William Dalrymple ✓
@DalrympleWill · New Delhi · joined 05 Nov 2012
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. 2024 Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
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"Trump’s US no longer a reliable ally, warns Belgium in leaked document" https://t.co/58OjHU11qj via @FT
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"Recovery of this history does not answer the prayer Moser offers. He knows it is inadequate: It cannot restore what was taken. It cannot return a broadcast to the air. It cannot reassemble a composer’s archive. It cannot lead an old woman back to the house she left believing she
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"Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF and AIPAC’s super PAC"
https://t.co/rff6Kbqt1U
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Good point by @nytimes. Trump is not just a moron. He is an incredibly dangerous moron
"At the U.N., Trump Lays Out a Winner-Takes-All Vision of U.S. Power. Trump’s speech at the U.N amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations" https://t.co/yexdie0gdq
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A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair
Benjamin Moser's new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it.
Review by @YahiaLababidi.
https://t.co/dI3cS4RYcp
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If you knew anything about Avi Shlaim you'd know that arguably his greatest book is Collusion Across the Jordan/The Politics of Partition which is a detailed and nuanced archival study of exactly how King Abdullah came to an arrangement with the Zionists to divide Palestine
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@DalrympleWill @BBC Only, Britain gave 77% of Mandated Palestine to a Bedouin tribe from what is now Saudi Arabia to create what is now Jordan which has zero legitimacy, zero indigeneity. From 1948 to 1967 Jordan occupied the West Bank. Noone demanded a Palestinians state. Indeed
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KILLING TROTSKY https://t.co/fwJS4HaNuI
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Why does @BBCWorld insist on calling this a ceasefire?
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"Inquest into British aid workers killed in Gaza may call on Israeli and UK military chiefs. Lawyer tells hearing that families wish to know whether weaponry involved in deaths was made in Britain"
https://t.co/Lmxv7HrA9D
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Stalin: Killing Trotsky (Ep 3)
Why did Stalin want Trotsky dead, even in exile thousands of miles away?
Anita Anand and William Dalrymple join Giles Milton to explore one of history’s most infamous political murders. 🧵 https://t.co/l4V6ZlMhNv
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It’s 5:25 p.m. in Gaza right now. Since this morning, Israel has killed at least four Palestinians. Here is what has been reported:
At 8:30 a.m., a Palestinian mother, Feda Totah, 31, was shot and killed on Salah el-Din Street near al-Bureij Camp.
At 8:41 a.m., at least two
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"Bid to remove Tom Watson from Lords over Palantir job" https://t.co/CCpm6yGqpX
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Wonderful to see the great Avi Shlaim on Piers Morgan. The @BBC of course, shamefully, never platforms our greatest Middle East scholar
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Historian Avi Shlaim: ‘Britain stole Palestine from the Palestinians and gave it to the Zionists’ https://t.co/0YsQd6yRjh
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An Autumnal afternoon at the Henge https://t.co/Q2vbBL6eyp
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New from @EmpirePodUK:
WHAT WAS STALIN'S ROLE IN THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION?
https://t.co/gEHgSFDAan https://t.co/YEmxv1Sx29
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Wonderful rave review for Maryam Aslany's @m_aslany astonishing new masterpiece, Peasants, by the great Max Hastings. This is the best book I've read this year- go out immediately & buy a copy
"Here is what its like to be a peasant in the 21st century"
https://t.co/j5EL1wGGO5 ht
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Five ways the Iran energy shock is wrongfooting the world - https://t.co/CTzfgSIwV3 via @FT
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STALIN & THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION https://t.co/ZCK2Si39sY
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The great Avi Shlaim...
@BBCr4today: about time you invited onto your show the most respected Israeli historian in Britain...
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Important piece
"Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary"
https://t.co/NsGzmx2DGy
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Make America Great Again? Hahahaha...
"China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front"
https://t.co/mtmYY6oets
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“I know the King, I simply cannot believe that he could have said something like that”
Rory Stewart, who tutored Prince Harry and Prince William, says claims by Earl Spencer that King Charles, in the days after Princess Diana’s death, said "rest assured, we'll forget her soon ht
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"‘Run! Get away!’: witnesses recount Israeli ‘double tap’ strike that killed child and medic in Gaza
When Mohammad Abdul Zinati, 15, rushed to help a man wounded in a bomb attack, he had no time to react before he too was hit"
https://t.co/9m0bWCWrbC
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@DalrympleWill It just goes to show how beautifully we can work together if we value one another's cultures.
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@DalrympleWill Sir kindly consider visiting Kalimpong, India to witness the Indo_scottish relationship beyond the diplomatic setting and the script the unscripted stories of Scottish and British contributions to Kalimpong 🙏⛰️
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@DalrympleWill There should be Punjabi Bhangda instead of classical south Indian dance .Punjabi are crazy about scotch whisky if it was served they can dance without bag piper 😂
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Much enjoyed this wonderful celebration of the Indo-Scottish relationship https://t.co/PRS07cXvoL
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Against accounts of the same size
88 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views19 787this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %1.60%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %1.62%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 19 787 | 14 648 | 1.35× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.60% | 0.74% | 2.16× |
| Engagement rate | 1.62% | 0.70% | 2.32× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
171.1K21 Sep
37K
110.7K
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56.8K
37.6K
16.1K
38.7K22 Sep
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26.3K23 Sep
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3.4K24 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
4.96%21 Sep
8.39%
2.13%
0.14%
4.88%
4.10%
0.46%
0.06%22 Sep
3.23%
1.24%
7.20%23 Sep
6.35%
0.81%
2.85%24 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes64.7%25 369 in total
Reposts24.5%9 618 in total
Replies2.7%1 063 in total
Quotes1.0%406 in total
Bookmarks7.0%2 761 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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