London - a massive multi-cultural success of a city ❤️ “Last year, London had the lowest homicide rate per capita on record - 1.1 per 100,000, according to the Met. This is lower than other major global cities including New York at 2.8, Berlin at 3.2 and Paris at 1.6 per 100,000, the force said.”

FINALLY some good news.

The fact we all kinda know the World Rugby disciplinary hearing is going to bottle it because Etzebeth is a big name and he'll be back playing by the end of January honestly kinda makes me feel sick.

Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past

This looks good.

116 children didn't come home from school that day. Never forget. Aberfan 💔

Well that’s that. Very officially done and dusted PhD. Cheers.

@bigandylock.bsky.social in action at the 2025 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference in Bristol! Great stuff!

The eagerly awaited Great War Group conference opens tonight with a talk by Phil Watson on Haig’s command Philosophy.

Just having a lil cigar after a nice win on the road at Old Elthamians. A few scrums won against the head today, quite a few tackles and carries, loads of rucks hit. Very acceptable on a lovely autumn day. 🤘

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Pitchforks at dawn #oldfarmderby

There’s still room to squeeze in a few more at the Great War Group Conference. Tickets available from www.greatwargroup.com/shop We’d love to see you there!

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Flag of the Arab Revolt, flown from a house occupied by Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al Hashemi in Damascus in September 1919, and given by Faisal to T E Lawrence. IWM FLA 592

Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is going full-on in tackling Musk. "He [Musk] is actually, I think, committing crimes," he told Laura Kuenssberg.

‘The wrath of Gough’ was the working title for this talk very briefly. No spoilers here though.

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Friday night will see a focus on Haig and leadership during #WW1, and @bigandylock.bsky.social will be talking about decision-making during Third Ypres

The @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks to choose from. Antonia Newell will be talking about the incredible Agnes Bennett, a doctor and the first female commissioned officer in the British Army. She eventually ran the Ostrovo Unit in Salonika. Ticket details 👇🏼

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

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In sad withdrawal after We Have Ways? Join us at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for a whole (indoors) weekend of the prequel… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @bigandylock.bsky.social

In sad withdrawal after We Have Ways? Join us at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for a whole (indoors) weekend of the prequel… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @bigandylock.bsky.social

Niiiiiice.

Asking for a friend here, but need suggestions on how to make an art tour (literally paintings) accessible for a blind person. Any thoughts?

Israel murdered a team of Al Jazeera journalists to prevent them getting the many stories out of their genocidal slaughter of civilians, including children, in Gaza? Seems like something every news media should be carrying on front pages worldwide?

FFS. He didn't "kick off". It's not a "jibe". He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.

If you’re in any way enjoying this thread, fuming at it, or are finding it remotely interesting, join @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social and its community of historians and enthusiasts. Tons of knowledge, keenness to share, and a great social bunch too.

Risky, but let’s try this. 1 like = 1 opinion on the First World War which might be unorthodox.

A request, having had some success on here previously! Are there any Edinburgh / Glasgow based academics specialising in ecology and rewilding out there who’d be prepared to give a lecture or run a session for a group of US students coming over in May next year? Please repost!

A request, having had some success on here previously! Are there any Edinburgh / Glasgow based academics specialising in ecology and rewilding out there who’d be prepared to give a lecture or run a session for a group of US students coming over in May next year? Please repost!

Valuable research being done here

“Sooner or later, you have to quit collecting information and write the damned book.” Scott Donaldson

Bad day for my bookshelves incoming

I feel like baby catapults and big nets are more practical

Sorry what now

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

On the nerd side of normal 👍

Go on then.

RIP Jim Shooter. Comics legend. As a Marvel editor, he was handed a new toy license to do comics for. Neither Hasbro or Marvel leadership cared about their quality. Jim did. He rewrote Hasbro's character bios to not be shit, and made his writers treat it seriously. That license was Transformers.

Nice.

24 June 2025 is this Tuesday coming. There's still time. Don't stop Beleaving. #DanHannanDay

I heard the name Dominic Raab today by accident. Talk about a person that nobody misses.

I’ve always been suspicious of the Scilly Isles tbf.