#historian: michael jones

[une-sanz-pluis]

In York’s case we do have another account of his death, and one written within a generation of Agincourt. Here, detail on the duke’s death is provided by the London chronicle Cleopatra CIV, which likely drew on returning soldiers’ accounts of the battle – and it offers strong contrast to Leland’s account. For the London chronicler chose to single out those who had displayed particular valour at Agincourt. Amidst this roll-call of honour, it was stated: The Duke of York was also lost, For his king, no foot would he flee Til his bascinet to his brain was bent. In other words, York refused to move more than a foot from his standard, holding the line and trading blows with the enemy until his own helmet [bascinet] was smashed into his skull. It is a vivid and moving sequence of events, and in this version, it is a death derived from extraordinary courage rather than corpulence.

Michael Jones, "How did Edward duke of York die at Agincourt?"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

slightly different from the book rec asks but you mentioned Jamie loftus so… any non-fiction podcast recs?

wow the great news is that I am pretty much constantly listening to a nonfiction podcast of one kind or another so this is huge for me. here are some of my faves!

Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal, and Society - joined by a rotating cast of guest experts, sex historian Kate Lister goes on a romp through history to learn all about the sexual norms and revolutions of yesteryear.

Black People Love Paramore - in episodes that follow the formate of "Black People Love X," host Sequoia Holmes interviews her guests about their passions for pop cultural niches where Black people are often underrepresented, overlooked, or excluded altogether. heavy focus on music, as the title suggests, but topics also include Tony Hawk, pet ownership, and a memorable episode about being a slut featuring Ify Nwadiwe.

Maintenance Phase - truly like the #1 pod I get hype for when new episodes go up. hosted by fat activist Aubrey Gordon and methodology queen Michael Hobbes, focused on investigating and debunking various health and wellness fads as well as fatphobic misconceptions.

Oh No, Ross and Carrie - ONRAC just ended after thirteen and a half years of investigating all kinds of claims about wellness, spirituality, and the paranormal, ranging from self-proclaimed faith healers to exorcists to alien sightings to pet psychics to the creationist Ark-themed theme park in Kentucky. they have a HUGE backlog, great for browsing.

The Sporkful - a short and sweet podcast hosted by pasta enthusiast Dan Pashman, with each episode focusing on a different question, trend, or event from the world of food. despite being a pretty lighthearted show Pashman is admirably unafraid to tackle the less savory side of food culture; I first became aware of the podcast when he scored a searing interview with Sohla El-Wahlly after the revelation of massive workplace discrimination at YouTube's former darling, BA Test Kitchen.

The Stacks - the only book podcast I can currently tolerate. host Traci Thomas chats with authors about their new fiction and nonfiction releases and hosts a monthly book club. very chill listening, but dangerous for your to-read list.

There Are No Girls on the Internet - host Bridget Todd dives deep into tech trends, online outrages, and misinformation moments across the web. for my money, TANGOTI's coverage of the fatalities at Travis Scott's 2021 Astroworld event and the ensuing satanic panic conspiracy theories were some of the absolute best reporting around the event. currently on hiatus, so you have plenty of time to raid the archives!

Vibe Check - poet Saeed Jones and journalists Zach Stafford and Sam Sanders discuss pop culture and politics, answer listener requests for advice, and generally queen out together. you want nuance? the girlies have Nuance. genuinely one of the warmest and kindest podcasts in my rotation.

[breelandwalker]

JSTOR Articles on the History of Witchcraft, Witch Trials, and Folk Magic Beliefs

This is a partial of of articles on these subjects that can be found in the JSTOR archives. This is not exhaustive - this is just the portion I've saved for my own studies (I've read and referenced about a third of them so far) and I encourage readers and researchers to do their own digging. I recommend the articles by Ronald Hutton, Owen Davies, Mary Beth Norton, Malcolm Gaskill, Michael D. Bailey, and Willem de Blecourt as a place to start.

If you don't have personal access to JSTOR, you may be able to access the archive through your local library, university, museum, or historical society.

