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#inktober Cartoon William Wallace but make it "accurate". When I was wee, I went on a school trip to the Wallace Monument, where we found out he wasn't an anti-Semitic Australian.
#inktoberDay28 #inktober2019 #williamwallace #Braveheart #scottishhistory #ink #pen #copicmarkers
Absolutely love these new Irish stamps featuring #ThinLizzy front man #PhilLynott #BlackIrishHistory #BlackHistoryMonth 🖤
Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the #BritishEmpire. #history #britishhistory
John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child #AllOurStories #BlackBritishHistory
@tcddublin #Otd 1803: Irish rebellion of 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with #Dublin's working classes, that was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders of it. Lasted just 1 day! . . . #IrishHistory #Ireland
Widojest Week 2019 | Day 4: Fairy Tale
“I had to,” he croaks back, voice foreign and miles away. “My parents… they were going to kill my parents.”
#widojestweek #widojest #criticalrolefanart #jesterlavorre #calebwidogast #daciafufanart #letbrenwashhishands #hehadalongdayokay
Old Royal High School as seen from Regent Road, a 19th century neoclassical doric style building on Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland and landmark monument of the Greek Revival architecture in Scotland.
#Edinburgh #Scotland #ScottishHistory #Sunsets #podcast
Further incredible photography by Housk Randall from DeMask Publication. From #fetish, #kink & #bdsm #archives @BishopsgateInst #fetishhistory #fetisharchives #rubber #bondage #queerhistory
“...to truly understand the American outlook in the 18th Century, it is necessary to learn about the British conflicts of the 17th Century - especially the English Civil War.”
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Learn more in Ch 19: The #AmericanRevolution (follow link in bio)
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#americanhistory #britishhistory
Rebecca’s daughter large scale drawing #drawing #welshartist #jerwood #ink #welshhistory #WelshArt #riot #detail #ArtistOnTwitter
Johann Friedrich Struensee - what a story!
#Struensee #DanishHistory #VectorGraphic @Illustrator #Illustration
The artist Archibald Rees Griffiths (1902-1971) who made an important contribution to the artistic response to the traumatic experience of #Welsh mining communities between the two world wars, died #onthisday 1971 https://t.co/3lsV7KCE6O #WelshHistory @NLWGraphic Image: @LLGCymru
#OTD in 1570 James Stewart was assassinated in Linlithgow. He had ruled Scotland as regent since the abdication of his half sister #MaryQueenofScots in 1567. He was shot by a supporter of Mary in the first recorded assassination by firearm in history #ScottishHistory
Loving the #GoogleDoodle for the start of #BlackHistoryMonth
It's Mary Prince's 230th birthday - the first woman to publish a slave narrative in Britain #BlackBritishHistory
Just one of the many texts we study on the MA in #BlackBritishWriting!
The first ever recorded women's cricket match took place on this day in 1745 near Guildford, England.
#TodayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory
#History #historyfacts #ukhistory #britishhistory #sports #sportshistory #cricket #women #womensports #womenshistory
1942: 45 technicians from Jamaica & Bahamas arrived in Bolton to work in wartime factories (& were welcomed with a civic reception) #BeforeWindrush #BlackBritishHistory
Read a report about their work & conditions (by a West Indian visitor from the ILO) at https://t.co/4URUQGqcfr
From 'Punch' magazine (Dec 5, 1857). The writer here is outing something the aristocracy had been trying very hard to cover up. This article is dated at the end of the Clearances.
#ScottishHistory #HighlandClearances #Scotref
#OTD 1708: A French naval squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land James Francis Edward Stuart and a 5000-strong army on the Firth of Forth. Bad weather and the presence of a Royal Navy squadron under Admiral George Byng, prevented the landing #ScottishHistory
CELTIC QUEEN SETS FIRE TO LONDON https://t.co/xIhnaOkPEw from #Wallbook Timeline of British History #britishhistory