PhDone!! Incredible. Over four years with @EdgeHist! Loved every bit. Many thanks to all who have supported me these last few years. @DigiVictorian@interwarcrime
@BillamGreg @EdgeHist@DigiVictorian@interwarcrime Cheers Greg. I'll miss the chats in the GTA office. No doubt you will soon have a similar post to put up!
0️⃣4️⃣ days to polling day…
On election night 1964, the BBC asked Clement Attlee to comment on Harold Wilson’s victory.
“It’s very difficult to say just how a House of Commons will behave”.
If you want a lunchtime read, check out the @MuseumofCamb latest blog ‘Crown vs Gown: The 1847 Chancellorship Election’. You can imagine the look of shock on the candidate’s face when he realised his opponent was Prince Albert 🫣
https://t.co/NjVCl4G8FP via @MuseumofCamb
Would a left-wing centrist media as powerful as the hard rights' help progressive politics in the UK, or, do you think we would descend into a worse situation with our political culture?
#TRIPLive
As we commemorate Remembrance Day, we recall a reunion here at the Museum of Cambridge, where Susan Smith, the granddaughter of WWI veteran Private Leonard Lantiff Miller, received her grandfather’s Victory medal.
Read more about this story in our blog: https://t.co/A1Shml7owi
15th July (1845) Election news!
'Kelly was elected by a majority of 17 it was a very sharp contest and he paid very dear for it for they say the last 40 that voted for him cost him one thousand pounds'
In today's money, that's approximately £60,417!
@histParl#ChaterTuesday
In October we @MuseumofCamb will start posting excerpts from the unpublished diary of 15 y/o draper apprentice Josiah Chater. See what life was like in 1840s Victorian Cambridge!
Please share and RT.
@BAVS_UK @StudyLabHistory @socialhistsoc
COMING SOON - Josiah Chater's Digital Diary Series
Fancy a walk around Victorian Cambridge? Want to know what life was like back then? Now you can! Follow us for weekly entries from Josiah's diary (1844-45).
#ChaterTuesdays
Twitter transcribers
I'm trying to work out the toast "View(?) with all Nations"
A dinner to Lord Russell in Glasgow 11 Jan 1846
Brain teaser for your lunch break if anyone wants one.
“Defiance is our only remedy...”
‘The Poor Man’s Guardian’, a radical weekly, was first published #OnThisDay 1831. Sold for 1 penny, the paper defied the stamp duty of 4p per copy. Over 500 sellers of the paper, as well as its publisher, were imprisoned for distributing it.
“Everyone - rich and poor, man, woman or child - can use it or any part of it.”
The National Health Service, part of a programme of legislation enacted by the 1945-50 Labour government, was launched #OnThisDay 1948.
Halfway through Chartism Day 2023 and what a treat it's been. Learned a lot about the Land Plan @robertsmatt1978 @markcrail heard the remarkable @jenniferballads and a fascinating paper by @DightJoshua on memory and Chartism and it's not yet lunch @StudyLabHistory
@RestIsPolitics@campbellclaret@RoryStewartUK Realistically, what will be done with utility companies and their pathetic last minute "sorry", followed by a hike in prices?
https://t.co/X6iSTZJWf0