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Mathew Lyons

@mathewjlyons

Writer, historian, FRHistS. Recent: @HistoryToday, @EngelsbergIdeas, @spectator, @FoxedQuarterly. Books: The Favourite, Impossible Journeys, There & Back Again

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🚨🚨 Super excited that Test Cricket: A History is out today - available worldwide. Five years in the making, it tells the incredible story of Test cricket over its 148-year history, and features dozens of new interviews with the game's greatest players.

🚨🚨 Super excited that Test Cricket: A History is out today - available worldwide.

Five years in the making, it tells the incredible story of Test cricket over its 148-year history, and features dozens of new interviews with the game's greatest players.
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Sam Leith’s guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Geoff Dyer, who’s talking about his memoir, Homework. Geoff, in this new book, bids fair to be the Proust of Airfix models and prog rock. Listen here 👇 Sam Leith 🐝 spectator.co.uk/podcast/geoff-…

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Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ✍️ Mathew Lyons explains buff.ly/WCmblh0

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Britain’s self-styled ‘Thief-Taker General’ was not all he seemed. On 24 May 1725 Jonathan Wild was finally brought to justice. ✍️ Mathew Lyons tells the story buff.ly/WCmblh0

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Well this is a bit depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. Please have a look and retweet. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Well this is a bit depressing. 
It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. 
Please have a look and retweet. 
gailmyerscough.co.uk
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I remember people here helping track down someone's parents who went missing in Venice a while ago. Hopefully social media can help this time too. Please share.

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One of the slightly disturbing late paintings by Tirzah Garwood, "Wewak's Kitten", 1950, at Dulwich Picture Gallery. It really changed my view of her – for the better.

One of the slightly disturbing late paintings by Tirzah Garwood, "Wewak's Kitten", 1950, at Dulwich Picture Gallery. It really changed my view of her – for the better.
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You can pick up my second collection, Hollywood or Home, where Tinseltown meets confessional told slant, for half price until Wednesday. Included in the Sunday Times Poetry Books of the Year 2023 – 'a subtle and surprising delight'. Visit: serenbooks.com/book/hollywood…

You can pick up my second collection, Hollywood or Home, where Tinseltown meets confessional told slant, for half price until Wednesday. Included in the Sunday Times Poetry Books of the Year 2023 – 'a subtle and surprising delight'. Visit: serenbooks.com/book/hollywood…
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New on the writer’s bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the great tiffany jenkins open.substack.com/pub/mathewlyon…

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One of my favourite books from last year is now out in paperback. Here's an extended version of my review for The Spectator. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/review-the-m…

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John Dryden, poet, playwright, essayist, was appointed Poet Laureate by Charles II in 1668. Master of the heroic couplet. His works include Astraea Redux, Annus Mirabilis, Marriage a la Mode and All for Love #RestorationAge365 (John Michael Wright, 1668)

John Dryden, poet, playwright, essayist, was appointed Poet Laureate by Charles II in 1668.
Master of the heroic couplet. His works include Astraea Redux, Annus Mirabilis, Marriage a la Mode and All for Love
#RestorationAge365
(John Michael Wright, 1668)