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historymakesmeangry · 1 day ago

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Mike playing the maracas - July 1967 - taken by Micky Dolenz

#The Monkees

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historymakesmeangry · 6 days ago

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Fell down a rabbit hole searching this up

Melody Maker was a popular music magazine in the UK, I'm pretty sure that many teens found out about Davy being drafted through magazines like this if not this exact one. Three weeks after March 11 was April 5, so they planned the protest for when Davy was scheduled to have his medical to see if he was fit for the military

A clipping from Manchester Evening News April 5, 1967 - the day of the protest

And this clipping from The Daily Record in Glasgow on April 6, 1967. I wanted to know the number of girls marching, which is an impressive amount

And another picture of the protest

Teens in London marching to the US Embassy protesting Davy Jones being eligible to be drafted by the US Army in Spring, 1967. Even though Davy was a British subject he was eligible for the US Draft since he was a permanent US citizen on a green card since he worked and lived in the US. All men 18-25, US citizens or those with permanent citizen status were required to register for the draft back then.

#the monkees #newspaper #could have gone deeper but I got three essays to write plus two presentations :/

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historymakesmeangry · 8 days ago

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I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.

#I had the conscious decision to write my daily diary in physical journals to keep it alive for longer #I want to send physical letters to people #I have some that my grandfather saved from his life and I treasure them #Also have tons of his photos #Physical media is superior #I have also had discussions with professors about how 90s to now history is lost because no one archived a website #We only have the way back machine but it feels as if it's on its last legs with the hacks and lawsuits and just how expensive it is #Being a historian and a family historian has made me acutely aware of missing sources in archives for whatever reason #And it makes me want to cry that we're shooting ourselves in the foot with current day preservation

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historymakesmeangry · 10 days ago

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Illustrations from the children’s tie-in book The Calcutta Affair (1967).

#the man from uncle

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historymakesmeangry · 11 days ago

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Also from Micky’s book, photo by Micky :)

#the monkees

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historymakesmeangry · 11 days ago

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Hull Daily Mail, Yorkshire, February 22, 1936

#1930s #newspaper

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historymakesmeangry · 11 days ago

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it's so important to me that ppl don't forget that McCoy never attended Starfleet Academy in TOS.....seeing references to him at Starfleet Academy does in fact set my back teeth on edge tbh.......it's soooo important to me that he was a civilian all through his schooling, and imo it helps inform so much of why he is the way that he is.....this is a huge pet peeve of mine tbh, truly does make me wince, I'd almost rather you give him brown eyes than say he went to the Academy lmao

#star trek

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historymakesmeangry · 11 days ago

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From Freak Out USA issue 1

#the monkees #newspaper #peter tork

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historymakesmeangry · 12 days ago

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writing papers suck, I keep flip-flopping between despair because I don't think I have enough information to hit the required page amount to worry that I have too much and will go over board

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historymakesmeangry · 12 days ago

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I can't get over the unreleased version of Mommy and Daddy, like "Mommy and daddy, would it matter if the bullet went through my head? If it was my blood spilling on the kitchen floor/If it was my blood, mommy, would you care a little more?" "scream it to your mommy and daddy/they're living a lie" AAHHHHH ITS SO GOOD

#this song was a missing puzzle piece for my research #i'm looking at how the monkees targeted children to teach them counterculture ideas to make the world a better place #mostly bc of this song #and those interviews where they mention how revolutionary the show was for not having an older adult figure #the monkees #also - i get why they changed it up for the actual release - wouldn't be good to tell your young audience that their parents are lying #and the imagery is really good - not that different from the circle sky sequence that they got away with

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historymakesmeangry · 12 days ago

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