Full text list of titles below the cut:

'Hatcht up in Villanie and Witchcraft': Historical, Fiction, and Fantastical Recuperations of the Witch Child, by Chloe Buckley

'I Would Have Eaten You Too': Werewolf Legends in the Flemish, Dutch and German Area, by Willem de Blecourt

'The Divels Special Instruments': Women and Witchcraft before the Great Witch-hunt, by Karen Jones and Michael Zell

'The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain': The Challenges of Prosecuting Witchcraft in Early Modern Venice, by Jonathan Seitz

'Your Wife Will Be Your Biggest Accuser': Reinforcing Codes of Manhood at New England Witch Trials, by Richard Godbeer

A Family Matter: The CAse of a Witch Family in an 18th-Century Volhynian Town, by Kateryna Dysa

A Note on the Survival of Popular Christian Magic, by Peter Rushton

A Note on the Witch-Familiar in Seventeenth Century England, by F.H. Amphlett Micklewright

African Ideas of Witchcraft, by E.G. Parrinder

Aprodisiacs, Charms, and Philtres, by Eleanor Long

Charmers and Charming in England and Wales from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, by Owen Davies

Charming Witches: The 'Old Religion' and the Pendle Trial, by Diane Purkiss

Demonology and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by Sona Rosa Burstein

Denver Tries A Witch, by Margaret M. Oyler

Devil's Stones and Midnight Rites: Megaliths, Folklore, and Contemporary Pagan Witchcraft, by Ethan Doyle White

Edmund Jones and the Pwcca'r Trwyn, by Adam N. Coward

Essex County Witchcraft, by Mary Beth Norton

From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages, by Michael D. Bailey

German Witchcraft, by C. Grant Loomis

Getting of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials, by Alaric Hall

Ghost and Witch in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by Gillian Bennett

Ghosts in Mirrors: Reflections of the Self, by Elizabeth Tucker

Healing Charms in Use in England and Wales 1700-1950, by Owen Davies

How Pagan Were Medieval English Peasants?, by Ronald Hutton

Invisible Men: The Historian and the Male Witch, by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Johannes Junius: Bamberg's Famous Male Witch, by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Knots and Knot Lore, by Cyrus L. Day

Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico's Strix, by Walter Stephens

Literally Unthinkable: Demonological Descriptions of Male Witches, by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Magical Beliefs and Practices in Old Bulgaria, by Louis Petroff

Maleficent Witchcraft in Britian since 1900, by Thomas Waters

Masculinity and Male Witches in Old and New England, 1593-1680, by E.J. Kent

Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic, by Owen Davies

Modern Pagan Festivals: A Study in the Nature of Tradition, by Ronald Hutton

Monstrous Theories: Werewolves and the Abuse of History, by Willem de Blecourt

Neapolitan Witchcraft, by J.B. Andrews and James G. Frazer

New England's Other Witch-Hunt: The Hartford Witch-Hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution, by Walter Woodward

Newspapers and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period, by Owen Davies

Occult Influence, Free Will, and Medical Authority in the Old Bailey, circa 1860-1910, by Karl Bell

Paganism and Polemic: The Debate over the Origins of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, by Ronald Hutton

Plants, Livestock Losses and Witchcraft Accusations in Tudor and Stuart England, by Sally Hickey

Polychronican: Witchcraft History and Children, interpreting England's Biggest Witch Trial, 1612, by Robert Poole

Publishing for the Masses: Early Modern English Witchcraft Pamphlets, by Carla Suhr

Rethinking with Demons: The Campaign against Superstition in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe from a Cognitive Perspective, by Andrew Keitt

Seasonal Festivity in Late Medieval England, Some Further Reflections, by Ronald Hutton

Secondary Targets: Male Witches on Trial, by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Some Notes on Modern Somerset Witch-Lore, by R.L. Tongue

Some Notes on the History and Practice of Witchcraft in the Eastern Counties, by L.F. Newman

Some Seventeenth-Century Books of Magic, by K.M. Briggs

Stones and Spirits, by Jane P. Davidson and Christopher John Duffin

Superstitions, Magic, and Witchcraft, by Jeffrey R. Watt

The 1850s Prosecution of Gerasim Fedotov for Witchcraft, by Christine D. Worobec

The Catholic Salem: How the Devil Destroyed a Saint's Parish (Mattaincourt, 1627-31), by William Monter

The Celtic Tarot and the Secret Tradition: A Study in Modern Legend Making, by Juliette Wood

The Cult of Seely Wights in Scotland, by Julian Goodare

The Decline of Magic: Challenge and Response in Early Enlightenment England, by Michael Hunter

The Devil-Worshippers at the Prom: Rumor-Panic as Therapeutic Magic, by Bill Ellis

The Devil's Pact: Diabolic Writing and Oral Tradition, by Kimberly Ball

The Discovery of Witches: Matthew Hopkins' Defense of his Witch-hunting Methods, by Sheilagh Ilona O'Brien

The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature, by Michael D. Bailey

The Epistemology of Sexual Trauma in Witches' Sabbaths, Satanic Ritual Abuse, and Alien Abduction Narratives, by Joseph Laycock

The European Witchcraft Debate and the Dutch Variant, by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the Malleus Maleficarum, by Moira Smith

