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Historian. New biography of Athelstan out now! Herodotus translator. Dinosaur lover. Hedgehog conservator. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times

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    Jun 25 Bromley, London

    To celebrate the publication of my biography of Athelstan, here is a short film I've made about Æthelflæd, his aunt:

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  2. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    The sex life of velvet worms sounds fun. The male apparently has a penis-like organ on his head.

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  3. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    vid of slime:
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  4. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    I had NO IDEA that morays have 2 sets of teeth.

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  5. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Honestly, zoology is just inexhaustibly fascinating.

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  6. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Hagfish have a skull but no vertebral column, are covered in slime & like to chomp their way up other animals' anuses

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  7. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Yes, of course - Donald Trump's mouth, Jimmy Hill's chin!

    Jimmy Hill?
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  8. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    I wrote about Mar Behnam a year and a half back, when the news came through that ISIS had blown it up

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  9. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    This is wonderful news. ISIS were reported to have destroyed much of it. Hope the stories are untrue.

    Glad to share this good news: Christian units within 's Hashd liberated the Mar Behnam (Syriac Catholic) monastery near .
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  10. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    How cool is the Umbrella Mouth Gulper? It tempts prey by dangling its flashing-red tail in front of its mouth.

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  11. 3 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Yes, the wolf eel sounds a delightful creature.

    Hmmm. The male and female pair for life, they are curious, friendly & rarely aggressive.
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  12. 4 hours ago Lambeth, London

    A wolf eel (not actually an eel) has a slight look of Donald Trump...

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  13. 4 hours ago

    The number of European eels is between 1 & 5% of what it was in the 70s. And such extraordinary & mysterious animals too...

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  14. 4 hours ago

    The gonads of an eel are apparently a looped frilled ribbon inside the animal. Freud dissected 100s, in a fruitless attempt to identify them

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  15. 4 hours ago

    "Humans resonate among themselves like strings of the same length wound to the same tension" - David Hume

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  16. 4 hours ago

    I learn that an orgy involving more than 12 dolphins is called a 'wuzzle'.

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  17. 6 hours ago

    When you want to avoid capture by Octavian but also make a fashion statement

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  18. 4 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Really impressed with myself that I seem to be the only person on the whole of Twitter not to have commented on Jez's punchy new slogans.

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  19. 4 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Well, since you ask...

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  20. 19 hours ago

    'Demons are so common in the North that they even perform menial tasks – like cleaning the stables' Olaus Magnus

    195 retweets 363 likes
  21. 5 hours ago Lambeth, London

    Should there be any youngsters out there interested to learn how one should properly play a defensive shot...

    2 retweets 13 likes

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