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Great fun, as always, to join ⁦Saul David⁩ ⁦⁦Roger Moorhouse 🇺🇦⁩ & ⁦Richard Foreman⁩ on the ⁦Battleground⁩ Christmas Special. We were spoilt for choice, but here are our #booksoftheyear 🥳 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bat…

Here’s a book to look out for in the new year: a biography of Queen Victoria’s aunt Julie - the teenage bride who stunned Europe by bolting from the Romanov court. It’s beautifully written, incredibly moving & illuminates the entire age. Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!

Many thanks for this lovely plug, Charlie Connelly The New European!

Very much enjoyed this

This is an extraordinary and original book by a brilliant writer and thinker - the perfect tonic to an AI world! Out next week - huge congrats Edward Wilson-Lee 👏👏👏

An incredibly powerful archive with warnings for today. The Wiener Holocaust Library whlcollections.org/testifying/ #HolocaustMemorialDay theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

‘By a conservative calculation, three-quarters of a million people died in the siege, four times the combined number killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.’ Jessie Childs on the siege of Leningrad: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

‘The man in charge of the city enjoyed butter on his bread and lashings of caviar while those in his care ate their pets, sometimes their neighbours, and fashioned tagliatelle out of slow-boiled strips of leather.’ Jessie Childs on the siege of Leningrad lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Wonderful launch of the fabulous #Motherland by Luke Pepera at Oriental Club this evening with lovely friends Jessie Childs clare mulley Alice Loxton Prof Kate Williams 💙 & others. MOTHERLAND is a triumphant telling of 500,000 years of African history - pick up a copy ASAP! 📕

‘Two in five people succumbed in the first winter and the streets were littered with corpses. Most citizens trudged past them without a backwards glance. All that mattered was the next meal.’ Jessie Childs on the siege of Leningrad: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

I’m a great admirer of both Wilson-Lee and Lyons, and both review and book are wonderful

27 years ago I gave up well paid desk editing job in academic publishing to write 1st history book for £3k. Book 17 is out today & I am still here! Julie's story was a huge challenge, given the amount of German research involved, but I made it & am proud to have told her story

New on the writer’s bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books and reading with the brilliant Jessie Childs. Link in next tweet 1/2

‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It comes step by step. Evil comes step by step.’ Auschwitz Survivor Marian Turski who died 3 months after being interviewed by Simon Schama for this chilling, deeply affecting, utterly essential film. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Iain Pears’s latest book is non-fiction and it’s wonderful. My review is in today’s Sunday Times ⁦Times Culture⁩ ⁦Times Books⁩ thetimes.com/article/00d664…

Congratulations from all at ELHB.uk to Dan Jones and Henry V on being shortlisted for the Prize Dan Jones Georgina Capel Assoc Head of Zeus See ELHB.uk for full shortlist

I could not be more honoured to be on this list

A weekend immersed in the proofs of my next book - “Wolfpack” (since you ask), out in October. #HistoryNeverStops Basic Books

Brilliant new prize for historians 35 or younger. Deadline for entries: 30 September. Good Luck🍀

Hatchards’ party 2: ⁦Simon Schama⁩ with ⁦clare mulley⁩ and ⁦Jessie Childs⁩