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Robin Stevens
redbreastedbird
I’d like to share a cool historical fact with you that’s also a good reminder you should ALWAYS research the historical ‘facts’ you already ‘know’. (I put this on my
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The Walrus
thewalrus
Have you watched @bridgerton on #Netflix? If so, then you're among the 82 million viewers to watch the streamer’s most popular series. But there’s one key difference between the show
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Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley
lottelydia
I hate this trope about British “embarrassment” about their own history. The British are largely proud and/or ignorant of their own history. That’s basically the problem.https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1298233236204793857 Th
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tammie tries to read
tammie_reads
okay the work day is over so i can properly give a little rant about this and how many negative reviews about the poppy war come from a place of
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Ok, ok, fine. Why can’t an event usher a new historical period but it can belong to one or another. A thread on the ontology of the past. 1/
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Gyorgi
TweetGyorgi
The fact is everything prior to yesterday, pretty much every monument ever made, was built by some form or racism, ethnocentric ideology, or plain ignorance. If you want to burn
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celia tries to write
crossing_winter
This story was intense to write. It mattered a lot to me to do it. A few years ago, I read an article about how tiring it was, as a
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i. l. sherman
essivecase
the more i read up on catullus and pick apart his poetry (currently struggling with number 25), the more i feel confident in my decision to work on a translation
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Hammad 🇵🇰
HammadHusain1
Ref debate whether #Ertugrul was a Muslim or a pagan, here are some historical facts: 1. Ertugrul's Kayi Tribe was one of the many #Turkish tribes that settled in Anatolia
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michaelmorley11
michaelmorley11
For people who contest the historical origins of anticommandeering doctrine, the U.S. House of Representatives debated whether it was unconstitutional to require state Governors to notify the federal government of
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neuroplastic
mylesbyrne
***Background***The upcoming US presidential election in November 2020 is on track to go down in history as the moment when humanity lost its last opportunity to collectively address overwhelming global
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Hilary 🏳️🌈
circumfloribus
There is a lot of great writing and conversation happening now about the role and responsibilities of museums in society right now, but the "museum" being imagined in the discussion
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Dr Christopher Pittard
CAPittard
Today I finished Raymond Postgate's *The Ledger is Kept* (1953), a rather obscure novel which is fairly unremarkable except for one strange historical context... The novel is partially about the
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Jonathan Urick
jonathanurick
Whatever today’s outcome in the Trump tax cases, originalists and textualists need a theory explaining why it’s OK to infer constitutional rules purely from structure (as opposed to the uncontroversial
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Robin Yassin-Kassab
Qunfuz1
I read a thread by a British Jew about (extra) police presence at his synagogue because an attack had been threatened by 'supporters of Palestine'. Sadly the writer kept putting
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Haris Tarin
HarisTarin
A few important points on the Taliban and the peace process in Afghanistan: 1) Its been fascinating watching western raised liberal Afghans in the west and Afghanistan suddenly change their
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