#History

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

A thread of threads on @stephenniem's posts on Islamic art, archaeology, and cultural heritage this week, in which we traveled from Damascus to Delhi and from Palmyra to Palermo and

Rhodri Davies ☕️ 🤔

Rhodri_H_Davies

Just noticed this Guardian piece from yesterday arguing that crowfunding carries the risk of reintroducing "Victorian" notions of the deserving versus undeserving poor (a point I've been arguing about the

Ougoala

ObiomaUgoala

So what can we do now? Well firstly education is key. As an adult these are some essential texts that are worth reading from @akalamusic @afuahirsch @renireni @AdamRutherford We are

vDarkness Falls

VDarknessF

Nikola Teslas Plasma Ball spun @ high RPMS perfectly match the Flux Capacitor needed for Time Travel in Back To The Future. The MAGNETIC FLUX CAPACITOR.This would be why [They]

God-is Rivera

GodisRivera

As the parent of a Black child in private school (& a former student myself) these hot takes from white parents about their hand-wringing over their kids reading & re-examining

Guilaine Kinouani

KGuilaine

I was thinking how in the US through specific periods/events e.g. Antebellum, Jim Crow, school to prison pipeline...so you can easily see the morphing of whiteness across time, how as

Carlton Reid

carltonreid

Is there really a bike boom right now? Gloriously, there are many many more people riding bicycles than this time last year. This is due to dearth of cars on

NO THOUGHTS, ONLY PUPPIES

magellancoleman

Gems from my classical history course notes because I'm procrastinating: "Athens burns (uh oh)""Mardonius gets sent to do stuff""Delphi discovered late 19th c. CE under modern village SO THEY MOVED

Gillian Frank

1gillianfrank1

Does irony even translate on Zoom? Tune into my next online lecture to find out. How's my lecture going? I'm on twitter while it writes itself. Will anyone even notice

Irish Whiskey Barry

irishwhiskeybc

Irish Twitter, help me compile a list of the best pubs in Ireland that are special and worth a detour. The kind you'd send a good friend to.I'll start: The

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

This is positively medieval! It is just like in the times of the Roman Republic! That is the new Holy Roman Empire!Today in #MethodologyMonday thread we tackle comparisons with

You'll Be Alright lol

EasyWorkLmfao

The original people of Southeast Europe were Black. The indigenous people were ethnolinguistically related to the indigenous BLACK people of North Africa AND Southwest Asia AKA "The Middle East".EVERYONE IN

David Chapman

davidchapman141

Thread on my election prediction:My prediction is based solely on history and historical trends.The biggest issue in the campaign is Covid-19.There has been 11 Incumbents to face a pandemic during

Decriminalised Futures

decrimfutures

We are live! Will also be live tweeting here in this thread so please feel free to follow along. #WeCanBuild https://twitter.com/decrimfutures/status/1306294240016621573 Becka Hudson @becka_sh is our host, currently introducing our

Madison voted early! ☆

35mmadi

Doing a class project involving thoughts on whether Black history should be required curriculum at UT. If any UT students wanna be a part of my data, please fill out

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

The Church of England is asking its parishes and Cathedrals to review monuments relating to histories of slavery, colonialism and contested history. The guidance places an emphasis on local dialogue,