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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

Well. Here it is ! #EarthTransformed . Out on 2 March 2023 in all good bookshops near you….

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

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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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

A few years ago, I tried to explain to our sons how good Diego was. Then I showed them this photo. They understood. #RIP #Maradona

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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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1 year

Stupid air fryers.

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Peter Frankopan

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5 years

Have always been a fan of @ImranKhanPTI . Now turning into a superfan #SilkRoads

This Is What PM Imran Is Reading These Days - UrduPoint

Not many people know that Prime Minister Imran Khan is fond of reading books

www.urdupoint.com

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Peter Frankopan

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8 months

NOTE: despite being invaded and at war, Ukraine added *114 times* more onshore wind capacity than the UK last year. #EarthTransformed

Guardian Environment

@guardianeco

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‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms

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Peter Frankopan

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2 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

New cover reveal !

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

1. #GE2017 will one day be seen as the moment the UK could have chosen to pull back from the brink.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

One of my all time favourites. Have a good weekend everyone.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

How uneven was the impact of the monetary reform and the Byzantine re-coinage of 1092 in the Eastern Mediterranean

ParisHilton

@ParisHilton

7 years

What's on your mind?

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Peter Frankopan

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7 years

Glass of something special - so happy to be able to celebrate becoming Professor of Global History @UniofOxford

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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7 years

#Chess set designed for the #EastIndiaCompany c1850. Not black vs white: but #Sikhs vs #Afghans (draw your own conclusions)

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

10 months

If you’re not worried, you should be. #EarthTransformed

European heatwave - latest updates as record temperatures continue

Authorities warn of heightened risk of fires from today

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Frankopan

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7 years

I've been laughing all morning....

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Peter Frankopan

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7 years

Athens & Sparta fell into terminal decline, writes Machiavelli, because were foolish to treat foreigners badly & not recognise their skills

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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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2 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

2 months

Utterly appalling

UNRWA

@UNRWA

2 months

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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Peter Frankopan

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4 years

#2020 in a nutshell

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

So. I’ve written a new book - which will be out in November. It’s bursting with #optimism . Probably.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

What writing a new book feels like.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Oh my ! Maybe 2020 isn’t so bad after all....

European Association of Archaeologists

@archaeologyEAA

4 years

Archaeologists from the University Museum in Bergen have found traces of a temple used for worshipping Norse gods such as Odin and Thor. It’s the first such temple ever found in Norway. @MERC_Hub #Vikings

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

Chengdu. The crowd chanting I want freedom or otherwise death.

李老师不是你老师

@whyyoutouzhele

1 year

成都望平街现在民众举着白纸高喊不自由毋宁死

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

8 years

Brilliant. Via @reporterboy

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

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.

Halle Berry

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3 years

tell me something I don’t know.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

Behold - in its glory !

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

. Christmas is coming ! #SilkRoads #NewSilkRoads #SilkRoadsIllustrated #HappyFamily

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 months

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.

Sophia Gaston

@sophgaston

6 months

Astonishing to think that in the space of just seven years, we have had seven Foreign Secretaries...

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 months

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

Some glories from the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kyiv.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

I’ve signed some books ⁦ @blackwellbooks ⁩

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

Finnish fans chanting ‘Christian’; Danish fans shouting back ‘Eriksen’. There’s something in my eye.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

2 years

This has made my day 👇

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

How very dare you.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Current mood #JustinianFaceMaskRules

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

The magnificent Arbore Church, Arbore (Suceava) in Romania - built in the early 1500s.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Funerary portrait of a young man - from #Alexandria ; 3rd C

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Spot on. Via @zoepagnamenta

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

Escalation in the last 72 hours might have taken the PM by surprise; but this has been weeks - MONTHS - coming.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

2 years

Heroic translation of the FSB report floating around. Looks and sounds 100% legit to me.

