Greenhead College History department
Huddersfield, England
Joined October 2014
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#TheRestlessRepublic is out in paperback on Friday! Just £9.99. Retweet for a free signed copy, winner chosen at random by Fidget the Cat on Saturday morning. (Plus optional paw print 🐾)
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Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay - the international day to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside millions of other people murdered under Nazi persecution of other groups, and in more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. #HMD2023
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Want to banish the January blues? Then come along to the fantastic Greenhead College Music Department @MusicGreenhead @GreenheadCol Gala Concert! We are very pleased to be supporting this wonderful competition which showcases the talent of local young musicians.
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Today marks #WindrushDay2022 , a day celebrating the contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants to the UK.
74 years ago, passengers disembarked from HMT Empire Windrush.
We hold the passenger lists from Empire Windrush in our collection.
📷: BT 26/1237
ALT Passenger list from the HMT Empire Windrush
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By about 1300 memories of the First Crusade had become the focal point of a wide array of traditions. Some of these are still with us, often in forms that are not immediately apparent.
From the May issue:
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Although the Easter Rising failed, it sparked a growing and, in time, effective sympathy for the nationalist cause.
The attempt to overthrow British rule and found an Irish Republic began #OnThisDay in 1916.
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I am sorry to report the death on 8 April of Keith Dockray, medievalist and early modernist, and author of many books on the Wars of the Roses. He was also, briefly, my colleague @HistoryatHud. He had been there for 20 years when I arrived in 1993 and helped me find my feet. 1/n
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In 1464, England's most eligible bachelor, King Edward IV, shocked the nation by announcing that he had taken a bride: Elizabeth Woodville. @PrufrocksPeach explores what’s known of their marriage bit.ly/3v37rLk
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We are sad to report the recent passing away of Professor Eric Evans. Professor Evans spent most of his professional career with us at Lancaster, making important contributions to the study of modern British history. You can find his obituary here: portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intra…
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Richard the Lionheart died #OnThisDay in 1199, succumbing to a wound from a crossbow bolt that had turned gangrenous…
#OTD
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Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of fasting, has been observed and celebrated by Muslims around the world for more than 14 centuries. @RemonaAly considers its history and evolution across the world… bit.ly/RamadanHist
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How did Britain fare under Oliver Cromwell, and why did the nation's experiment with republicanism come to such a dramatic end? These are among the questions I put to @AnnaLandmark for an episode of the @HistoryExtra podcast on the 1650s. Listen here:
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Delighted to be giving a talk on #Race, #Empire and #Nationalism in 1920s Britain @UkNatArchives as part of the Roaring Twenties exhibition. 27 April 7.30 p.m. It's free and online, so do sign in. @BloomsburyBooks @TheHistoryPress
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The latest issue of BBC History Revealed features an essential guide to the history of witchcraft, plus the story of the ‘fake Paris’ built to fool German bombers in WW1 bit.ly/NewIssueBBCHrev
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“Stalin’s actions in 1932–33 amounted to a comprehensive attack on the Ukrainian nation involving the intentional murder of its significant part; hence genocide, according to its definition in the international Genocide Convention” | Prof Serhy Yekelchyk
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Did the Cold War begin with Churchill’s announcement in March 1946 that an Iron Curtain had fallen across Europe?
Or with Truman’s announcement in March 1947 that America would stem the advance of communism in Greece and beyond?
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Unprecedented in American peacetime history, the Founding of NATO was the product of more than a year of political and diplomatic activity.
From the archive:
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“Devised by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the Holodomor crushed the spirit of the Ukrainian peasantry and ensured it would never again rebel against communist rule on the scale seen in the 1920s & 1930s” | Professor Serhy Yekelchyk
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“You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else…” | Which woman from history said this? bit.ly/3KrHFGz