The Framework for Scottish Witch-Hunting for the 1590s, by Julian Goodare

The Imposture of Witchcraft, by Rossell Hope Robbins

The Last Witch of England, by J.B. Kingsbury

The Late Lancashire Witches: The Girls Next Door, by Meg Pearson

The Malefic Unconscious: Gender, Genre, and History in Early Antebellum Witchcraft Narratives, by Lisa M. Vetere

The Mingling of Fairy and Witch Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland, by J.A. MacCulloch

The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations, by Owen Davies

The Pursuit of Reality: Recent Research into the History of Witchcraft, by Malcolm Gaskill

The Reception of Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Magic, and Radical Religions, by S.F. Davies

The Role of Gender in Accusations of Witchcraft: The Case of Eastern Slovenia, by Mirjam Mencej

The Scottish Witchcraft Act, by Julian Goodare

The Werewolves of Livonia: Lycanthropy and Shape-Changing in Scholarly Texts, 1550-1720, by Stefan Donecker

The Wild Hunter and the Witches' Sabbath, by Ronald Hutton

The Winter Goddess: Percht, Holda, and Related Figures, by Lotta Motz

The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland, by Emma Wilby

The Witches of Canewdon, by Eric Maple

The Witches of Dengie, by Eric Maple

The Witches' Flying and the Spanish Inquisitors, or How to Explain Away the Impossible, by Gustav Henningsen

To Accommodate the Earthly Kingdom to Divine Will: Official and Nonconformist Definitions of Witchcraft in England, by Agustin Mendez

Unwitching: The Social and Magical Practice in Traditional European Communities, by Mirjam Mencej

Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London, by Owen Davies

Weather, Prayer, and Magical Jugs, by Ralph Merrifield

Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England, by Malcolm Gaskill

Witchcraft and Magic in the Elizabethan Drama by H.W. Herrington

Witchcraft and Magic in the Rochford Hundred, by Eric Maple

Witchcraft and Old Women in Early Modern Germany, by Alison Rowlands

Witchcraft and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England, by Julia M. Garrett

Witchcraft and Silence in Guillaume Cazaux's 'The Mass of Saint Secaire', by William G. Pooley

Witchcraft and the Early Modern Imagination, by Robin Briggs

Witchcraft and the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper

Witchcraft Belief and Trals in Early Modern Ireland, by Andrew Sneddon

Witchcraft Deaths, by Mimi Clar

Witchcraft Fears and Psychosocial Factors in Disease, by Edward Bever

Witchcraft for Sale, by T.M. Pearce

Witchcraft in Denmark, by Gustav Henningsen

Witchcraft in Germany, by Taras Lukach

Witchcraft in Kilkenny, by T. Crofton Croker

Witchcraft in Anglo-American Colonies, by Mary Beth Norton

Witchcraft in the Central Balkans I: Characteristics of Witches, by T.P. Vukanovic

Witchcraft in the Central Balkans II: Protection Against Witches, by T.P. Vukanovic

Witchcraft Justice and Human Rights in Africa, Cases from Malawi, by Adam Ashforth

Witchcraft Magic and Spirits on the Border of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, by S.P. Bayard

Witchcraft Persecutions in the Post-Craze Era: The Case of Ann Izzard of Great Paxton, 1808, by Stephen A. Mitchell

Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic, by Edward Bever

Witchcraft, by Ray B. Browne

Witchcraft, Poison, Law, and Atlantic Slavery, by Diana Paton

Witchcraft, Politics, and Memory in Seventeeth-Century England, by Malcolm Gaskill

Witchcraft, Spirit Possession and Heresy, by Lucy Mair

Witchcraft, Women's Honour and Customary Law in Early Modern Wales, by Sally Parkin

Witches and Witchbusters, by Jacqueline Simpson

Witches, Cunning Folk, and Competition in Denmark, by Timothy R. Tangherlini

Witches' Herbs on Trial, by Michael Ostling

[brokehorrorfan]

Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection will be released on November 26 via Universal. The 4K Ultra HD + Digital set collects six of the Master of Suspense's classic thrillers: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds.

Limited to 5,150, the six-disc collection is housed in premium book-style packaging featuring artwork by Tristan Eaton along with photos, bios, and trivia.

The uncut version of Psycho is included. Special features are detailed below.

1954's Rear Window is written by John Michael Hayes (To Catch a Thief), based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder." James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr star.

Rear Window special features:

Audio commentary by Hitchcock’s Rear Window: The Well-Made Film author John Fawell

Rear Window Ethics - 2000 documentary

Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

Masters of Cinema

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Rear Window

Production photo gallery

Theatrical trailer

Re-release trailer narrated by James Stewart

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

1955's To Catch a Thief is written by John Michael Hayes (Rear Window), based on David Dodge’s 1952 novel of the same name. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, and John Williams star.

