#Napoleonic

Short thread on France and covid-19. It increasingly looks as if France will not be following as awful a trajectory as Italy and Spain. This is showing up in a

(1/13) Self-indulgent thread alert . Inspired by some enjoyable tweets from @ProfPeterDoyle the other week (and sponsored by lockdown boredom), I thought I’d take a look through my shelves to

So, the flu ravaged our house for a couple weeks, and it's been hilarious fun. Get your shots, kids. In search of comfort reading, I turned, as I often do,

Henrik Paulsson

henrikrpaulsson

I don't get this talk about tanks being obsolete. All warfare comes down to bang bang and vroom vroom. IFVs? Not enough bang. Artillery? Not enough vroom. Tanks? Perfect balance

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

I don't know who needs to hear this but dividing the military into "Officer" and "Enlisted" classes is an antiquated holdover of aristocracy and has little actual relevance for the

Alistair Davidson 🍞🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It's more than possible to hold multiple ideas in our heads.- Nicola Sturgeon is a competent FM, especially in a crisis, and a great public speaker- SNP strategy of winning

Thomas Brunkard

“Let’s go to the graveyard!”“It’s not a graveyard per se, call it ‘The Croppy Acre’”“They had short hair that’s why they’re called croppies!”Sediment layers of information are combining into solid

Zachery Tyson✍️🇺🇸

The proliferation of autonomous anti-tank drones that we'll see in coming years will be not unlike when the spread of the crossbow signaled the beginning of the end of the

Fantastic blogpost by @jasoncrawford on why the bicycle wasn’t invented earlier. We can ask similar questions of many other technologies. My favourite is the flying shuttle on looms. Another is

Holger Hestermeyer

This is historically wrong. Britain maintained in force the navigation acts (until 1849), cutting the US off from trade to its traditional partners - Britain and its colonies. /1https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1317588014378397697 T

Aaron Fritschner

The mental image I had when reading the coinage "revenge spending" was not what its creator intendedhttps://twitter.com/GregIacurci/status/1380600033138118656 More like #RevengeSpending This is the first thing that comes to mind f

Settling down to write a piece about press gangs and plants this morning. This is Common Scurvygrass - an abundant plant on the banks (low cliffs) around my #Shetland home.

I hope this exchange helps those who don't grok the distinction to get it, including Matt. This is one of those areas where social identity really does produce differential experience,

Here, Worsley is not only deliberately going for pretty pathetic non-news click-bait but is being downright inaccurate as well, and is probably showing her inexperience with the subject of both

Drakon Heritage and Conservation

One of our current conservation projects is this straw box from @CowpNewtMuseum It has been identified as possible Napoleonic prisoner of war straw work. It was once owned by John

(((Frances 'Seriously Unwell' Coppola))) 🌷🌷🌷

Frances_Coppola

I know I said this yesterday, but... In 1847,at the height of the Irish Famine, there were crop failures across Europe. European countries banned grain exports. The UK Govt, which