#Britain

fourestgreen

fourestgreen

You’ve probably heard of the infamous Rosetta Stone, but do you know just how important it is in piecing together the past civilization of ancient Egypt? The Rosetta Stone is

Alexander Lanoszka

ALanoszka

Good thread, but for me the interesting question is not whether arms races lead to war (too many problems with reverse causation), but how they shape state's choices over armaments

Windsor & Royal Borough Museum

Windsor_Museum

Join us on a trip around the world in 8 posts Where will you go? What will you see? Sit back, relax & enjoy the delights of this thread

Katy Bennett

thekatybennett

Just to add to the WW2/Covid-19 discussion Britain is having, the blackout during the blitz did not arrive unchallenged. Nor did it arrive without severe consequence. Citizens did have to

India in Pixels

indiainpixels

This is how the West saw the world in 1827. In 1827, American geographer WC Woodbridge published a map called "Moral & political chart of the inhabited World. It classified

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

#TheWeekInTory 1. The govt said they had to "balance the nation’s health with our economy", and in that respect, they have succeeded: both are evenly balanced as the worst in

Sarah🔮

SDriverxxx

NHS staff are telling people, even begging people not to vote Conservative because the NHS will not last another 5 years under the Tories. So why are people who rely

Lessons of Time

LessonsOfTime

The Eight Secrets to Get RichLessons from Felix Dennis,a self-made man ranked in the top 100 of Britain's Wealthiest Individuals,by becoming a Magazine Mogul which included founding MAXIM Magazine//THREAD// 1.

North African History

NorthAfricanHi1

Archaeological Site of Volubilis in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes. The Amphitheatre of El Jem, formerly Thysdrus in the Roman province of North Africa(Tunisia). Archaeological site of Sbeitla(Tunisia).

Evan Smith

evanishistory

The Healyite Young Socialists statement on punk rock in 1977 at the YS annual conference. No mention of punk in the resolutions of the 1978 Young Socialists annual conference, but

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

frankcottrell_b

I couldn’t sleep last night so I read this. It’s by, among others, Dominic Raab and Priti Patel. It outlines their “thinking”. It's difficult to convey how ridiculous it is.

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

The bureaucracy surrounding personal protective equipment procurement is putting lives on the line. My latest for the @Telegraph:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/22/nhss-soviet-style-command-control-system-driving-ppe-woes/ 1. The Govt’s cent

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

Just posted my latest newsletter, on how necessity was *not* the mother of invention. Although invention increased in the teeth of one of England’s worst ever crises, it was because

Mallory Moore

Chican3ry

Too many people hear stuff about the religious right movement and immediately try to convert it into an own on the TERFs somehow. It's important to let facts exist independently

Flying_Rodent

flying_rodent

We can only hope all this stuff is posing and PR aimed at impressing the newspapers because if it isn’t, it’s going to be a long and very stupid few

Fives🚩

Kishkinda2

Thomas Twining, the famous tea merchant writes to EIC on the dangers of missionary activity in India & why they should be stopped.For close to 200 years EIC tried &