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Dr Rebecca Senior

rebeccalsenior

Second session of my #monuments research series is LIVE at - http://nottingham.ac.uk/go/CRVCmonuments. It explores monuments in the contexts of #socialjustice movements in the 2010s. Please share! Also a few of

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Oh we're still talking about statues are we? This is a vapid, superficial failure of an argument and it bugs me that an MP who read history at a top

james stout

jamesstout

Year-end threads are a bit hard for British people who feel very awkward about such things. But here are some stories I wrote, and the amount I made. Hopefully, this

Paddy Docherty 3.5%

paddydocherty

Establishment Psychopathy: a selection of evidence setting out some of the ways in which colonial violence & structural racism continue to privilege our “ruling class”... [thread of threads] #ColonialViolence

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Mary Beard and Simon Goldhill just finished a Cambridge webinar on "Statue Wars — Controversy and Debate" comparing ancient use and abuse of statues to what's happening now. Here's some

YouGov

YouGov

THREAD/ We've conducted a representative new survey of 1,270 BAME Britons. YouGov's @TanyaSAbraham looks at perceptions and experience of racism in British society, attitudes towards the Black Lives Matter movement,

Matthew Fulton

kingbowski

Well that’s it. I am quitting @UKLabour. I don’t expect anyone to care, but let me explain via this thread why, so as to act as a cathartic cleansing for

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

The statues debate seemed to have lost its momentum. - Oriel College are recommending moving Cecil Rhodes, the Telegraph reports.https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1273330482550276098 An Independent Commission on Inquiry will look in

Katie Sheds

ShedsKatie

On statues, BLM, & Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ (a thread). I was talking to a colleague recently about the kids in their bubble who were, for want of a better term,

Joel Smyth

FF_Smyth

Dynasty Stash of the WeekQuez Watkins - WR - #Eagles 6’0” 193 lbs22.6 yrs oldThe rookie speedster has flashed w/ fellow rookie Jalen Hurts taking over the Eagles. The 6th

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

Joining the dots between Fallism and Restitution — a new op-ed by me and @nickmirzoeff in New African Magazinehttps://twitter.com/newafricanmag/status/1295239099566174208 ‘Fallism’ is an African movement – and one with a long

John Lubbock

jwsal

Simon Heffer, writing in the Telegraph, eggs on the culture secretary Oliver Dowden to remove the charitable status of heritage bodies which are “hijacked by activist sentiment”. This may be

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD—SCOOP1)Sima Ladjevardian’s family has apparently been smuggling illegal cargo from #Iran pocketing millions of dollars. @SimaforTX is running against Rep. @DanCrenshawTX.Open-source info reveals about Ladjeverdian fiscal history,

Universal Basic Income Now, Fuckers!

holski_beat

Right so, this is late as yesterday was a shitshow tbqhwy, but as promised -Keith Starmer is a racist: the receipts edition.https://twitter.com/holski_beat/status/1278261435940974607 So first off, we have his handling of

Christine Whyte

ChristineHWhyte

“The stories of British slave rescues we never hear about...” featured in @DavidOlusoga ‘s BBC documentary Black and British (both episodes two and three)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-history-lesson-that-floats-my-boat-the-stor

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RemainingKind

1)A thread on Ancestral Responsibility in light of the BLM Movement. I would like to say that I believe that the roots of good and evil are the same. We

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