#Historical

Jack Miller

JackMiller02

There's been a lot of talk on here lately about the importance of upside, so I'm going to give my thoughts in this thread. First of all, I agree that

Paul 🌹📚 Cooper

PaulMMCooper

One of the most incredible stories I came across while researching my first book was that of Robert Knox.Knox was shipwrecked in 1659 on the island of Ceylon (modern-day Sri

Effy, Letting Out A Heaving Sigh Of Relief At Last

EffInvictus

Westeros is not realistic, grittily or otherwise. To begin with, medieval Europeans understood that marriages were only valid if they were consensual, and so they went to substantial lengths to

Randy

egg_report

a big problem with present day understanding of history, and by extension everything about human affairs, is an inability to read "the past" on it's own premises, and not project

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Sheshapatangi

Being a Kannadiga, I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know about this great historian, a chance encounter on Mysore gazette took me to an author who wrote 400 years

Jake Ekiss

JakeEkiss

Apropos of nothing, if you want to get new readers into comic books, though the tendency is to recommend something you like and then tell them to go buy it,

Alex-ogre 👹 Reid Ross

areidross

Here's a brief thread about the historical parallels between federal forces' "snatch-and-grab" tactics in Portland in comparison with US-backed Latin American military dictatorships in the '70s and '80s and the

Revelation Kollektiv

revkollektiv

Just watched #socialdilemma on Netflix. To borrow an Americanism it got me pissed!!!! Thread coming on. 1/? Social media using the "attention extraction model" is actually older than they appreciate.

Lindsay Chervinsky

lmchervinsky

In my conversation with @HC_Richardson @HarvardBooks on Wednesday, a viewer asked how we can spread historical literacy. We rattled off a list of ideas, so I thought it would be

John Couvillon

WinWithJMC

LET'S TALK ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA VOTER REGISTRATION CHANGESDo these changes in partisan voter registrations really matter ? Let's use some historical data to evaluate. (1/) (1) In 2012, Barack Obama carried

Hillel

hillelogram

HISTORIAN RAAAAAAAGEHate to defend C here, but there's a lot of nuance to this discussion! C and COBOL were both products of their context, and "why COBOL" is a complex

Tynisa the Cynical Gen X Witch Walker

Kalarigamerchic

Every day I ask myself what am I going to do to inact lasting change? I stay learning practicing new languages, exercise. I need to practice drawing and finish up

Tom Cox

cox_tom

In case anybody is an @audibleuk or @audible_com user, I am very pleased to say these are now all available on there: https://www.audible.co.uk/search?searchAuthor=Tom+Cox&ref=a_pd_Ring-t_c1_author_1&pf_rd_p=e04647f3-e54d-422e-b457-e7936304a2

Ali Shihabi علي الشهابي

aliShihabi

MBS has done precisely what ⁦@BarackObama⁩ thought impossible: “I’ve wondered sometimes whether there was a point when the Saudi monarchy reassessed its religious commitments acknowledging that Wahhabist fundamentalism was incompati

Ceridwen Eccles

Teacherglitter

One of the reasons I can understand young boys who have complex needs is down to my experience as a mum. My son was historically labelled as a ‘naughty boy.’

Steve Hou

stevehouf

The training one receives in a typical macro PhD program is very heavily biased by recent historical experiences. Instead of learning the whole thing, we are usually taught whatever happens