Marc Morris
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Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
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Marc Morris
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· Nov 11
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.
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A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.
Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.
Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.
February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.
Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.
Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.
#OnThisDay 1014 Swein Forkbeard, England's first Viking king, died at Gainsborough, Lincs., after a reign that had lasted only a few weeks. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described his death as "a happy event".
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#OnThisDay 1014 Swein Forkbeard, England's first Viking king, died at Gainsborough, Lincs., after a reign that had lasted only a few weeks. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described his death as "a happy event".
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Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said
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Left: Konstantin Kisin denies calling Rishi Sunak a 'brown Hindu' on #BBCQT
Right: Konstantin Kisin, "He's a brown Hindu"
Right: Konstantin Kisin, "He's a brown Hindu"
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said
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Incarcerated for journalism. And for sticking it to various frauds & grifters who profess to care about ‘free speech’.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Incarcerated for journalism. And for sticking it to various frauds & grifters who profess to care about ‘free speech’.
A bloated, much-married, philandering, orange-coloured megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.
January 28, 2026 at 7:56 PM
A bloated, much-married, philandering, orange-coloured megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.
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Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
January 24, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
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Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.
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More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
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The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996.
It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
January 26, 2026 at 12:44 PM
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996.
It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters.
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
FFS, America, can't you just drop a couch on this prick and claim it was acting in self-defence?
January 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
FFS, America, can't you just drop a couch on this prick and claim it was acting in self-defence?
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They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Wow
Minneapolis today
Minneapolis today
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Wow
Minneapolis today
Minneapolis today
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On 2 May I'll be speaking about Edward I at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ed...
Edward I
Follow Edward I’s dramatic reign as conqueror and crusader, from his wars in Wales and Scotland to the lasting legacy of his monumental castles.
history-weekends.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
On 2 May I'll be speaking about Edward I at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ed...
Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
January 24, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
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Trump's Board of Peace so far:
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Trump's Board of Peace so far:
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
Trump's Board of Peace so far:
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Trump's Board of Peace so far:
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Vladimir Putin
Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie
Thanos
The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan
AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon)
Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.
The stain he leaves on the US will be indelible.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The stain he leaves on the US will be indelible.
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"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"
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So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 AM
So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".