Steve Murdoch

@profmurdoch.bsky.social

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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

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Steve Murdoch is an academic and writer. He is author on the history of Scotland and the Wider World in general and of Scotland and Scandinavia in particular. His monographs include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000/2003); Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006) and the book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010). In 2014 he published the co-authored book Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. He has edited several volumes including Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2000) and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005). This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE). .. more

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

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.

Inside a Gaza medical clinic at risk of shutting down after an Israeli ban

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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛ @kevinressler.bsky.social · 10h

Perfection.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

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Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social · 5d

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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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 7d

The vanity, stupidity and venality is breathtaking. But the history teachers of the future will be grateful for the evidence.

Screenshot of a cartoon: Trump (c.2005) bestrides the Americas, legs akimbo and right hand on hip. In his left hand a baseball bat inscribed “Donroe Doctrine”. The only colour is the red of his tie, hanging long below his belt and to his left.

Posted by the “Trump War Room” and reposted by Pete Hegseth, 3 January 2026.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 8d

Why should Trump stop at Venezuela? They’re champing at the bit for territorial expansion. Katie Miller, Stephen Miller‘s wife, posted a map of Greenland marked as a US territory with the words „SOON“.

Katie Miller Screenshot „X“ Post: „SOON“ Greenland map, filled in with an American flag

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 8d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 8d

And there ya have it…

Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela

Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...

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Iben Bjørnsson @ibenb.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 9d

This book is from 1979. The accuracy with which it describes a reality still present is excruciating. (Edward Said: The Question of Palestine)

A page from The Question of Palestine by Edward Said, discussing the treatment of Arabs in Israel, including issues of torture, illegal detention, and media coverage. It references various reports and criticises the lack of acknowledgment in American media.

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 10d

Crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland. Described conteptuously as King of Scots by Cromwellians.

He called gimself King of GB & Irl throughout the Usurpation.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 12d

Israeli forces shoot and kill 11-year-old girl in Gaza City - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-11-year-old-girl-gaza-city

Israeli forces shoot and kill 11-year-old girl in Gaza City

<article data-history-node-id="433259" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-11-year-old-girl-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-11-year-old-girl-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces shoot and kill 11-year-old girl in Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City on Tuesday, Wafa news agency reported. </p> <p>Witnesses told Wafa news agency that Israeli military vehicles stationed themselves in the al-Tuffah neighbohood and fired indiscrimately. They struck the girl in a round of fire, and then killed her. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

Israel to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza https://aje.io/7yw579

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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social · 12d

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":

1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14d

New research found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives.

The hidden way the big, bad wolf protects us

A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 14d

Tay Bridge Disaster #OnThisDay theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/28/t...

Tay Bridge Disaster #OnThisDay

On 28 December 1879 the Tay Rail Bridge collapsed. A North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line was travelling from Burntisland to Dundee at the time killing all …

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 15d

Footage from Kyiv shows the moment a drone strikes a residential high rise in the Pozniaky district. Another direct and deliberate attack on civilian housing.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16d

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza, carry out raids across West Bank https://aje.io/t285fu

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16d

Now the winner ot the FIFA peace prize has launched missiles at two more countries I'm sure they'll reconsider the decision. Seems almost corrupt in retrospect.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16d

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 16d

"Foreign religions" like Christianity started in blighty 🤔

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 18d

Don't suppose you can definitively identify the German regiment. The Division is correct. See various takes on the regiment.

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 18d

Altered, ta

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19d

Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ https://aje.io/49ttvf

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19d

The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.