#Lord Palmerston

[stelly38]

I’m nearly finished with the last season of Victoria, and I’ve had some, uh, thoughts.  I’m also late to almost every party.  

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Interregnum

He came to her that night. Henry walked into her room with the confidence of a man who was long since assured her husband would swiftly leave the house every time he visited.  “Caroline,” he said before coming to embrace her, coat and hat still on. She sagged against his body and its burgeoning softness that came with age. “I am sorry I could not come sooner,” he murmured against her unpinned hair. “Today’s session in the Lords did not end until an hour ago.” “What is the fracas this time?" Gently, he took her chin between his forefinger and thumb and tilted it so she was looking up at him. His grey eyes were dark, penetrating. “You don’t want to talk about that now.” “Don't I?" she returned, a little breathless. "Then what do I want?"

Thanks to @jeanvanjer and @viscountessevie for your help writing this, and to @sophiamariabeckett for help with the edit!

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[immaculatasknight]

Not your school history

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[alewaanewspaper1960]

دوافع صدور وعد بلفور

دوافع صدور وعد بلفور   دوافع صدور وعد بلفور الكاتب : قادة دين الملخص: يسعى البحث لتقديم أهم الأسباب التي وقفت خلف إصدار وعد بلفور، ولعبت دورا مهما في إقدام الحكومة البريطانية على تحمل مسؤولية القيام بهذه الخطوة، والتي يمكن حصرها في: – تأثير ظهور المسيحية المتصهينة: حيث دفع ظهور المذهب البروتستانتي وانتشاره في بريطانيا أساسا، وشيوع كثير من المفاهيم المرتبطة بالعقيدة الإنجيلية الجديدة، التي تجعل من…

[amereid1960]

دوافع صدور وعد بلفور

دوافع صدور وعد بلفور   دوافع صدور وعد بلفور الكاتب : قادة دين الملخص: يسعى البحث لتقديم أهم الأسباب التي وقفت خلف إصدار وعد بلفور، ولعبت دورا مهما في إقدام الحكومة البريطانية على تحمل مسؤولية القيام بهذه الخطوة، والتي يمكن حصرها في: – تأثير ظهور المسيحية المتصهينة: حيث دفع ظهور المذهب البروتستانتي وانتشاره في بريطانيا أساسا، وشيوع كثير من المفاهيم المرتبطة بالعقيدة الإنجيلية الجديدة، التي تجعل من…

[harveywritings92]

R/n, Drunk:...And I say that England's greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston.

Soap, also drunk: Pitt The Elder.

R/n: LORD PALMERSTON!!

Soap, tapping R/n in the chest: PITT... THE... ELDER!!!

R/n: OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT, MACTAVISH! [punches Soap out]

Roach, sober: Yeah, that's showin' him, R/n! Tt, Pitt the Elder.

R/n, eye twitches: LORD PALMERSTON!!!!! [punches Roach out]  

{A horrified R/n later apologized to both of them when they sobered up. Roach and Soap took it all in stride as they were impressed the undertrained clerk managed to knock them both out, which is not an easy feat to pull off. (Well, knocking out Soap was easy considering how drunk he was. But Roach? That was a different story; he was stone-cold sober!) They even convinced Price not to punish R/n for it.]

[racefortheironthrone]

Who was the greatest British prime minister: Pitt the Elder or Lord Palmerston? And did Wade Boggs deserve to get punched for saying Pitt the Elder?

It's Clement Attlee with a steel chair!

But between the two in contention at Moe's, yeah it's clearly Pitt the Elder.

[harveybwabbit92]

[Hobie and Reader name get drunk as Noir keeps an eye on them.]

R/n, Drunk:…And I say that England’s greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston.

Hobie, also drunk: Pitt The Elder.

R/n: LORD PALMERSTON!!

Hobie, tapping R/n in the chest: PITT… THE… ELDER!!!

R/n: OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT, BROWN! [punches Hobie out]

Noir, sober: Yeah, that’s showin’ him, R/n! *snorts*, Pitt the Elder.

R/n, eye twitches: LORD PALMERSTON!!!!! [punches Noir out.]  

[Later a sober and mortified R/n apologized to both them, but Hobie and Noir weren’t even mad, they were impressed that R/n who has no powers (other then her time hopping abilities) managed to knock them both out, Well Hobie was easy to KO cos he was completely sloshed, but Noir? He was was stone dead sober and cos of her drunken state his Spidey-sense didn’t register R/n as threat; and managed to catch him off guard.]

