Anne Stott

Freelance History lecturer. Biographer of Hannah More, William Wilberforce and Princess Charlotte (the other one). Long-suffering Archers addict. ❤️ J K Rowling

[Marcus Cribb @mcribbHistory]

Held #OnThisDay 15 June 1815, The Duchess of Richmond's Ball, in Brussels.

Napoleon had crossed the boarder, but no firm confirmation had filtered its way through Wellington's HQ.

With most senior officers attending, so did W.

It is now one of the most famous romantic moments

[flora fraser @fraserflora]

Chair of Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography, on 2026 Shortlistees @five_books See https://t.co/udncraUPDv for this year’s Winner, announced Monday, June 15, 7pm

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

@IsraelMFA I’m pleased about the lawsuit. What’s happened to the NYT???

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

Starting tomorrow, WEIMAR will be on BBC Radio 4 as Book of the Week. Each day, an abridged chapter will be read by actress Sian Thomas, whose voice lends a chilling gravitas to the subject matter. Episode 1 will be live tomorrow at 11:45 and available online shortly after.

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

I’m waiting for a Green canvasser and I have my script ready.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Please feel free to share these posts making basic points.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Two Jews stabbed in Golders Green.
Looking forward to hearing all about how this latest act of "anti-Zionism" is just the sort of thing you have to expect these days and how British Jews are exaggerating their "perception of unsafety".
Enough.

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

If you think Shakespeare "alienates" students,
consider how "alienated" they feel later in life
when references are made to Romeo and Juliet or
Hamlet & they don't understand. A lot of things
are unfamiliar or difficult for students. That isn't a
reason to stop teaching them.

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

‘Turkish’ an interesting detail. These people go through life with no historical sense, no feeling for anachronism. The world simply was as it is.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

It's pretty noticeable how a lot of the same people who a few years ago were making comparisons about this country being like "1930s Germany" appear to have absolutely nothing to say now that Jewish sites here are being firebombed on the regular.

[LAAS @LabourAgainstAS]

Arson attacks 'gathering momentum', Chief Rabbi says:
- Police officers patrol at a cordon near to an incident at the Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow https://t.co/3lbKtTuZYf

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

But they would all have been blackened with soot, as all urban building were until the Clean Air Acts.

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

C.S. Lewis to J.R.R. Tolkien [after reading the completed typescript of The Lord of the Rings]:

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

@JNS_org Awful, and hardly reported

[Gillian Lazarus @GillianLazarus]

Politicians, please! Stop saying 'the right side of history'. It's worse than 'We've been very clear'.
History doesn't have values of right or wrong. It doesn't have ethics or aesthetics. We can have those things but history isn't a person.

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

I won't claim to be an expert on Habermas, but I always laughed at the idea that coffee houses in the 17th/18th century = some ideal of rational public discourse. Mostly they consisted of fevered gossip, partisans hurling abuse, rampant religious sectarianism & toilet jokes

[Ukrainian Hub News @UkrainianH8125]

New memorial for Welsh journalist Gareth Jones in Ukraine who exposed the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33

by Tony Leliw

Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (1905 –1935) will be honoured with a memorial made of Welsh slate in the centre of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv.

The memorial will be placed in a street named after him in 2020 by Kyiv City Council, in recognition of his role as one of the first Western correspondents to tell the world the truth about the famine in Ukraine, which
killed an estimated 4-6 million Ukrainians between 1931–1932.

Nobody knows the exact figure as the Soviet regime deliberately concealed the catastrophe, destroyed records, and falsified census data.

The man from the coastal town of Barry, located in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales’ expose on the famine was based on his own eyewitness testimony after travelling in the region and revealed the scale and horror of the Holodomor (Stalin’s man-made famine) to an international audience.

The 2m x 60cm memorial will feature an image of Gareth Jones and an inscription in Ukrainian, Welsh and English together with a portrayal of both Welsh and Ukrainian flags, crossed in harmony.

The memorial’s inscription is expected to read:
“Gareth Jones – Welsh journalist who was the first to state in the Western press, under his own name, that the Holodomor occurred in Ukraine in 1932-1933”.

The memorial was designed and will be constructed by Mossfords Memorial Masons. Chief Executive Officer Simon D Morgan, said: “The aim is to have the memorial complete in time for the anniversary of the Holodomor in Kyiv this November 2026.”

Caption (from left) Alun Davies MS, Rhun Ap Iorwerth MS, Jack Sargeant MS, Darren Millar MS and Mick Antoniw (MS)

Caption: (from left to right) The project was approved by Kyiv City Council at a meeting between the Council and Alun Davies MS (Member of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament and Chair of the Cross-Party Group) and Mick Antoniw (MS) during their recent visit to Ukraine to deliver vehicles and aid to frontline units.

#Ukraine #Украіна #Kyiv #Киів #Wales #Cymru #Barry #Glamorgan #famine #Holodomor #genocide #memorial #GarethJones #Senedd #parliament #journalist @UkraineSol @MickAntoniw1 @Gerashchenko_en

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

'Heart of Midlothian'

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Can anyone recommend me their favourite historical novels set in the 18th century? (Not written in the 18th century).

[John Cocker 🇺🇦 @joecocker15]

On this day in 1943, a 21 year old German woman was executed by guillotine with her brother Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst. Members of the White Rose movement, they were arrested distributing leaflets critical of the Nazis. Her name was Sophie Scholl

[Anne Stott @AnneMStott]

I think you have misread the article. She wasn't an ideologue. Just living in a part of London she could afford.

[Henry 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ @CaliZionist]

@EylonALevy What an idiot. Risking her child’s well being for her own ideological views.
What I’m more interested in learning is what the school was like BEFORE Oct 7th.
Kids were being brainwashed to be antisemitic & anti Zionism long before Oct 7th. She was just ok with it.