To Catch a Thief special features:

Audio commentary by Hitchcock historian Dr. Drew Casper

Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on To Catch a Thief

Behind the Gates: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

1958's Vertigo is written by Alec Coppel (No Highway in the Sky) and Samuel A. Taylor (Sabrina), based on Boileau-Narcejac’s 1954 novel The Living and the Dead. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, and Henry Jones star.

Vertigo special features:

Audio commentary by filmmaker William Friedkin (The Exorcist)

Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock’s Masterpiece

Partners In Crime: Hitchcock’s Collaborators

Saul Bass: Title Champ

Edith Head: Dressing the Master’s Movies

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock’s Maestro

Alma: The Master’s Muse

Foreign censorship ending

100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo

Theatrical trailer

Restoration theatrical trailer

A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.

1959's North by Northwest is written by Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, West Side Story). Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Jessie Royce Landis star.

North by Northwest special features:

Audio commentary by writer Ernest Lehman

North by Northwest: Cinematography, Score, and the Art of the Edit

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest

The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature Style

North by Northwest: One for the Ages

A Guided Tour with Alfred Hitchcock

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

1960's Psycho is written by Joseph Stefano (The Outer Limits), based on Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel of the same name. Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, and Janet Leigh star.

Psycho special features:

Original uncut and standard re-releases version of the film

The Making of Psycho

The Making of Psycho audio commentary with Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho author Stephen Rebello

Psycho Sound

In The Master’s Shadow: Hitchcock’s Legacy

Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho

The Shower Scene: With and Without Music

The Shower Sequence: Storyboards by Saul Bass

The Psycho Archives

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Psycho

Posters and ad gallery

Lobby card gallery

Behind-the-scenes photo gallery

Production photo gallery

Psycho theatrical trailers

Psycho re-release trailer

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

1963's The Birds is written by Evan Hunter (High and Low), based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 short story of the same name. Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and Veronica Cartwright star.

The Birds special features:

The Birds: Hitchcock’s Monster Movie

All About The Birds

Original ending

Deleted scene

Tippi Hedren’s screen test

The Birds is coming (Universal International Newsreel)

Suspense Story: National Press Club hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel)

100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics

100 Years of Universal: The Lot

Hitchcock/Truffaut - Audio recording from filmmaker François Truffaut’s in-depth interview with director Alfred Hitchcock about Vertigo

Theatrical trailer

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Pre-order Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection.

[exhibit-of-the-century]

Concept/Comic Artists Part 1:

Masterlist

BUY ME A COFFEE

Not to be confused with conceptual artists within Art History, to find out more click here. Before deciding that I wished to be an art historian, I very much wished to pursue some type of art making. And I was mostly inspired by the idea generating and development within Concept Art spheres.

Concept Art is mainly used for idea generating within a market, for films or video games, and is used in drawing out designs from a brief and prompt. Comic artists, well that one I believe is self-explanatory (and some comic recommendations). The reason I’m making this post is because I wish to pay homage to my roots and highlight some more contemporary artists rather than dead ones from my Art History lessons.

And a special thank you @willow-dino for helping me! I lost all my notes on this topic, but someone still had theirs.

Comic Artists and Comics

Adrian Alphona, 2003/2014; Runaways/Ms Mervel

Hiromu Arakawa, 2001; Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA)

Chris Bachalo, 1993; The Children's Crusade

Mark Bagley, 2000; Ultimate Spiderman

Brian Bolland, 1988; The Killing Joke

Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo, 1959; Le Adventures de Tanguy et Laverdure (French Air Force)

Mark Dringenburg, 1986; The Sandman #6

Mitch Gerads, 2015; The Sheriff of Babylon

Dave Gibbson, 1986; Watchmen

Jean Giraud (Moebius), 1963; Blueberry

Jean Graton, 1957; Michael Vaillant

Herge, 1929 – 86; The Adventures of TinTin

Kelly Jones, 1991/2000/2021; The Sandman #17/Sleepy Hollow/Batman: Black and White #3

Taiyo Matsumoto, 2010 – 15; Sunny

Dave McKean, 1989/1992/2016; Arkham Asylum/Signal to Noise/Black Dog: The Dream of Paul Nash

Carlos Meglia, 1991; Cybersix

Go to Part 2 for more artists...

[heartofstanding]

Hi, sorry to bother you, but would you be able to tell me the names of the historians and documentaries that you were talking about in your post on Isabella of France? I'm looking to do a project on isabella for my history course and I'm looking for all sources and stuff i can.

