#Imperial

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

One thing civil servants learn is to write things down. Here is @acadmedsci's 14 July report commissioned by @uksciencechief. For the record. It sets out what was known in July,

Timothy Grose

GroseTimothy

1/ My 2020 top 10. Not published this year, but ones I read. Each work marks a significant contribution to its respective fields, and I greatly admire these scholars' efforts

Antiokhos in the East

AntiokhosE

China’s greatest lost city - a thread.Xi’an - or Chang’an 长安, ‘Everlasting Peace’. One of China’s most evocative ancient cities.Miles of pristine walls and moat stretch around ancient streets full

Kwasi Kwakwa (@RealSci_Nano)

RealSci_Nano

I guess we will start today with me talking about myself, something I simultaneously love and loathe doing.THREAD I was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa. Like all Ghanaians

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Let me tell you a story. It's about six passenger flights from Wuhan that led to an unprecedented global disaster.These six flights help to explain why the entire world was

Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

yusufpore

The 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzēb “Alamgīr” was born on this day in 1618 in the province of Gujarat.At the time of his birth his father, the Emperor Shah Jehan ruled

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

A glimpse behind the wizard’s curtain as we see an Imperial modeller doing some modelling. Good grief. 1/ Threadhttps://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1361418477861367809 She works on the basis that 90% of people will have

Helene von Bismarck

HeleneBismarck

So what is this grand #GlobalBritain project that PM @BorisJohnson spoke of in his announcement of the #DfIDmerger yesterday, and what does Britain's #history, and the debate about its representation

PerpetuallyCaffeinated (COMMISSIONS PENDING)

PerpetuallyC

I KNOW I've posted about this multiple times but --Thinking about Hux and how complicated his relationship with masculinity/men must be in canon. As far as we're told, every man

WarringStates

StatesWarring

Notice something? These are all from the Han Dynasty or later. Qin gets portrayed as a sort of bronze age North Korea (especially by Han writers - just fancy that),

Brit & Co'wealth Forces 🇬🇧 🇲🇾 🇳🇿🇨🇦🇦🇺

BritComMil

Defenders of Rorke's DriftLt John Rouse Merriot Chard No. 5 Coy. Royal EngineersBorn near Plymouth, Chard attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. Chard

Roderic Day

RodericDay

left: Nathan Ruser, employee of weapon manufacturer think tank ASPI, explaining how he classifies "Chinese Concentration Camps"right: Iraq "War on Terror"-era propagandabottom: the Buzzfeed ghoul whose sham research got

Brendan Ciarán Browne

brendancbrowne

[Thread] 1. There are a lot of interesting side-conversations happening regarding this event, a lot of twitter chat, and many important takes. Thanks to all. I defer to the views

leekern

leekern13

Ash talks over Jews to serve her own goals. The first para shows she’s a tawdry thinker: “AS does not claim colonialism as its origin story.” The multi-dimensional abuse experienced

Ben Chu

BenChu_

Is Covid really being spread significantly in and by schools? Thread The decision by the government to relay the school return for secondary pupils by a week suggests ministers now

Lorrie Goldstein

sunlorrie

Now for the news that will be buried today with Canada's decision to designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist group.Nine of the 13 groups designated by Canada today are

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