#British

Fledgist 🥀🇯🇲🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fledgist

On 1 August 1834, Britain abolished slavery in its colonies. While this was greeted with rejoicing by the slaves of the British West Indies, and by British abolitionists, not everyone

Q. Anthony (FKA Andray Domise)

andraydomise

There's something just so...off about Black people needing to see themselves in British aristocracy at the era approaching the nadir of the slave trade.We pass over our own stories to

Peter Ward

Peter___Ward

Why I’m not bothered about the Galileo project and the fact we aren’t talking part. We are launching nano-satellites! (From Russia). We have the skills!The innovation we show in this

Musical Notation is Beautiful

NotationIsGreat

Do we want a thread on Guidonian hands?YES.Thread In the manuscript BL (British Library) Lansdowne 763! In the treatise "Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani", complete with a little poem:

Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

vivamjm

It might be worse than "economists warned about" but not worse than we mere (ex) Freight Fowarding/Customs Agents tried to warn of....Read"The reality of Brexit is much, much worse than

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

Changing my mind about Wales.A few years ago I’d have wrote off Welsh independence chances as below 0.1%.But if Scots leave & prosper & Ireland unifies the dynamic completely changes.At

Harsh Chaturvedi

hchaturv

on 26th Dec 1986 ... At Rishikesh unknown decomposed body was found on street ..near garbage dump...said to be of 'beggar' who used to sit below the statue of Netaji

Rohana Rezel

rohanarezel

.@TransLink modelling showed that the SkyTrain faregates will cost more to operate than they'll save by stopping fare evasion.But @KevinFalcon overruled TransLink and forced TransLink to install fare gates costing

Nacho Cassadine

NachoSuitable

So five years ago today, I was waking up in New Jersey for the first time after flying over to spend Christmas with a guy from Camden I met on

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

Many are perplexed about the figure of "3 million Hongkongers" under Boris Johnson's BNO pledge. Here's a short thread about what is and is not covered in the magic number:

Jamilu Maiwada

MaiwadaJamilu

Dear Southern Twitter,NOTHERN NIGERIA IS A LAND OF ISLAMNIGERIA IS A FEDERAL REPUBLIC If you didn’t pay attention in social studies class, let me remind you that Federation units (states)

#BlackLivesMatterUK

ukblm

At 2am this morning, in the cover of night, 13 British residents were forcibly put on a deportation flight to Jamaica.On board were ppl who themselves had been victims of

Prof Susan Oosthuizen 💙

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. A seriously muddy walk across one of the high, flat, clay plateaux of S Cambs. today, was full of reminders that this land, too heavy for ox-drawn ploughs, was

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. A short study in propaganda. This is a concentrated dose of how the British government tried to spin the emergency authorisation of a vaccine: a national triumph.https://twitter.com/rachaelvenables/status/1334418762909487106 2. John

EntirelyAfrica

entirelyafrica

Here is a thread on 12 influential Sierra Leoneans throughout history you may or may not have heard off:#sierraleone #SaloneTwitter #SaloneTwitter #AfricanPerspective #african #africa #nigeria #ghana #blacktwitter #BlackHistoryMonth 1)Evel

Christine Lindner

christine9278

So, a research friend emailed me asking about some information about the age of girls admitted into mission schools, & of course this lead to a complete unrelated rabbit hole

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