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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

And when this little boy finally found happiness, what did we do? We tore his wife to pieces for fun. Just as we did to his mother.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

The press hounded Princess Diana. After her death, we said it would never happen again. Then others. They splashed Amy Winehouse’s suffering across front pages. Meghan has been so attacked she had to leave. Our society hunts women down for kicks and can’t seem to stop.

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My #2019 surprising encounter: Man in coffee shop: oh hi don’t you do history on TV? Me: a bit. We talk history, Versailles etc. Man: Do you mind people coming up to you? I was in a band, so I know what it’s like. Me: what band? Man: Take That. Me: FAINTS

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

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4 years

People who say - authorities should take statues down after discussion. Yes. But it isn't happening. Bristol'sbeen debating #EdwardColston for years and wasn't getting anywhere. In 2018, it was agreed that statue would bear a plaque noting his involvement in the slave trade. BUT

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4 years

people writing that the university should fire me because I said Nigel Farage was a disgrace comparing #BlackLivesMattters , a movement of peace and justice, to the Taliban and because I said the statue of a slave trader belonged in the sea, thanks guys, will let the VC know.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Victorian buildings in this country are torn down all the time. No one cares. But remove a statue of a horrific slave trader in human souls - and its ‘erasing our history’ and ‘mob rule’.

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4 years

But Meghan once wore dark nail varnish....

Prince Andrew Lobbied U.S. Government for Epstein, Alleged Victims Claim

The Duke of York faces allegations he lobbied the U.S. Government to help secure Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal.

www.newsweek.com

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Nigel Farage comparing #BlackLivesMatter , a movement of peace and justice, to the Taliban is beyond a disgrace. He has constantly incited racism and hate.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Didn't everyone cheer when the #BerlinWall came down? But the pulling down of a statue of a slave trader is 'mob rule'?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Hey Boris, leave statues to us historians and the communities where the statues are. Perhaps you could focus on the pressing matter of our giant Covid death rate, the disproportionate deaths of BAME people and the suffering of our elderly in care homes.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

4 years

They had different perspectives, different understandings of right and wrong. But those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults. To tear them down would be to lie about our history, and impoverish the education of generations to come. 4/8

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Any news on Prince Andrew speaking to the FBI?

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@KateWilliamsme

4 years

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Give 16 year olds the vote across UK, in all elections. It’s their future. They can marry, enlist in the army, work full time but not vote. When people say 16 year olds aren’t interested in politics 1) they are

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Those denying Meghan’s suicidal thoughts - it is an absolute disgrace. Such ‘I don’t believe it’ is why people don’t speak out about mental health, why they suffer in silence, feel shame. We need to be better than this.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

So, just to recap for everyone, #Meghan ’s horrendous crimes against the monarchy, while in the UK, included eating avocados, a one shoulder dress, closing a car door and touching her bump.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

From what we know, Harry never requested to wear military uniform - Andrew did, as sources have said. This decision is about Andrew‘s desire to turn up in full military regalia when he should have lost his titles long ago. But suddenly the story is all about Harry. Odd!

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

And here we go - horrible comments about #MeghanMarkle talking about her miscarriage. She’s doing it to try to help others. Something is so wrong with us as a society when a woman is attacked for writing honestly about baby loss.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

If those attacking #Meghan this morning actually WATCHED the video, they’d see she’s simply telling people to vote and take the election seriously. Yes we can all guess who she supports, but does she say it? No. Any excuse to tear her apart. #Misogynoir

The Sun

@TheSun

4 years

Meghan Markle warns 'we all know what's at stake this year' in the US election

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

People say to me - is #HarryandMeghan really a story? Yes it is - a woman of colour married into the royal family and within two years she was chased out. This is a story not just about the RF but about the racism and misogyny in Britain and the British establishment.

