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Tom Almeroth-W
TomAlmerothW
Just devoured #FeastFast @FitzMuseum_UK So many beautiful surprising things. Here are some of my favourites. 1/ This kind-eyed 17thC Dutch waffle temptress... 2 / The incredibly painted hair on this
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Medieval Indonesia
siwaratrikalpa
The crux of the problem facing anyone working on the history of the archipelago before c.1500:https://twitter.com/SEA_historian/status/1258667329086316544 This is partly why I put so many ethnohistoric sources (i.e. foreigners' accounts) and
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EHU Nineteen
EHUNineteen
Exciting news! Next year, we’re launching a new MA in Nineteenth Century Studies at @edgehill. It’s an interdisciplinary degree that combines literature, history, heritage & lots of other fun stuff.
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Rob Briggs
2for1_pizzas
Let me introduce you to this pillar + two plaques, all dated 1870; some of my favourite historic features of the #Dalston & #Hackney area, and my first local historic
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East Lothian Voices - a different person each week
EL_Voices
So, for today's late-night thread of oddities I want to talk about walls. Don't you dare scroll past. Stay with me!More precisely I'm going to talk about some interesting worked
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staimed clams latitude
DrJACameron
let me tell you a story to chill the bones. of one of the earliest fancy churches built in re-Christianised Britain post the landing of Augustine in 597 AD: Reculver.
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Tathagata Neogi, PhD
ArchaeoNomad
#Threads (1/15)The other day I tweeted about the role of the mangrove forests in #Sunderbans as our first, natural line of defence in sapping the strength of #cyclones and #tsunamis.
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Prof Susan Oosthuizen
DrSueOosthuizen
#FunWithLandscape THREAD. #Greens are found in settlements all over the British Isles. Some like this small triangular area at Haslingfield are clues to once-larger, less well-groomed areas. Here’s a way
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Neelam Hussain
N_S_Hussain
Q: Mama, why are you writing about a dead subject like the history of libraries?Me: Because the history of books and libraries is the history of knowledge. What could be
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Dr Laura McAtackney
LMcAtackney
The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on
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Adrian Bott
Cavalorn
I did some research into 'the veil between the worlds' a while back. Not a single example of a pre-Victorian use. The concept of 'thin places' (where the 'veil between
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Dr. J Robson
JenniferRobson8
I have not yet had coffee but here's a longish thread on postal banking in Canada, thrift, and account-based policy. #cdnecon #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 As the article notes, we had postal
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
jeannette_ng
If the reason for Chinese having compound words is the fact that it's reluctant to add new characters, then how do you explain EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE that has compound words?Why
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Meaghan Walker
slopclothes
In the 1960s, the UK Public Records Office (now the National Archives) decided to sample and then destroy a large collection of shipping papers--crew agreements which were labour records documenting
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Hrag
hragv
So, today is about survivors and not just the dead. So, here are 20 artists who survived the #ArmenianGenocide who went on to make great contributions . First, Arshile Gorky
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Meaghan Walker
slopclothes
I wish someone would tell these scientists about how we did this already in the 1970s and 1980s. It was even called Cliometrics.https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/1194158496343822337 I have a weird relationship with Cliometrics
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