Hi! In this post, I was talking about Kathryn Warner. She runs a blog on Edward II and has published mountains of books on Edward II's reign and while I think her early biographies of Edward II and Isabella are pretty solid, I think she's become so lost in the weeds that she's started going a bit... crank and started to imitate the historians she once railed against. The historians she rails against the most is Alison Weir (which, fair, Weir's Queen Isabella is very bad and very homophobic) and Paul Doherty's Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II but the "badass girlboss" take on Isabella can also be found in Helen Castor's She-Wolves (both biography and documentary). There is a Dan Jones documentary that's famously homophobic but I don't think I've heard about his treatment of Isabella. The novels I mentioned were Susan Higginbotham's The Traitor's Wife and Colin Falconer's Isabella: Braveheart of France.

I haven't read it but Lisa Benz St. John's Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England is very highly recommended, focusing on Isabella, Marguerite of France and Philippa of Hainault. Michael Evans' chapter on Isabella in Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts is a good but brief biographical overview and if you're looking for more studies of Isabella in popular culture, his chapters "Queering Isabella: The ‘She-Wolf of France’ in Film and Television" in Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers and "From “She-Wolf” to “Badass”: Remembering Isabella of France in Modern Culture" in Memoralising Premodern Monarchs will give you a good overview of the cultural representations of Isabella, the latter of which deals most with the "badass girlboss" view of Isabella. They should also give you more sources. Isabella also features heavily in many biographies of Edward II, probably the standard is Seymour Phillips in the Yale Monarchs series.

[gaykarstaagforever]

No offense to Slate and all the ink they spill here giving the history of pop music from the late 70s to early 80s, but..."City Pop."

Especially Espresso. It sounds like Japanese city pop.

Just use city pop.

...Also the actual stuff from the early 80s they think this sounds like, but only sort of does, is "synth-funk," because that's what it was. The early Michael Jackson stuff. What Quincy Jones was doing around the time I was born. Funk, using new prosumer synth instruments. I don't know what the problem is, here. Then it turned into the Minneapolis Sound by Jam & Lewis, then New Jack. I guess the names got lost because it was really successful and just became the "pop" of the era. Compare it to New Wave, which was almost literally the blue-eyed (read, white English) replication of this. As happens.

And for you broccoli-heads out there, you know this early 80s sound mostly as the hooks people filter and chop up to make vaporwave. That sort of thing.

I didn't know we weren't supposed to know this. What are you music historians doing over there?

Anyway, Espresso is a cool song. City pop.

[ao3feed-kathony]

Lady Whistledown and the Diamonds of the Lost Water

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/57351871 by byebyelullabye Dr. Penelope Bridgerton has had her fair share of adventure. And she's so done with it. The stolen treasure, the double identity, and the dashing archaeologist she continues to hold a torch for? It's everything she's run from three years ago and she's not going back now. Especially not when she can just find the treasure from her hideaway in Derry… At least not until a blast from the past walks through her door… AKA The Indiana Jones x The Mummy Bridgerton AU THAT HAS BEEN STEWING IN MY HEAD FOREVER Words: 1613, Chapters: 1/15, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Derry Girls (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen Characters: Colin Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington, Eloise Bridgerton, Phillip Crane, Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Sophie Beckett, Benedict Bridgerton, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma, Genevieve Delacroix, Violet Bridgerton Relationships: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, Eloise Bridgerton/Phillip Crane, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Sophie Beckett/Benedict Bridgerton Additional Tags: Inspired by Indiana Jones, Inspired By The Mummy (Movies 1999 - 2008), Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining, Colleagues to Lovers, Fake Character Death, Angst, the angst is the from the faking of death, they're not really dead you just need to think that for the pining to be achieved, Sad Colin Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton Being an Idiot, Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington-centric, Protective Colin Bridgerton, Colin "My Wife" Bridgerton, colin is an archaeologist, penelope is a historian turned librarian, she still does lady whistledown but in a different flavor, phillip is a woman because i say so, lesbian eloise bridgerton is what the people deserve, kate and sophie and gen are penelope's accomplices, they're lady whistledown's angels, Jealous Colin Bridgerton, if i could make him yandere i would but the world is not ready for that i fear, No beta we die like Edmund, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, theres no specific time bc haha no, the vibe and setting is 90s but the dialogue is 2020s, there are derry girls references and some characters, BAMF Penelope Featherington, Confident Penelope Featherington, also Penelope is a gifted child because i say so, polin gives off brendan fraser and rachel weisz from the mummy enegry, Polin, michael is colin's bff, colin needs more friends so he can distinguish his feelings for pen, this is fic is very penelope-centric read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/57351871

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.22

Beer Birthdays

Lord Chesterfield; English statesman (1694)

Alfred Vinzenz Werthmueller (1835)

George Kennth Hotson Younger (1931)

Carlos Sanchez (1958)

Dave McLean (1969)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bilbo Baggins; Hobbit character

Frodo Baggins; Lord of the Rings character

Michael Faraday; English scientist (1791)

Joan Jett; rock singer, guitarist (1958)

Tatiana Maslany; Canadian actor (1985)

Famous Birthdays

King Sunny Ade; Nigerian reggae singer (1946)

Scott Baio; actor (1960)

Eric Baker; English activist, co-founded Amnesty Int’l (1920)

Toni Basil; pop singer (1943)

Elizabeth Bear; author and poet (1971)

Shari Belafonte; actor (1954)

Maurice Blanchot; French philosopher (1907)

Andrea Bocelli; Italian singer-songwriter (1958)

Debby Boone; pop singer (1956)

Barthold Heinrich Brockes; German poet (1680)

Harold Carmichael; Philadelphia Eagles WR (1949)

Nick Cave; rock musician (1957)

Neil Cavuto; journalist and author (1958)

Ellen Church; 1st airline stewardess (1904)

Dave Coverdale; rock singer (1951)

Quintin Craufurd; Scottish author (1743)

Babette Deutsch; poet (1895)

Ashley Eckstein; actress (1981)

Will Elder; illustrator (1921)

György Faludy; Hungarian poet & author (1910)

Tom Felton; English actor (1987)

Grigory Frid; Russian pianist & composer (1915)

Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin; German mathematician, astronomer & poet (1547)

Theodore Hook; English composer (1788)

John Houseman; actor (1902)

Bonnie Hunt; actor (1964)

Ruth Jones; Welsh actress (1966)

Anna Karina; actor (1940)

Brian Keene; novelist (1967)

Charles Keeping; English author & illustrator (1924)

Allan "Rocky" Lane; voice of "Mr. Ed" (1909)

Tommy Lasorda; Los Angeles Dodgers coach (1927)

Paul Le Mat; actor (1945)

Katie Lowes; actress (1982)

Matthäus Merian; Swiss-German engraver & cartographer (1593)

Ian Mortimer; English historian & novelist (1967)

Paul Muni; actor (1895)

Catherine Oxenburg; actor (1961)

Peter Simon Pallas; German zoologist & botanist (1741)

Rupert Penry-Jones; English actor (1970)

Sue Perkins; English comedian, actress (1969)

Saul Perlmutter; astrophysicist, astronomer (1959)

Rosamunde Pilcher; English author (1924)

Billie Piper; English singer, actor (1982)

Arthur Pryor; trombonist, composer (1870)

Paolo Ruffini; Italian mathematician & philosopher (1765)

Martha Scott; actor (1914)

Elizabeth Simcoe; English-Canadian painter & author (1762)

Bill Smith; clarinet player & composer (1926)

Theodore Clement Steele; artist (1847)

Michael Torke; composer (1961)

Ken Vandermark; saxophonist & composer (1964)

Charles Waterhouse; painter (1924)

Fay Weldon; English writer (1931)

Billy West; actor (1892)

Ray Wetzel; trumpet player & composer (1924)

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The Lost King (2022) Movie Review

The Lost King – ABC Film Challenge – Set in England – L – The Lost King – Movie Review Director: Stephen Frears Writer: Steven Coogan, Jeff Pope (Screenplay) Writer: Michael Jones, Philippa Langley (Book) Cast Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) Steve Coogan (Philomena) Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything) Mark Addy (Game of Thrones) Adam Robb Plot: An amateur historian defies the…

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Mark Dowie - First Nations' Independence

Nov 29, 2018

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Investigative Historian Mark Dowie about the struggle shared by thousands of native peoples around the world for aboriginal title and self-determination. Mark’s recently published book is The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty.

Mark Dowie is an investigative historian, a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine and former editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational feature syndicate based in Paris. His recent books include The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, and American Foundations: An Investigative History. During his forty year media career Mark has written, edited, or published more than 200 investigative magazine articles and has won 19 journalism awards including four National MagazineAwards. He is a founding director of the Center for Investigative Reporting and taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence at the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University.

He lives in the outskirts of Willow Point on Tomales Bay south of Inverness, California, with his wife, artist Wendy Schwartz, and their yellow lab, Gracie.

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The Getaway has been released on Blu-ray exclusively from Shout Factory. Limited to 2,010, the 1994 action thriller is available for $29.98.

Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job, Species) directs from a script by Walter Hill (The Warriors) and Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, James Woods, and Philip Seymour Hoffman star.

