#EmpireHistory hashtag - Bluesky

@historyrage.bsky.social

4 months ago

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON & APPLE 🚨 What powered the British Empire? Tea, trade... and opium. 💂‍♂️💊

In #HistoryRage, Sam Kelly details how Britain's addiction economy reshaped the world, making Queen Victoria the ultimate dealer. 👑🌏

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#OpiumWars #EmpireHistory

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Migration Museum

@migrationmuseum.org

9 months ago

A group of people is gathered around a large installation table covered with colourful patterned tiles, engaging in an activity. The setting is the Migration Museum, with black-and-white historical photographs on the walls in the background. One woman in the foreground is smiling at the camera, while the others are intently looking at or touching the tiles on the table.

Join us on 9 July to explore how museums can engage with migration and Empire histories in nuanced, and locally relevant ways — through the lens of learning programmes and education practice.

Photo: University of Greenwich

#MuseumEducation #MigrationHistory #EmpireHistory #DecolonisingMuseums

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blaqsbi.com

@blaqsbi.com

11 months ago

Post: Every empire in history has fallen. Rome, Britain, Spain. Yet we pretend America is immune to gravity. The truth hides in plain sight. The science surround you. America stands where Rome stood in it's final century, loaded with debt, politically fractured, militarily overextended. No politician dares speak this truth. Not Trump, not Biden, not Harris. Their silence is confession. The American Empire is two hundred and forty seven years old, The average lifespan of history's great empires, two hundred and fifty years. Time is a patient executioner. Our manufacturing base hollowed out our debt to GDP ratio, approaching terminal velocity, our PPA political system, a theater of distraction. Half of Americans no longer vote. They sense the truth. The oscillation between red and blue masks a deeper continuity. The management of decline. When an empire begins to fall, it doesn't announce it's death. It lies. It distracts it, manufacturers, enemies. It launches crusades. Take back the Panama Canal. Take Greenland from Denmark. These are not the words of strength. They are the desperate gas of fading power. History doesn't ask permission to repeat itself. It doesn't require your belief. It moves with the cold certainty of times. The American Empire isn't the first to fall, and it won't be the last. But it will fall. The only question that remains is whether we will. I'Ll face this truth will be buried beneath its weight. Share, believe, inspire blacks be.

Post:: Every empire in history has fallen. Rome, Britain, Spain. Yet we pretend America is immune to gravity. The truth hides in plain sight. The science surround you. America stands where Rome stood in it's final century, loaded with… #LUNÉSelcaDay #empirehistory #historyfallen #fallenBritain

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