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In today's The Rest Is History, the story of MEDICI FLORENCE reaches an incendiary climax. 🔥 THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES 🔥 As master of Florence, SAVONAROLA prepares to ignite the fires of religious fervour. But is he heaping up his OWN FUNERAL PYRE? 🔥 linktr.ee/restishistory

A fascinating, moving, haunting book. Congratulations, Francis!

Should you be going on a 22 hour car journey… audible.co.uk/pd/Dominion-Au…

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 🔥The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities🔥 ⚔️After the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, chaos descended on Florence. Could the Medici heir hold back the rising tide of war, religious unrest, and the advancing French army? Into this storm stepped a fiery new

'A cavalryman is used to many odours, but never before or after did we smell as we did then.’ A Russian horseman who in the opening manoeuvres of the Great War helped loot a cheese factory.

“It exploded, but not exactly where nor how it was expected to.” Report on the first bomb to be dropped from a British plane (18 September, 1914)

"The Pedaei sacrifice & feast on anyone who reaches old age. It does not happen very often, however, that anyone comes to be thought of as old. It only requires someone to fall sick before reaching that stage of life, after all, & he or she is killed" - Herodotus

The Rest Is History Tom Holland Dominic Sandbrook Listening to latest Medici podcast and remembered that one of my old school teachers (Catholic School 1980s N.Ire) had a large leather strap for disciplining purposes that they referred to as Savonarola. Never understood why until now!

This Monday on The Rest Is History: the start of a new series on THE IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

Oh Zak.

Here speaks a man who has plainly never been to CHATHAM HIGH STREET x.com/RpsAgainstTrum…

Bumrah really does seem all the more menacing for having a smile like the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus.

Today is #NationalGiraffeDay

Insane value