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Matthew Sweet

@DrMatthewSweet

Public Humanities Fellow, School of Advanced Study @UoLondon; FRHistS; Bookish writer; Barbara Cartland's biographer.

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  1. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    Barbara is coming … and here’s the cover. Out September from @HodderBooks but available for preorder now. Best consumed with a massive box of chocolates.
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    RT @sonnysehra: reminder that 1960s cambodia had a thriving music scene that combined traditional khmer sounds with western genres (psychedelic rock, jazz, etc.) and almost every single musician died in the 1970s genocide. the singer of this record disappeared and her body has never been found.
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    RT @NC_Renic: Hey girl, are you an academic journal because you’ve ignored me for 8 months then devastated me with your feedback
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    RT @John_Attridge: Many scholars have made this argument. But it's the first time that I personally am making it, which is pretty exciting for me
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    RT @OliverKamm: ‘The Dispatches programme appears to have intentionally conflated long-standing, and well-known, “bad boy” behaviour with far more serious, potentially criminal allegations.’ You won’t know the name of Jonathan Cook but I do. And there’s little more to be said about such stuff.
    Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook
    My latest: A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
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    My latest: A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
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  8. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    The chutzpah of @beverleyturner telling us our attention spans may be too short to understand a piece that argues when a fellow conspiracy nut (sorry, "talismanic truth-teller") is accused of sex offences, it's right to "be suspicious of vested interests pulling strings".
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    My question to @beverleyturner would be - what is this tweet - sent several months after he was charged with rape - all about?
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    RT @IainDale: This.
    David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch
    So now we can say the thing that we couldn't say before: that Russell Brand's barrister's arguments on his client's behalf were utterly disgraceful and seemed rooted in the misogynistic past
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    So now we can say the thing that we couldn't say before: that Russell Brand's barrister's arguments on his client's behalf were utterly disgraceful and seemed rooted in the misogynistic past
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    RT @durham_uni: It’s wonderful to celebrate @Durham_Classics professor Edmund Richardson, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize (@BGPrize) for Non-Fiction for 'Alexander: God, King, Man', a biography of Alexander the Great. An amazing achievement! 👉 #BGPrize2026
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    RT @smithbarryc: With the Director of Being Human Festival in Hong Kong for the launch at Fizz Hub. An exciting new sibling of the @beinghuman festival family. Events on art, food, fermentation, music, poetry. Even flew a drone with alpha waves after meditation. Everything in the human world
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    RT @thebookseller: Edmund Richardson has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 for Alexander: God, King, Man (Bloomsbury), becoming the first author to win the award for a book about ancient history. 👇
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  15. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    National treasure. I love that stage in the career of an old clown when they take on roles like this.
    BBC Sheffield @BBCSheffield
    Paul Chuckle prepares for stage debut at National Theatre
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    Paul Chuckle prepares for stage debut at National Theatre
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  17. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    Such a well deserved win!
    Baillie Gifford Prize @BGPrize
    📚 And the winner is… Edmund Richardson for his book Alexander: God, King, Man - 🏆 Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026. Here's what our judges had to say about our #BGPrize2026 winner!
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    📚 And the winner is… Edmund Richardson for his book Alexander: God, King, Man - 🏆 Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026. Here's what our judges had to say about our #BGPrize2026 winner!
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  19. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    President Ossof would be great news for George Fouracres amirite?
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    He has that Obama elocution.
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  20. Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweet
    The thuggish responses to Tim’s tweet are evidence that he’s correct. Applies to any part of the political spectrum. Question is, what happens when a man whose conduct and language demean the public sphere owns the public sphere?
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    See, this is the kind of crap the Right should quietly decouple from. You don’t have to cancel or arrest anyone, just say “we choose not to associate with people who use this language, because we’re not 14.”
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  21. Tim Stanley@timothy_stanley
    See, this is the kind of crap the Right should quietly decouple from. You don’t have to cancel or arrest anyone, just say “we choose not to associate with people who use this language, because we’re not 14.”
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    RT @BGPrize: 🏆 The moment we’ve all been waiting for… Edmund Richardson has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 with Alexander: God, King, Man.✨ Huge congratulations to Edmund and @BloomsburyBooks, and to all shortlisted authors for an extraordinary year of non-fiction.
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    RT @auteurhouse: In CARRIE (1976), Brian De Palma based Carrie's posture and walk at the end of the film after Gustave Moreau's 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth.
    Auteur House @auteurhouse
    Brian De Palma's CARRIE (1976) was released on this day 50 years ago.
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    Brian De Palma's CARRIE (1976) was released on this day 50 years ago.
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    RT @KDenkWrites: Very pleased to be included in this week's Freethinking discussion on Radio 4. If you're around at 9pm this Friday tune in to hear us chat about Seriousness.
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    RT @BGPrize: At seventeen, he sailed around the world - and returned determined to change it🌍 In The Traveller, @andrea_wulf follows George Forster from encounters with new lands and cultures to his pursuit of equality, freedom and common humanity. 👉#BGPrize2026 winner revealed: TONIGHT!🏆
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    RT @BGPrize: You know the pink dresses and romance novels - but how well do you know Barbara Cartland? 🩷 In The Great Dictator, @DrMatthewSweet looks beyond the famous image to reveal a determined, complicated woman whose life rivalled her plots. ⏰ #BGPrize2026 winner announced tonight!
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