Good stuff on the building! A post here which also puts in context of Peterloo and links to uprisings originally planned to join a revolt across several places - Scotland, Manchester, Yorkshire… wp.me/p74yfw-Gq

High on a Northumberland hillside near the Roman fort of Bremenium and the ancient road we call Dere Street are the remains of a mausoleum. It is probably the finally resting place of a high-raking Roman soldier and a couple of its stones still feature enigmatic carvings #TombTuesday

“Historians perform a more important service by challenging commonplace assumptions and hierarchies of knowledge and power. Works that appeal to the privileged and powerful tend to be precisely those that condense and confirm their ways of seeing the world.” Worth a read.

He isn't. What this is is one of those treaties the East India Company signed with princely states, taking over all their valuable bits in return for "protection". Almost like some kind of... racket...

We are inclined to think of misinformation as a particularly modern phenomenon but it has been with us through the ages. Join us on Tues 25 Feb as we have a panel of experts guide you through the history of misinformation (online only - in person tix gone) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

On advance access "‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements" by Scott Connors (@caiuscollege.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. I wrote about it here: kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gae... #Scotland #Gaelic #Writing #Gàidhlig #Place #Language

#OtD 29 Jan 1936 tyre builders at Firestone in Akron, Ohio, went on sitdown strike against pay cuts and the firing of a union rep. Management caved in quickly but strikes spread to Goodyear two days later and across the town by mid-Feb. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

Nazis. They're Nazis.

History of UK HE in the last 30 years follows the repeated sequence (1) politicians demand universities act in a certain way (2) uni managements comply against academic misgivings (3) effects are uncongenial for politicians (4) pundits denounce universities for acting that way, echoed by politicians

The process of turning a bowl on a pole lathe in my woodland workshop. #polelathe #woodturning #greenwoodworking #griefwork #nature #craft

*been planning

#OtD 5 Jan 1948 the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up by the Haganah Zionist militia to push Palestinian Arabs to leave the neighbourhood. Around 26 were killed and 60 injured, mostly Arab Palestinians, like Lutfi and Eleanora Aboussouans. More: stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Israeli forces have killed at least 88 Palestinians in a day across Gaza. They bombed the enclave more than 100 times in just three days, killing more than 200 Palestinians, with women and children making up a majority of the victims. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Watching Labour struggle to deal with Elon Musk now is just very much of a piece with the wider tendency of the liberal/social democratic establishment to be incapable of dealing with global ideological realignment out of sync with the geopolitical architecture their predecessors built.

Don't tell anyone, but this is the first time we've posted about Bluesky's alt text reminder this year! Find it in Settings > Accessibility and tick "Require alt text before posting."

As Dawn once said, there is not an arse that his guy will not kiss.

In the space of three days, Elon Musk has posted 200 TIMES about the UK grooming gangs on Twitter, including calls for: • The king to dissolve parliament 🙄 • @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social to be jailed • Government officials to "hang" • ...and the UK to be "liberated" www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The dinner was hosted just days after Liz Truss and Boris Johnson laid wreaths at the cenotaph during remembrance commemorations and Nigel Farage had kicked off about not being invited. They were all in attendance here 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...

Fantastic essays- read ‘em all. @drsepinwall.bsky.social 2 of top 10! 👏👏👏 See revisited pieces too esp love from @juliehardwick.bsky.social & @profchrisadams.bsky.social! 🗃️

#OtD 22 Dec 1997 45 Indigenous people who were supporters of the Zapatista rebel movement in Chiapas, Mexico were massacred by paramilitaries with the assistance of govt troops, as they attended a pacifist prayer meeting. Learn more about the movement: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

What is the most effective way to share research on Bluesky? Various tools are available to turn articles into threads, but would a series of threads of - say - ten posts a day work? #history #localhistory #OnePlacestudy #skystorians 🗃️

'Hill wrote a sometimes abrupt column titled ‘To Readers and Correspondents’ in which he answered readers’ questions, issued short announcements, rejected poems that were not up to standard, and ticked off contributors for failing to get their reports in on time.' Lovely stuff on the Northern Star ⬇️

Hi folks. I wanted to share my thoughts on the recently published Snettisham Hoards volumes (link to an online copy of the books is in the blog). Thank you for reading 😊 #Archaeology #Torcs #Snettisham #BritishMuseum #Gold #IronAge #Prehistory bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/12/11/t...

