Leys History Dept

[University of Cambridge Museums @CamUnivMuseums]

It’s back! 🖼️🔦🌟️#TwilightAtTheMuseums 2025 launches on Wednesday 15 January.
Museums across Cambridge will be opening their doors for after-hours adventures this February half term.
Sign up to our newsletter to hear when bookings open: https://t.co/rcbINEo1gC

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

The best books of 2024, some of the lists we put together over the last couple of months:
https://t.co/jm6ijXWzON

[History Today @HistoryToday]

After 400 years of prosperity, a medieval colony on #Greenland vanished without a trace. Many Atlantic powers that followed would dream of adding it to their empires.

🔓 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀

https://t.co/AjX5Uj6UgH

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

20 Nov 869x870: St Edmund, king of East Angles killed by Vikings #otd His important shrine was destroyed in the dissolution of the monasteries.

[Cambridge History @CamHistory]

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson for their answer to a great historical question: why some countries became rich and others didn't over the last 500 yrs.
Prof Gareth Austin presents the challenges to the method https://t.co/hxyyO6C43V

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Died #OTD 1805, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

MP for Eye 1760-1762, then succeeded to the Lords, he is well-known as an officer in the American War of Independence. It was his surrender at Yorktown in October 1781 which ended the war.

https://t.co/1rqjvlnMtG

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Died #OTD 1701, Joseph Williamson.

One of the MPs accused of being part of the so-called 'Popish Plot', a moral panic fabricated by Titus Oates that gripped the country between 1678 and 1681.

Read Williamson's #HistParl biography to find out more: https://t.co/euIqu2reRa

[The National Archives Education Service @UKNatArcEdu]

We will be hosting a heat for this year’s Historical Association Great Debate on 5 December 2024! @histassoc

The Great Debate is the HA’s public speaking competition open to school years 10–13. If you want to take part, sign up by Monday 11th November: https://t.co/zsPMgDb0q8

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

#OnThisDay in 1969, the Beatles' last recorded album, Abbey Road, was released on both sides of the Atlantic. It went straight to number one in the charts.

📸 Getty

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

#OTD 1087 William II (William Rufus) was crowned King of England.

#DYK William is responsible for building Westminster Hall? The site of the lying in state of Queen Elizabeth II, it is the oldest part of the parliamentary estate.
More via @UKParliament:
https://t.co/dbEhGjFIhq

[History Today @HistoryToday]

#OnThisDay in 1066 #HaraldHardrada is slain.

History is not only written by the victors. Those chronicling 11th-century conquests in England and Scandinavia tried to rehabilitate the reputations of the vanquished.

🔓 This article is free for 7 days

https://t.co/zoV9qxGfen

[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

The final day of the 1st Ashes Test of 1932-33 lasted just over 4 minutes. England took the final Australian wicket with the 8th ball of the day and then scored the one needed to win off one ball. There were 75 spectators present including one solitary Australian on the Hill

[Leys Music @LeysMusic]

Many thanks to @LeysCambridge Chapel Choir for a great first service of the academic year. Well sung everyone!

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

The Royal Marines in the Napoleonic Wars, a 🧵. (1/8) 🇬🇧The Royal Marines were unsung heroes of the Napoleonic Wars, playing key roles on both land and sea. Despite their gallantry, their contributions often go unmentioned by historians and novelists alike.

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

Oliver Cromwell died #OnThisDay in 1658. Cambridge history professor John Morrill asks why Cromwell remains Britain's most controversial ruler, and what the morbid story of Cromwell's head after his death has to say about British history. https://t.co/5Y8H8o5Nh8

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Something very, very exciting is happening @britishlibrary

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, our new major exhibition, opens on 25 October

Get your tickets now, they're cheaper than #Oasis and more chance of encountering Margery Kempe 😉

https://t.co/yo0VERX2sy

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

325,437 students took #History GCSE in England, Wales & Northern Ireland in 2024. This is a 4.5% increase on 2023 and 25% up on 2018.

History is the 5th most popular GCSE subject of the 47 available this year. For those going on to study History A-Level: well done and good luck!

[Propagandopolis @propagandopolis]

'Workers of the world, unite!' — Chinese poster (1971) showing workers of various nations marching, singing and waving the red flag. The music behind is the Internationale.

[Imperial War Museums @I_W_M]

HMS Queen Elizabeth passes by the stern of USS New York following the arrival of US Battleship Division 9 at Scapa Flow, December 1917.

Film: IWM 563

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

Which are the best books to get a teenager excited about art history? We turned to veteran art history teacher John Harrison, formerly head of the art history department at Eton College, for his top five picks of the most illuminating and accessible books. https://t.co/ZjngEWcmsb