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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The Alexander the Great exhibition at the British Library is wonderful. Lots of stunning books, manuscripts, etc - but revelatory (for me, at least) how his story, his legend, his fame has been refracted through so many cultures. Mind-blowing, actually
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Fallen in love with the Holy Grail tapestries, designed by Burne-Jones and Morris, in the small but wonderful Arthuriana exhibition at the William Morris Gallery.
I ❤️ Christmas, but really… #TooSoon
Greetings from a small corner of the library