Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe
Hope Welsh family and friends, home and away, and all the Davids have spent a happy St David's Day. Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus
Excellent blog on remarkable survival of the shrine of St David in middle of his Cathedral.
Join us midday tomorrow 1st March. #StDavidsDay #DyddGwylDewi ππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
Chapeau, @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social And to all heritage and library social media teams in these times.
FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Governmentβs proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.
Getting ready for an online talk at 6.30pm, resurrecting an old teaching option of Chivalry and Aristocratic lifestyles. Hence a bit nervy, as not 100% my specialism! Few tickets left - organised by Curious Histories, for a small donation to a Brighton charity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/knighthood...
This makes me so cross I'd better not say anymore ...
For obvious reasons, spotting Auden every week or so over this autumn/ winter has been a sobering reminder of the power of poetry.
TfL has long championed art and design in our capital, and poetry is no exception.
Great piece on sharing the power of the written word as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground β¬οΈ
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"The idea that money is being wasted is far more comforting than the recogniton that it was never there"
Ha! adding to the museum/archives social media manager game on the Sky. π
Less excited by article's description of 14th-century Rolle as "early medieval" or the weird spelling switching! But reminder that there's still new evidence being found and new historical questions to ask. I hope it's either digitised or otherwise made accessible to more scholars in due course.
Exciting discovery!
Mind you, I'm still hoping that we one day find a book written by a medieval housewife describing daily life in detail, especially about all the bathing they did ;)
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Cold meats and cheeses always pleases, to paraphrase Bob Mortimer
Dreadful news, Moose. Wishing you and loved ones strength and togetherness. I hope the knowledge of 100s of phone-friends brings some comfort to you all.
The Past is fixed, as I used to tell my students, but history - the narratives on which each generation chooses to focus and the evidence pool(s) from which they draw, and even identify *as* evidence - will, and should, be continually challenged and reassessed.
γSaves entire thread of drool inducing recommendationsγ
Depeche Mode
INXS
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Levellers
Gary Barlow
I like that the same day a guy was like βthis place will never be Twitterβ this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
My goodness, America's own.30p Lee. From under what Rock do these ppl crawl?
i want her to live on $15.64/day for food for exactly three (3) days and then get back to us
Is it bad i have a massive list of both? Sticking just to animals
Hate dolphins
Love bugs, incl spiders and dung beetles
He sounds like a wonderful man who lived the fullest of lives. Condolences to your family.
Threads post from Channel 4: @channel4 Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV channel ever we have decided to try and claim ITV as ours.
Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
Good thread. Playing nice was never going to work long term (his type just sees it as beta behaviour), but firm economic pushback (more than tit-for-tat) might do.
After all the blether about NATO funding 5-6 years ago, who'd have thought that this cornerstone of all our lives would founder because no other signatory could any longer work with or trust the United States? Seriously hoping someone in the White House can end this game of chicken.
Seriously exciting #medieval maritime history find off Denmark.
As more are joining every day, super useful
One century ago this week, the Widowsβ, Orphansβ and Old-Age Contributory Pensions Act came into force. Like other revolutions, it was discombobulating. But it was a change for good
There is literally nothing about an undergraduate-level subject that Oxbridge can teach anyone better than fifty or a hundred other institutions in the UK can also teach them. How could there be? What would it say about us if there was?
