#Memorials

Betsy Phillips

AuntB

Today I'm going to try to get into the Lake Providence Edmondson Cemetery. When Miss Willie Davis deeded the cemetery to a group of cemetery trustees, she said there should

Jay Hulme

JayHulmePoet

Ever since St Wulfram's in Grantham won the Finest Non-Cathdral UK Church twitter competition I ran near the start of lockdown, I'd been meaning to visit. Now that she's open

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. JULIA ROBINSON, 1919-1985. Best known for solving Hilbert's Tenth Problem, Julia Robinson had a long and impressive mathematical career. She was born in St. Louis

Izu_ManaMana

NwagbaraIzuchuk

Strathmore University, Kenya's law students just won this year's Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Competition; last year they won the John H Jackson World Moot on International Trade Law.

Guy Emerson Mount

GuyEmersonMount

Poor little Dinesh. Just as wrong & confused as ever. Activists HAVE been targeting the slaveholding legacy of Douglas for years at the University of Chicago (a place he founded

Dudley Giles

battleguide

"His life inspired in me a joy that shall outlast eternity". These are the words that Dorothy Sale chose for her husband's epitaph. Lt Richard Sale was just one of

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier

S_Mittermeier

Today is #WorldAIDSDay2020. Many excellent books of queer studies & history discuss this pandemic, never more timely. Here are some of them, focusing on the US and Germany. For a

the master and margaritaville

MissPavIichenko

everyone: "germany has done such a great job confronting their past and coming to terms with the nazis and the holocaust! they're an example to us all!"germany: they also have

jay 🌿

jaymc82

Had to shelve the longer walk to the Tarn bird sanctuary that I’d planned because I’m not feeling up to it today, but I did get to Hither Green cemetery

John Locke

jlocke613

https://twitter.com/Cantguardmike/status/1276871295146360834 For those who don't know, this is the Arch of Titus, which stands in Rome today. It celebrates the ransacking and destruction of our Temple and the killing and

Carole Hope

CaroleHope4

1/12 Modern memorials on the Western Front, what do Twitter historians think? This is my take on Kay’s tweet. I agree the stone memorial is nice, but disagree on the

Ethan Walker

ethanmwalker

One of the hardest things to deal with as a black student at BYU are the subtle ways that white supremacy inserts itself into campus culture. This flavor of white

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Across the UK are a number of nondescript, coded memorials placed by various associations commemorating their war dead.A number are Waffen-SS memorials to those who propagated Nazi atrocities.In Britain.In 2020.

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

Our story began on a roadside outside Halifax.By the 1960s, Old St Matthew’s was elegant, forlorn and empty. Its days were numbered. The Bishop of Wakefield called for its demolition.

Chris Creegan

Chris_Creegan

THREAD. It’s National HIV Testing Week. #HIVTestWeek HIV is still with us, despite huge progress since the dark days brought to our TV screens in #ItsASin What can 40 years

João Florêncio

NoisyBits

“It’s a sin,” or where was Russell T Davies when it happened? I’ve finally started watching it and I’ve been struggling. From the get go—from the first seconds in—the

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