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#OTD 1937 the ship 'Habana' docked in Southampton, packed with nearly 4,000 child refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War Find out more about the #SpanishCivilWar at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... and explore thousands of digitised primary sources, with the aid of timelines and source guides

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A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced a resolution calling for the return of kidnapped #Ukrainian children before any peace agreement with Russia is finalized. The resolution was led by a group of 6 senators.

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My cover for @newrepublic.com Article here👇👇 newrepublic.com/article/1947...

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Ring of Fire is out now! It’s like the Guns of August for a new generation: the opening weeks of WW1 through the eyes of ordinary men, women and children. And not just in Western Europe, but across the globe. It was bloody, terrifying and neutrality was a sham… geni.us/RingOfFire

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It’s feature time, where I take a deeper dive into a story. Today, read all about why the notion that George V and Queen Mary were terrible parents is absolute junk, and how their youngest son was not an outcast, but adored… achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

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It’s book release day! As a present - I’ve written a FREE preview that explains all about how Ring of Fire came about, and included an excerpt so you can try before you buy 🥰 @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social

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I didn’t expect young Paolo Grassi and his #WW2 diary to be half as popular. I thought I’d allow you to catch up with him at 13, during one very eventful month in 1943… Which saw the invasion of Sicily, the downfall of Mussolini and the carpet bombing of the family home.

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Russia and China have e been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Physical copy. In. My. Hand. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @donaldwin.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Preorder here: UK: geni.us/RingOfFire USA: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ring-of-fi...

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"Let’s start with security guarantees. Putin has never agreed to them for Ukraine—in any form" Read Bob Kagan on the Trump capitulation to Russia www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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What Science Says About Transgender Identity and the Brain www.transvitae.com/w... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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The passing of a winter storm at dawn, on the southern coast of Spain, 2020.

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This one.

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Celebrating SIH Authors! Check out these excellent reads: Gurkan, Emrah Safa. Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman Intelligence in the. Great Rivalry with Spain. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.

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"If Russia wins this war,there is no euro."- associate fellow in the Russia&Eurasia program at Chatham House Timothy Ash “This is an existential threat to Europe.It's like COVID.It's about our security.It's about our national defense…Again,€27 trillion economy.It's not difficult”-he told Bloomberg

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“I like the way I look because I’m a good person.” During yesterday’s Oscars, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet reminded everyone what really matters in this world. Thank you for being good people supporting good people💙💛

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"You Can't Spell Stonewall Without The T" is Out Now! Listen at: ditto.fm/you-cant-spe... All proceeds are going to GLAD Law to support the fight back against Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders www.glad.org Please listen / share / add to your playlists #Trump #LGBWithTheT #TransRights #LGBTHM

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Fact checking the Vance speech www.thecipherbrief.com/column_artic...

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Today’s FREE article is up and it’s a preview of a new book looking at a touchy subject. How friendly were Germany’s former royal family with the Nazis? Find out how one historian has dug to the very bottom of their potential collaboration… achurchill.substack.com/p/free-book-...

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This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

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Cai o Governo da Madeira

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I really was unsure whether to post this video of Russian propagandists mocking those who came to the G20 summit. My team was disgusted as they made subtitles on it. But I decided you need to see what Russian TV says about Western leaders. Proceed with caution.

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Da dinâmica própria do kremlin

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US National Intelligence declassified a report on the targeted assassination of Putin’s political rivals carried out by Russian special services abroad. The report, released by Bloomberg, covers the period of 2000-2016 and documents the killings by various means of people who dared to defy Putin.

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Coisas boas: Na próxima sexta-feira, 29 novembro, a NOVA FCSH vai oferecer 8 mil livros de Ciência Política, Comunicação e Sociologia nas estações ferroviárias do Rossio e de Entrecampos, em Lisboa.

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So happy to share an article co-written with @joaoc.bsky.social now out in Political Geography, a journal I always liked a lot. It's called "Political neglect and support for the radical right: The case of rural Portugal". It's open access. I hope you like it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Giuseppe Ming di Lampedusa, esse brilhante escritor chinês.

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Today’s full length feature is up. In 1983 a biographer of George V called him a coward for not offering asylum to the Tsar. Find out how it wasn’t his decision to make, why politically it would have been a terrible idea, and what a devastated King did do for his tragic Russian relatives…

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Caso ainda não tenham reparado, é possível encontrar todos os teus follows do Twitter e transferi-los para o Bluesky! blueskydirectory.com/migrations/s...

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And lastly for today, there are still some places in this one so if you are a woman working in/talking about #history do take advantage… #StarterPack go.bsky.app/4HLerfh

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Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb

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Todays article is up. This time it’s a look at the Russo-Japanese War in pictures & how it foreshadowed so much of what was to come in #WW1 From artillery dominance, the way in which it was shaped by railways, to firmly entrenched positions. Find out why historians refer to it as ‘World War Zéro’

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Vacinem-se,gringos. Vacinem-se enquanto é tempo.

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