Sean Lang 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇨🇦

@AlexaCoghlan It fell out of use and was used as a furniture store until the Buddhists bought it. Very occasionally used for theatre productions. Built by the same architect as the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, I believe.

@sf_lang Ah - that makes sense! Thank you

Who knew that the Cambridge Buddhists were hiding a lovely little theatre…

@Fatbaldbloke1 Quite right. I stormed from the room over the inaccuracies in the BBC's The White Queen. Sten was the Woolworth gun - cheap'n'cheerful. Teacher at school said it was so easy to use a burly RSM stood behind you in training to stop you turning round saying It's fun, isn't it?

Mrs F looking at me while I paused 'Peaky Blinders - The Immortal Man' to point out that the Sten Gun probably wasn't available in 1940.

@simon_schama I always understood there was always a fair bit of blockade-evading trade on the quiet between Britain and Napoleonic France

fellow-historians help me out here- any other cases of a country at war helping to fund the enemy it's at war with? 🤡🤡🤡

Thrilled and delighted to see my play THIS IS NOT A SHAKESPEARE PLAY performed by Neale Wade Academy in the Coram Schools Shakespeare Festival. It's about mystery and magic in a school production Macbeth, and it's to introduce children to the power and magic of Shakespeare.

@ABrookfield1 Brilliant photo!

Off to sing one of the most beautiful requiems in the world in Southwark Cathedral at 7.30pm. Tickets free. The concert is to honour a dear, very young man, taken decades too soon, by bowel cancer. #choral #SingLoud #RIP #Wellbeing

Powerful testimony.

I would not wish on you, Owen Jones, even one day of living under the conditions Iranians endure in Iran. Because you won’t last long! I am a woman who lived in Iran until I was 22. What do you know about torture and rape being used as weapons to control your behaviour? What do you know about children being taken from schools and their bodies being checked for signs of pellets from attending protests? What do you know about mothers keeping the bodies of their children on ice all night because they are terrified the regime will steal them? Yes, the regime is even afraid of dead bodies and takes them so families cannot bury their loved ones. What do you know about executions at dawn? What do you know about mock executions, when they put a rope around your neck, pull you up, then drop you down? What do you know about going out with your friends and being arrested just for having fun? What do you know about police banging on your door with a gun because you are having a party? What do you know about women prisoners being raped so they are no longer virgins when they are executed? What do you know about students being thrown off campus buildings for protesting? What do you know about the regime installing machine guns in the middle of the street and massacring its own people? What do you know about families being forced to walk among hundreds of corpses to find their loved ones? What do you know about nurses being gang-raped repeatedly? What do you know about being forced to pray, forced to cover up? What do you know about being Iranian and living in hell? You do not even understand propaganda, so why do you speak? Be quiet and let the voices of those who have been denied access to the internet #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ for almost three weeks be heard. You think you are standing with the oppressed. You are not! Once again, a white man wants to play the hero and save us. We do not want saving. Just stop feeding the regime’s propaganda. #Iran

@simon_schama Yup, probably a better title than Dick, I agree.

Oh, quick, the novel... I must write, title : TUMBLEDOWN" - hello, agents? Publishers? Auction please.

@tunkuv Wow!

Best Owl Ever

@michaeldweiss @JGodiasMurphy So did I!

@JGodiasMurphy I did Tinker and this in the last fortnight. Like slipping into a warm bath every time.

Told my daughter tonight that this is the real Sermon on the Mount.

@CDP1882 And the Belgrano was originally an American ship, the USS Phoenix, which (appropriately) had survived Pearl Harbor.

Pete Hegseth confirms that a US Navy submarine torpedoed and destroyed an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean last night. He claims it is the first time that a submarine has sunk a warship since WW2 but HMS Conqueror sunk the Belgrano in the 1982 Falklands War.

@lawyer_memes And you should learn an important lesson. Called Manners. Learn some courtesy you pompous arsehole.

A junior said "Good morning" to me in the elevator. I checked my watch. It was 11:00 AM. I looked at him. "It's almost lunch," I said. "You're three hours late to the concept of morning." He tried to explain he'd been at his desk since 7. I interrupted and told him accuracy matters more than intent. I emailed his reviewer suggesting he take a CLE on time management. He apologized later. I didn't reply. I forwarded the apology to HR as proof of his inefficiency. Greetings are risky. He learned an important lesson. Never speak to a partner in the elevator. Unless spoken to.

@LeandadeLisle @SkyNews Yes, I spotted that! They said he had a 'possibke British accent' His accent was 100% British and the cup of tea bit should have settled any remaining doubts!

Brit in Dubai - his flat is hit by a drone - his main gripe? ‘I didn’t even finish my cup of tea’. He has kept his priorities straight : footage @SkyNews

@MichaelRosenYes Imre Nagy of Hungary, overturned and executed by the Soviet Union under Mr Not-So-Nice-Guy Khrushchev.

People are looking for precedents for one country to kill the leader of another. I put forward William the Conqueror's Normans and King Harold. What others can you think of?

@CapelLofft Leon Garfield: Devil-in-the-Fog, Jack Holborn, Smith. Also Ronald Welch: Captain of Horse, Mohawk Valley.

Can anyone recommend me their favourite historical novels set in the 18th century? (Not written in the 18th century).

@simon_schama Do you need a hospital ship, Simon?

In a cunning pre-emptive move Greenland has come to us!

@thesundaysport @JAHeale We Langs so often are!

@JAHeale Cosmo Lang was the best

Nigel Farage: “More people might go to church, had we had better Archbishops of Canterbury”

@diana_blamires He sounds like a man after my own heart.

My grandfather Harry Blamires, who was taught by Tolkien & C S Lewis at Oxford & who went on to be a writer himself was always a pedant.I may’ve inherited that gene.He couldn’t stand “vitally important” - it’s tautology.He insisted on calling mobiles portables as they have no legs.And we had a shared hate of “I was sat” - you were sitting, which I just spotted in a tweet. Right, grumpy old woman rant over.

@hiyori13 @diana_blamires AI is, by definition, not a reputable source.

@diana_blamires I was intrigued by "He insisted on calling mobiles portables as they have no legs." but couldn't find anything that justified this. AI specifically denies this;