#1857

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/25Barely three years since the 1857 Mutiny, Edward set up India's second brewry in Murree, a sleepy mountain resort near Rawalpindi. The town had a small British garisson that had

Indic Scout

IndicScout

Maharaja Ranbir Singh Jamwal of Jammu & Kashmir, brought up in the hard school of his father who had given him ample training as a Soldier & a Statesman &

Livy Face Masquée 😷

LivyEtoile

L’#Expo "Les Contes Étranges de N. H. Jacobsen" au musée #Bourdelle s’achève le 26/07. Première rétrospective consacrée aux sculpteur/céramiste danois contemporain de Bourdelle, elle invite à pénétrer un univers tout

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi from @_SimonLeese. This week I’ll be tweeting about Arabic literature and multilingualism in 18th/19th century North India. I’m interested in how Arabic writers imagine their place in a larger

Suzette Smith

suzettesmith

There’s a small, vigil in Director Park tonight—tea lights surround small placards that describe massacres of Indigenous people by white settlers in 1850s Oregon. This first placard reads "This display

Peter_hopkirk_respecter ☝🏻🇬🇧

PHRespecter

OTD in 1857 Captain John Nicholson, the Lion of Punjab, was given command of a moveable column with the aim of reaching the besiged city of Delhi from Peshwar and

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

[Thread] Napoleon’s Grande Armée veterans.Some of the earliest photographs of veterans are a series of fifteen original sepia views of members of Napoleon’s army taken when these old soldiers were

Zoya Rasul

zoyarasul

1/When an islamophobe sets out to explain what isn't islamophobia you know some giant lies and wrapped hate is to follow.The classic way to get away with your bigotry is

Gujaratriots.com

Gujaratriotscom

#VeerSavarkar ie Vinayak Damodar aka Swatantryaveer Savarkar [स्वातंत्र्यवीर] was born on 28 May 1883. He formed Revolutionary organization 'Mitramela' in 1900 aged only 17 and expanded it to 'Abhinav

Lila Krishna

lilastories

Okay. It's #Savarkar_Jayanti. #Savarkar's birth anniversary. We all know he went to Kalapani. But do we know WHY? I'm writing a novel based off of those events, so I've been

🌙✨elsa ‘,`

Elsa_Mariaaaa

@aliciakeys @Verizon @WaldmannBrewery could use some help! Here’s our story:In 2008 my dad bought an old house down the street from us to save it from being demolished. But Little

Emily Pothast

emilypothast

Something that I think should be much more foregrounded than it currently is in discussions of recent events involving 'Antifa' in Portland (and the Pacific Northwest more broadly) is the

Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D.

KeriLeighMerrit

I have so much to do today but if I could I'd write an op-ed on the ways slaveholders & the #Confederacy kept poor whites uneducated, illiterate, & ignorant of

slovborg 🦬

slovborg

If you're on this side of the internet and a fan of Lord of the Rings, you've probably wondered before: What was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's ancestry? Where does his

Manimugdha Sharma

quizzicalguy

It's a tad surprising to see Indians cheering Turkey's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. I also see claims that the Ottoman Sultan and not the Mughal emperor

Paul 🌹📚 Cooper

PaulMMCooper

One thing I love about history is how small & insignificant things at the time can end up telling us so much.A good example is how 1,800 years ago a