Monopoly - I didn't know this! (You'll never look at the game the same way again!) Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their

A late 16th century portrait of James VI (Historic England Archive/ Audley End) - looking very different to what we normally see.

"The current reality, where tens of thousands of Israelis are displaced [in the north] and cannot return to their homes, is unbearable. They must be able to return home and live in peace and security." Israeli govt spokesman ... for shameless hypocrisy this takes the biscuit.

Couldn't we (for heaven's sake!) persuade #BBC to stop telling us at EVERY mention that the Gaza health ministry is "Hamas-run"? Yes, we know that - Hamas forms the government of Gaza - and only the very stupidest among us still believe that it's run by Victoria Atkins. Doh.

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#OnThisDay in 2019... #BorisJohnson #LocalElections

How should #History undergraduates communicate in essays? In a new post for Royal Historical Society's blog, Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John University) asserts the importance of encouraging, and hearing, students' voices and personal opinions in their work bit.ly/3V1gFWD #twitterstorians

Bushra Shaikh This one keeps embarrassing herself more and more 🤣

Sunak's earnest promises to compensate blood victims and sub-postmasters by the year end needs to be understood in the light of his "working assumption" that there will be an election in the 4th quarter. Don't hold your breath, victims of government malfeasance!

Pretty chuffed with my first day as Kemi Badenoch's new Director of Comms. Just logging on to Twitter now...

REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)

This, you will recall, is "the most moral army in the world". Really? I think not. Using fragmentation bombs against children doesn't strike me as awfully moral. theguardian.com/world/article/…

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The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

Utterly, utterly revolting. And this is the army that touts itself as "the most moral in the world". But it's a Palestinian horse, and thus a member of Hamas.

Photos reveal Zaha Hadid Architects' Central Bank of Iraq nearing completion in Baghdad dezeen.com/2024/08/21/zah… via Dezeen

Given that the UK a) has ALWAYS regarded the West Bank & Gaza as illegally occupied by Israel and b) we have ALWAYS, under every government, supported a Two State Solution, what conceivable excuse can David Lammy & Keir Starmer produce for abstaining on this motion in the face

The Treasury forecasts that around 3,000 pupils will be expected to move into state schools before the end of the 2024-25 academic year following private school VAT plans tes.com/magazine/news/…