Mathew Lyons

@MathewJLyons

Writer, historian, FRHistS. Recent: @HistoryToday, @EngelsbergIdeas, @spectator, @FoxedQuarterly. Books: The Favourite, Impossible Journeys, There & Back Again

London mathewlyons.substack.com Joined March 2009

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Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons May 23, 2024

Hi folks. I’ve started a Substack called The Broken Compass. The plan is for it to feature essays and book reviews, thoughts and reflections on my current research and reading, and, I hope, interviews with other historians and authors.
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Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons 17h

I had the great pleasure of reviewing the new Constantinople to Istanbul exhibition at @V_and_A for @EngelsbergIdeas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-dr…

engelsbergideas.com The dream of Constantinople The V&A’s new exhibition offers a dream of the city that would become Istanbul, pieced together from fragments scattered across 16 centuries of history.

Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons 17h

Some lunchtime reading!

Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons 20h

I'm delighted to welcome the brilliant @djmusgrove to the Writer's Bookshelf this morning. Link in next post…
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Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons 20h

I'm delighted to welcome the brilliant @djmusgrove to the Writer's Bookshelf this morning. Link in next post…

Mathew Lyons @MathewJLyons 3d

Yes, read the book! I enjoyed it very much.

David Taylor @djtaylorwriter 3d

Could I please inform the thousands of Tolkien fans who have complained about the @nytimes headline accompanying the review of my book about him by Adam Mars-Jones (‘Tolkien’s unexciting life’) that it is nothing to do with me and you should read the book before judging.
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