Dr Alex Sessa

America: A History of Ideas Idea 1 - Taxes, Tyranny, and Treason: Who Gets to Define Liberty Anyway?

Nice, short piece by historian Dr Alex Sessa on the American Revolution and the question of liberty substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Thanks for sharing this! 🙏🏻😃

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Online reading lists from BBIH A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Explore the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) online reading list on women's history

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As Children, They Fled the Nazis Alone. Newly Found Papers Tell Their Story. Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about their journeys, until recently.

"Ms. Miley had long known that thousands of other German children had also been on the Kindertransport, but she said that seeing her name in black and white on an official list gave her a sense of belonging. “Suddenly, it wasn’t me alone." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...

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With the building of a new museum, Poland at last has a fitting space to tell Treblinka’s horrific story The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the dark chapter in Europe’s history is not forgotten

"For decades, a handful of Treblinka survivors, notably the author and sculptor Samuel Willenberg and his wife Ada Krystyna, as well as Polish citizens and international academics, have had to fight for it to not be entirely forgotten" www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/14/w...

18.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 36    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2

Was the Cold War the Biggest Change in Russia’s Relationship with the West?

#OnThisDay in 1947 Harry S. Truman articulated the #TrumanDoctrine.

Was the ensuing #ColdWar a significant change in Russia’s relationship with the West?

🔓 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀

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12.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yorkshire’s Luddites: At War with the Future

#OnThisDay in 1811 the first major #Luddite riot took place in Nottinghamshire.

By the time the Luddite cause hit Yorkshire in 1812, it had become a genuine mass movement.

🔓 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀

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#OtD 8 Mar 1782 the Gnadenhutten massacre took place in Ohio, when US forces in the revolutionary war massacred 96 Christian Lenape native Americans, scalping 39 children, 29 women and 28 men, before pillaging and burning their village stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 9 Mar 1894 German radical artist, Franz Sweiwert, was born. He was involved with Dada before helping to form the Cologne Progressives, a council communist artist circle. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 8 Mar 1918 women in Austria celebrated International Women's Day on this date for the first time as thousands took to the streets protesting WWI. The date commemorated women protesting in Russia the previous year (pic), beginning the revolution. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

08.03.2025 10:25 — 👍 94    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 5

International Women's Day poster, cartoon of a group of women with hands on hips

This International Women's Day use the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about women’s history. In our subject tree, ‘women’ offers over 40,000 articles, chapters, and books – why not have a look for yourself? buff.ly/3L7a33B

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