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Michael Taylor

2 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

22 days

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.

Winston Marshall

@MrWinMarshall

22 days

“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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

3 months

Gregg Wallace arriving at his local Harvester of a Saturday morning

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 month

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.

Colin Bloom CBE

@ColinBloom

1 month

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

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.

Jonathan Haslam

@HaslamJonathan

1 year

@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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

22 days

@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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

It’s real!

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

3 months

Hello, you handsome thing

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

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

The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton | Michael Taylor

Manchester’s liberal establishment backed the abolition of British slavery – but their wealth depended on the labour of enslaved Africans in the United States

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

9 months

Magnificent

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 days

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.

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

11 days

@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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

And for half-time entertainment, Jordan Peterson is going to kill and eat a cow with his bare hands

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

9 months

This remains perfect

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

9 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

@DaveAtherton20 @amolrajan @BBCiPlayer @BBCTwo @ChCh_Oxford @EmmaCambridge Good lord, you are going to be sued a lot

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

It’s 99p - GO ON

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

11 months

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

The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

More and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggests these projects are meeting growing resistance

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

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

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

5 months

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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

@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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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 month

Toby Esterhase in the all-cat adaptation of Le Carre’s great works

Why you should have a cat

@ShouldHaveCat

1 month

what a distinguished gentleman

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

@GlassHalfArsed Definitely a brave skipper to attempt that lane

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

8 months

@scottygb Somewhere between 12 and 13 million

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

6 months

I would like to pay tribute to the person who has ensured that every single Liam Neeson character on Wikipedia has been described as “brooding”

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

11 days

Jesus fucking Christ

Lea Ypi

@lea_ypi

11 days

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” ( @DarwinCollege ) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the @spectator libido section.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 months

Good God… I’d better sharpen up (delighted to be recording with @DalrympleWill , @tweeter_anita and @CallumHill98 later this week)

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

10 months

Well this just made my day! Empire pod just crossed TEN MILLION DOWNLOADS (especially thrilling as we only cross 5m end Feb). Thank you wonderful, wonderful @tweeter_anita Anand and equally the amazing @CallumHill98 who, aged only 24 and straight out of college, is actually doing…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

8 months

Look, lads, we did this a few months back AND IT DID NOT GO WELL

S Sebag Montefiore

@simonmontefiore

8 months

Good grief. Cant they leave the Titanic alone?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

8 months

I haven't finished reading this yet, but it's already apparent that it's the best and most thorough survey of the subject - and one that will prove essential to debate and discussion for years to come

Pat Hudson (Professor)

@pathudson48

8 months

For the latest discussion of this book Listen here: The discussion could be used in teaching . Please retweet to other interested parties.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

Do not listen to this if you are doing anything difficult or delicate, because laughing at stories about Marcia Williams is inevitable

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

2 months

The climax of our series on 1974 - 'the worst year in post-War British history' - sees Labour scrape home in a second election, more IRA bombs, hovercrafts, pandas, Marcia Williams-related lunch-themed shenanigans, & MRS THATCHER ENTERING THE RING

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 month

Literally TOP dinosaur action

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

I endorse this message

Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

2 months

Reading Michael Taylor's 'The Interest' about how Britain resisted the abolition of slavery. Pretty much a cut-and-paste of Big Oil's tactics today: owned media, bought politicians, bad science, and money listening only to what it wants.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

8 months

Before writing each book, I make a detailed chronology of everything relevant that happened. In doing this for the Elizabethan "pacification" of Ireland - only a small part of the book - it's pretty disconcerting how frequently the word "massacre" is appearing.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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Gathering pace through the book pile, I finish this rollicking and scything guide through race, genetics, and pseudo-science from @AdamRutherford - but don’t just take my word for it, the greatest endorsement of all is that Douglas Murray hates it!

Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

28 days

Just finished this by @holland_tom , a brave book in terms of both its subject and its structure. Less “Tom’s book about Islam”, more a beguiling history of the empires of late antiquity, this entertainingly plugged a lot of gaps in my knowledge.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

8 months

@SSalyers2 @DonaldMurray56 This is completely untrue, and you would do well to apologise publicly

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

200 years ago today. Buckland names the Megalosaurus, Conybeare announces the Plesiosaurus, and Mantell suggests he has found the Iguanodon. The greatest day in the history of palaeontology, as recounted in …

Steve Brusatte

@SteveBrusatte

2 months

February 20, 1824. 200 years ago, today. William Buckland stood up to lecture in London. The rumors were true, he said. Bones of giant reptiles had been found in the English countryside. He called them Megalosaurus. It was the first time a dinosaur was given a scientific name!

