I'm sitting listening to a young woman with an extremely posh accent discuss her friends Martha and Albert and the #20s30s historian in me is starting to suffer from cognitive dissonance. #historianproblems
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Shoot. Half my sources just disappeared.
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Another day of working in the past and then looking at the headlines and seeing modern-day stories of American colonialism and wondering if I really am working in the past. #HistorianProblems
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5yo teacup says "I love the olden days," provokes cri de coeur on the perils of nostalgia in an era of rising nationalism.
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My teacup humans have a playdate tomorrow and I just said younger teacup human would have time to colour tomorrow morning "depending when we had to be at the archive."
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#ArchivesAREPlaygrounds
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Pessimism is not the opposite of optimism, but a historically-oriented vision of the world...
#HistorianProblems neatly encapsulated.
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Preparing for an archival research trip at a stage when you are Interested In All The Things is exciting but also bittersweet, because you know there isn't Time and World Enough To Research All The Things #historianproblems 😭
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Hey, it’s a better idea than dating the year to who’s Consul. Or emperor. Or pope.
I know you know, but dating crap that way is just 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓈𝓉 😆
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Just love ebooks without standard or consistent pagination. Super helpful.
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Nothing like having to re-OCR journal articles from the 1990s because the initial run is so frigging dirty.
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The kind of sentence that's been keeping me up nights the past two years: "nacque probabilmente in Lombardia da Rolandino, della nobile famiglia Rolandi, studiò e insegnò a Bologna, ove morì nel 1347 vittima forse della peste e della carestia." #HistorianProblems
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Another one of those "skim chapters from a couple of books to get a single damn sentence and citation" mornings.
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That was a hard-won footnote.
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We did a creative workshop one time. The facilitator grouped ideas by shapes. There was a square, and a triangle, and so on.
All of my ideas, and only my ideas, were grouped under a broken heart.
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I can confirm this from personal, painful experience. 😭 #HistorianProblems
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Watercolor of the Concierge & paper cut outs of fashionable 18th century ladies
When you are cleaning your office looking for a primary source treasure you misplaced & unearth fun bits from Paris! #historianproblems
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I opened the door and there was a box addressed to my internet name. I opened it up...there is a random Kraken....
I am confused, it's cool though and printed on vinyl.
#confused
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In today’s weirdness— I keep getting random calls from people asking if King George III’s daughters are their illegitimate great, great, great baby mama (or grandma) who started secret families so far in PEI & the Midwest — what?! #historianproblems #Georgians #unexpected
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Book of handwritten letters in a book rest next to an open computer
Why yes I have begun sending begging emails for summer archive appointments because I am jonesing for this— please let me see the things!!!! Pleeeaaaassssseeee! #historianproblems #research
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I’m undoubtedly thinking of smaller conflicts, because my first thought was that the Habsburg Empire’s and Turkey’s numbers seemed low. 😆 France and England/UK seem fairly accurate, though. #HistorianProblems
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He thinks of the Avengers.
I think of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
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People being like “queer people survived Reagan” baffle me. Like… no? Actually they did not? Infamously?
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Sometimes it feels like the real reason historians got so excited by Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo is that they’re basically the only men in their civilization who weren’t named Giovanni… #HistorianProblems
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Yesterday a mentor told me she couldn't do social media because she'd spend the rest of her life trying to correct people on the internet and let's be honest I'm still thinking about that thing I wanted to correct someone on that I saw last night. 😰 #historianproblems
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