Today in 1904, the last known eyewitness of the Battle of Waterloo, Elizabeth Watkins, dies at age 94. The daughter of one of Wellington's soldiers, she recalled being five-years-old and watching her mother tend to the wounded at a British camp as the fighting raged nearby.

Catriona Shearer is leaving BBC Scotland which seems as good an excuse as any to share her greatest TV moment youtube.com/watch?v=hLQqKm…

Roy Keane confirms his ‘no hugging’ rule will not be relaxed on 17 May

June 6, 1944, we look back on the anniversary of D Day, & pay tribute, remembering all who were lost & all who fought and survived, breaking through the Nazi defenses of fortress Europe 77 years ago today. I will never forget this powerful remembrance, youtube.com/watch?v=c0GVUX…

1) A Roman centurion and a Roman auxiliary cavalryman who both lived at a remarkable intersection in history; taking part in the Roman invasion of Britannia in 43 AD, they fought and died in the conquest of a wild and mysterious land at the edge of their world..

Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine I was in Oradour a few years ago - a somber dreadful place. This is the story of that day. (And a graphic reminder of the dozens of nameless E European villages which suffered a similar fate after Barbarossa)

The Nats aren't happy that there's now a news outlet that won't treat Sturgeon with kid gloves. Might even ask her about failures in education, care homes, ferries etc. Maybe even 'ringfenced' donations.

Happy Father's Day! It seems apt to share this piece of archive with Oscar nominated director, Jean Renoir, reminiscing about his father, the French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Just your average family then...

Child covid19 vaccination feels like the mother of all ethical minefields. I expected those discussions wouldn't be easy, but the non-trivial rate of myocarditis in teenage boys following mRNA vaccines makes the situation worse than I had anticipated. 1/ mobile.twitter.com/BallouxFrancoi…

outside cat: my god. is this leftover garbage? how did i get so lucky inside cat: this tuna isn't gluten free. are you serious. i'm gonna beat the shit out of you

RIP Sean Lock. “The Tiger Who For A Pint” will live forever in the memory.

We have astonishingly poor leaders at the moment, the West is essentially leaderless, introverted & without a governing idealism, the vision we do have is an etiolated narcissism that serves only the cosmopolitan class - with no solidarity at home we have nothing to offer abroad

A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the Money and Run." cbsn.ws/2XXqaeh

Excellent but truly bleak thread.

On this day in 1917, a munitions ship carrying 3 kilotons of TNT explodes in Halifax harbour. The blast levels the city and kills 2,000. #HalifaxExplosion

20-year anniversary of the craziest gold medal you will ever see. Aussie skater was outclassed by the quarterfinals but advanced when one of the top 2 was penalized. In the semis, everyone but him and one other crashed and he found himself in the finals. And then this happened:

Fantastic thread using one of the best films of the last 20 years as inspiration.

Still one of the greatest stories ever 😂😂

RAW EGG NATIONALIST F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night on the Great War: “See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very