Thinking about Alfred J. Frueh’s three-dimensional love letter to his wife this afternoon

'As Prime Minister I introduced legislation mandating that everyone must take photo ID to vote, then forgot to take my photo ID to vote.'

This is big. Scientists have identified the cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the body and act as 'master regulators' of the body’s inflammatory response. 'The discovery is akin to a black-swan event. It's a whole layer of biology we haven’t even anticipated”

Hey, Twitter, I have a question for a thing. When did clothes start getting labels? Or even maker’s marks? Like… if you had some tailored clothes from England in the 1600s would there be a way of identifying who made them? Even a guild mark?

Wrote for madebyhistory TIME with the brilliant Julie Hardwick/[email protected] on Taylor Swift, scrapbooking/journaling, & why crafters are slicing up 18th century French legal manuscripts to celebrate #TTPD . time.com/6971832/the-to…

There were two things in this that particularly struck me: we think of clubs as being historically male-only, but that's only been the case since the 1950s. And:
'Today there are some 50 historic London clubs which survive, of which 12 are men-only, and one is women-only'

Despite their reputation, London’s private members’ clubs have never been entirely for men.

🔓 Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦’s article from the May issue of History Today is now free to read for the next 7 days

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'Grey Rainy Day, Hammersmith' (2023) by Adebanji Alade
adebanjialade.co.uk

Alternate history where Wiener went with the Latin rather than Greek root and called it 'gubernatics' instead of 'cybernetics', leading William Gibson to call it 'guberspace' and 'guberpunk'.

Think I've missed the boat on reviewing it, but I'm really looking forward to reading Peter Marshall's new book Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney.
This on the history of the islands in @historytoday is fascinating. historytoday.com/archive/featur…

'I like to show the beauty of things that no one looks at twice.' – Hodgkin, in a letter to Brinsley Ford. I think he succeeded.

OLIVE. I REQUIRE OLIVE.

Pingu hairdryer. Need. instagram.com/pingu_museum

Five years ago, an anonymous Wikipedian made their sole contribution: the claim that Emperor Henry II was also known as St Henry “the Exuberant”. This can now be found in at least 6 books, including three by academics and one by a monk. google.com/search?q=%22he… #medievalTwitter

Codicologists: what might a 19th-century scholar have been intending to happen when he covered a manuscript in creosote? I'm sure I've heard of things like this being done but I can't find any discussion...