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William Dalrymple

@willdalrymple.bsky.social

Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.

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Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 6h ago

Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Through time and never found eternity, Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill, You should have fled our ever-dying song… —Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods” 📷 Ballachulish Figure, c728–524 BCE #poem #poetry #archaeology www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

To the Old Gods by Edwin Muir Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Through time and never found eternity, Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill, You should have fled our ever-dying song, The mound, the well, and the green trysting tree. They have forgotten, yet you linger still. Goddess of caverned breast and channeled brow, And cheeks slow hollowed by millennial tears, Forests of autumn fading in your eyes, Eternity marvels at your counted years And kingdoms lost in time, and wonders how There could be thoughts so bountiful and wise As yours beneath the ever-breaking bough And vast compassion curving like the skies.An early Iron Age wooden carved figure of a woman or girl, standing in front of a wall of woven twigs and branches. The figure is blackened with age, and the wood has twisted and elongated due to the lack of proper preservation when it was discovered in a peatbog in 1880. Carved from a single block of alder, at the time of its discovery it stood 1.4 metres tall (just under 5 feet). The figure has a large, heavy head with inset quartz pebbles for eyes, large ears, a distinct nose and mouth and a round chin.
William Dalrymple@willdalrymple.bsky.social · 7h ago

Who were the old Gods of the British Isles? What is the Pagan Calendar and how is modern Halloween derived from it? What can we learn from the mysterious ‘bog bodies’? linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Empire: World History@empirepoduk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Before Britain was Christian, its gods lived in forests, rivers and stone. From Druids and Roman conquest to Saint Patrick, Picts and Vikings, our new six-part series uncovers the beliefs that shaped the British Isles. A THREAD... 🧵

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The Left Bible@theleftbible.bsky.social · last mo.

Why aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explain thedailybritain.co.uk/polanski-dal...

Why aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explain

Historian William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski on Bold Politics to explain how one corporation conquered India, how Britain created the conditions for the Nakba - and why none of it is on the school ...

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Punch Cartoons@punchbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

We spy a PUNCH cartoon here... Thanks @willdalrymple.bsky.social 'The Rhodes Colossus' by Linley Sambourne 1892 #history #empire #colonialism #imperialism #Britain #Africa

William Dalrymple@willdalrymple.bsky.social · last wk.

In this episode, webexplore the origins of Silicon Valley & the striking parallels between today’s tech billionaires and historical imperialists. They discuss the rise of tech companies like X and Amazon, and how they have followed the template set by the East India Company. linktr.ee/empirepoduk