extraordinary litany of performances. I will never forget first seeing him on screen in Apocalypse Now as Col. Kilgore. A truly wonderful actor.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Have just finished Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. Got me back into reading fiction. Just occasionally books change you and stay with you.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This week's podcast is on the Wilton Diptych; what it's all about and who may have painted it. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Lovely winter morning in Northamptonshire

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Returning to Lubeck after 21 years. It’s still a jewel but the Hanse Museum in its current form is extraordinary. They have done with data what The Mary Rose museum has done with artefacts. It’s extraordinary.

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Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Gorgeous spring day in the Nene valley

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Donne Triptych, a triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London. It contains portraits of Sir John Dwnn [Donne] of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire d. 1503, his wife Elizabeth and a daughter.

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