#Gibraltar

THE POLYMATH ➐

shahowais__

1) The Umayyad conquest of Hispania, also known as the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula or the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom, was the initial expansion of the

Nick Britten

Nick_Britten

Forgotten Defenders of Rorke's Drift.Next up is Sergeant Henry Gallagher. Henry Edward Gallagher was born in March 1855 at Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland.His parents died when he was young so

Dr Laura Cahillane

LaurCah

Some quotes on judicial misconduct – a ThreadWe don’t have any definition of the constitutional standard for removal so here are some interesting passages on that issue for context: ‘When

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 26th instalment of #deanehistory. It’s a request job: thank you, @KingBobIIV!Thomas Pellow, from Cornwall, was 11 years old when he was serving in the summer of 1715

Steve Lawrence

SteveLawrence_

So, what just broke?His Éminence Grise, in customary hair-shirt attire, walked out of the front door of @10DowningStreet, inviting paperrazification, with his festering Hard-Brexit in a cardboard box, threatening a

Rory Cormac

RoryCormac

Want to know about a UK covert operation (just declassified)? [SHORT THREAD]It’s 1966 and Gibraltar is soon to hold a referendum on its sovereignty UK knows it will win but

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

November 1940 was one of the most eventful & significant months of #WW2 at sea for the @RoyalNavy with fleets in action in the Atlantic & Mediterranean, while in the

César

polaris_astro

The Great Conjunction and the rise and fall of kingdoms: a mini-thread on the Caliphate of Córdoba.In 929 AD, the Emir of Córdoba decided to declare himself Caliph. The Caliphate

loch ness koi ★ flop era

felagifighters

representation in apex legends : a thread hi!! I wrote this thread a few days ago replying to a tweet praising apex for its "good" representation. I am making it

Randy

Randy_Anglo

Randy's political heroes.Henry VIII starts English modernity by making us a sovereign, self-governing entity. He establishes the absolute power of the King-in-Parliament as the only legitimate jurisdiction in England. Elisabeth

Dark World

raahgeerr

[THREAD]Fall of AndalusiaThis is the banner of the Islamic army in Andalusia on the day of the Battle of Punishment - This battle in which the Muslims were defeated and

Great War Huts

GreatWarHuts

In 1936 the Cunard White Star cruise ship RMS Lancastria took a large party of First World War veterans on a pilgrimage cruise to their former battlefields and the #GreatWarHutsCollection

Younes

kmlyounes

Thread on Al Andalus (moorish andalusia, 711-1492) (finally) It all started in 711. Tariq Ibn Ziyad invaded spain as a commander for Ummayad Calif Walid I. He gave Gibraltar it's

Santi

SantiLUHG_v2

DEMYSTIFYING SIR ALEX FERGUSON [A THREAD]The first step to revert the current situation is to stop romanticising SAF. Acknowledge he’s to blame, having lowered the standards himself with his transfer

FredWatsonII

FredWatsonII

What’s a counterfactual history for Mussolini’s Italy? It cannot be fantastic. Must be grounded in reality. It also must account for Cold War reality. The path a neutral Mussolini could

Nick Britten

Nick_Britten

It's that time of year again when in the run up to the Battle of Rorke's Drift we detail some of the defenders, first up Alfred SaxtyForgotten Defenders of Rorke's

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