#1861

Jack McLachlan

JMcL14

What's in a name? This is Dr Margaret Todd, Scottish physician, author, and feminist. She coined the word ISOTOPE after hearing Frederick Soddy describe them at a dinner party and

someotherva

atharva_karn

Police brutality in India is a direct result of the country's colonial legacy.[A Thread] The Indian Police was founded on the basis of laws (The Police Act, 1861) enacted during

Cynical Publius

CynicalPublius

1/ I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so sordid and destructive. So, if you

Evan Smith

evanishistory

For #twitterstorians and #Simpsons fans - a thread of representations of the Presidents of the United States on the show (from George Washington to Bill Clinton - with a few

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bacsiloq

idk kung paano napunta dito ang usapan but i'm so glad it did. thanks to that og anon na g na g since last night. hahaha. medyo mahahaba but they

Adam Rothman

arothmanhistory

#GUhist286 103. Day 23. This class traces the revolutionary process of wartime emancipation. Here's a detailed chronology of key events from Lincoln's election to the ratification of the 13th Amendment...

Queer Britain

Queer_Britain

We're delighted that @FuturesBroken will be doing this month's #QBTakeover with a queer walking tour of Reading. Broken Futures is a community-based project delivered by @SupportULGBT a support and wellbeing

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

H a r d i k G u p t a

hardik95_

Recent NCRB data shows a grim picture of Rajasthan. We need to hold lawmakers accountable, ask them tough questions. Approx 71% of cases go unreported (NCRB 2006). I know things

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meninadocabelo3

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)he American was born in the east of the USA in a condition of slavery. Her entire family was enslaved, and the young woman, aware of her condition,

Parveen Atwal - #AllLivesMatter

ParveenAtwal3

I love looking at early photographs of rural settings, but these caught my eye because they were apparently taken just ten years after my own home was built to house

Municipal Dreams

MunicipalDreams

1/ THREAD: a walk through Camden from Kentish Town West Overground station to Hampstead Heath station. First up one I couldn't find much about: 63 Prince of Wales Road -

Rachel Shelden

rachelshelden

Been thinking a lot about how this mirrors a major element of the lead up to and unfolding of the Secession Crisis in 1860-61. It's not a 1-1 comparison but,

فــیــضــــان Faizaan Ahmed

FaAlifAnsari

Thread#MuslimsAndPatriotism#MuslimFreedomFighters#IndependenceDayIndiaMaulana Abul Kalam Azad, probably the only name which comes to our minds if asked about muslims who fought for the freedom of India. Alas, the modern Indian history books

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chuprehtu

The LGBTQ and Hinduism: A Thread#YesHomoVivaah•Shiva and Vishnu together took the incarnation of Shiva-Narayana and gave birth to Ayappa Swami.•Vatayasyana wrote Kama-Sutra which defines the concepts of ThirdGender(transgender) and Svai

Kevin M. Kruse

KevinMKruse

No, as a professor, I understand the Civil War was fought over slavery, because that's what the South repeatedly said the Civil War was about. https://twitter.com/ClarkDell00/status/1030241174211244032 In its simplest terms,