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@thehistoryguy.bsky.social

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Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 21h

On the YouTube right now…. @goingmedieval.bsky.social reveals some truths about medieval sex.

It is not at all what you think.

📺: youtu.be/wkZy3geThS8?...

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19h

It was said Martel’s men stood in a phalanx, "immobile as a wall, holding together like a glacier in the cold regions” and repelled repeated cavalry charges.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19h

Today in 732 Charles Martel crushed an Islamic army at Tours in mid France. A century after the death of Mohammed, Muslim forces were 150 miles from Paris.

It was the furthest Muslim forces would penetrate into NW Europe

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 21h

On the YouTube right now…. @goingmedieval.bsky.social reveals some truths about medieval sex.

It is not at all what you think.

📺: youtu.be/wkZy3geThS8?...

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

So the moral of the story is do not underestimate the willingness of deranged thugs to set fire to the entire world over something that has no factual basis whatsoever.

See also the Great Chinese Sparrowcide.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed the Nazis were so pickled in hateful propaganda that in Hungary for example once it became obvious that the war was lost, rather than back off & save their own skins, they accelerated the mass murder so that they could realise their antisemitic fever dreams before their date with the hangman

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

There was absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Jews in Germany deliberately sabotaged the WW1 war effort or organised a grand conspiracy to destroy Germany after the war. Zero.

Obvious point but worth bearing in mind during this ‘Great Antifa scare of ‘25’

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

“Don't allow yourself to be governed; be the master. Never have a favorite or a prime minister.”

Louis XV 🇫🇷

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, Young Henry.

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 4d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

My wider family: we have Irish, Welsh, an Iraqi Jew, Zulu South Africans, a Zimbabwean, English, North Americans, and an Iranian. We all have a hoot & think Nelson was cool, because we love each other and we live in a culture that allows and celebrates that

Everyone needs to get their shit together

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Own it. Take the win. You absolute clowns.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

It also demonstrates the strength and appeal of the Britishness they’re always wanging on about. No one is queuing up to become Hungarian or Russian or North Korean. People want to be part of what we’ve got going on here. They want their kids to sing Jerusalem & wave flags when the king goes by.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not a necessary evil, to be tolerated or have to live with. It’s absolutely extraordinarily brilliant. It offers a glimpse of a future where we all stop killing people with marginally different complexions or national identities
It’s a triumph of enlightened education over dark primordial urges

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

Der Stürmer was Hitler’s favourite newspaper. It was filled with antisemitism, with a particular focus on semi pornographic accounts of Jews sexually assaulting ‘Aryan’ women.

Göring thought it was so insane he banned his staff from reading it

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

80 years ago today the allied prosecutors arrived in Nuremberg to get the trials underway.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a mugshot of an incompetent, drug addled narcissist. He insisted the charges against him were trumped up.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 6d

(Mussolini was a radical young anti war socialist. He said warned that any government demand for blood and money to fuel the
conquest would be met by a general strike. ‘War between nations will therefore become war between classes,’)

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 6d

Today in 1911 Italy invaded Libya. An act of blatant aggression which weakened the Turkish Empire and encouraged Serbia and others to seize Turkish territory in the Balkans, a process that would lead directly to the First World War.

Reposted by Dan Snow

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I know fact-checking will convince no-one on her side of the argument, but kudos to the Grauniad for doing it anyway.

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 8d

‪Early this morning in 1916 2nd Lt Wulstan J. Tempest shot down zeppelin L31.
He flew the length of its underside blasting incendiary rounds into it. He was almost crushed beneath it as it fell. It was the last deliberate zeppelin attack on London.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 9d

Also- bad politics?

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 9d

A world in which the Chinese Communist Party adheres more closely to evidence led policy making than the British Conservative Party. A national embarrassment.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9d

Stark, raving mad.

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 9d

CAN THE CUMBRIANS BE ENGLISH, MATT?

Essential question.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve spent the night tossing and turning over the ethnicity of someone from the southern quadrant of the ancient Welsh kingdom of Strathclyde.

Which is why people with lineage obsessions go absolutely bonkers.

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 9d

An accolade!