The Getaway is presented unrated in high definition. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film critic Travis Woods (new)

Interviews with composer Mark Isham and film historian C. Courtney Joyner (new)

Behind-the-scenes featurette

Interview with actor Alec Baldwin

Interview with actress Kim Basinger

Theatrical trailer

Escaping with the loot from a robbery, Doc and Carol McCoy (Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger) find themselves on the run from both the law and the deadly hit squad of crime boss Jack Benyon (James Woods). When Doc discovers that Carol struck a deal with Benyon to buy his freedom, the boundaries of love, lust, and greed are put to the ultimate test.

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Photography Research; Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol created portraits of people he admired—musicians Michael Jackson and Grace Jones, boxer Muhammad Ali—as well as wealthy socialites he met on the New York social circuit. By the mid-1960s, Warhol had collected a public following of artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, and art patrons seduced by his persona. Furthering his cultivated fame, he engaged with painting of self-portraits and in time, became famous for the iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

Carter Ratcliff, an art historian has argued that ‘as blank and anesthetised as his surfaces sometimes are, they hide depths of a traumatised self or a deep sense of the random and depersonalised tragedy of the modern world’ (Ratcliff in Shafrazi 2007).

Warhol understood the importance of the portrait in modern life, and in particular, as Shafrazi has asserted, the function of the photograph as the ‘supreme vehicle of fixity and change’ (Shafrazi 2007). The use of the artist's silkscreening process ‘perfectly mimics the isolated flickering image as it hits the screen, registers for a moment, and is gone. That is the poetry in Warhol’s work, his extraordinary sensitivity in freezing a lyrical instant of time’ (Shafrazi 2007).

Struggling with aging, his self portraits explored these insecurities. He especially liked to experiment with drag in his portraits including a lot of wigs.

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“Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past”, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer (2023)

I read Dr. Michael Kazin’s piece on LitHub a couple of weeks ago (https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-american-socialism/), about the long history of “socialism” in the United States of Hypocrisy, and saw that it’s part of this new and trending (on Barnes & Noble) compilation of essays written by concerned historians sticking their thumbs into the eyes of all the pathological liars and fantasyland grifters on the paleoconservative Right, backing everything up with cited sources everyone has access to. I then bought the e-book. From FDR’s “New Deal” to the negation of Native American voices to the chronic boogeyman of immigration to the grand delusions of “the magical market” to just about every other conjured chimera the GOP has exhaustively played out for the last one-hundred years, Myth America attempts to drive a stake through the heart of all its monstrous disinformation. But the GOP keeps conjuring demons out of their delusional idiocracy (i.e., Critical Race Theory [which their banning of only reinforces the need for CRT], the LBGTQ+ community and its striving for actual equal rights, women’s right to bodily autonomy, gas stoves, “woke-ness” [which is actually called Progressivism, morons], the “Welfare State” [just not corporate welfare!], Hunter Biden’s stupid laptop, microchips secreted into vaccines, Helter Skelter and “the Great Replacement”, “systemic voter fraud”, and every other b.s. devil they fear the most). Toffler’s Future Shock seems to have diseased the Right far faster and deeper than the Left. (A Vietnam vet I work with asked me a few weeks ago, “When was it OK to stick a sign in your front yard with [the f-bomb] on it?” That’s a very good question worthy of understanding just how far societal norms have deteriorated. Sociologists, earn your pay.)

Look, the “Left” is far from perfect, but it’s nowhere near the shores of clownish Insanityland as the Right is. There can be intelligent, sober debates about the role of government and the nature of capitalism, but you know where I stand on those. Of course no book will truly matter to exorcizing the demonic belief system of the GOP disinformation machine. It was bad under Nixon, but now it’s just flirting with power-mad authoritarianism. From the crackpot politicians white-knuckling the levers of power, to Fox News and it’s lesser ilk spouting manure and backed by billionaires who don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes, to all the Alex Jones types selling garbage to yokels, to every poorly educated American who feeds off their fearmongering, and to every educated American voting against their own interests and the future of the planet, this is an entrenched strategy decades in the making, exacerbated by an unregulated internet with other billionaires not wanting to police up the destructive lies propagated on their precious, Pavlovian social-media machines.

This is a great book to have as a reference for contemporary issues and tracing their taproots back into the past. Of course there are other books that perform deep dives into each issue, but if factual nonfiction is not to your liking or attention span, Myth America works great. As one of the essayists concludes her piece (and the entire book), “Myths masquerading as reality do enormous damage” (p. 322). We have overwhelming evidence of that too. The United States and so many other parts of the world have been poisoned by flagrant disinformation pushed by unregulated media outlets and the unregulated internet. We have to understand that there will be no armistice in the culture wars with one side weaponized by disinformation and abject pathological lies, until their media outlets are neutralized and the internet is appropriately policed. Since that is unlikely to happen, the onus falls on each and every one of us to be properly informed, to vet our sources of information, to understand the anatomy of propaganda and the ultimate agents behind its propagation, and to vote these vacuous puppets out. Oftentimes this is tough work, but the future of the country depends upon it.

