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historyhack

@historyhack

Half journalist, half historian, half sloth

 London
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Joined February 2012
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Just thought of a new class system: the fixers and the fucker-uppers
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Rob Baker@robnitm25 Mar 2013
We need a change in copyright law, and an easy one: 'The digitising of works in the public domain cannot be regarded as a “new” work.'
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How London in the 1880s mirrors the present day - wp.me/p2DdFs-1L (me jumping on the #RipperStreet bandwagon)

It’s just like the 1880s…

Capitalism is in crisis. Riots sweep through London and protestors occupy famous public spaces. An Old Etonian Prime Minster struggles to steer the country through an economic depression while vast…

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God bless the Library of Congress.
A short rant about the prices charged by museums etc to reproduce images in the public domain in little tiny books that nobody reads anyway
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Peter Watts@peter_watts3 Feb 2013
Cracking pic. RT @Theleaguemag Everton at Abbey Road, 1985.
Image from Peter Watts (@peter_watts)
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The 2010s? More like the 1880s... (riots, occupations, jubilees, economic depression, Old Etonian Prime Ministers...) wp.me/p2DdFs-1L

It’s just like the 1880s…

Capitalism is in crisis. Riots sweep through London and protestors occupy famous public spaces. An Old Etonian Prime Minster struggles to steer the country through an economic depression while vast…

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+1 MT @gregg_sh: Really interesting piece: Defoe and information technology theatlantic.com/technology/a…”
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@ros_kumagai or an apricot, if you're on a diet
I should really plug that blog I wrote a month ago on a subject that is being tweeted about a lot today
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@ros_kumagai ha!
A stroll through cholera-stricken Soho in 1854 catsmeatshop.blogspot.co.uk/…
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I may have to get facial surgery so I can become one of the Sons of Lee Marvin jim-jarmusch.net/miscellanea…
'Pipe dreams... they're the things that can really poison and ruin a man's life and can keep him from finding any peace' The Iceman Cometh
The Complete Spring Heeled Jack Page - Explore the mystery of a 19th century London terror ow.ly/gEifj
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Fanny and Stella by Neil McKenna. Sounds really interesting, all about the Victorian trial of 'the young men in women's clothes'.
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Throwaway blog ideas: A history of leopardskin. Or, why I can't take leopardskin seriously any more, even on leopards.
@ros_kumagai he came over here for comfort afterwards but I told him to stick it up his dialectics.
@ros_kumagai my best one is 'oh you're German - did you see the Body Worlds exhibition by Gunther Von Hagens?' 3 times. To the same person
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