Debbie Kilroy
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@DebbieKilroy
Award-winning historian and author of the Daily Mail Book of the Week Members Behaving Badly. History, places, ponderments.
Many thanks to @DebbieKilroy for this rave review of 'The Rage of Party'. It constitutes an 'indisputable case for why political history, now perhaps more than ever, needs to be studied and understood' & is 'one political history book that absolutely should be read'. Blimey.
Ian Fleming was born on this day in 1908. When he joined the Times he negotiated a contract whereby he could spend three months of each year at his Jamaican home, Goldeneye. His neighbour in Jamaica was Noël Coward, who apparently wasn’t overly impressed with Dr No 😂
The former MP for Dorset, Henry Sturt, who died #OnThisDay 1866, was faced with a difficult choice over how to vote on the repeal of the corn laws in 1846. Find out more about his dilemma in our blog: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/con…
The British are the most zoophobic people in the world. That whole David Attenborough thing? A big lie. Most Brits want to live in a parking lot. No wildlife at all. Or at least nothing more charismatic than a blue tit. So depressing.
