#Victorian

Jeremy Gans

jeremy_gans

"Amid other indignities the system visits on jurors, it compels them to suffer in silence. But they are us. We citizens are potential jurors, and our response to future requests

Az 🥂 Crowley's snake belt

angelsnuffbox

Companion Thread for The Point of Madness Ch. 1-2This is a thread for additional stuff from my Regency ineffable husbands fic that I thought would be fun to share for

John Bull

garius

More serious comment:The national railways have the same problem as TfL. It's just taken longer to hit this point as they have a slower cash-burn rate/larger passenger spread.They've almost run

Tristan Cork BLive

TristanCorkPost

THREAD This does also regularly astound me, but can I just put a caveat in there.Court/crime reporting is one area which the internet & switch to digital media has had

Dreadnought Holiday

TheDreadShips

This thing here, looking like the lovechild of a very angry swan and @LordBuckethead, is HMS Polyphemus, promisingly described as an experimental weapons system. I say 'promisingly' because a) I

📚Philliteracy📚

Philliteracy

There's much soul-searching going on at the mo re the charity sector’s ability to influence UK govt.So for a bit of context, let's look back to one of the most

Peter Goderie

GoderiePeter

The best flowers - a thread.Ginger!- so varied! so pretty! look, it comes in purple...- rhizomatic root system (this is very important)- ginger root is extremely delicious (don't @ me)-

Jessica Grose

JessGrose

1. By 2025, over 1 billion women will have experienced perimenopause, the few years before your period stops where you might have 34 different symptoms. Yet, every person I spoke

Sarah Missen

sarah_missen

I’ve been working on a weekly thread of significant happenings for workers in Australia. There’s so much going on at the moment, but I’m trying to keep an eye on

EHU Nineteen

EHUNineteen

Exciting news! Next year, we’re launching a new MA in Nineteenth Century Studies at @edgehill. It’s an interdisciplinary degree that combines literature, history, heritage & lots of other fun stuff.

Jessica Price

Delafina777

I keep seeing the "if trauma can be passed down genetically, maybe [insert Thing White People Do] can too" and, that's not how epigenetics works? this is just rehashed Victorian

Reading Museum

readingmuseum

Did someone say #SassiestObject #CuratorBattle? This late 1970s biscuit tin depicting an Edwardian party scene is certainly one to only open after the watershed. However, even sassier than the object

Nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Thinking about how weird history is. You could have a Historical TTRPG, set in the "West," in... let's say 1863. Midst of the civil war.The party could be:-An elderly French

Leah Eff

9BillionTigers

White women, in the absence of racialization, sometimes racialize womanhood itself, deliberately ignoring that many womanhoods are already racialized. The phrase "white feminism" calls this out as white, rather than

Viv Gonzalez

religiousgames

I came across a Christian group calling for a boycott of Walmart for selling Satanic merchandise. (http://www.returntoorder.org/petition/protest-walmart-selling-satanic-products). I assumed this was wild overreaction... anyway, in this thre

Roz⛧Blood Goddex(vey/vem) 🏳️‍🌈

RosaSanguinem

So this is one of the things that people lose their shit about whenever corsets come up: the pregnancy corset. This is largely because people believe (erroneously) that the purpose