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

@whazell @Telegraph @ISC_schools How many requests, dickhead, has your paper made of universiries and academics, demanding info about "wokeness"? Was that lawfare?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Alan single-handedly justifying the extended character limit with this excellent précis of race and the British Empire

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

1 year

@MorganE07969703 @urban_sk @DavidVeevers1 Let me try one more time and then say why I think we’re at cross purposes here. No empire or kingdom prior to the European maritime empires from the C16 dominated, transported and exploited the labour of people (both enslaved and “free”) across the six inhabited continents, as…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

6 months

The first question at #PMQs on Wednesday really needs to be: “There are 350 Conservative MPs. Why does the Prime Minister not think any one of them is good enough to be Foreign Secretary?”

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

3 months

After that innings in Hyderabad, it's the most that this Ulsterman has ever liked any Pope

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 months

I say some words here. I might even say them in the right order.

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

10 months

New @EmpirePodUK drop: Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 month

“Taylor … skilfully blends an impressive array into a highly readable, almost novelistic narrative … Including gripping tales as well as serious commentary, Impossible Monsters chips out a fascinating slice through the strata of Victorian society.” Courtesy of @HistoryToday

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

Although the article then urges "We have got to stop persecuting the Jews", it also advises "great caution in our admission of the Jews to the fullest rank of citizenship". Terrifying this was only 100 years ago - and that the Spectator was not unique in expressing these ideas.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

This is correct, and it leads to another puzzle. The abolitionists of the late C18th and early C19th were repeatedly damned by the Tories of the day as radicals, fanatics, and "anti-colonists". So why do *today's* conservatives assume they are the heirs of these humanitarians?

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

7 months

Just to interrupt the sequence of spurious right wing culture war arguments over Empire & responses from my book Deny & Disavow, there’s another one that pops up as these people continually change tack: ‘How can empire have caused racism when the UK is the least racist country in…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

Apart from the disproportionate representation of Irish bureaucrats, soldiers, and settlers within the British Empire, sure…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 months

@AdamRutherford Tbf, I have often sat next to you drunk in a bar, so I can empathise with her

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

@faceyouhate Can’t believe they used “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” for the scene where Bernstein beats up Dan Rather on the street

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

10 months

@TomHourigan Yeah, the way you could just walk straight down to the Tube was just too … convenient

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

3 months

Impossible Monsters is out next month, but … we go again Coming in 2026 with ⁦ @TheBodleyHead ⁩ All thanks to ⁦ @DonaldWin_ ⁩ and ⁦ @PenguinEditor ⁩

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

Oof. An absolute belter of a review from ⁦ @pratinavanil ⁩ in ⁦ @GuardianBooks ⁩ Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor review – fossil feuds | History books | The Guardian

Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor review – fossil feuds

A marvellous history of science vs creationism in Victorian Britain

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

@JolyonMaugham Talking to colleagues who studied women’s and gay rights movements, they were shocked at how similar the reactionary arguments about slavery were to those in their own specialisms; also made the climate change comparison myself at talks!

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

12 days

I’ve read an advance copy of this, and it does a marvellous job of exposing the intellectual inadequacy and specious methodology of the Biggar/History Reclaimed/empire fetishists

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Why are they so, so bad at source work?

Loot and Plunder

@lootplunder

1 year

🧵1/11 Lord Hannan of Kingsclere @DanielJHannan fired off a broadside in yesterday's @Telegraph in the war against Britain's "Great Awokening" - a conflict fought on all sides with snippets of history and weaponised quotes. At least one of his quotes looked a bit odd ...

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

We have the final cover art. So you've got just under three months to order your copy 😉

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

@GoodwinMJ What if you’re just wrong?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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“Taylor … marshals his cast expertly and shows lucidly why [his story] mattered so much.” Kind words from the @NewStatesman about IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS

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Michael Taylor

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7 months

@LozzaFox Is that why you’ve chosen to waste so much of your money on libel suits?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

19 days

I’ve had a fucking awful day. A friend resigns from work; terrible book sales; dating life remains non-existent; 16 hours of work await tomorrow. Cat remains nonplussed and demands my attention. Bless.

