#Embankments

Jenny Grant

SilenceInPolish

This weekend, the city of #Breda celebrates the #75th anniversary of its liberation by #Maczek's 1st Polish Armoured Div.For Maczek, the victory at Breda was second only to Falaise.A thread

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

Today is Jayanti of Lachit Borphukan, the great Ahom general who beat back the mighty Mughal army at the Battle of Saraighat and thwarted Aurangzeb's ambition of expanding the Mughal

Sammuddra Gupta

Sammuddraa

Thread on Mighty "AHOMS" and Battle of Saraighat where Mughals lost to much smaller army of ahoms led by Lachit Borphukan. The Ahom kingdom was established in 1228 when Sukaphaa

Lone Wolf Ratnakar

GabbarSanghi

Today is the death anniversary of Mokshagundam Visweswarayya, One of the builders of modern India, an engineering genius, and one of the greatest Indians of modern era. founder of the

Greens for HS2

Greens4HS2

We often hear from Greens, including very senior ones, that #HS2 is a climate disaster because it won’t be CO2-neutral for a long time. “120 years!” is quoted, “HS2’s own

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

Today is Jayanti of Shri #MokshagundamVisvesvaraya in whose honor #EngineersDay is celebrated. One of the builders of modern India, an engineering genius, and one of the greatest Indians of modern

Alex Romankiw

russiankiwi3

In honour of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme fully opening yesterday, time for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work at the A14/A428/M11 Girton Interchange and Bar Hill

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So lets have a look at Richard Holmes' Goodwood ep of #WarWalks, broadcast back in 1996. A heady time as the war really shifted into popular memory with the landmark

Daniel

DanielCJonas

No better than time than the present to dive into Will and Ariel Durant's, The Story of Civilization.Narrating Western history over 11 volumes, 10,000 pages, 4 mil words, & 375