Mathew Lyons

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Historian & writer: The Favourite, Impossible Journeys, There & Back Again.
Recent or regular writing: History Today, The Times, The Economist, Slightly Foxed, The Quietus, Literary Review, New Humanist.
Poems: Reliquiae, Under the Radar, Dawn Treader, The Atrium, Ink, Sweat & Tears, & elsewhere.
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Website:https://mathewlyons.co.uk/
Apparently, 'time immemorial' ended on 6 July 1189. (This may be common knowledge for lawyers, but it was news to me.)
Christmas at St Pancras station
can't help but read this in a british accent

RIP Wilko. A great musician who also gave every sign of being a lovely bloke as well.

RT @[email protected]

This is the announcement we never wanted to make, & we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died. He passed away at home on Monday 21st November. Thank you for respecting the family's privacy at this very sad time. RIP Wilko Johnson.
(Image: Leif Laaksonen)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wilkojohnson/status/1595358840400248832

Wilko Johnson on Twitter

“This is the announcement we never wanted to make, & we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died. He passed away at home on Monday 21st November. Thank you for respecting the family's privacy at this very sad time. RIP Wilko Johnson. (Image: Leif Laaksonen)”

Twitter

Every issue of Poetry Magazine is archived and available to read for free on their website. I find real joy in dipping into old issues and think you might like it too. I just read James Wright’s “Between Wars” and “Venice” in the June 1980 issue, where he shares the pages with Marilyn Hacker, Gerald Stern, and Larry Levis, just to name a few. What an unbelievable trove of poems.

#poems #poetrycommunity

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/archive

That's a fun way of explaining my endless #tbr list. I'm stealing this!
How about you?
#booktoot #bookstodon #reader #ReadingCommunity
1960s window in memory of St Stephen Harding in #Saxon porch of #Sherborne #Abbey. 12th century monk from Sherborne who became the third Abbot of Cîteaux, writer of the #Cistercian constitution, Carta Caritatis, and mentor of Bernard of #Clairvaux. https://www.grahamkings.org/article/english-monk-who-encouraged-the-ministry-of-women/ https://brill.com/display/book/9789004469389/BP000023.xml
Nourishing Connections- English Monk Who Encouraged the Ministry of Women

#StandingStonesSunday This is ( part of) the Ring of Brodgar, a neolithic circle over 100m diameter and over 5000 years old.
#Orkney has an abundance of standing stones.
Delighted to have a piece on the genius of Charles M Schulz and Peanuts in the latest issue of the Spectator.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bleak-brilliance-of-peanuts/
The bleak brilliance of Peanuts

The numbers are extraordinary. Charles M. Schulz, whose centenary falls next week, spent nearly 50 years of his life producing daily comic strips for Peanuts. Between 2 October 1950 and his death in February 2000, he drew a staggering 17,897 of them. He retired in December 1999 after a series of strokes and a cancer […]

The Spectator

Hello #Histodons! A new #Introduction as I moved to a Very Cool 18th-centuryist server & everything was deleted 💅

I'm a historian of the (long) #18thcentury, esp. women's history, & the history of love & sex

My latest book was about the scandalous c18th Byron family (#HouseOfByron), & I'm writing my next following three women through the French Revolution

Expect #dogs, #books and rude old pictures 🤓 #Introductions