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

4 years

My new @DailyMail column is about Meghan, Harry & the shameful lie that criticism of them is racist. Posting soon.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

You choose to be a teacher because you want to inspire children. You give up time, emotional energy on support, spend your own money on books/food for pupils.Working harder in lockdown. Do you get a thank you? No. Instead you're criticised for asking how 4 year olds can distance

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Why was #EdwardColston put up as a statue in Bristol in the first place, in 1895, over 170 years after he died? If they wanted a white businessman/philanthropist (and we'll get onto his philanthropy later), there were many other candidates. Why a slave trader?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Any news on Prince Andrew relinquishing his military titles? Or is it just something that people want to see taken from Harry?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

So let me get this straight. #GhislaineMaxwell , accused of horrific abuse and trafficking of dozens of victims, is a poor little rich girl whose father died etc. But #Meghan , accused of eating avocados and expressing interest in the wrong tiara, is Lady Macbeth. Right.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

6 years

Super top public boys' school: 'Dear Kate, could you come and speak to the boys about feminism and inspiring women. No fee but the boys would enjoy your talk'. I don't think working for elite for free is quite what feminism had in mind

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

What ended the slave trade in Britain? A lot of people think of Wilberforce and (white) middle class abolitionists. Actually much due to freed slave abolitionists eg #Equiano and big law cases 1) freed slave James Somersett 2) insurance claim after massacre on slave ship Zong.

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@KateWilliamsme

4 years

We pay 1.7 million a year so that MPs can have cheap food and drink in HoP. And yet lunch for poor kids in holiday is dismissed as creating ‘dependency’. Some of those parents are NHS carers, cleaners, nurses - we clap you but we’re not going to help your children.

Channel 4 Dispatches

@C4Dispatches

4 years

"We try not to eat a lot in one day, even though most of us are really hungry." Almost 1 in 3 children in the UK are now growing up poor, like Cameron and his two sisters whose family rely on a food bank to help fill the fridge.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

People have been trying to get statues celebrating slavery & brutality removed for years. Didn’t get anywhere. And #Colston is pulled down thanks to #BlackLivesMatter and finally this country is going to review public landmarks. These protestors are showing us our history.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

I also went on More 4 news with David Starkey when I was in the early days of my career, to contest his argument that female historians were stupid and undermining history...

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

and thanks for coming to my public history class on statues and power in Britain. Now you all need to write your essays....

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Other royals have talked about elections, matters such as the environment, even written to ministers about policy. But #Meghan , who is a US citizen, telling people to take US elections seriously is some sort of terrible scandal.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

6 years

Pitch doc idea to Tv company. They love it & want it to be a series. At meeting, they say they don't want me to present it but a man. So can I provide (unpaid,uncredited) the access, killer facts, new research for proposal & his scripts? I think we've had enough of this, ladies?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Cries to remove titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex from Harry and Meghan. But Harry’s title of Prince cannot be removed. Thus if they were no longer Duke and Duchess, they’d be Prince and Princess. Which would, one might argue, be even more appealing on the world stage..

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Not linking to that Starkey piece. He used to hit up misogyny for likes. Now he’s on racism and hate. If he gets lots of work after saying that slavery was not genocide because there are ‘so many damn Blacks in Africa’ we will all know what’s going on in this society.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

2.5 million men from India served in the British Indian Army in WW2 conflicts across the world. Won gallantry medals and George Crosses. Auchinleck (Com in Chief) said Britain couldn’t have got through war without them. And yet still so often forgotten #VEDay #VEDay2020

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

1 year

With @cnn to discuss #HarryAndMeghanNetflix - a historical document of how racism & misogyny goes wild when a woman of colour marries into royal family. When a major newspaper can openly publish a desire to submit her to sexualised violence, shows Harry was right.She wasn’t safe

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Sending a shout out to our hard working teachers who have taught through a pandemic, are trying to plan how to open schools - and have worked non stop this week supporting and helping heartbroken students hit by this A level catastrophe. The government won’t thank you but we do!

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

37 bn on hopeless test and trace, £££ on PPE contracts to randoms, 2.4 million on a wasted briefing room, 900k on paint on a plane & now £200mil on a yacht the royals didn’t ask for- but no money for NHS staff and hungry kids given half a tomato. Right.

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 years

New royal yacht named after Prince Philip to be 'commissioned within weeks', costing as much as £200m

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

The government wants to whip up this pile on on Naga Munchetty - a fantastic broadcaster who was expressing amusement at her co-presenter’s joke - to distract us from their failings, spending, Brexit, COVID. These culture wars are dangerous - real people are targeted.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

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4 years

So everyone saying, why couldn't Bristol just discuss it and bring it down through agreement? It's not that simple. While statues are being discussed and changes blocked, black people have to pass them daily, seeing the congratulation of slave trading, their horror and pain. (13)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

On Tuesday, #NigelFarage made the disgraceful comparison of #BlackLivesMatter to the Taliban on GMB. Horrific spreading of race hatred and inciting hate. Now, he is 'stepping down' from LBC -immediate effect. This is long overdue. Race hatred must be off all the airwaves -now!

Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

The magnificent @SholaMos1 and me on TV this morning, outraged by Farage’s comparison of #BlackLivesMatter , a movement of peace and equality, to the #Taliban . Farage has made a career out of toxic racism and inciting hatred. Why is he still on the airwaves?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

a long thread, I know. But language matters and the debates over the plaque epitomizes to me so many of the big questions we must confront in this country as so much of this country's riches gained in the past stem from the misery of others.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

In 2010, landing cards of Windrush arrivals were destroyed. Then people who’d come as kids, like this little boy, now seniors, threatened w deportation, loss of NHS treatments, benefits. Many lost everything & suffering continues. But #SewellReport says no institutional racism.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

‘Where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President - and find herself reciting for one’ ‘We learned that quiet isn’t always peace’ The incredible #AmandaGorman #InaugurationDay #Inauguration2021 #BidenHarrisInauguration

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

thank you so for your kind words, everyone, so pleased this thread has been of use.

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@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Trump on #Meghan - who raises money for charity and talks about importance of voting: ‘I’m not a fan’ Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell - accused of sex trafficking of minors - ‘I wish her well’.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

All this ‘she is an actress’...When Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, it was portrayed as one of the greatest romances in history. I don’t recall her being called fake because she had been a success in Hollywood.....

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

‘She won’t go quietly, that’s the problem. I’ll fight until the end’. Diana in 1995. And she was hunted and finally chased to her death. The end came just two years later, in 1997. Now her daughter-in-law is persecuted all over again, for speaking. We have learned nothing.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Thank you so much for all your kind words today, everybody, they are very much appreciated ❤️

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

2 years

How, exactly, has #PrinceAndrew been making ‘amends’?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

So the #Brexit vote was close to 50/50, sold to us on lies (funding NHS, higher wages) since disavowed. Meddled in by various hidden forces, prob including Russian intelligence. We have 0 trade deals. But we’re still going ahead with the hardest of hard Brexits in four months?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

So he met Meghan once (if barely at all). She’s now one of the most famous women in this country, and famous internationally. He attaches himself to her, boosts his fame by hanging on, endlessly attacking. Misogyny, misogynoir sells.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

So the actual Prime Minister wanted to be injected with Covid by Chris Whitty on live TV???? To prove that it was nothing to be ‘scared of’. According to Cummings. We aren’t living in a reality.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

If an athlete came down with a serous physical illness after the game, they wouldn’t be expected to do the press conference. Why, in 2021, is mental health seen as so different?? Sometimes I think that despite all the talk and ‘be kind’, we have made no progress at all.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

2 years

Have been rather unwell (not covid, will tweet about soon) but finally feeling better and here I am yesterday with Xmas penguin at the Shard! Wishing all those who are ill and suffering over Christmas a giant hug ❤️❤️ We are all cheering you on in your recovery 🎄

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@KateWilliamsme

2 years

The #RoyalTourCaribbean is a disaster. Terrible optics, overtones of colonialism. Desire to lose the monarchy had risen by 20%in Jamaica over 10 years to 62%. #BLM , #Windrush . The world has changed. But this tour proceeded as if it was 1932 not 2022. Catastrophic.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Then it proved impossible to find a wording that everyone accepted. The first plaque that it bore, added when it was erected in 1895, said 'Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city'. NO mention of slavery. (2)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

The coverage of #Meghan has been off the scale this week. We are hurtling towards no deal Brexit, 45+ dead, families and livelihoods ravaged, Covid still virulent - and what is our focus? Attacking a Black woman for sending emails and trying to put her heart into her role.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

This is criminal. Thomas Harvey, NHS nurse dies after treating a COVID patient without protection. Seven children without a father. Sorry but our government is killing our devoted doctors, nurses and health workers.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

I think Brexit is just marvellous. Can I have a peerage now?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Win.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

A week into to schools back, cases are rising and health workers being turned away from centres, the gov is breaking international law and is barreling cluelessly to no deal Brexit, the economy wrecked but what’s the problem? 6 young migrants arriving in Dover by boat.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

2 years

Thank you so much @maxfostercnn @cnn for having me at St Paul’s this morning. Huge cheers for Sussexes. The opposite for Boris Johnson. Loud boos.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

£96 million contract to give laptops etc to kids in deprived areas was given in April to - yes you guessed it, a Tory donor’s firm and there was no open tender. And now I see charities are stepping in.

