@profmurdoch.bsky.social
Professor of History, Swedish Defence University Research & Teaching: - The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) - British Civil Wars (1639-1660) - Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713) - History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD #Dyslexic in 5x languages
omas Urquhart of Cromarty, Cromarty Castle
Book title: The Jewel
Another pedantic remark. The certain Scots handed Charles over the their Presbyterian English Brethren, who then lost power to the Independents who felt no obligation to honour agreements between Presbyterians. The Swines 🤣
23.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"The report, reviewed by the FT, decided against using Palantir technology for Swiss military data since there was a risk that US authorities could gain access to the sensitive files."
Yet here Labour continues to shove public money down its throat.
Not quite. But not bad for a colonial. You cannot conflate those Scots who offered protection, with those Scots who betrayed Chaz I, with those Scots who proclaimed Chaz II.
It's almost as if different Scots had agency and different agendas ...... who knew?
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15.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"It started off in Fife, it ended up in tears ...."
14.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Treaty of Westphalia 1648. Properly explained
www.facebook.com/share/v/1C9G...
#EarlyModern #History 📚 #ThirtyYearsWar #30YearsWar
🗃 #WhatsHistory #17thCentury
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
On Wednesday 4th February, Dr Sebastian Graf (Visiting IMH Researcher) will give the paper
“War, Memorialisation, and Digitality: Mnemonic Practices of Ukrainian Virtual Museums in the Russian War against Ukraine"
📆 4 Feb 2026
🕝 15:00 CET
📍RAAB or Zoom (dm for link)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
24.01.2026 17:59 — 👍 9329 🔁 3483 💬 439 📌 187Bovino is a wanker
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‼️Vi söker en vikarierande lektor i historia, särskilt militärhistoria
Läs mer på vår webbplats. Ansök senast 28 februari www.fhs.se/om-forsvarsh...
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis.bsky.social 👍❤️🔥
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WATCH: Native #Americans are protesting after #ICE detained 4 Oglala #Sioux tribal members in #Minneapolis.
Three are still unaccounted for.
Let that sink in.
The original Americans are getting treated like “illegal aliens” by masked federal agents.
Toxic masculinity strutting its stuff. Horrifying.
19.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
World Wars I and II killed about 100 million people combined. To avoid a third world war, they made some rules. But in recent years, those rules have increasingly been ignored. And United States President Donald Trump just took it to another level, one that many say may help upend the international rules-based order intended to keep us safe.
The rules include the United Nations Charter, signed in 1945. It bans the use of force against any state unless it is in self-defence or approved by the UN Security Council.
The year prior, 44 countries signed the Bretton Woods Economic Order to mitigate destabilising financial crises. It created the IMF and the World Bank. Similarly, humanitarian law and war crimes were laid out in the Nuremberg Charter in 1945 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
The Trump administration's abduction of a head of state throws into question the future of international law https://aje.news/8k2ill
19.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 99 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 3Glad you do. Best supervisor I ever had was a third from one of the UK top 3! Alas my (apparently) very limited experience of present admissions is something other.
20.01.2026 00:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
It was only ever paused after Thatcher's purge, then education devalued ever since with "Students" ( or pupils in old money) all getting 6, 8, 10 A levels at A grade. Nope, no grade inflation here, move along....
They'll be scrapping Thirds and 2:2 degrees next .... oh, hold on!
Yeah, but then they don't have Farage, Reform or Brexiteers.
My bro certainly prefers the snakes 😁
So the administration sells $500 million in Venezuelan oil, stashes proceeds in Qatar, and tells creditors they are out of luck.
Apparently the Administration has gone full Chavista.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Israel kills 8 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched
Israel kills 8 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched https://aje.news/513lia
15.01.2026 22:00 — 👍 107 🔁 100 💬 7 📌 6Just another day in the modern world where we have to listen to the American president - busy building a fascist state where protestors are murdered by his militia - threaten to bomb a country for suppressing legitimate protest.
12.01.2026 07:23 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yes. Ne er break sets 🙏🏼
12.01.2026 07:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Martin Sandbu, @FT: "Europe should embrace the idea of going it alone"
Since Trump has stopped doing anything for Europe or Ukraine, Europe should just ignore hostile Trump.
Europe does bnot need the US as an enemy.
www.ft.com/content/1da0...
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.
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Perfection.
11.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 86 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 5
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!
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