#badhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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"The forest was created by William the Conqueror, 1,000 years ago as a hunting ground."
William the Bastard was not king of England in 1026. 🤦♂️
#BadJournalism #BadHistory #UK_Politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/12/new-forest-split-two-uk-government-protest
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"Were the Romans still cognitively disabled in the late third century, explaining their hapless economic management? ...Or, on the contrary, was it lead poisoning that kept the population quiescent during the famed Pax Romana, whereas the clearing of minds in later centuries resulted in social disruption and hostility to the Establishment, just as we have seen in Western societies since bans on lead in petrol? Science!"
https://thesphinxblog.com/2025/01/07/she-blinded-me-with-science/
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Latest USA author of Regency novels set in the UK keeps using the phrase 'going forward'.
Ouch.
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@sarahjelm 🙏 for highlighting this post by @lollardfish & @prof_gabriele.
"How to replace bad ideas" may be of even broader interest & importance? I second the recommendation for "Tyranny of a Construct", well worth reading on its 50th anniversary!
(Thanks too for archive tip: I shall return!)
https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval/archive/
#feudalism #crusade #BadHistory #MentalConstructs #medieval @medievodons @histodons -
Reality Check: What Must Be the Case if #Christianity is True?
https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2023/11/reality-check-what-must-be-case-if.html
#debate #christian #atheism #atheist #counterapologetics #exvangelical #sundayschool #cults #badhistory -
Remember when ISIS caused Yitzhak Rabin to have merely a flesh wound?
That was wild, wasn’t it?
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Came up in my FB memories, this was a management textbook I was digitzing at work a few years ago. I like the notion that there was a coherent management style from 3,000BC to 1776 😂 where?! #BadHistory #Management
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LOL.
Give them a point for noting that Mardi Gras went back to Medieval Europe... then take it away for "...the first Mardi Gras celebration in the world - that title lives in Mobile, Alabama." !Then take away another point for a version of the Comus-centric myth of origins of New Orleans Mardi Gras.
Then give them a point for mentioning the Krewe of Chewbacchus.
Final total: Zero points.
#MardiGras #Mobile #NewOrleans #NOLA #BadHistory #misinformation