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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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"You are a dirty little leftist". Listen, at least buy me a drink first...
It was this one, ICYMI:
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10 Jan
I will save you the clicks. The "misuse of history" that Doug here is complaining about is "saying things that happened that make him feel sad."
The misuse of history is ipso facto the doing of history. He wants a whitewashed fictional history where Britain are the good guys.
Non historians love to say that doing history - interpreting the past and attempting to explain why events happen is a "misuse" because they think history is something which exists to aggrandise them. And to be fair it often is because of how textbooks are made and why.
Real history, however, doesn't gloss over stuff you don't like. It has to grapple with Britain's refusal to take in Jewish refugees during WWII, oh and the cheeky refugees it sent to prison camps in Australia just in case they were spies. You know. Whatever.
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14 Nov 20
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.
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13 Nov 20
For your Friday consideration, this week's blog is a cross-over episode where I talk with sex and relationships expert @bishtraining about No Nut November, #histsex, and why it matters to us now. Check it.
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I am 100% the Mr Peanutbutter in this situation.
The good news is that it is a video so you don't even have to read.
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2 Nov 20
As a medieval historian I am afraid I am going to have to remind divorced twitter once again that Magna Carta does not refer to "the people". It refers to the nobility, which your local pub is very sadly not. Image
Trying to get the Wenlock a baronetcy so I can keep getting rowdy on a Friday.
Bzzzzt wrongo. Image
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29 Aug 20
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.
This doesn't even make sense. Why would oral presentation of sermons even have anything to do with the printing press? I'm tired. I hate it here.
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25 Aug 20
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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