Henry Brown
@hdabrown.bsky.social
Lecturer in modern European history at Cardiff University. Interested in modern Spain, military culture, and antifascism. Views own. Tired.
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This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.
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What a shit show
on.ft.com/4pqrC0s Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
on.ft.com/4pqrC0s Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
[FREE TO READ] Report criticises culture in Downing Street during Boris Johnson’s tenure
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What a shit show
on.ft.com/4pqrC0s Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
on.ft.com/4pqrC0s Covid response of ‘toxic’ UK government was ‘too little, too late’, inquiry finds
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)
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'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
www.noemamag.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'What we have lost, and what we desperately need to reclaim, is a different mode of cognition, a historical sensibility....t is a temperament that is comfortable with uncertainty, sensitive to context and aware of the powerful, often unpredictable rhythms of the past.'
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“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.
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The new Lindsay Ellis video is a must watch if you're shocked and tired about the evolving state of the world and the indifference of those in power to do anything about it. It is a long hard look at how the stage is set to ensure suffering continues unchallenged.
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The new Lindsay Ellis video is a must watch if you're shocked and tired about the evolving state of the world and the indifference of those in power to do anything about it. It is a long hard look at how the stage is set to ensure suffering continues unchallenged.
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
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"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Psst! Psst! Wanna hear some von Clausewitz ish? Then tune into lat week's episode "On War" with guest @hdabrown.bsky.social ! Find it on anchor.fm/theoryish
July 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Psst! Psst! Wanna hear some von Clausewitz ish? Then tune into lat week's episode "On War" with guest @hdabrown.bsky.social ! Find it on anchor.fm/theoryish
War is a continuation of podcast by other means…
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!
WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
July 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
War is a continuation of podcast by other means…
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!
Had a blast talking with @paolamedgonz.bsky.social and @hannahva390.bsky.social about CvC and Crimson Tide among other things!
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WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely this week's new episode! We were joined by @hdabrown.bsky.social to discuss "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz . We discuss politics, Napoleon, and Battlestar Galactica! Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
One Special Forces officer blocked 1,585 Afghans from settling in UK
Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
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Historian friends, please do join us, and share with your networks! 🗃️
In less than 3 days, nearly 600 historians signed their names to take a stand for trans rights. Thank you to everyone who signed and shared!
I'll send the letter this week. There is still time to sign, so please share this with your historian friends/networks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/1RA_...
I'll send the letter this week. There is still time to sign, so please share this with your historian friends/networks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/1RA_...
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Historian friends, please do join us, and share with your networks! 🗃️
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I'm expecting a revision of employment statistics so that every one lusty, upright industrial job will be worth three snivelling woke Smart Alec jobs
April 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm expecting a revision of employment statistics so that every one lusty, upright industrial job will be worth three snivelling woke Smart Alec jobs
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We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
April 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
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This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This. Protect trans kids. Protect trans rights. Gender is a spectrum. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people exist. Inter-sex & DSD people exist. Gender-non-conforming people exist. Transphobia is anti-feminist. Laws are often wrong and unjust. We must fight for a fairer future.
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Imagine if ALL THIS BOLLOCKS about scrounging, skiving disabled people and their existential threat to the UK was based on THE WRONG NUMBERS.
Imagine...
Imagine...
For example, a supposed surge in economic inactivity has generated a long and often agonised political debate over getting people into work, but it may be a mirage, a statistical phantom driven by bad survey data. How many other things are we seeing wrongly or not at all? www.ft.com/content/f800...
Faulty data overstates surge in UK economic inactivity, finds report
Problems with ONS labour market survey have given ‘overly pessimistic picture’, says Resolution Foundation
www.ft.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Imagine if ALL THIS BOLLOCKS about scrounging, skiving disabled people and their existential threat to the UK was based on THE WRONG NUMBERS.
Imagine...
Imagine...
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¡Hola a todos/as!
Como sabéis estoy haciendo una tesis sobre el consumo de heroína en Madrid (años 80 y 90). Ahora estoy realizando entrevistas a personas que vivieron ese momento histórico: consumidores/as, voluntarios/as en diferentes centros y proyectos, vecinos/as...
Como sabéis estoy haciendo una tesis sobre el consumo de heroína en Madrid (años 80 y 90). Ahora estoy realizando entrevistas a personas que vivieron ese momento histórico: consumidores/as, voluntarios/as en diferentes centros y proyectos, vecinos/as...
January 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
¡Hola a todos/as!
Como sabéis estoy haciendo una tesis sobre el consumo de heroína en Madrid (años 80 y 90). Ahora estoy realizando entrevistas a personas que vivieron ese momento histórico: consumidores/as, voluntarios/as en diferentes centros y proyectos, vecinos/as...
Como sabéis estoy haciendo una tesis sobre el consumo de heroína en Madrid (años 80 y 90). Ahora estoy realizando entrevistas a personas que vivieron ese momento histórico: consumidores/as, voluntarios/as en diferentes centros y proyectos, vecinos/as...
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When we launched the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, it had 130 objects in five galleries with texts in Spanish and English. Now it has 480 objects in 11 galleries. All texts are in French as well, and some galleries are in Basque, Catalan, and Galician.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum
February 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
When we launched the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, it had 130 objects in five galleries with texts in Spanish and English. Now it has 480 objects in 11 galleries. All texts are in French as well, and some galleries are in Basque, Catalan, and Galician.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum