President Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. Alex Wellerstein, author "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" live this week (April 19th) at 4pm ET on HHH.
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Photograph of an older woman seated in a high-backed armchair, wearing full mourning. Her dress is tied at the waist with a large ribbon bow. She wears a widow's cap with white ruche.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Portrait de Marie Worth en grand deuil, Emile Messy, 1895
Marie Worth, widow of Charles-Frederick Worth [who died 10 March 1895], in full mourning, although she seems to not be wearing a veil with her mourning bonnet.
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Maybe its just me but this sounds like a pickup line that would work on me in a pub: "Two women buried 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have no business being genetically mysterious."
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We are looking at a painted blue banner with three surprised gold coloured leopards with weaving shuttles in their mouths. They are separated by a silver chevron which as three red roses in it.
…so you take up weaving. We’ve woven a blanket and everything. 😉
This is a banner of the Company of Weavers. The banner was painted in 1909 and is one of 20 hanging in the Hall which depict the different Guilds of York.
meme that says "do you cigar or do you vape?" where it is saying the Custom Pilot 823 is cigar and TWSBI Eco-T is vape
fountain pen memes are ridiculous I love this it's so goofy.
not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer
This was a great conversation, and it's a fun listen. A bunch of medievalists being serially annoyed by KINGDOM OF HEAVEN for (among other things):
Water management
Understandings of medieval culture
The unbelievability of Orlando Bloom
The geography (ok...that was just me)
etc.
Have a listen!
Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.
RMS Titanic sank in the early hours #OnThisDay in 1912. Laura Mabel Francatelli was wearing this white cotton apron when she was rescued in Lifeboat No. 1 with her employers, Lord and Lady Duff Gordon (the fashion designer Lucile). National Museums Liverpool collection. #Titanic #fashionhistory
Court ensemble with evening dress of off-white silk crepe, pink crepe chiffon, and metallic gold lace trimmed with pearls and with a cape of silver lame: a) dress: square neck; sleeveless, chiffon straps; straight; attached over-vest, open CF; applied metal and pearl belt, crosses CF, snaps L and R; dropped waist; mid-calf length; applied metallic lace and embroidery in scale motif over all b) cape; ruched at neck; chiffon interior, metallic lace edging; chapel length train; square hem.
Court ensemble with evening dress of off-white silk crepe, pink crepe chiffon, and metallic gold lace trimmed with pearls and with a cape of silver lame: a) dress: square neck; sleeveless, chiffon straps; straight; attached over-vest, open CF; applied metal and pearl belt, crosses CF, snaps L and R; dropped waist; mid-calf length; applied metallic lace and embroidery in scale motif over all b) cape; ruched at neck; chiffon interior, metallic lace edging; chapel length train; square hem.
Court ensemble with evening dress of off-white silk crepe, pink crepe chiffon, and metallic gold lace trimmed with pearls and with a cape of silver lame: a) dress: square neck; sleeveless, chiffon straps; straight; attached over-vest, open CF; applied metal and pearl belt, crosses CF, snaps L and R; dropped waist; mid-calf length; applied metallic lace and embroidery in scale motif over all b) cape; ruched at neck; chiffon interior, metallic lace edging; chapel length train; square hem.
Court ensemble with evening dress of off-white silk crepe, pink crepe chiffon, and metallic gold lace trimmed with pearls and with a cape of silver lame: a) dress: square neck; sleeveless, chiffon straps; straight; attached over-vest, open CF; applied metal and pearl belt, crosses CF, snaps L and R; dropped waist; mid-calf length; applied metallic lace and embroidery in scale motif over all b) cape; ruched at neck; chiffon interior, metallic lace edging; chapel length train; square hem.
ID: V.51.91.01a,b
ensembles (costume); evening dresses (garments); capes (outerwear)
Date: 1925
valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/mDetail.aspx #FashionHistory
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
A woman's suit of blue wool. Jacket has a peplum and full, elbow-length sleeves; skirt is tiered and is belled out on the floor to some extent. A pair of matching blue spats lie in the foreground.
Fancy suits were standard dress for home weddings in the early 20th century. It's likely, then, that Maud Parker's 1906 marriage ceremony was a more low-key affair than many of her peers', since she wore this beautiful but less formal wool suit. #WeddingWednesday 🗃️🪡 hub.catalogit.app/search/wayla...
it'd be great if you could get off Substack
You can have a free account with Buttondown if you have 100 subscribers or less.
... which is why there is such disapproval of people who didn't leave then/joined after that.
There was actually a whole letter-writing/posting campaign in 2022 to send the message to the people who ran the site: mimicofmodes.substack.com/p/substacker.... They made it very clear with their total lack of response that they were not going to listen to anyone who wanted the site to change ...
I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.
We're in a big auditorium at UCL on Weds for Champion Black Boxers and Businessmen in 1800s London - talk, film, panel, about Bill Richmond, Tom Molineaux, Bridgerton, A Thousand Blows!
Join Tony Warner, Roberto Nigro, Luke G. Williams, S. I. Martin & me:
FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/champion-b...
Local History Museum Really Digging Deep To Fill 2 15-By-20-Foot Rooms
Local History Museum Really Digging Deep To Fill 2 15-By-20-Foot Rooms theonion.com/local-history-museum-rea...
Front view of a short pink satin evening cape with metallic embellishment centre front an over the shoulders. It has a high chiffon frilled collar
Side view of the pink satin evening cape that shows how the metallic embellishment sits at the shoulders with the high collar prominent in silhouette
The House of Morin Blossier is one of the couture establishments to feature in Dressing the Queen. Entrepreneurial sisters, they created clothes for some of the late c19th’s most prominent public women. Queen Maud’s cape, 1897 @nasjonalmuseet.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
One for all the #Quaker history folks, as well as #DressHistory and #FashionHistory 👇🗃️
My Uni told me contingent positions keep eating its early career post-docs so I asked how many EC scholars it has and it said it just goes to the shelter and gets a new EC scholar afterwards so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding EC scholars to con. pos. and then its grad students started crying
I LOVED Brian Froud's illustrations growing up!
Words and stories of fantasy and myth from acclaimed women writers around the world Brian Froud's GREEN WOMEN With Original Contributinos by Extraordinary Women Writers of Fantasy and Myth On Sale October 6 With provocative portraits from the "grandfather of faerie art," Brian Froud
I'm so excited to have several(!) tiny stories in this collection of responses to Brian Froud's Green Women paintings. You can see the full list of contributing writers (and preorder the book) here:
www.abramsbooks.com/product/bria...
A 'colour-flower' drawn by the filmmaker/artist Norman McLaren in 1947 (ref. GAA31/PP/9) University of Stirling Archives.
A 'colour-flower' drawn by the filmmaker/artist #NormanMcLaren in 1947.
#ColourfulArchives for today's #Archive30
#CultureOnStirCampus
A green cloth displaying numerous types of embroidery stitches, stitched across the fabric in a range of different, bright colours
For #ColourfulArchives we thought we'd share this lovely piece of embroidery, stitched by Kathleen Barnes during her time at Cholsey Board School, 1932. 🪡 🌈 #Archive30
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No, but a lot of them can — for a very simple reason. Dickinson favored ballad stanza as a meter, so you can sing many of her poems to a lot of folk tunes: Greensleeves, Gilligan’s Island, Auld Lang Syne…
The caption “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006” under a photo of a rat playing on a tiny plastic piano
And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe
Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Yeah, I'll stand by that!