True history storytelling. 10l+ 'ever-green' eps at https://teapawt.net/t.co/i4pz2F58rP BBC historian Jon Rosebank & HBO/BBC/C4 script/series editor Penelope Middelboe
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Thank you @The_Tablet @brendanwalsh53 for publishing this article on 'Bloody Mary' allowing us to showcase recent historical interpretations of #MaryI
The Catholic history of England (& Wales) is seriously distorted in the public psyche
PODS & sources: historycafe.org/episodes/blo…
Find us on blue sky. Handle is historycafe If you haven’t listened to our series on why we’re in this perilous position at the mercy of dictators and child soldiers check out LUNATICS TAKE OVER THE ASYLUM: neoliberalism uncut historycafe.org
#Elon to head Trump’s new EFFICIENCY dept. That means CUTS. And an even wider gap between rich and poor. Listen here to understand how cuts and deregulation of business became a craze without any evidence of benefits for any but a few. historycafe.org
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This reply got me blocked by James O'Brien. He could have taken his own advice: ignored my question, disagreed with it, or tried to explain how I was wrong. Instead he silenced another journalist for questioning his logic.
Those, it seems, are his values.
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6. They fought and they won, in the US and several other nations. But the great majority of this fight took place entirely out of public view. After all, that is the power of political lobbying: it bypasses democracy.
Check out this podcast historycafe.org/episode/reme…
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Nevada
Arizona
North Carolina
All battleground states that voted for Dem as Senate/Governor, yet chose Trump as their President.
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Audit the vote.
Investigate.
.@mary_pezzulo -I follow you from @SpiritUnbounded but this is my day job and I’d appreciate your view. Thanks Penelope
.@Ros AgainstTrump @RichardJMurphy @PhilipPullman @Jonathan_K_Cook @carla_denyer @MichaelRosenYes @JujuliaGrace @Lamb_Tales @CatholicsforUSA @BDevlin1 @RootBranchSynod @johnmcdonnellMP @jeremycorbyn
Fifty years of neoliberalism have created a society so divided, so preoccupied with winners and losers, so dominated by extreme wealth and poverty that it elects Trump. 🧵
The last time a society chose a narcissistic convict obsessed with race and backed by big business and the Catholic Church was Germany in 1933. It did not end well.
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Ep 1 of New series
Neoliberalism: lunatics take over the asylum
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What’s the point??? ‘Sanctions hole’: how secretive routes supply Russia with western tech and consumer goods - it was the same with the Nazis - see historycafe.org/episode/trad… theguardian.com/world/articl…
Interesting early trans issue: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chev…
Don’t usually post Wikipedia but was sent this by a listener! So thought I would. Thanks David.
‘Murder in the Tower’ - Ep 4 What wars? What roses? BLOG: historycafe.org/blog SPOTIFY open.spotify.com/episode/4xD… [animation still from Shakespeare’s Richard III by Natasha Orlova]
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#FrankHester claims these comments are nothing to do with race or gender...
Stating that an MP "should be shot" - incitement to murder - is way beyond acceptable discourse.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMAN’S Day #MillicentFawcett - more responsible than anyone for getting British women the vote historycafe.org/episode/how-… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millic…