#History

I have been muttering about this in side conversations for a while, and feel like this may be a good moment for a long thread to talk more directly about
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Our #VirtualVisit for #WaybackWednesday is Bryndraenog, Radnorshire. As part of Introducing Houses of the Welsh Countryside we created this reconstruction animation to explore the history and development of this timber-framed
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Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed and the streets emptied. Read Samuel Pepys’s account
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If you really want to understand Kashmir issue, you must understand Pakistan’s invasion of Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 22nd, 1947. I highly recommend @rhinohistorian ‘s excellent book ‘India’s Wars-
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As a historian of unwanted statues, I this story about the statue of Louis XVI in Louisville so much. There's some looooooong, important history at work here. Settle in…1/https://twitter.com/ericcrawford/status/1266206301270544386
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1. Why is the government so rubbish?Cast your mind back. It wasn’t meant to be this way.This was meant to be the government whose decisive, unflinching, radical approach would address
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You’ve heard of the Norman Conquest in 1066; but have you heard about the Lithuanian invasion of England in 1069? Buckle up… (thread) If you read the standard Oxford edition
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If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of mesopotamia This drawing is my
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One thing I've learned over the last week is the that the Right is terrified of consequences for what they have done.For four years they reveled in an orgy of
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Ran 2.23 miles today for Ahmaud Arbery this morning. All the while thinking of the racist history and local categorisation practices that led to him being shot whilst jogging in
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THREADQuestion from @Perma_Skeptic https://twitter.com/Perma_Skeptic/status/1300955017352867840 https://www.newsandguts.com/video/axios-dem-data-firm-projects-red-mirage-of-trump-election-day-victory/amp/?__twitter_impression=true This is t
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LONG THREAD: I presented the new curriculum policy I've been working on to SLT this week and thought it worth sharing on here. I was interested in the two models
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to @ObserverUK editors. This is a must-read, particularly if you saw any tweets this week attempting to minimize Cambridge Analytica as a “scam or nothing-burger” invented by the media. Observer
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While we wait for basketball to come back, we’re writing recaps of fictional Lakers games that happened in movies as if they actually took place.Today, @hmfaigen writes a gamer on
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Good thread on Substack newsletters. Finding a routine has been important for me as I pivot into new territory. Still a along way to go. I'm happy to see more
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Bayern Munich: Desire, determination and a winning mentality; what it means to become a champion [THREAD] ”You do not own success. You get to rent it, and the rent is
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