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

3 years

Online learning is going to have to be rapidly ramped up this week. - Ofcom says up to 1.8m children have no laptop or other device - Govt has promised 1m laptops - Govt has delivered around 500k so far

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

5 years

No he didn’t, JRM, the oil you got was fake. Oil was used on the Queen and then disposed of. Remaining oil was lost in bombings of WW2 - so a new batch had to be made for Elizabeth II.

Rachael Swindon

@Rachael_Swindon

5 years

Jacob Rees-Mogg on his favourite Christmas present ever: “When I was about 17 my father gave me a glass phial containing some of the anointing oil from Queen Victoria’s Coronation.” Twat.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

And #Meghan ’s horrendous crimes against the monarchy, while in the US, are buying a house herself, driving a hybrid car and encouraging fellow US citizens to exercise their democratic right and vote in the upcoming election.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Thanks for spotting me on @BBCBreakfast - as I said, Harry and Meghan are a great loss to the RF - and we have to look at ourselves as a country, the racism against Meghan has been relentless. We think people who marry into the RF are our dolls to torment.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Any news on #PrinceAndrew losing his honorary military titles?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Put Diversity on every Saturday night until this stops.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Britain's Got Talent complaints surpass 7,500 after Diversity's Black Lives Matter dance

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

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And once more, calling a Black woman ‘difficult’ - well, find me a Black woman in the public eye not called difficult. The ‘angry Black woman’ was created as a stereotype to justify slavery. And still pervades society. It’s racism. #MeghanandHarry

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

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The dialogue about #Meghan was racist from the beginning - gangland, exotic, outsider. It was, as she said, not ‘fair’. Meghan was criticized when other royal women praised for doing the same - from mag editing to gowns. She was doing so much good work. Now we’ve lost her.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

For great information on the debates over #Colston in Bristol, the newspaper The Bristol Post (who is covering the events today in detail) on their site Bristol Live is excellent and proof if anyone needed it of how needed are our local newspapers. (14)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

And then they were gone. Our loss, the rest of the world’s gain. Less than two years after the wedding, the first woman of colour to marry into the royal family has been chased out by racism and misogyny. #HarryandMeghan #SussexRoyal

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

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Today 1936 George V was dying at Sandringham.But he wasn’t dying fast enough. It was 11pm, the Palace wished to announce in morning’s Times (if deadline missed, news wd be in ‘low’ evening papers). So doctor despatched the King w huge dose of morphine & cocaine- &Times got story

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@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Later in 2018, Bristol Council unveiled the wording for the second plaque, “As a high official of the Royal African Company from 1680 to 1692, Edward Colston played an active role in the enslavement of over 84,000 Africans (including 12,000 children) of whom over 19,000 died (3)

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@KateWilliamsme

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During #EdwardColston 's twelve year involvement with the Company in c17, it transported c 84,000 men, women and children from West Africa as slaves. The enslaved people were branded with RAC, as company property. Nearly 20k died en route, ship conditions were horrific.

David Olusoga

@DavidOlusoga

4 years

The statue of Edward Colston, slave trader of the Royal African Company, has been toppled by crowds in the centre of Bristol.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

So when we talk about what should replace statues of slave traders, rather than choosing all white abolitionists, let's commemorate freed slaves such as Equiano, Somersett and Knight who fought for their own freedom and forced Britain to confront the horror of the slave trade.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

It’s so cruel to blame students for what’s happening. Disease spreads fast through halls - it’s usually colds and flu but this time it’s Covid. Not their fault. It’s grim that on top of this, they might be forbidden leaving for the winter holidays.

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@KateWilliamsme

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So #IWD , three women were in the news The first criticised for talking about racism and her mental health crisis The second criticised for walking home at 9.30 pm The third given a 1% pay rise, when billions wasted on contracts (nursing 89% female) We have a long way to go.

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And Andrew puffed up wearing his Garter Robes (which the Queen forbade) while Harry, on the same row as him, not permitted to wear uniform - pretty bad optics

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@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Society just could not deal with a Black Duchess, could it?

