#Historians

Parveen Atwal - #AllLivesMatter

ParveenAtwal3

The Swedish Goblin Of Doom seems to have had a few mentions over the past few days, usually in relation to Extinction Rebellion.Fancy a quick history lesson?In the years before

ابنِ خان

IbneKhan01

Deobandis certainly have a problem with Mawlid, a huge problem.A Sunni scholar Mawlānā Ábd al-Samīý wrote Anwār al-Sāţiáh in 1302/1884, proving the validity of mawlid and fātiĥah, which were being

Mustapha Mond

PM_Travel_Tours

1.This series will showcase some common propaganda messaging used by totalitarian/fascist regimes from Germany, Spain and Italy. One must never forget how Moonje [Hedgewar's mentor] spent time in Italy, March

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

In this excellent article, @rickperlstein argued that historians had not paid sufficient attention to the more "surreal" dimensions of the history of American conservatism. Today I went down two surreal

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chanel_mochi13

If you didn't know, there was a Indian princess who became a South Korean queen!Princess Suriratna, aka. Heo Hwang-ok, went to Korea in 48 AD, some 2000 years ago.. and

Dr CN Lester

cnlester

Time for another small moment of brightness, which is to say another #QueerHistoryMonday. Today, in honour of #LesbianVisibilityWeek, let's talk about Rosa Bonheur - aged 41 and looking ludicrously handsome

Dr Oyèyínká

DrFeruke

One day in the future, historians will do a study on the nature and cause of the irrational hysterical response the vast majority of the world had to Covid.And

Shaxaari yare🇸🇴

HashiShiil

The Siege of Las QorayA THREAD;https://twitter.com/ishaaqist/status/1300214604287610882 Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Somali youth who promote qabiil fkd on the tl, they form groups and fight over irrelevant things.

yearn with me, comrade

dogofulthar

there's a whole kind of chinese armor that is EXTENSIVELY documented in sculpture but we STILL have no idea what it really looked like, how it was made, or even

raffi barsoumian

rbarsou

Here’s an April 24th story from my college days... a thread: At Carnegie Mellon there’s an old fence that sits in the heart of campus. They told us it’s a

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Aw yeah. #cocotwistory in , , ... First, the coconut is a lie. It isn't a nut. It's a drupe, a stonefruit or berry, but instead of eating the fruit

cole

historiancole

documentary narrator: eventually, these pagan tribes converted to christianityme, from the couch: BOOOOOOOOOOO documentary narrator: the vikings left with precious bootyme, from the couch: AYYYYYYY YEAH THEY DID, BUD narrator:

East Lothian Voices - a different person each week

EL_Voices

Today is the 700th Anniversary of the signing of the #DeclarationofArbroath on the 6th April 1320. Here's a wee thread listing some of its #EastLothian connections. Did you know that

Bing55🇺🇸

Bing__55

Alright Anons, First signal I see is the :17 (17= Q) some cool vibes are ready to be found on the 17. 2nd Signals are. CRITCAL - missing an "I"

🌸Hanna Jameson🔥

Hanna_Jameson

There was a throwaway sentence in a textbook I was reading: "In 1793, the French actress Olympe de Gouges was guillotined by the Jacobins, after daring to demand political rights

Branko Milanovic

BrankoMilan

(Long thread--but worth reading)I received lots of pushback (including some pretty nasty comments) on my tweets re. the most recent “Nobel Prize” in economics. I believe that most comments reflect