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Michael Taylor

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@chinarhyming There is a stronger word that I would use…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

If you ever happen to see this image and burst instantly into laughter, we’d get on

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Actually, the most perverse thing is that British abolitionists were precisely the kind of woke radicals - attacked relentlessly in the right-wing press - that Tombs, HR et al profess to despise

Seán William Gannon

@swgannon

1 year

It never stops ... Daily Telegraph

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

Up next in the @AuthorsCC 2023 review is @holland_tom with Pax *and* a four-wicket haul at Avebury?

Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

As 2023 draws to a close, and the @AuthorsCC contemplates the year, which of these monumental achievements will @peterfrankopan remember the more fondly?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

7 months

@Sathnam The real question is how many Tory MPs/peers have a house within brief walking distance of Old Oak Common...

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

God, this is tedious from @ewansomerville @Telegraph 1 - the Anti-Slavery Society was not founded until 1823 2 - the Haitian Revolution in fact *strengthened* the pro-slavery lobby, and Britain sought to re-enslave the rebels Maybe find an “expert” with some actual expertise?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

@LeoKearse @TheGhostSleepi1 The show is made by ITV and this was probably filmed 9 months ago

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

This looks awesome Liberty, Equality, Slavery | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

Liberty, Equality, Slavery : Debating the Slave Trade in Revolutionary France

Abstract:. During the winter of 1789–90, contemporaries in Paris observed intense controversy over the future of the lucrative colonial slave trade. The De

academic.oup.com

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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Someone should write a book about this sort of thing … oh

Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine

@militaryhistori

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Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

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Michael Taylor

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"[Taylor's] task was to tell a much-told tale better than it had been told before. He has succeeded splendidly." Kind words from @TheEconomist @EconUS on IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS

How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution

“Impossible Monsters” looks at 70 years that changed human thought

www.economist.com

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Once again, @DrMatthewSweet is trying very, very hard to restore public broadcasting to an even keel, and we should give thanks for that

Matthew Sweet

@DrMatthewSweet

1 year

Oh Neil. I think like many I’m just thinking - you used to make great TV, now you seem sunk in a conspiracist subculture that’s beyond reason & dignity. And we’re wondering if you can ever come back. We liked the old Coast guy - but he’s lost at sea, like some drowned mariner.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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This

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

9 months

Announcing @EmpirePodUK Series 4: The Russian Empire and the Great Game The story of the Russian Empire spans centuries and continents. It is one of tsars and revolutionaries. Sex and power. Invasions and conquests. In the new season of @EmpirePodUK , William and @tweeter_anita …

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Michael Taylor

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@AdamCrafton_ Well, I have personally looked at their Instagram 9 billion times, so that’s half the maths done for you

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

5 months

As 2023 draws to a close, and the @AuthorsCC contemplates the year, which of these monumental achievements will @peterfrankopan remember the more fondly?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

Once again, let us be clear, Nelson *did* write a letter from HMS Victory deploring Wilberforce and the abolitionists. William Cobbett (pro-slavery) changed a few words when reproducing it - that does not mean that Nelson did not write such a letter.

Letter showing Lord Nelson to be a racist supporter of slavery is forged, historian says

Chairman of the Nelson Society says the note was the work of opponents to the abolition to boost their cause

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

4 months

LONDON, I AM IN YOU, ETC

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Michael Taylor

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This is an absolutely world-class example of bad-faith criticism: my use of those words is very, very obviously an instance where I paraphrase a historical figure’s argument, not where I make that argument myself

Michael Roberts

@MBRoberts4004

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@theweeflea @holland_tom @dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory The recent book Impossible Monsters - Michael Taylor on dinosaurs &war of science & religion has the corker "Luther damned Copernicus for blasphemy (p286). Full of errors like that - too many to list!!!!

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Michael Taylor

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@aljhlester This is definitely the most interesting question

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Michael Taylor

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4 months

After a difficult move, I am pleased (terrified?) to report that someone is now very much in charge again

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Quite correct. Apart from Haiti, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Central America, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, etc, etc

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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Alan is, of course, correct that this has been seized upon by right-wing ideologues as evidence of "wokeness gone mad". But that is precisely why poor research needs calling out *by historians*, and not placed on a political pedestal, as the editors appear to have done.

