@freistory

There is a wine-red glow in the shallows, a tin flash in the sun-dazzle… the product of a breeding in chequered shade rather than clear sunshine

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Gm, friends.
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rip to a real one 🕊️ @AdamPollock @Cvvvnvvvl @KautbzGOFF6
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Frei@freistoryMay 9
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Harold and I.
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“Archivism” is not a word, basically ever, used as a pejorative and answer my fucking question you slimy goalpost shifting rat.
Sebastian Milbank
@SebMilbankOct 24
Replying to @freistory
If you’re too thick to distinguish between “archival research” (which most academics don’t do btw) and “archivism” why should I waste my time explaining myself?
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Archiving is literally the example you used—unless I can warg into your mind to know what pejorative neologism of your own genius creation you’ve spunked onto my timeline.
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Elaborate then, for me, what intellectual benefit the academic humanities would gain from abandoning archival research (which is dusty and a rabbit hole of niche irrelevance as you imply) in favour of Stewarding Beauty(tm)
Sebastian Milbank
@SebMilbankOct 24
Replying to @freistory
I’m only too familiar with what academic historians do (and don’t do).
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I can’t wait to be trained in Stewarding Beauty and Creating Citizens, rather than fusty—arguably Woke—nonsense like palaeography and archaeological practice.
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Nothing is “normal” about him going on Gogglebox with a lab-made northern homunculus called “Steve Rotherham”. It’s actually clinically insane.
Aaron Bastani
@AaronBastaniOct 23
I sympathise with this perspective, but Burnham is the country’s 7th PM in a decade. It’s hard to overstate how desperate people are for normality. The Green position should be to ask for Polanski to get a spot too. You have to reach voters by any means necessary.
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Sorry, the archiving of our civilisation’s otherwise lost works of poetry, history, and literature must stop. I’ve got to go teach “Lord of the Rings and Based Cromwell Edits 101”
Sebastian Milbank
@SebMilbankOct 23
100% humanities scholars have destroyed the reason for what they do by neglecting the business of stewarding beauty, creating citizens and cultivating virtue in favour of the driest sort of archivism and pseudo-empiricism
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This is exactly what I mean when I say people have no clue what history is and what historians actually *do*. You just want ‘52 time Britain was a bellend’ but Based.
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All ILR reforms are defunct and illegitimate in light of their refusal to discriminate on expectations for different groups. It *is* cruel and an injustice to raise the threshold for Americans, Scandinavians, etc.
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The subtle energy of injustice will flow through all British governance and administration until this Question is addressed.
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The overwhelming majority of British people have no engagement with ‘history’ in the emotional sense whatsoever. It is baffling, barmy, and knowing lots (or anything) about it makes you a bit of a wrong’un. The people are largely porcine and feel nothing for Nelson, good or bad.
Craig
@R0SBIFOct 21
I often think that Horatio Nelson isn't more of a dominant figure in British folklore because his bravery and his greatness and his belief in England and its exceptionalism were so absolute that it's a bit like looking straight at the sun
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Gm friends, cold and wet, taking a long walk and reading Shakespeare.
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The average person understands the work of an academic historian less than they do academic pure mathematics.
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Except the map is nonsense and doesn’t even show what you purport it does.
nephew jonathan
@nephew_jonathanOct 17
why do early modern witch-hunts do a pretty good job of predicting early industrialization and present-day high GDP
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Good morning (Gospels of Máel Brigte, f.10r).
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This is the most retarded thing I’ve ever read. You are genuinely an idiot and should spend a good ~6 months coming to terms with this fact.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
@pegobry_enOct 15
Regular reminder that the "Normans" were, indeed, French, both culturally and ethnically.
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In Our Time has been unfortunately middling post-Bragg for the marked laziness and insecurity betrayed by production decisions. One new episode every two weeks (interspersed by an ‘archive episode’) and the needless decision to remove the entire archive from Spotify etc. —
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shows no confidence in the product and a desire to obscure from view its incredible backlog in a distinctly BBC push for a ‘new’ (trans: half-baked) identity for the show which only impoverishes everyone.
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