#Docks

Michael Di Paola

MichaelDiPaola

A quick wander through some of Manchester’s forgotten sporting venue history, including hosting the World Snooker Championship final, the most valuable horse race in England, the FA Cup Final and

angus young

angus_young61

Came across some rarely seen Victorian/Edwardian images of Hull in a copy of Iain Rutherford’s 1982 book Hull As It Was so I thought I’d share some. Starting with Whitefriargate

Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧

vivamjm

With all the focus on Dover & Holyhead (my main experience on containers then RoRo but not LoLo) I tend to overlook the brexit issues at other UK ports: here

Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre & Crime Museum

MPSHeritage

We're marking #HistDay20 with another in our occasional series of #MuseumBeats. This time, we're donning our virtual boots for a tour of H (@MPSWhitechapel) Division, one of the first 17

Otto Saumarez Smith

OSaumarezSmith

Thanks @TMOWilkinson for asking me to pick 10 loathed buildings. Doing something slightly different I thought I'd share 10 demolished buildings I loved or would have loved to have seen.

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

On this day 1941, the @RoyalNavy's Force H under V/Adm Sir James Somerville, aboard the battlecruiser HMS Renown, with the battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal & cruiser

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

Thread: How the enslaved in Brazil used the u.s. civil war (1861-1865) to force Brazilian slavemasters into the crisis that led to "abolition".First, some very quick background. 1) More slaves

Gabriela 🌻

noir_or_never

Now for my second favourite Bond James Bond film #MM007 #MMPopUp #JamesBond This pre title sequence, in my opinion, is one of the strongest in the series. Watching this

Leigh Day

LeighDay_Law

Thread: Toxic Waste and Cote D'Ivoire. A case study in how the activities of UK multi-national companies continue to endanger the rights, health and environments of African peoples into the

Shrutam Mukhopadhyay ࿗ ࿗ 🇮🇳

Shrutam_m

Thread: Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck and Operation Rheinübung. The Bismarck was the first of her Battleship class, the second being her sister ship Tirpitz. It was commissioned into the

Vintage Books

vintagebooks

Wondering which book to pick up after binge-watching #Bridgerton ? We have a reading list for you! #thread(Some of these books are published by Vintage, others are by different publishers.)

Adam Ryan

AdamRy_n

I moved to Austin in January of 2013. I didn’t know a single person, where to get a taco, or a good date spot.I worked hard building a network and

Anna Dillon

Anna_Dillon

My great-grandparents, Gladys & Harold Page, were living in Kuala Lumpur when WW2 started. Harold (right of photo) was a veteran of the First World War where he'd been seriously

Cheryle Johnson

CheryleJ0806

I used to be an @GOP voter. I started life as an @TheDemocrats but as I grew older and worked in conservative environments later in life, my voting trended that

BostonWriter

bostonwriter

So I feel like there's a phenomenon brewing that is eerily similar to the 2016 elections and I'm not sure folks who lean left are seeing it. The following is

Caro Wild

CaroWild

City Centre East Improvement SchemeYou may have seen the final scheme plans and consultation for a big transport and public realm improvement for the East of the City Centre. https://twitter.com/cardiffcouncil/status/1339526476610322433?s=2

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