#Chronicle

Khaya Sithole

CoruscaKhaya

Oops. Rumour from Facebook is that 4 years ago I wrote a sentence or 2 about VBS, ABSA, Zuma, Biko, Rupert & a WhatsApp group called the Broederbond.Now it reads

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

During the 1918 influenza outbreak, San Francisco closed non-essential businesses.Cases went down and they quickly reopened, thinking they had won.But then deaths DOUBLED after they prematurely declared victory. Many refused

isaac Samuel

rhaplord

That's the al-fattash chronicleboth tarikhs (along with major West African chronicles like Ibn furtu's) have been fully translated -by R.Palmer in the 1900s and recently by Hunwick in "timbuktu and

John Stoehr's Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Is this era of paranoia burning itself out? by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/is-this-era-of-paranoia-burning-itself?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Two things bear repeating before I ge

Kat Coffin 🐈⚰️

KatinOxford

Many moons ago (I think like two weeks) I gave you guys a semi-drunk thread on why you are all wrong about Susan Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia. Here

Christopher Mims

mims

Shifting more of my news consumption from social media to newsletters has made me happier /and/ better informed. When I mention this people ask what newsletters I like. So I'm

Derek R Peterson

Unseen_Archive

Delighted to find these clips: the coronation of Ras Tafari as Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. The coronation took place on 2 Nov. 1930.Tafari's predecessor was Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia

Mima M

ironmima

I’ve started to read books about Filipino migration and identity for a personal project. I’m listing them in this thread and would love to get recommendations! A Good Provider is

David Montgomery

dhmontgomery

In October 1918, San Francisco Health Officer William Hassler successfully lobbied the Board of Supervisors to make mask-wearing mandatory as a measure against the pandemic flu.In November, Hassler was fined

jatella

jatella

what’s equally distrusting about the labor crisis, which COVID has only clarified, is, beyond exacerbating the economic instability of the working-class, it has revealed that so much of the working-class

Dr Alison Bedford

bedforda1

Kevin Gilmartin's keynote, 'Raymond Williams' Experimental History of Romanticism'. Exploring Williams' interest in the writing of Cobbett, seeing him as more significant than those more traditionally canonical writers in understa

Bryan Lowe

bryandaniellowe

While many of my tweets about #JapaneseMythology this semester have focused on the ways myths support nationalist and imperialist projects, some post-war authors and artists have retold myths to subvert

Robert W V Mitchell

ChewBobcca

I broke my @worldbuilders Eolian mug the other day, which was a real loss. I decided I would try to kintsugi it, a process I’ve had success with in the

PEI Museum

PEIMuseum

Did you know Black slavery existed on this Island for nearly 100 years? Today we’re sharing the story of PEI’s history with slavery in recognition of Emancipation Day – which

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

On this day in 1993, our founder, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas died. Just days before, he was working on the repair of our church at Sutterby. A proud Welshman, Ivor changed the

Grace Kendall

grace_kendall

So we were supposed to go on a real cruise earlier this month, but obviously that didn't happen. So @MikeBelsole3 have planned an extensive 8-day fake cruise at our home