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‘The sect of Alarmists’: The Third Party and the reluctant leadership of William Windham, 1793-4 - The History of Parliament In this latest post, the Georgian Lords welcomes a guest article by James Orchin, PhD student at Queen's University, Belfast, re-examining William Windham's

With party conference season still ongoing, a reminder that breakaway groupings are nothing new, as James Orchin reminds us of William Windham's 'Third Party', which broke with the Foxite Whigs and ended up in coalition with Pitt's government...
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St. Francis, on his feast day 4 Oct, and a bishop - the jury's out on which bishop it is - from the #Franciscan friary, Kilconnell Co. Galway.

#OTD 1539 Treaty signed for the marriage of Henry VIII of England to Anne, sister of the Duke of Cleves. bit.ly/3XVRlSj She was 24 and he was 48. The treaty gave Anne a handsome jointure of 4,367 marks 7s 1¾ d. p.a. The lands included several dissolved monasteries.

A very early representation of Francis of Assisi, who died in 1226, probably made before 1250. His feast is #otd 4 Oct. (Musée du Louvre)

Mosaic of an archangel at Hagia Sophia
From the depiction of the Prostrated Emperor over the door to the naos, which possibly depicts Leo VI (886-912)

Lincoln’s Newport Arch was built by the Romans in the 3rd century and is still very much in use by vehicles today, some 1,800 years later- this is pretty amazing!

A Pink-footed Goose walking across short green grass, caught mid-step with its head turned slightly to the side. Its pale belly contrasts with darker brown head and barred grey back, while its bright pink legs and feet stand out vividly

Oh! A Pink-footed Goose is waddling through your feed. How very silly. 💗

The Friendly Nazis Next Door Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...

Where @kashana.blacksky.app absolutely obliterates a certain kind of media profile...

Holy shit

KTNT & MUGM

🧊🧵✈️ ICE AIR – MON 22 SEP 2025

👉 Sunday's ICE Air flights included two stops at the Everglades Concentration Camp (still not closed) and one stop at Guantanamo 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

Monica Lewinsky posting a comment she made under a dude wearing different types of tinfoil hats asking first dictatorship kinda nervous which tinfoil hat should I go with? And Monica replies: definitely the beret Anyone alive during the 90s remembers the iconic beret but go search it if you don’t

Hahahahahaha

Very well deserved! I can’t imagine how much hard work has gone into the book, I’m so excited to read it.

Still excited, whatever it is! And yes she was! ☺️

Dare I hope for something Marguerite of Austria related?

Speaking last week at CNBC and Boardroom's "Game Plan" conference, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino took a rosier outlook, insisting that the demand for live entertainment has never been higher, and tickets are "underpriced." "Music has been underappreciated," Rapino said, especially compared to sports. "In sports, I joke it's like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside [seat]. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyoncé." He added, "We have a lot of runway left. So when you read about ticket prices going up, the average concert price is still $72. Try going to a Laker game for that, and there's 80 of them. The concert is underpriced and has been for a long time."

One of the biggest problems we're gonna have in the future is a lack of guillotine capacity.

This is such an important thread, but this post really made me sad, because the broader scholarly infrastructure has (been) eroded to the point that knowledge exchange simply can't exist in the way it used to and there's little that journals can do about it.

Because that infrastructure was people.

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

#OtD 7 Sep 1977 violent clashes took place between workers and bosses' thugs at a machine-tool factory in Mohan Nagar, India. After the thugs opened fire, workers and local residents burned the factory and killed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

It’s not just that there is no legality here. The Israeli state is at war with the very concept of legality. The idea that there is such a thing as a baseline, fundamental notions such as a human rights etc. - these are to be destroyed to reduce the cost of the genocide on Israel.

YouTube video by Maha Rezeq In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home BBC

In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home (1998)

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Detail of a silver Ancient Greek coin featuring a signature of the coin-maker

This coin's design is characteristic of the work of famous die-cutter Euainetos, whose name ‘EYAINE’ appears below Arethusa’s head. Many other Greek mints copied Euainetos’s successful Arethusa head. It also inspired ancient pottery and even featured on a 1966 Italian banknote.

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A silver Ancient Greek coin with the head of a female facing left with flowing hair tied up and stylised dolphins around the edge

The reverse depicts another traditional Syracuse coin design - the head of the nymph Arethusa. She represents a miraculous fresh-water spring on the island of Ortygia, with formed part of Syracuse. Arethusa is surrounded by four dolphins and she is wearing a wreath made of reeds.

A detail from a silver Ancient Greek coin featuring military equipment and an attic helmet

Below the horses we can see military equipment: a cuirass between a pair of greaves, a shield and an Attic helmet. They represent prizes for competitions held by Dionysius I, to train his army. He relied heavily on the services of Greek, Italian and Celtic mercenaries.

A silver Ancient Greek coin with four horses pulling a chariot, there is a winged Nike figure at the top and helmet at the bottom

This spectacular coin represents the ancient art of die-cutting at its best.

It is an Ancient Greek coin from the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse from around 400 BCE.

The front of the coin depicts a racing chariot with four horses at full speed - a traditional Syracusan coin design.

It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable

And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headine DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.” Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997

And, of course, it’s the 28th anniversary of the greatest of all newspaper corrections (with apologies to @seamas.bsky.social who traditionally posts this, but it’s 10.39, and I can only wait so long)

#OtD 31 Aug 1913 police attacked a crowd in O'Connell Street, in a drunken rampage that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. During the Dublin lockout of tram workers, 300 officers attacked a crowd of mostly onlookers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1035...