#Royal

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

Congrats #HarryandMeghan #DukeandDuchessofSussex on expecting their second baby - great news.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56065300 So now criticism ‘they wanted privacy so why this?’ 1) privacy NOT reason for requesting for pt status-w

Lost Glasgow

LostGlasgow

The crystal ship - the Carrick, moored on the Clyde, in 1959.Built in Sunderland, in 1864, to carry immigrants to Australia, and wool and copper back to Blighty, she later

Katie Donington

KatieDonington

Following another reductive misrepresentation of work by @corinne_fowler @ColonialCountr1 a thread on botany & slavery. Pic: yellow leaved Hibbertia, native 2 Australia. Named 4 George Hibbert - slave-owner/amateur botanist. His

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

#TodayInHistory The Naval Ratings Mutiny begins in 1946, as Indian naval officers, sailors revolt against the British, in one of the biggest challenges ever they faced. A forgotten mutiny that

Bill Marczak

billmarczak

We've got a neat new @citizenlab report out, looking at NSO Group affiliate company Circles, the we-spy-without-hacking-your-phone guys, who reportedly exploit flaws in mobile phone networks themselves. We ID'd a

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

#OTD in 1945, Operation Sankey, an amphibious landing on the small island of Cheduba in Burma (now Munaung in Myanmar) took place. It is notable for using an otherwise little

Raphaël Enthoven

Enthoven_R

La saynète du SMS entre #LeDrian, #segoleneroyal et Macron se trouve déjà dans "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu", avec le Baron de Charlus ds le rôle de Le Drian,

Christian Parkinson

redcoathistory

I'm going to start my thread today with a quick look at the Battle of Nyezane. Most people don't realise that this Anglo-Zulu War battle was a British victory fought

David H. Montgomery

dhmontgomery

A brief thread on medieval sovereign debt, inspired by unanswered questions after the finale of #GameOfThrones. Quotations are cited from James Macdonald’s history of sovereign debt, “A Free Nation Deep

angus young

angus_young61

RIP Bob Mason, former chief photographer at the Hull Daily Mail. Worked with him on many jobs, including the truly traumatic Lockington train crash. Here are two of his best

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

"A Royal Flush" "At the moment, POTUS is sitting on a stack of Trump cards that he’s just waiting to unleash…a royal flush!" "He has court cases that will go

Harry Wallop

hwallop

This is Meshe Osinsky, aged 19, in 1904 – outside his very first business, a tailor’s shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He’d arrived in UK 4yrs previously speaking no English and

rachel syme

rachsyme

so last night we watched a bonkers film from 1988 called vibes, which if you can believe it is an adventure romcom about two psychic mediums who get caught up

Robert McNees

mcnees

Isaac Newton was made aware of Jean Bernoulli's "brachistochrone" problem #OTD in 1697. He solved it later that evening, showing that the curve of fastest descent between two points was

DiscoverDublin

dublin_discover

St. John the Baptist Church, Drumcondra – The present church, dating to 1741, actually sits on the site of a church dating back many hundreds of years. Belonging to the

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IlluminateDark8

The Secret History of the British 'Royals'[NEW THREAD] Please RT if you like this post I've been inspired to make this post after researching Gregory Hallett's claims that he is

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