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

5 months

Over the last few months an important development has been brewing among those of us concerned with understanding and explaining the colonial past. It is centred on a trenchant and often highly personalised attack on an academic's work: @jennybulstrode 's ‘Black Metallurgists and…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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I had to listen for myself. Yes, Masani truly says "The British Empire had no role in slavery".

David Veevers

@DavidVeevers1

11 months

Listened to an interview with HR mouthpiece Zareer Masani where he claims that 'The British Empire had no role in slavery. The British Empire very much arose when slavery was being abolished.' This is the HR project: lies to subordinate history to right-wing ideological agendas.

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Michael Taylor

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It’s always depressing to read the acknowledgments section of a book and to see many historians have armies of people to do research, referencing, and fact-checking for them. Of course, it’s not as depressing as those historians who don’t acknowledge this practice…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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More importantly, Thompson appears to have worked with a large cat on his shoulder

John Merrick

@johnpmerrick

3 months

E.P. Thompson, the great historian and author of The Making of the English Working Class, was born 100 years ago today

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Michael Taylor

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7 months

Just who the fuck thinks it’s a good idea to go to a city for a political conference and then cancel that city’s biggest infrastructure project in living memory? He is so terrible at this job

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

3 months

It remains a source of eternal pleasure that we beat this useless twat to the University Challenge title in 2015

DUPLeader.bsky.social

@DUPleader

3 months

Absolute car crash.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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@tomhfh Or maybe making unforgivably nasty jokes in the context of a murdered child simply reflects the moral vacuum in government

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

2 months

Who to believe … the amateur apparatchiks of the culture war, or professional historians with decades of experience in the archives?

Alan Lester

@aljhlester

2 months

Certain politicians and writers are intent on reviving justifications for British colonialism in the past and suppressing knowledge of it in the present. Liberal British reformers, we hear, ended slavery and policed its abolition around the world, freed Indian women from sati,…

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

Of course, both the King and Queen are divorcees…

Nick Buckley 4 Mayor

@NickBuckleyMBE

1 year

There are 2 things wrong with Megan Markle & neither are to do with her skin colour - she is white. She is a foreigner who does not understand our culture, and a divorcee which means she is difficult or a poor judge of character. Neither is a good fit with our Royal Family.

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Michael Taylor

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Definitely at the stage of book-writing where I'm swinging wildly between "Oh my God, this is awesome" to "Fuck, this is terrible, I'm going to have my laptop chemically destroyed and set my notes on fire"

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

@CartoonGravity I demand a 3-season TV adaptation

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

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Well, @DalrympleWill @tweeter_anita @peter_sarris @EmpirePodUK … I’ve never seen them in the same room, have you?

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

What is the ethical analysis of a senior member of one university making false allegations publicly against a junior colleague?

Pratinav Anil

@pratinavanil

1 year

Positively unhinged behaviour from Nigel Biggar. Not obsessive at all. To be clear, I *did not* write an anonymous review of Colonialism for the Economist.

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

@holland_tom I see you and raise you

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Michael Taylor

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4 months

What a waste. This young chap could have spent his life playing league cricket - getting fired off for single figures, trying to work out bonus-point systems, pushing on the covers when the rain starts to fall, and drinking tepid beer. But what did he do instead? Utter madness

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Michael Taylor

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5 months

God almighty … imagine what the options are on the menu

Lucinda Tobyjug

@msloobylou

5 months

In Sidcup so had to mark the worst name for a restaurant in the UK

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Michael Taylor

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Chuffed with this review from John van Wyhe, an eminent in expert in this field, in ⁦ @HistoryExtra ⁩ / BBC History: “Sympathetic, charming, and beautifully written”

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

1 year

@simonmontefiore @theguardian This is not the first time a cartoon in the Guardian has deployed these references...

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Michael Taylor

@M_H_Taylor

11 months

After runs for @dodo938 and @nicholas_hogg , a few daft wickets for myself, and a heroic 2-wicket defeat to the lovely and welcoming @NewtownLCC , the @AuthorsCC retire for the evening to pay homage at @RothleyCourtHtl , a sacred site in the history of English cricket captaincy

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