When President Lyndon Johnson “marveled that the issues he saw as a Congressman in 1937 were still painfully apparent in 1963—and we should be stupefied that they are still painfully present TODAY—shows how little has actually been accomplished to better society and the world at large. Civil rights, healthcare, education, senior care, poverty and homelessness, mental healthcare, higher education, and nutrition are still septic wounds on society. Yes, things have certainly improved, but obviously not far enough nor fast enough. As Michael Herrington presciently wrote in 1962, “[t]he fate of the poor hangs upon the decision of the better-off. If this anger and shame are not forthcoming, someone can write a book about the other America a generation from now and it will be the same or worse. Until these facts shame us, until they stir I us to action, the other America will continue to exist, a monstrous example of needless suffering in the most advanced society in the world.” We’re three generations from then and inequality has reached grotesque proportions. The filthy rich manipulate white backlash on everything they can, being the undereducated, easily manipulated, and easily enraged “Christians” they are. There will be no peace made with them. We have to mobilize everyone to fight against it, to drown their voices out, and allow them to see how progressivism (call if whatever you like) is the ONLY way forward if we are to save humanity from itself, and save what remains of the bio-systems of the Earth from humanity’s wanton, selfish, voracious greed.

Earnest May and Richard Neustadt explored the ways clumsy misapplications of history can create catastrophes in public policy in their 1988 book Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers. We’re now in an era of people trying to create their alternative histories, post-truths and post-facts, thanks in large part to the f-ing internet. This is what authoritarians do, and what Orwell illustrated perfectly with: “Who controls the past controls the future.”

Know your accurate history and take control of our shared future and the future of those yet born.

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Oh my favourite book (ironically enough hehe) - The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer. It's about a boy who has to paint his neighbours brother, a Vietnam war veteran, for his art project and the two (the war veteran and boy) form a bond with each other. The writing is lovely and it contains no romance in it.

Rabbit proof fence - A movie based on a true story of 3 Aboriginal girls attempting to go back home after being taken away by their mother. No romance, only around family (mainly between the sister and their journey in coming back home to their mother) It's sad but has a bittersweet ending.

Yolngu boy - Three boys rebond again after attempting to rescue their friend from jail and to go to Darwin. There is an implied romance but it's so rare and it's mostly around the boys friendship with each other. Great movie, heartbreaking one though with another bittersweet ending.

Heaven eyes by David Almond - Orphan kids running away to the great sea till they get washed away to an island with a strange girl. The book feels like your in a dream and contains no romance in it

So much to tell you by John Marsden - a book centring around a girl that had her face scarred by her abusive father and now has to attend an all girl's boarding school to finally 'speak' again. Little to do with romance, the main character is kinda aspec coded ngl (just me though) and the books happy ending is her meeting her father again.

Spirited away - Maybe it's just me but there's seems to be no romance in that movie either and just two characters who care about each other (if you see 'love' as non romantic per say) Amazing story, animation, creative. Go watch it.

Don't fall in love by Drako Jones - classic aromantic song what could I say

If your also an aromantic historian, maybe the 'thirteen days' movie by Roger Donaldson. There's no romance in it either, just a docu-drama around the Cuban missile crisis.

Hope I was able to bring in my input

The thing about finding out you’re aromantic is that very often there is a grieving process.

We mourn the lives we feel we were supposed to have. Society has told us that we were supposed to have sweeping romances and sprint through airports to stop people’s planes etc., and that is pretty much the only happy ending they show us. How many movies end with two people getting together? How many end with a marriage or a love confession or a kiss? And then after that, happily ever after is implied.

Which is why my biggest tip for combating said aromantic grief is to consume as much content where this isn’t the case as possible.

I’m not saying never read romance again, but being able to visualize a future with alternative happy endings is infinitely helpful.

So here’s all the media I go to when I need to feel non-romantic aro feels:

- the Adventures of Tintin. About a young reporter who solves mysteries, found family who all end up living together. Steven Spielberg movie is good, American cartoon is good, and the comics are amazing, just avoid Tintin in the Congo. The author was Belgian.

- all the Redwall books. There are 22 of them. There is also a three season cartoon. There are rodents. They have swords. The food. THE FOOD. also you will be a communist by the end. In a good way.

- little women 2019 because her happy ending isn’t that she marries the professor, her happy ending is that she gets her book. And the aro vibes are strong as hell

- all of the aro fanfiction. Just all of it.

- these specific songs:

Now tell me yours because I need more