#Britain

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

Fifty one years ago, on September 14 1969, the Seaquest drilling rig struck oil for the first time in the North Sea. Brendan McKeown, its superintendent, took a helicopter out

Dr. Bodie A. Ashton

manwithoutatan

So here’s the deal. In the aftermath of Wednesday’s coup, many have been looking to history to find examples of what we can expect now. This is in many ways

Prof Susan Oosthuizen 💙

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. The origins of English villages like Spaldwick, Hunts., so typical of the rural landscape, is a question that’s puzzled historians and archaeologists for generations. (Photo from Christopher Taylor’s masterfully

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

10 Biggest Bank Robberies of All TimeThieves made off with billions in these daring, historic heists.A THREAD 10. The Dunbar Armored robberyStolen: $18.9 millionIn 1997,6 men pulled off what remains

Azzad Alsalem

AzzatAlsaleem

Sunni neighbors started killing Yezidis after refusing convert to Islam.10,000 Yezidis were killed and 7000 were enslaved after refusing convert to Islam.3000 are still missing.104 victims are buried today #ضحايا_كوجو

The Lies They Tell

sarahstuartxx

Owen Jones in conversation with Frankie BoyleGuardian Live event 17 December 2020 So Frankie Boyle appearing looking like an axe murderer … … whilst Owen Jones was all coy in response

Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

vivamjm

"No deal" food shortage fears in "news" yet again (with no doubt the usual 'project fear' retorts). Let's see if I can *again* (as an ex logistics freight forwarding customs

Badger North is a badger

MxBadgerNorth

Thanks to the work of LGBT activists and historians, LGBT histories are being identifiedHow can we identify autistic histories? Normally we look at documentation and material culture. But how can

Nicholas Drummond

nicholadrummond

BRITSH ARMY HEADCOUNT REDUCTION (Thread)Looking back at personnel cuts made in 2010, a reduced Army of 82,000 didn’t help Britain regain its financial strength, it simply signified a hollowing-out of

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW: Sources: Cummings seeks minimalist U.K. state aid regime without statutory U.K. regulator after #brexit - leading to fears of “free-for-all” in UK and probs for EU-U.K. deal. My @FT

Maureen Fitzsimmons

mojos55

False #Equivalence is Killing the #BBC – and It’s Killing Us, Too As the national broadcaster continues to provide a platform for #Coronavirus fringe science, Patrick Howse explores how its

Michael J Barany

MBarany

There's an aspect of this 2+2 thing that I think is really important and that has generally been overlooked, so you know what that means:(thread) WHAT IS ACTUALLY *RACIST* ABOUT

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

A question I pose to my grad students: should we trust data, especially historic data?Take historic international trade data. Should we trust it? [THREAD] What do I mean by "historic"?

Unathi Kwaza

Unathi_Kwaza

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/return-to-the-rubiconReturn to the Rubicon:The exclusion of blacks from the Tricameral Parliament turned out to be a major obstacle to any progress the government had hoped to make in attracting black

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from "No Colours or Crest: The Secret Struggle for Europe" by Peter Kemp Long out of print, this book was recently republished by the excellent publishing company

Fledgist 🥀🇯🇲🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fledgist

On 1 August 1834, Britain abolished slavery in its colonies. While this was greeted with rejoicing by the slaves of the British West Indies, and by British abolitionists, not everyone

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