#1920s

Dr Bob Nicholson

DigiVictorian

Here's something that might surprise you: early issues of @voguemagazine often featured jokes on their front page! (1894) [Enlarged caption, in case you can't read the original small print] They

XIRAN *Preorder Iron Widow!

XiranJayZhao

gonna talk a lil about Chinese American food bc it's honestly so fierce that a bunch of amateur cooks working with unfamiliar ingredients managed to create a cuisine style that

Sin Vega

withoutaplain

I love how many historical pirates had such shit flags. Special prize to John Phillips (probably. Most of the attribution of these things is hard to prove), whose flag says

Christopher Liberatos

CharlestonArchi

Have been thinking about hospitals lately. A hospital might be the last building you ever walk into. A hospital ceiling might be the last ceiling you ever see. People comfort

Ángel Alcalde

Angel_Alcalde_

THREAD. 1) My book ‘War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe’ explains whether and how ex-combatants became members and supporters of fascist movements and regimes after the First World War.

Renée Landell

Nay_Landell

Cleansing the timeline with another much needed #BlackJoy thread Histories of Black Dance & Black Dancers Who Changed Dance History...From the Juba to the Jive THE LINDY HOPThe Lindy Hop (or Lindy)

EXO COMEBACK BABY!

ConsultinWerew1

Why you should stop trying to make #FENTYxKAI happen: a threadLet us begin with the basics: Gucci's parent company is Kering Group. Fenty's parent company is LVMH. Now, these two

Katie Hinde

Mammals_Suck

NEXT UP: Australian Feral Camel (1-seed) vs Face Mite (16-seed, image from http://acne.org )! #2020MMM During British colonization (in 1840) camels were transported from Pakistan to Australia because of their strength

Lise Butler

LiseRButler

My book will be out in less than a month, and it has a beautiful cover - huge thanks to @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic. The book itself contains a ‘Note on the

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Marc Bernays Randolph, the co-founder of Netflix is the great-grandnephew of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and great-nephew of the inventor of propaganda and public relations Edward Bernays. So,

Kate Howard

JournoKateH

Today I was sitting on my porch, enjoying the sunshine and the rest of my day off after returning from the memorial service of a friend who died far too

Municipal Dreams

MunicipalDreams

1/ THREAD: a virtual tour of some exceptional housing in the East End. Starting in Fieldgate Street, Tower House: A ’Rowton House’, completed 1902, to house the homeless. Stalin stayed

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) @duty2warn asks: How can the entire GOP leadership forsake its vows to the Constitution?The answer: They prefer Cult of Leadership to Rule of Law.GOP leadership ran for office—not to

Bill Pascrell, Jr.

BillPascrell

My @USPS explainer thread:Handles 47% world’s mailShips ~150 billion /yrDelivers more in 16 days than UPS+FedEx ship combined in a yr500,000 career employees31,000 locationsYou can send a from Key

Mark Barnes

mbarnesn16

#OTD in 1915 and 1940 two members of my family met with fate during #FWW and #SWW. Pix show my Great uncle Leslie Barnes and my uncle Edward Leslie Barnes.

createstreets

createstreets

On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any