#Imperial

Manchester Museum

McrMuseum

The Manchu headdress or dian zi was given to the museum by Mrs Wood-Jones in 1939. She was the wife of Frederic Wood-Jones FRS 1879-1954 one of the founders of

I Am Incorrigible FCA

ImIncorrigible

Sweden didn't lock down or mass test the population.#Newsnight: how's it going for you in Sweden?Swedish govt science adviser: well, our hospitals aren't overrun, "but what hasn't worked out so

JamesWatson

JamesWatson210

GRAPHICLet's talk about plagues and bioweapons in China. Not in #Wuhan but in Harbin.What happens when one wicked man seizes control of a good organization?Meet Shiro Ishii. Founder of Unit

Yes, You're Racist

YesYoureRacist

Revenge of the Sith is actually good in that it accurately depicts how society can be willingly led into fascism through conspiracy theories about "elites" and the use of ethnic

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Throughout, the Covid-19 Pandemic, we’ve had scientists willing to stand up for scienceI admire and recognize these brave soulsThey are searching for truth despite a scientific narrative which is not

Electron Nightmare

ElectronNightm1

The germanics were smaller in number and less united than the romans, and yet they kicked their asses again and again. Why?The germanics were physically larger, had a home advantage,

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dontcallmesatan

STAR WARS RISE OF SKYWALKER[LIVE TWEET THREAD]mute it if you want, but I need to do this for Mannuhttps://twitter.com/MannuMellow/status/1266271043250872321 so far so good nevermind they are seriously DARING to play

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Now watching the @britishlibrary live stream where @DavidOlusoga is in conversation with @omaromalleykhan Black History Month was 'enormously overshadowed' by the Windrush scandal in 2018 and 2019. 2020 feels different.'There

Southeast Asian Historians

SEA_historian

Despite the 1950s being the decade Malaya achieved independence, the British position in Malaya was arguably the best it had in decades. With the anti-imperial organisations dismantled, the agenda for

theoutersanctum

outersanctum01

Over in the Sanctum group chat we were discussing Bri Davey’s letter to Andrew Demetriou. Felicity asked, who we all sent letters to as kids. A thread: Shelley wrote to

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zei_squirrel

since nazi germany is trending bc someone suggested the US is as bad if not worse than it, here's a reminder that the nazis studied and were inspired by US

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hvanwoong

oneus and a theory of deification(oneus, apollo and helios, classical allusions, apotheosis, and immortality from your friendly neighborhood classicist) apotheosis derives from the greek, apotheoun (apo - from, theos -

Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)🐟

ZoeSTodd

There’s a lot of discourse these days that completely collapses Indigeneity into a Native American/USA framework and also erases the visceral terror that Indigenous Peoples experience worldwide defending homelands against

Traditionalist

HinduTrad

A Short Thread on Valour of Rajputs of Jodhpur under Durgadas Rathor in Delhi.On December,1678 Maharaja Jaswant Singh died at Jamrud.On hearing about death of Jaswant Aurangzeb brought whole of

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Visvavasu

When the Vietnamese first declared independence from Tang China, you'd expect that nearly a thousand years of Chinese overlordship, you'd expect a newly independent Vietnam to be indistinguishable from any

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FullCommie

Secession is a good option for bringing socialism to the US, a thread. 1/12 Secession is when one part of a country leaves to form its own country. This can