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Rankin Reader in European Prehistory • Vice President, The Prehistoric Society • knowledge production ⛏️ Resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • digs hillforts, Celts Personal account #NUFC 🇵🇸
What on earth is this then? A bundle of reeds suspended from the roof of an 18th century Lincolnshire house. An uncommon sight but we have testimony from a former landowner to explain it. To find out more, join me on 2 April for The Folklore of Ancient Buildings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...
Remember, Musk is a genius.
Like clockwork.
“Florence Dixie (1855-1905) was an extraordinarily active writer and campaigner, novelist, dramatist and pioneering war correspondent. Invariably controversial, she wrote about women’s rights and was outspoken in support for Irish and Scottish home rule.” www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2021/12/a-re...
Fem student with a lime green mohican. Yes.
Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man
This is Judith Leyster's amazing 1631 painting ‘Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man’.
She was well known in her day but SURPRISE! her works were later misattributed either to Frans Hals, her local contemporary, or her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer.
www.thetimes.com/article/f41d...
The finder kept one coin, the landowner kept another. At auction, two coins went to an anonymous buyer in the USA, one to Switzerland and the destinations of the rest are unknown.
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.
Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters
Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.
"Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into something like a mixture of dirty rags and cat’s meat you would realize this fact as intensely as I do." - J.B.S. Haldane, 1938.
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Trial by jury for sexual assault is anti-justice.
Bright red sun. The ancients aren’t happy.
Who created this whole mess
After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.
But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?
It’s not his party.
The death toll from US-Israeli strikes on Iran over the past four days has risen to 787, according to the Iranian Red Crescent, as fresh strikes have reportedly hit the building of the assembly tasked with electing a new supreme leader.
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
You know you’re doing student comms correctly when even History students are asking if they need to attend.
You don’t bring about democracy and human rights by bombing from 35,000 feet.
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
Warning UK at risk of being pulled into illegal war
Why is Keir Starmer utterly incapable of saying no to Donald Trump?
Our national security requires us not to be dragged into illegal wars.
The Prime Minister is making us less safe. Did we learn nothing from Iraq?
#BBCBreakfast: "Sir Keir Starmer has announced that American forces can use British airbases to launch strikes on Iran"
In 1991 George H.W. Bush urged the Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein
“In the end, the regime, using…helicopters..,artillery, and armored..forces.. counterattacked the uprising, killing 30,000-60,000 Shias in south, and 20,000 Kurds in the north.
The US offered them no assistance
BREAKING:
Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirmed dead
Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’
Congratulations to Hannah Spencer on a stunning victory.
Proud to support a campaign built on hope and humanity.
Under our new leadership team, Your Party will work constructively with the Greens, because there is only one way we can bring about real change: together.
Zack Polanski, "John Healy won't condemn US/Israel attack on Iran"
"I'm worried that the UK will be pulled into another illegal war"
Ditto :/
The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
John Healey refuses to say if the UK will join the US & Israel in bombing Iran. I guess we don't have a right to know if our govt is planning to take us to war.
And as for #trevorphillips calling bombing Iran a positive action rather than an offensive action. That says it all.
