#Jacobite

Kevin 'cancel rent' Modestino

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Does she mean Jacobite or Jacobin? Just trying to clarify what I'm being ragefully called here (not personally, but as a member of the not voting for Biden group) Either

Darren S. Layne

In lieu of giving a paper today at the now-cancelled JST conference in Florence, I present The #Jacobite Rising of 1745 in meme form. Inspired by @A_J_Lind and requested by

temporarily embarrassed chamillionaire

I’d pretend this is quarantine brain but it’s absolutely regular brain that wonders if clan mcduck participated in the jacobite risings But also apparently they were driven from their ancestral

In the 18th century the British army fought a brutal series of battles with the rebel Jacobites (they were mostly Highland Scots). The Jacobites had much less tech than the

Katrina Navickas

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#heritageofprotest a thread on the history of protest meetings and public space I'm going to use Kennington Common as a case study here, as it has a long history that

Catholic groups have helpfully defined what they mean when they rail against Gender Ideology. They couch it in "love the sinner hate the sin" shit around how they're not against

Alright, in honor of St. Patrick's day, here is a short thread on the excellent service record of the French Irish Brigade. It won't be as detailed as my usual

East Lothian Voices - a different person each week

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

Dr Ciarán McDonnell

Executed by guillotine #OTD in 1794, General Arthur Dillon. A #WildGeese émigré to France (b. 1750 in England) who served in the Irish Brigade and rose to senior positions in

The Irish Story

Whisper it softly, but Oliver Cromwell and his role in Irish history is actually not understood very well at all in Ireland. The best summing up is in John Cunningham's

There was a request earlier for a thread of my landscape posters that have never sold. I've done 79 drawings, each available as natural or artistic colours. That's a *lot*

🌲Earl of Sodor ⚓️

[[[THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE LORE THREAD]]] Where to begin, well I suppose with the author.The Reverend W. Awdry was an anglican clergyman who had a fascination with trains and wrote

Byzantine Ambassador

MELKITES – A Thread By C10th, the Arabic language had supplanted both Aramaic – then the lingua franca of the Near East – and Greek, the tongue of poleis (esp

Time for a THREAD of amazing Scottish island women to brighten #ThursdayMorning. 1st, Bessie Williamson, the only woman to own & manage a whisky distillery in the 20th century: Laphroaig

Need inspiration? Today a THREAD of our ordinary foremothers who shone in a crisis. This lass, Jane Whyte, saved 15 ppl's lives by diving into the sea to secure a

Alfonz the Cavalier

As a massive Culloden nerd, I present a thread about the battle:https://twitter.com/NoTrueScotist/status/1250653911939088385 First, the context. The 45 is often presented today as a Scotland vs England thing, but it was