Igor Sushko

@igorsushko

2 years

🧵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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

What a wonderful ambassador Gareth Southgate is for this country #ENG #WorldCup18

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

Sooo pleased to see this - paperback of the #SilkRoads for younger readers is out next week. Thank you @KidsBloomsbury ⁩ !

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

I learn from Liam Fox that the plague of Justinian (540s) ‘contributed to the fall of the Byzantine Empire’ (1453).

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Advice from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1918. Might as well run it again now. Just putting this out there. #LessonsFromHistory

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

12 months late

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

You have got to be kidding. Again. And different stupid air fryers.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

20. I am voting @LibDems today. i want clarity about #Brexit , what it will mean, who it will affect - and who will be at risk.

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Peter Frankopan

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11 months

He’s in for a shock if he tries to find ‘Russia’ on maps before Ivan the Terrible.

max seddon

@maxseddon

11 months

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Glorious

keerthik śaśidharan

@KS1729

4 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

This has made my year: #SilkRoads named as one of @thesundaytimes Books of the Decade. I’m humbled, honoured and over-joyed

The Sunday Times books of the decade 2010-2019

More seems to have changed in the book world these last 10 years than in almost any decade since the arrival of the Penguin paperback in the 1930s.Since 2010, we’ve had the rise of the ebook and...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

4 years

Thrilled, honoured and excited to be able to share this news @RSAsianAffairs

Royal Society for Asian Affairs

@RSAsianAffairs

4 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

2 years

Unprecedented to have a new Monarch and a new Prime Minister in the same week. What a moment.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Huh. Smaller than I thought it would be....

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Funeral portrait of a man with a cup #Egypt 3rdC

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Amazing, really

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

A perennial #SilkRoads favourite to brighten your Sunday.

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

11 months

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

PAGING ALL TEACHERS AND PARENTS ! New website dedicated to the history of the #SilkRoads now up and running 1/3

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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

Historians all around the world scramble to work out which decade in the past was not decisive.

President Biden urges unity in first UN speech amid tensions with allies

Joe Biden called for cooperation in his first speech as US president to the UN General Assembly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

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

Government of Pakistan

@GovtofPakistan

5 years

#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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Peter Frankopan

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2 years

@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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Here’s a statuette of the goddess Athena, recovered during excavations of #OldNisa in #Turkmenistan . 2ndC BC

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

8 months

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

8 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

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This stuff is serious and involves us all #EarthTransformed

Colin McCarthy

@US_Stormwatch

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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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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

Rather beautiful - from Nisa, modern Turkmenistan, 2nd century BC

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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

6 years

I think it’s fair to say there’s an appetite for a #PeoplesVote #PeoplesMarchVote

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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4 years

Amazing match-day highlights from the (virtual) Republican convention. Key theme: everything is everyone else’s fault.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

#2020 just keeps getting worse via @Peter__Leonard

Austrian village of Fucking to be renamed Fugging

Locals were fed up of people stealing road signs.

www.politico.eu

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

7 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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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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Peter Frankopan

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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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Peter Frankopan

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Roman shoes from #Vindolanda by #HadriansWall . Basically a 2000yr old #NikeTown

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Peter Frankopan

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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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

3 years

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

Corfu Literary Festival 💙

@CorfuArts

3 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

Stunning faience torso of the goddess Aphrodite/Venus Anadiomene (‘Rising from the Sea’)

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

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

Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

Behold - in its glory !

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Peter Frankopan

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3 years

I'm so pleased and honoured by this.

Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

@OxfordByzantine

3 years

🥳🥳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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

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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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

@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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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

5 years

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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Peter Frankopan

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1 year

#BREAKING I’ve been writing a big new book ! Will reveal all tomorrow (Weds) 10am UK time - including title, cover and publication date in 2023 #History #BitNervous

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Peter Frankopan

@peterfrankopan

1 year

Astonishing 👇

Franka Lu

@FrankaLu

1 year

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.