#Patronage

Caroline Fiennes

carolinefiennes

Giving Evidence today publishes #research about Royal patronages of charities: what are they, which charities have them, and whether they help. It's in today's @TheTimes (£). Our findings include these

David Roberts

drvolts

1. OK, it's been a couple weeks since my last Trump thread. Time to down some Pepto Bismol & jump back in.First: the US intelligence services that Trump alternately insults

Aya Majzoub

Aya_Majzoub

(1/5) #Lebanon has been in lockdown for nearly a month. But the government has yet to distribute assistance to families in need. A week ago, Social Affairs Minister launched a

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Lots of cool #NBERday papers today!We'll focus on two papers tackling a big question:Q: Does the US have a politically neutral civil service?A: No.#NBERdayhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28673 https://www.nber.org/papers/w28665

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/9 Modern Shi’i Islam as we know it would not exist without South Asia. It all starts in #Lucknow in North India. From 1775-1856, the city was the capital of

APA Zimbabwe

APAZimbabwe

Newsday reports that "The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Con-ference says Zimbabwe has lost an opportunity in the past 40 years to redefine its his-tory, foster national healing & to end corruption,

(((Benjamin Yee))) 余炳文

yben

As you watch the @BOENYC #MailInVoting debacle unfold, here is your semi-regular reminder that in NY State the Board of Elections isn't staffed by civil servants or election professionals, it's

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) A little post office history you may not have known.2) By the 1830s, the Post Office was a powerful force in American society. 3) Beginning in 1826, with Martin

Simonh Bries

bsimonhsays

Utang na Loob (UnL) is quite a rich concept in Sikolohiyang Pilipino. The problem isn't the value itself, but the political and cultural forces that co-opted it to mean "returning

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194388946861600769 As we have seen, in the first 200 years of Islam, enslaved people ran the households of wealthy

Gaurav Pradhan 🇮🇳

OfficeOfDGP

1#SSRCase ThreadCRIME is entangled threads. It has many loose endsउलझे हुए धागे होते है जिन्हे सुलझाना पड़ता है SSR Case is Crime+Politics & without knowing histo

Chxta

Chxta

The irresponsibility of business leaders in #Nigeria has enabled bad behaviour. In October 2017 for the 50th anniversary of the #AsabaMassacre, an event in which my grandfather was killed by @HQNigerianArmy,

Mike Wallis

mikewallis11

Reading this has been on my to-do list for a couple of weeks, given there is a non-zero chance this will happen. Will give some thoughts once I've actually read

Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)

adamscochran

1/15While some of these companies would genuinely need the cash for employees (like media companies) its gross to see well funded protocols get funded.What's atrocious as all hell is how

Ussama Makdisi

UssamaMakdisi

Some historical context for #Lebanon and its sectarian system.1. The initial sectarian system was introduced in mid-19th century in Mount Lebanon when the Arab East was under Ottoman rule.

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Today this era is largely remembered for Raja-Raja CholaBut we forget Sembiyan Mahadevi - Raja Raja's grandmotherIn some ways the Ahalyabai Holkar of her day - a legendary queen whose