It’s weird how things went from student protests at the hike in fees in 2010 - I recall parliament forced to meet behind barricades - to students using food banks in 2024. Where’s the student/campus movement fighting this?

During Great Historical Revolutions of The Past That Get People All Excited, somewhere around 70 to 80 percent of the population just stayed at home & grew their own food until the worst passed*. That won't happen now. *Or, if they were unlucky, turned up on their doorstep & killed them.

Notice that all these graphs start shooting up at the time of widespread adoption of fossil fuels. This is why "Ponzi Scheme" is a useful frame to understand modernity - HUGE benefits, the illusion they will continue forever, but the reality that all the gains are hollow, & doomed to collapse.

#Chartism #C19th Feargus O’Connor enjoyed huge success with the Leeds-based Northern Star - but running a London evening newspaper defeated him. I’ve been doing a bit of digging into the Evening Star, and blogged about it here… www.chartistancestors.co.uk/the-evening-...

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

'The humble peticion of about an hundred Burgesses' of Ludlow, submitted to Queen Elizabeth in c.1596, claimed that the town's 'greedey' leaders had set up an 'unlawfull government' to 'oppresse' the townspeople and enrich themselves. #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning in Shrops Archives, LB/7/737 🗃️

Thinking about catfish in Minnesota archaeology- rock art image from a cave and an effigy mound likely depicting catfish, both from southeastern Minnesota near the Mississippi River where catfish are still common.

Letters, food and ephemera - material objects have acted as radical agents in history. In this thread, explore some radical objects: How do we determine whether an object is radical? Ruth Mather on the Farmer's Arms jug at the People's History Museum. www.historyworkshop....

The 1950s "happy housewife" was central to #ColdWar propaganda, in contrast to Soviet working women. An American studies professor examines the reality behind this image: https://buff.ly/3ZPQ4OY Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy @miamiuniversity.bsky.social 🗃️ #GenderStereotypes

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK. They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

If you haven't already seen the Kneecap movie, make sure you go ASAP. It's funny, raw, real, & innovative. It might even win the "foriegn language" film Oscar. Not exactly my genre, but I even liked the music. I went with an American friend & both she and all the Dutch people behind us all loved it!

This is just an unspeakable horror.

It is amazing that in 2024 we are still pretending liberal democracies as they *really* exist are defending the rights of individuals and minorities after years of heightened securitisation and scapegoating by mainstream leaders It takes a serious suspension of disbelief to argue this

Looking like it was definitely a political assassination. That there Trumpist billionaire class is going to be living in bunkers...

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

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My latest blog post: Remembering and Forgetting Violence in Nat Turner's Virginia 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Hello everyone! So, here I talk quite a lot about this and that, but mainly about late 19th anarchism and political exiles. My main book on the topic is 👇 I have also written a biography of the French anarchist writer Jean Grave, who rarely left Paris but was highly influential before 1914

More George Wyllie at University of Strathclyde. Sculpture ‘Air Stone Equlibrium' - part inspired by the work of Joseph Beuys - is a comment on the need to live in balance with nature. Not quite in plain sight at 75 Collins Street, Glasgow. His work is celebrated at the @wyllieum.com in Greenock

#OtD 3 Dec 1944 British-trained Greek police, with Nazi collaborators, fired on an anti-Nazi demonstration in Athens, killing 28 people while British troops watched. The rationale was to weaken the anti-Nazi partisans who were too left-wing for Churchill stories.workingclasshistory....

Israel's police minister has banned the Muslim call to prayer because it 'disturbs' residents of nearby Jewish communities. Meanwhile, Israel continues to 'disturb' Gaza's residents by bombing, starving and torturing them. More here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

"Yoon said he had no choice but to resort to martial law, but did not say in the address what specific measures will be taken." #SouthKorea www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

An often overlooked aspect of experiencing landscapes: wind. Fascinating blog from Nature Scot. 'In #Gaelic tradition there are certain winds that are named and recognised. Read about them in our latest blog from Ruairidh Maclean:" scotlandsnature.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/g...

#TombTuesday 👀 In 1843 whilst digging a pit for his new business premises, a #German wagoner found a large slab.The subterranean #burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century. It is a stone-modeled version of a triclinium, a #Roman dining room. #Archaeology #Köln #History #Germany

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