Jane Tynan
@janeym.bsky.social
Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching climate & clothing, also liberation graphics | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
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Jane Tynan
@janeym.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Look out for my book #TrenchCoat tells stories of stoicism and survival. Detectives, writers, reporters, anarchists, intellectuals & fashionistas belt up to face an unforgiving world. #design #war #filmnoir #fashion #military #water #proof
www.bloomsbury.com/us/trench-co...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/trench-co...
A long but worthwhile read from Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
‘Freedom, as most Americans understand it, is the problem, not the solution, an ideology that stands in the way of a more democratic, egalitarian politics.’
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
A long but worthwhile read from Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
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Have been rather like Moses in the desert since January.
February 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Have been rather like Moses in the desert since January.
“Wow. Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power…” Marina Hyde in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“Wow. Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power…” Marina Hyde in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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February 7, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…
teleskopos.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
So glad we got to commission this new book for the Palgrave series. Explores how #colonial exploitation of natural resources came to #fashion female bodies. Thanks to editors Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz & Sibyl Buchell for a fascinating book on #materials #ecologies #specimens
February 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
So glad we got to commission this new book for the Palgrave series. Explores how #colonial exploitation of natural resources came to #fashion female bodies. Thanks to editors Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz & Sibyl Buchell for a fascinating book on #materials #ecologies #specimens
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A reminder that we are recruiting for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A reminder that we are recruiting for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P
www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…
They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.
Regulation = interference
Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…
They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.
Regulation = interference
Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of elections, US Congress panel claims
Coimisiún na Meán regulators worked with ‘biased fact-checkers’ before Ireland’s 2024 general election and presidential election, report alleges
www.irishtimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…
They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.
Regulation = interference
Astonishing! US Congress group claims Irish regulators ‘censored’ social media coverage of IRISH elections…
They allege “harassment” (by regulators?) against tech groups (!)
to undermine conservative and populist perspectives.
Regulation = interference
Saw the Iris van Herpen exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam yesterday. Really busy but loved it. Inspiring, captivating creative work.
February 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Saw the Iris van Herpen exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam yesterday. Really busy but loved it. Inspiring, captivating creative work.
What on earth is "toxic empathy?" Twisted, sexist headline from The Telegraph (UK) calculated to harden attitudes. Lately we've been witnessing the re-branding of empathy by tech bros and others. Sinister.
This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.
January 15, 2026 at 12:13 PM
What on earth is "toxic empathy?" Twisted, sexist headline from The Telegraph (UK) calculated to harden attitudes. Lately we've been witnessing the re-branding of empathy by tech bros and others. Sinister.
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
m.youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
Palestine Action hunger strikers near death ‘intent' on continuing protests
Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
www.aljazeera.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
Let it snow….in Vondelpark Amsterdam today ❄️☃️
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Let it snow….in Vondelpark Amsterdam today ❄️☃️
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Steeple of the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam has collapsed. Surrounding houses being evacuated. What a fittingly awful end to the Dutch tradition of New Year’s fireworks www.at5.nl/artikelen/23...
Grote brand Vondelkerk, toren ingestort en veel woningen ontruimd
Grote brand Vondelkerk, toren ingestort en veel woningen ontruimd
www.at5.nl
January 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Steeple of the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam has collapsed. Surrounding houses being evacuated. What a fittingly awful end to the Dutch tradition of New Year’s fireworks www.at5.nl/artikelen/23...
A new year is on the way. Thinking back on a tough year when i said a final goodbye to my father. Still an enigma.
“And you, my father, there on the sad height…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas
“And you, my father, there on the sad height…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A new year is on the way. Thinking back on a tough year when i said a final goodbye to my father. Still an enigma.
“And you, my father, there on the sad height…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas
“And you, my father, there on the sad height…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas
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Please don't come to see me.
December 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Please don't come to see me.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Feast of Stephen in Picardy
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Feast of Stephen in Picardy
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Visited Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens today - magical with the Christmas lights
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Visited Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens today - magical with the Christmas lights