"Reform's manifesto for the Senedd election says the party will tell museums how to display history if it wins, saying they will present events in chronological order and "in context"."
So, History Reclaimed but in government.
History without rigour, compassion, or reflection.
#skystorians
An excellent seminar - very interesting and hugely informative.
Will William McGregor and Aston Villa get a mention here?
This course genuinely sounds awesome!
🧵 New course I’m teaching this fall: Football, Fußball, Fútbol: Modern European History through Soccer. 28 sessions, 4 books, 4 films. Here’s the full syllabus as a thread. Comments welcome.
OK, here goes nothing - A New Home for the Historical Ephemera Newsletter matteatonmedia-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-home...
For PhD/ECR members of @fwwsoc.bsky.social - the Society has a call for papers out for 'New Voices in First World War Studies' - a virtual conference planned for June.
It's a great opportunity for members to showcase their amazing new research. See here for more:
drive.google.com/file/d/12DLx... 🗃️
📢 Book finished and sent to publishers.
Pretty good day.
#historybookchat #writingcommunity
#history
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Congrats, this looks awesome!
Amen
So then let’s get this thread started!
Matthew Goodwin is speaking in Budapest at 17:00 CEST this evening, at this event hosted by MCC:
mcc.hu/en/event/202...
And I’m signed up to go. Updates in this thread
The tag is: #BadLossBudapest
Niche. Love it.
Ok, here we go on the Strategic Relevance of Animal Rescues in Ukraine: Troop Edition
We've all seen them. The videos of Ukrainian defenders saving animals. While this has been an activity shared across Ukrainian society in this war, here I want to examine the phenomenon as a strategic marker --
Awesome news, particularly pleased for the Museum of Hartlepool, which is a brilliant local museum.
I will need to read this at some point, but I can't say I'm looking forward to it
109th Anniversary of the opening of the Battle of Arras, 9th April 1917. For an in depth look at this campaign see here! amzn.eu/d/07YJyMaF
Quite possibly without a laundry or working bogs
The Gerald R Ford is never returning home - it's doomed to sail for all eternity from one catastrophe to the next like the Flying Dutchman
It's almost like you a theme going 😅
(I know the link between Lambert Simnel and Simnel cake is tenuous, but hey ho)
I see Bluesky is discoursing about Bluesky again, so let me ask: Which social media paradise do you see out there?
I prefer reading over watching, and have found this site more informative and productively interactive than alternatives, with Threads mostly inane, and X intolerably toxic. YMMV.
Trying to make a nuanced argument about how only liberal states do counterinsurgency because illiberal states do not need to resolve the basic contradiction between violent domination and legitimacy derived from the people and Peter Hegseth is just saying this shit straight up like it's... good?
Hegseth seems to have spent the whole day trying to underscore my thesis that he doesn’t know anything about what makes a military effective — he’s a frustrated mid-level officer from the glory days of the GWOT lashing out at all those he thinks failed him: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...
That's a mighty fine collection!
"These Things We Do, That Others May Live"
Ed still has the appearance of a lead detective in a gritty crime drama, six weeks into a murder investigation, with the killer still tantalisingly out of reach, and the supply of Scotch starting to run dangerously low...
Supply chain shocks are destroying the arguments for defence to support Global Britain.
The UK has kicked the can down the road for 2 decades, trying to maintain balanced forces.
Now the UK must focus: sea, air or land; Europe or Indo-Pac.
It can’t afford to do it all.
