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Dave Hitchcock
@Hitchcockian
Historian of poverty and Course Director. Looking at Dying Homeless & eventually a next book: 'The Ends of Poverty' on threads: hitchcock.davidj he/him.
Aug 8, 2018 • 44 tweets • 7 min read
So. It says in the 'Life in the UK' test book that 1066 was the last successful foreign conquest of England. Which neglects or fully anglicizes Matilda and 1139 and the regency invasion of Isabella in 1326. Oh also the very successful invasion of 1688-9.

testing is going well... wow their account of the first settlement of the Irish Pale is just offensive.
Jul 27, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I understand & support the sentiment inherent in this thread, but this is not a historically acceptable take on workhouses, they were not gulags, and their creation does not represent a moment in which a tiny elite forces through a form of radical transition to market capitalism. I want to add to @SocialHistoryOx 's excellent thread, which lays out most of the main issues here. I won't repeat those.