[opencommunion]

"Kerem Avraham began as a small British colony founded in 1855 by the highly influential British Consul in Jerusalem, James Finn, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Finn, who was the daughter of a noted English Hebrew scholar and herself spoke Hebrew. ... James Finn combined biblical 'restorationist' Christian thinking and missionary activities with official British civil service. He and his wife Elizabeth were originally members of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. Also crucially, he was also a close associate of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a prominent Tory MP, a social reformer, a millennialist Christian and a key contributor to Victorian Christian Zionism and back-to-the-Bible revivalism. Shaftesbury was driven by Victorian imperialism and Christian messianic prophecy. He argued that 'Jewish restorationism' to Palestine would bring political and economic advantages to the British Empire and as a biblical prophecy would expedite the second coming of Jesus. In an article in the Quarterly Review (January 1839) Shaftesbury, who invented the myth 'A land without people, for a people without a land,' wrote:

The soil and climate of Palestine are singularly adapted to the growth of produce required for the exigencies of Great Britain; the finest cotton may be obtained in almost unlimited abundance; silk and madder are the staple of the country, and olive oil is now, as it ever was, the very fatness of the land. Capital and skill are alone required: the presence of a British officer, and the increased security of property which his presence will confer, may invite them from these islands to the cultivation of Palestine; and the Jews, who will betake themselves to agriculture in no other land, having found, in the English consul [James Finn], a mediator between their people and the [Ottoman] Pacha, will probably return in yet greater numbers, and become once more the husbandmen of Judaea and Galilee.

With the support of foreign secretary Lord Palmerston, Shaftesbury began promoting Jewish restorationism in Victorian England in the 1830s. Shaftesbury was also instrumental in the setting up of the British Consulate in Jerusalem in 1939. The public activities of Shaftesbury, James Finn and their English 'restorationist' followers—which preceded the founding of the European political Zionist movement by Theodor Herzl by nearly half a century—demonstrate clearly that 'Zionism' began as a distinctly Christian Protestant movement, not a Jewish one."

Nur Masalha, The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory (2013)

[scotianostra]

May 16th 1805 saw the birth of Scottish explorer, military officer, and diplomat Alexander Burnes.

Burnes was the poet Robert Burns cousin, note the spelling, Rabbies father, William also bore the name Burnes, Rabbie himself favoured dropping the “E”.

Now I don’t like delving into the history and politics of other countries, but this to me is a reminder that the problems in the middle east are long standing and interference in the region is long standing.

Alexander was the epitome of a nineteenth century adventurer cum dandy – dashing, intelligent and courageous.

In 1831, the British government in Delhi ordered a survey of the Indus River, unchartered since the time of Alexander the Great. The man they entrusted this mission to was Alexander Burnes. A journey of over 1,000 miles, Burnes, a natural linguist, charmed the usually antagonistic tribal leaders he came upon, and eventually reached Lahore, his reputation greatly enhanced.

His next adventure took him to Afghanistan, dressed as a native having discarded, in his words, ‘the useless paraphernalia of civilisation; we threw away all our European clothes" So he looked the part.

Burnes returned to England in 1833, where he was granted an audience with the king, William IV, and the Prime Minister. The daring young bachelor was the toast of London. His account of his adventures, Travels into Bokhara, being an Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia, sold a thousand copies on its first day of publication and made Burnes a tidy sum.

Meanwhile, the British government was making plans to dispose Dost Mohammed, the Afghan ruler, and replace him with Shah Shuja, an unpopular, former Amir, but one they considered had the advantage of being pro-British. Burnes had met Dost Mohammed in Cabool (sic) and liked him. He tried to persuade Lord Palmerston, Britain’s foreign secretary, that Shah Shuja, now living at Britain’s expense in India, was disliked by the Afghan people and lacked ‘sufficient energy’ and tact to rule Afghanistan effectively. But Palmerston dismissed Burnes’s concerns and gave the proposal his full backing. In late 1838, 10,000 British soldiers, 6,000 soldiers loyal to Shah Shuja, 38,000 camp followers and 30,000 camels marched into Afghanistan. Alongside them, the pretender to the throne and the disgruntled Scot.

As the convoy approached Kabul, Dost Mohammed fled. The British entered the city unopposed, placed Shah Shuja on the throne and congratulated themselves on a job well done. Having sent most of the army back to India, the remainder settled down to a life of indolence and luxury, living in a fortified compound just outside the city.

Alexander Burnes, now Sir Alexander Burnes, took up residence in Kabul and, despite his reservations about the new Amir, enjoyed life, indulging in a campaign of womanizing that infuriated the local men.

The Afghans’ growing resentment of Shah Shuja and Britain’s occupation finally erupted three years later. A crowd descended on Burnes’s residence, many of them husbands and fathers of Burnes’s numerous conquests. His servants urged him to leave but Burnes, in the words of his servant, was ‘quite sure the Afghans would never injure him’.