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@KateWilliamsme

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en route to the Caribbean and America. Colston also invested in the Spanish slave trade and in slave-produced sugar. As Tory MP for Bristol (1710-1713), he defended the city’s ‘right’ to trade in enslaved Africans. Bristolians who did not subscribe to his religious and (4)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

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As you can see, the language on the two plaques is radically different. The second says his wealth came from sugar etc and he was 'also involved in the transportation' of slaves - rather as if he sort of built boats but didn't know what was going on.Focus was on philanthropy (10)

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political beliefs were not allowed to benefit from his charities'. The wording had been discussed by various groups, including children from Colston Primary School (name now changed). But it proved impossible for the Council to get it through. (5)

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@KateWilliamsme

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So #HarryandMeghan were given #FrogmoreCottage - comp tiny Crown property needing major work. Other royals live in huge properties, renovated for millions. Sussexes were endlessly attacked for the 2.4 mil, repaid it. Now E and husband are moving in - and no comment??

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@KateWilliamsme

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It's sometimes thought that Colston was the only man who gave to Bristol. Not the case. Among the others was Richard Reynolds who gave more money to Bristol than Colston. He was a Quaker iron merchant who was an anti-slavery campaigner and gave £20,000 in poor relief. (2)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Johnson staging G7 photo shoots in Cornish sites primarily or significantly funded by tens of EU millions - while casting the EU as unreasonable and thus responsible for NI is typical of the entitled, arrogant attitude that got us into 2016.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

5 years

I am a historian and I will not be saying that

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@Mike_Fabricant

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I believe a Managed No Deal is what the 52% had in mind. Historians will say we tried to overcomplicate the negotiations with an arrangement so complex, engineered by the civil service, it satisfies no-one. That is not British pragmatism.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

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4 years

No sympathy was shown to #Epstein ’s victims in his trial. 14 year olds were dismissed as ‘prostitutes’, bad girls, their reputations trashed - because they came from poorer homes. But #Ghislaine , wealthy, educated, connected, we are being told had no choice?

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Some councillors objected. And then the Merchant Venturers got involved and pushed for various changes, including removing the reference to 12,000 children and to focus on his philanthropy (and not to note it was selective) (6)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

The Queen sits alone, to mourn her husband of 73 years. So sad to see. It’s a powerful and painful image of this funeral in Covid times, when so many families have been unable to mourn as they would have wished. #PrincePhilipfuneral #PrincePhilip

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

6 years

Princess Charlotte the first in history not to be moved down the line of succession with the birth of a younger brother #royalbaby

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

The Council refused this altered plaque and the Office of the Mayor, Marvin Rees, who has been on TV today, rightly said it was 'unacceptable', particularly the lack of reference to those enslaved. That was in Spring 2019 and the plaque has been under discussions ever since. (11)

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

Baffled by criticism of #HarryandMeghan for not bringing Archie to UK. Quite apart from Coronavirus, kids don't usually come on royal engagements. No one is criticising Cambridges for not taking Louis to Ireland. The Queen left children at home when on tour, inc 6 mo tour.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

I would say that the biggest ‘This is Fiction’ warning should not be over The Crown or historical dramas but over Boris Johnson’s claims we’ll be rich after Brexit, fine to overthrow GFA, random chums best people for multi million PPE contracts & COVID will stop if we say so.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Ok that’s it, it’s my dad’s birthday today and my parents are having his lockdown birthday meal and this is the pudding course being consumed WITHOUT ME!!!!!

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

I often think of the national mass meltdown over Frogmore Cottage. Constantly used to attack #MeghanAndHarry when all royals live in (much bigger) Crown properties renovated with (many more) Crown millions. They buy their own house and we attack them too. It’s endless.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

slightly depressing the (few) people referring me to didn’t happen. Why wouldn’t a person of pop celebrity status be interested in history? Not only is history fab but history fans come from all walks of life.

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

My article on #Meghan in the @guardian - we have learned nothing from Princess Diana's treatment. #OprahMeghanHarry

The behaviour towards Meghan shows Britain learned nothing from Princess Diana's treatment | Kate...

Shocking allegations in the interview with Oprah Winfrey are painfully evocative of the experiences of the prince’s mother, says historian Kate Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

3 years

Congratulations #HarryandMeghan on the birth of Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, born on Friday. #DukeandDuchessofSussex . Beautiful name!

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Prof Kate Williams 💙

@KateWilliamsme

4 years

So Andy Wigmore of @LeaveEUOfficial DM’d me to say the video I RTd earlier was ‘nothing to do with us’. As I don’t want to spread fake news, I deleted my tweet - & its 1.4 k likes. But how odd - here it is on their official YouTube. Had they all forgotten?

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