#1922

Nicholas Watt

nicholaswatt

Break: I am told that a very tense meeting of the executive of the Conservative backbench committee 1922 has just concluded. Every Tory MP at the meeting and every MP

Marxist Soccer

MarxistSoccer

The Liberal critique of "New Atheism" is that they're too confrontational, rude, and mean. The Marxist critique of "New Atheism" is that they don't nearly go far enough and are

Jeff Crisp

JFCrisp

From the Nobel Prize speech of the first High Commissioner for Refugees, 1922:"The golden produce of the earth has been trampled under iron feet, the land lies in ruins everywhere,

The Irish Story

theirishstory

Currently working on article on Civil War (1922-23) casualties in Co Limerick. In the meantime we've previously had three articles on CW casualties in Dublin, Tipperary and Cork. Will post

Peter Giuliano

PeterGiuliano

Lots of coffee people assume that coffee quality was mediocre to bad in 'the old days'. However, the more I read about how people like Ukers and Bickford thought about

pink hoodie

PiinkStupidi

Thread time people because i can't sleep. Today's train talk will be about other ideas of what Thomas' basis could be.Now, it's no doubt that Thomas is obviously based off

Colin McKay

DerorCurrency

1918: quote of alleged appeal made on behalf of "6,000,000 Jews" in "a terrible state" in Russia. This line curious:"..the Kaiser .. fearing to come out publicly in Germany, *where

José Martí

JoseJuMarti

Using strictly Lenin's words on the subject, "state capitalism" describes certain aspects of the New Economic Policy (NEP); it encompasses the revolutionary transitory period between capitalism & communism. "State cap

Konstantinos Travlos PhD

PhdTravlos

Let us talk about the two top senior officer “jobbers” of the Greek Army 1919-1922. By “jobber” I mean an officer who is considered useful for some tasks, but

Global Financial Data

GlobalFinData

Pepsi History thread: Between 1922 and 1934, Pepsi-Cola’s financial situation was so bad that three times Pepsi-Cola approached Coca-Cola and offered to sell out to their competitor. All three times

Folklore Film Fans Are STAYING AT HOME 🕷️🇪🇺

FolkloreFilmFes

To celebrate #WorldDraculaDay - a thread with some of our favourite vampire films.1) The film that really put Vampires on the map and had a massive cinematic & cultural impact:

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist and chemist Esther Conwell, whose work with Weisskopf on the scattering of electrons by impurities in semiconductors was essential to understanding transistors and the development of integrated circuits, was

Mark Hooper

markjhooper

Tory 1922 committee desperate for return to normality - referencing balancing economy & deaths.Price worth paying....@BBCr4today Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown suggested the virus was 'potentially deadly'. The @FT are reporting 43,000

Jim Leary

Jim_Leary

Photograph of Richard Atkinson peering into a void inside Silbury Hill in the 1960s.From the Alexander Keiller Museum archive. And here he is with the great Magnus Magnusson for the

The Irish Story

theirishstory

Certain amount of talk on the 'Belfast Pogrom' lately - that is violence, disproportionately ag. Catholics there from 1920-22. Most intense period was spring 1922. Want to tweet a little

KenFranklin

KenFZill

I just finished reading 'Toronto' by Bruce West (1967).It made me misty-eyed towards my city's past and a wish to read about the 53 years since. Here is another city