But they did. They set fire to Burnes’s house while the Scot shouted abuse at them. Finally realizing this was no idle protest, Burnes donned his turban and gown and tried to make his exit, accompanied by his brother. But both men were soon caught and, along with a number of servants, were hacked to death in a frenzied attack.

Two months later, the British garrison, having lost control of Kabul, attempted an evacuation to Jalalabad, ninety miles to the east. 16,000 British and Indian soldiers and camp followers embarked on the ‘Retreat from Kabul’. Only one Briton plus a handful of others survived the ordeal. The rest were all slaughtered by marauding Afghan tribes.

The tragedy was of Britain’s making but it caused profound shock in Victorian Britain.

If only they had listened to the dandy Scot in the turban.

The last pic is interesting, it is a drawing by our subject, of The Buddhas of Bamiyan, the one on the left was some 55 metres tall. Sadly, on orders from Taliban founder Mullah Omar, the statues were destroyed in March 2001, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. International and local opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas.

Read a report of his death on Craig Murrays web page here

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[butchbarneygumble]

hi!! was curious if you had any headcanons relating to barney being autistic, or any misc. thoughts regarding that? it makes me happy that someone else views him in a similar way!

Aww I love this ask, thanks!

Mostly I got the idea from him being exceedingly passionate about Lord Palmerston for some reason to the point he punches out people who disagree with him on it. So I like to think he hyperfixates on British politicians, which in my hc extends to English culture in general. Barney is a teaboo lol.

Also in the fact he does stimming motions when he struggles not having beer. I get it's probably just nerves but like. In the episode where he takes Homer's car to New York he just. The way he moves his hand before he grabs a peanut is just something I do a lot when stressed too.

He's also quite gifted but it's overshadowed by his addiction. I'm not addicted myself but I feel that.

I like to hc him as a nervous stimmer especially. But when exceedingly excited he will flap his hands ❤️

Just a lot of his behaviors remind me of myself! Hence I love to hc him as autistic.

[immaculatasknight]

The masonic bankers' cabal

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

anon: if Harry were to die of suicide due to mental health issues, do you think he’ll get a state funeral? Or if not a state funeral, one on the same scale as Diana’s?

State funerals tend to be reserved for monarchs and figures of national importance such as Prime Ministers; the last PM and non-royal to rate a state funeral was Churchill in 1965.

Diana received a ceremonial funeral as a future monarch’s spouse because of the tragic circumstances as well as public sentiment whipped up by Tony Blair; Prince Philip and the Queen Mother, as monarch’s spouses, each had a ceremonial funeral. Princess Margaret as a monarch's sibling had a private rather than ceremonial funeral. And in the previous generation, the only sibling of King George VI to have a ceremonial funeral was his brother the Duke of Gloucester who served in WWII and then was Governor General of Australia. Their younger brother, the Duke of Kent who died in an air crash in WWII, had a private funeral as did all the other siblings (including the Duke of Windsor).

The only royal family ceremonial funerals since 1900 have been for: Duke of Teck, who was King George V’s father-in-law (1900), Duke of Cambridge (1904), The Marquess of Milford Haven (1921), Queen Alexandra (1925), Queen Mary (1953), Duke of Gloucester (1974), Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1979), Diana (1997), Queen Mother (2002), Richard III (2015), Prince Philip (2021). Of that list, those who weren’t a monarch or a monarch’s spouse had distinguished military careers.

This document from the House of Commons is helpful,

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06600/SN06600.pdf

Some points from the document,

:: “State funerals are relatively rare, and are sometimes mixed in the popular imagination with other funerals of senior royal figures, which are held in public with ceremonial features but do not constitute state funerals in a formal sense. Typically, in either type of funeral, there is a military procession carrying the coffin to Westminster Hall, a period of lying in state, and a service at Westminster Abbey or St Paul’s Cathedral.”

:: “A state funeral is defined by the Royal Encyclopedia as “generally limited to Sovereigns, but may, by order of the reigning monarch and by a vote of Parliament providing the fund, be extended to exceptionally distinguished persons.” Examples of people other than monarchs who have been given a state funeral include Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Palmerston and Sir Winston Churchill. A state funeral is commonly held to differ from a ceremonial funeral in two respects: a parliamentary motion authorises it, and the gun carriage bearing the coffin to the lying in state has, since the funeral of Queen Victoria, been drawn by Royal Navy sailors rather than by horses.”

:: “A ceremonial royal funeral is “for those members of the Royal Family who hold high military rank, for the consort of the Sovereign and heir to the throne”. The Queen Mother was given a ceremonial royal funeral, and Princess Diana’s funeral was also a ceremonial rather than state funeral.

Thank you so much!