#1920s

Mzala Tom

tlsibanda

1. IZAYONI /ZION CHURCHES Umnxeba.... Izayoni /Iziyoni African churches are well established in Southern Africa. These churches are linked to the missionary work of the Christian Catholic Church

shrill kingdom come

theshrillest

I'm glad that the 1921 Tulsa pogrom is gaining higher prominence in the popular American memory (there's probably a better phrase for that but I either don't know it or

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5An important point over which Chen Yulu is right to worry. The US-China trade relationship is a kind of machine that converts US consumption into Chinese savings, which in turn

Nat Bullard

NatBullard

It was not until 1955 that the U.S. had more tractors than horses and mules working on farms. A brief thread (from this awesome paper) on what mechanization did for

Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall

spyhistory

#Wednesday #WomeninBritishIntel Freya Stark (1893-1993) Travel explorer, writer, photographer, #spy working in the #MiddleEast during the interwar period & SWW. The only historian to-date to successfully grapple with her secret

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1) I will start with my work on an unexpected periphery #Beirut. Early Islamic Beirut. Yes, Beirut conjures images of the sunny Mediterranean, of cosmopolitanism, and joie de vivre, and

Stentorian Historian

AdroitlyAbsurd

/1 https://twitter.com/karengeier/status/1341429856047927302 First, content alert: There will be images in this thread that are disturbing. Historical images including acts of violence, Klan activity, etc./2 Don’t get me wrong; there’s

Arthur Kimes

ComradeArthur

(Baseball)I've been wondering for a while about why there are so much fewer complete games than just a couple of decades ago. Are pitchers that much different? What's going on?FINALLY

Olly Owen

MrOllyOwen

On behalf of the team at Oxford African Studies centre and the @oxmartinschool we'd like to express our thanks to Nigeria's Federal Minister of Transportation @ChibuikeAmaechi for personally attending the

⭐Nereide🪐

Nereide

1/#MaxBorn also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.In 1921, the year he became Professor

Marxist Twink

Leninisttwink

Black migration to the USSR: A thread Disclaimer: The experiences of some Black people don’t always account for all Black people, we all have diverse experiences that are unique and

Brit & Co'wealth Forces 🇬🇧 🇲🇾 🇳🇿🇨🇦🇦🇺

BritComMil

Singapore History of Sentosa Blakang Mati Artillery BarracksLocated at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barracks was built in 1904.The former British stronghold was named

Zora Hauser

ZoraHauser

#Ndrangheta in Switzerland: public prosecution investigates 6 individuals for money laundering, importing counterfeit money, drug trafficking, and weapon trafficking. Is it an underestimated phenomenon? A short thread 1/ The #ndrangheta

Ed Barnard

ewbarnard

Remember when Al Capone announced what the judge was going to say... and the judge was having none of it? Seems relevant to November 2020, doesn't it! It all has

Ndiviwe Mphothulo

Nmphothulo

Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of the brutal murder of Dr Fabian Ribero & his wife Florence. Dr Ribeiro was assassinated for his work in exposing police brutality & for

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

soooo organic is what happened when Europe had to start using artificial fertilizers bc they'd spent 100+ yrs throwing sewage into the ocean & the land was all out of

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