#Britain

michael

Sisyphusa

On this day: In 1831, enslaved people in Jamaica rose up to emancipate themselves in what became known as the "Christmas Rebellion" or "Baptist War" (missionaries and free Black Baptists

Ed Birkett

ed_birkett

What's in the EU-UK Brexit deal on energy?It may be Boxing day, but I've had a quick look 1/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agreements-reached-between-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-and-the-europ

Trevor Phillips

TrevorPTweets

@spectator @afneil Thank you all. After this I won’t be commenting further on our interview. However, it is remarkable that in the 36 hours since it went live, critics have

Aneesh Gokhale

authorAneesh

India's history syllabus is Mughal centric , Delhi centric and doesn't provide sufficient space to Indian heroes is something we have been hammering at on SM for past 15 years

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp, as a birthday request for @WonderWhoosh, a few issues of Jackie Magazine!This may involve nostalgia. And flares. And David Essex. Jackie launched in 1964 as the magazine

Davenant 📸

MarcDavenant

Notting Hill Couple, 1967 by Charlie Phillips. He was part of the Windrush Generation who faced terrible discrimination and overt racism on their arrival in Britain. This photo is one

IrishWomenInHistory

IrishWomenin

THREADBillie Barry was born into a musical and theatrical family in Dublin, and started to perform as a singer when she was aged just five. As a young woman, she

Anna Soubry

Anna_Soubry

.@TimothyDSnyder accurately links the demise of local news to the rise in populism & extremism in the #USA Today’s #Times leader takes up the debate Snyder so elequently advanced on

Daniel Finn

DanFinn95

This Rachel Shabi article is the first proper attempt, I believe, to articulate in detail a certain line (“Corbyn shouldn’t have been suspended, but his statement on the EHRC report

daniel bye

danielbye

Thatcher’s resignation and her replacement with John Major are the beginning of my political memory. Because of this here thread I’m hearing a lot today about Major’s “decency”. That’s not

James Felton

JimMFelton

In 1990, a plane really did land whilst the pilot was hanging out of the window by his ankles.(THREAD. For non sweary version and sources see here: https://bit.ly/36IK7X1 ) As the

The Meta-Author

metaauthor

X-As-A-Service is rent. The wealth of a society can be readily determined by what a citizen owns - what is theirs without question - and what they rent, conditional on

Edward Caswell

edward_caswell

Seeing the chat around Vale brooches from last week I thought I'd do something different for #FindFriday This map shows all the #IronAge Vale Brooches I know of so far

BPAS

BPAS1968

In March, the Secretary of State for Health approved temporary measures in England to enable women to access abortion care at home during the pandemicThere is NOW a public consultation

Russ

RussInCheshire

I've known for 20 years that lots of high street stores were inevitably doomed because of online trading. But in 28 days we lostDebenhamsTopshopTopmanDorothy PerkinsWallisOutfitEvansBurtonMiss SelfridgeJaegerPeacocksandEdinburgh Woollen

jon ronson

jonronson

I think each side of the Cancel Culture debate sometimes practices a kind of moral flattening. A misconstrued joke is different to someone potentially putting a man's life in danger,

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