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thelong1930s.bsky.social
Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
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By "resonate with" they absolutely do mean "will very likely traumatize"

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I’ve seen this once already, some months ago, and am still thining about it. I can’t recommend it highly enough now it’s about to be on general release in the UK. And I generally dislike cats! youtu.be/xGLIbjuHptw

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, it turns out Flow is not so much a heartwarming Incredible Journey-style film about a cartoon cat but more ninety minutes of panic and dread. Genuinely the most stressful film I’ve ever seen.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

this is exactly right. it's weird to see people clinging to the cultural logic of the academic star system (reminiscent of the 80s-90s) while others deal with the messy realities of infrastructural collapse and maintenance work on human systems.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

DO. NOT. BUY. THE. AI. HYPE. I cannot stress it enough. I know your grad schools are teaching it, I know there are content/tech jobs in it, and I know you're using it. But for the love of fuck, run the opposite direction.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

We badly need as many “future of the regional public university” essays and “criticism and the community college” symposia as we can get (so long as they’re written by scholars at those institutions).

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

The sudden geopolitical relevance of Milan street signs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Beer and weights at the brewery closing-down event - I do love this city sometimes.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This is one thing @spacebetween.bsky.social has been doing really quite well, I think.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

evergreen

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I shall miss playing pool on the world’s worst table in one of my favourite breweries, which is closing after today.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Dydh Keswlasek Benenes leun a goler ha kerensa dhywgh. An International Women's Day full of love and rage to you all. #Kernewek #Kernowek #Kernow #Cornwall #Cornish #internationalwomensday #feminism

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Consider checking out our fiery @moderniststudies.bsky.social CCIS-sponsored roundtable on The New Precarity! Via Zoom on 14 March!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

North London’s only solo Madness tribute show has handed out fezzes. (To be fair, he’s very good)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A piece I've wanted to read ever since I heard of her fascination with the subject. Sally Rooney in superb form, on Ronnie O'Sullivan and the darkly mysterious, mathematical glamour of snooker at its best. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Go hang out with these awesome people!

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Registration is OPEN for our 2025 Confernece in Lawrence, KS. It will remain open until May 1, 2025. We look forward to seeing you at this year's conference: Peace and Conflict in the Space Between! spacebetweensociety.com/2025-confere...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, please have this incredibly jaunty London Underground tourism poster from 1915.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The first MSA 2025 CFP deadline is in just ten days, and this account won't shut up about it until all the deadlines have passed! So don't forget to submit proposals for workshops and seminars by MARCH 15. Panel, individual paper, and roundtable proposals are due in exactly one month on APRIL 5.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Spring feels like it’s here - beautiful weather, and that first strange tired feeling as my allergies go ‘Ooh - hello again tree pollen!’.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

I love this building and this view.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Always nice to walk through here.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have questions.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 7 days ago • 292 comments

Carajillo anís, perhaps the world’s most dangerous breakfast drink.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I always forget how good this hotel looks.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve won a bet of one (1) drink with my brother by not being noticed by our father whilst I was tailing him on a flight to Barcelona. This was thanks to my cunning disguise.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cutting things fine, I've just submitted the manuscript for Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London to @manchesterup.bsky.social. Which seems a good moment to notice that the book has made its way into the virtual world. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?"

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

COFIWCH DREWERYN!

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

‘WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM?’

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What my brother puts as payment reference is… unusual.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You said that, you graceless inarticulate faketan combover meatsack. You said that.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Obscurely cheered by learning that the Jacobite heir to the throne, the 91-year old Francis II, is openly gay.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Western Front historians: the terrain was flat and muddy. Eastern Front historians: the terrain was flat and snowy. Mesopotamia historians: the terrain was flat and sandy. Italian Front historians: 😩

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Ooorrrr, and here me out, you eat as much meat as you like, but you commit to fire bombing the HQ of at least 1 fossil fuel corpration a month?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments