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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Watching Come Dine With Me on Netflix and absolutely losing it at these two terrible people in Durham. I would like to stan @AshleighMenzie1 for life. She is so clever, sweet, brave, and a cracking cook. I just adore her.
Also totally open to going over to Stephen's for dinner. Love this scrumpy and venison vibe. So great.
This is a Come Dine With me/ Ashleigh and Stephen Stan account.
Oh all you hoes have something better to do in lockdown than drinking cocktails and watching Come Dine With Me. Oh OK then.

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To be fair, the first group, which does not exist, is much like the second group - in that they, too, did not exist.
Girl I think education should be free, if at the very least so you could crack a book about medieval history just once. I'm begging here.
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25 Aug
Enjoying my traditional morning overthink about bad takes on twitter and struck by this, and how false cultural memory works. In particular, I am interested in why anyone currently alive should be "proud" of a historical action on the part of the country in which they live.
(This is setting aside the fact that the Empire was an atrocity so it is, shall we say, an extremely weird flex to be "proud" of it.)
I am always interested in the conception of pride in a history because while I am an historian I am lacking any sort of "pride" in any history. I think that this comes partly from being raised in a context of recent immigrants, who had left heavily colonised countries.
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So as someone who teaches at one of the elite universities everyone is always saying students should be aiming for, I want to talk about how this take is wrong, disingenuous, and displays a shallow understanding of class.
First of all, anyone decrying this doesn't understand what media studies is. It behoves students to learn how to analyse media at a high level actually. The ability to analyse why a particular piece of media has been produced, who it serves, and who has funded it is critical.
This is a skill that is clearly and obviously lacking in a lot of older generations. Everytime you see a QAnon conspiracy get shared you are seeing something from someone who could have used some media studies in a past life. Good on these students for identifying that.
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I am in no way saying that the majority of medieval medicine was workable, but it was still available to people. This is staggeringly different to a country full of people who have the correct medical approach and ... just don't feel like doing it.
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