#Century

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

This is Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Wilde (1895-1941), Oscar Wilde’s niece. She was the only Wilde to keep that name after Oscar’s scandalous trial for indecency. Dolly was a socialite, who was

Lizzie Porterلِيزي بورتر

lcmporter

Kind of long thread but here we go:During this #Covid19 #lockdown period, I keep having flashbacks to my early teens, to the eating disorders unit where I spent four months

John Shalmon

John_Shalmon_

If you think Game of Thrones was awesome, Read this thread. Back in 1169, there was family feud in Pandya Dynasty between two brothers, with regards to who would be

Victoria Brownworth

VABVOX

And STILL haven't. Sanders lost in a LANDSLIDE in 2016, but misogynist revisionism keeps reframing that FACT. In 2016 Sanders lost at the end of March. He just refused to

Truth Razor

truthrazor

#Monotheism vs #AstroTriad #Babylon #Ur #Uruk #Sumeria #AncientMesopotamia: #Qur’an Reveals Lost Knowledge About Prophet #Abraham!A thread https://truthaholics.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/monotheism-vs-astrotriad-babylon-ur-uruk-sumeria-anc

kyle a.b.

kyalbr

I want to talk about memory and the superstitions of black folks, and I want to do it by looking at one of the forgotten masterpieces of American cinema. Charles

Paddy 🇬🇧🇪🇺 #FBPE #WATON

padmorious

1/ I don't get why World War 2 is such a strong point of reference for them there Brexitons.Nominally, we won. Yeah.But to all intents and purposes it was a

Suzanna Krivulskaya

suzzzanna

Why #NXIVM was never a cult, and why we should abandon the “c” word altogether.A thread. 90% of the headlines I’ve seen on the sentencing of the self-proclaimed self-help guru

NanaimoCommons

NanaimoCommons

Fascinating and inspiring @CanUrbanism round table today, City Circle, moderator @Khelsilem. @KalenAnderson Edmonton, Evelina Hafvenstein-Säteri, Stockholm Plan, @oliviahaddon, Māori Design Auckland, @AlainMiguelez, Ottawa, Gil Kelley, Va

Jessica Price

Delafina777

So a while back I did this thread about how almost everything we "know" about the Minoans was made up by Arthur Evans to soothe a European inferiority complex about

Dr. Daniel Grossman

DrDGrossman

This is eugenics.https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648 Our nation has a very dark history of eugenics and reproductive coercion, from the founding of gynecology (https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-an

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

@drdanisanchez Tweeting for @twitterstorian again today. Based on my last few threads, you can probably guess that I am not a bullets/battlefields WWII historian. I gave a lecture at Temple's

Nick Sutton

NickPSutton

#NZArchaeologyWeek is going ahead this year (24th April to 2 May) with online and some in-person events planned (the latter contingent on local COVID-19 Alert Levels). Some events are up

SSI Movement

SSI_Movement

So what is really happening in #SheikhJarrah? At the end of the 19th century the committee of the Sephardi Jews in Jerusalem and the committee of Knesset Israel (Ashkenazi Jews)

mark latonero

latonero

I remember 10 years ago, seeing images of US Naval Ship Comfort arriving in Port-au-Prince in response to a catastrophic earthquake. I hadn't thought of the day it would be

Daniel A. Horwitz

Scot_Blog

Coerced sterilization is a crime against humanity.https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/1305609524733251584 People are not nearly as outraged by the abhorrent and grotesquely evil practice of inmate sterilization as you might expect. Ask