#Britain

Rachael Swindon

Rachael_Swindon

I have spent years disliking the Conservatives, and what they stand for. That’s no secret. The last decade has been a miserable time for millions of people, me included. That’s

John Radoux #ScrapSI445

JohnRadoux

A thread: reasons to #ScrapSI445, in no particular order, followed by a personal story. The torture and murder of Dennis O'Neill:https://www.thetcj.org/child-care-history-policy/the-monckton-report-by-sir-william-monckton https://www.th

NewAfrikanMind

NewAfrikanMind

Was looking through the Race & Slavery Petitions Project while doing genealogical research last night, & stumbled upon this case of an Atlantic slaver, John Holman: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions/details.aspx?pid=1085The

🅰ntiquity Journal

AntiquityJ

#Archaeology: Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age settlement on an artificial island in Somerset, . Now, a new programme of dating reveals the site was founded ~160 BC and

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😷

OwsWills

On Wales' south coast lies a legend.It was called Côr Tewdws, the grandest centre of Christian study on the planet.At its peak it attracted over 2,000 students—princes, saints and scholars.It

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So do the (and did the pre-lockdown) events planed for the VE-Day 75th Anniversary represent commemoration, celebration, nationalism or deeply ingrained cultural norms?Time to sit down, have a cuppa, as

Nick von Westenholz

nvonwestenholz

Dominic Lawson’s again waded in on the issue of trade policy, food and standards of production. Difficult to discern the thrust of his argument, but I think it is “a

Alfonz the Cavalier

AlfonzCavalier

As a massive Culloden nerd, I present a thread about the battle:https://twitter.com/NoTrueScotist/status/1250653911939088385 First, the context. The 45 is often presented today as a Scotland vs England thing, but it was

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Some child food poverty stats-4.2 million children are in relative child poverty (2.4 million of whom in absolute poverty, 3.7 million in absolute poverty after housing costs)-72% of kids living

Noble Brown🗡

Sociopathlete

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last weekIt's important to put this in historical contextHow do great republics end?https://twitter.com/theroyalonee/status/1263378893681184770 Our earliest relevant example is Athens, wh

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

We have to face the possibility that our government is planning economic destruction for its own political ends – which are the demise of the state as we know it

John Bull

garius

Right. So this gives me an opportunity to tell my favourite WW2 tea story. I came across it in a short, limited run book of first-hand accounts of tea in

Prof Paul James Cardwell

Cardwell_PJ

Amongst the noise about what the UK govt now says are great opportunities in an 'Australian-style deal' (i.e. no deal), bear in mind that the gov't in 2012 already looked

Ramzy Alwakeel

journoramzy

Today's the last day at @HuffPostUK for 17 of us. And we're going out on a high – this week we've published some great examples of the stories that we

Jeb J. Card

ahtzib

On UFOs and the paranormal and power, some thoughts.Note, I respect everyone so far in this conversation, I think they all have done serious research on this and don't disagree,

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

Threaten Nat Emergency, DECLAS, get eyes here then act in UK. #Qanon https://twitter.com/scottiebateman/status/1083524638372777984 So.... you might be wondering what we did in the UK? Based on codes both on 8ch