Matt Houlbrook
@tricksterprince.bsky.social
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
Yes - please save Songs of Seven Dials for the right moment.
December 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Yes - please save Songs of Seven Dials for the right moment.
Sleepy agree from the greyhound on the sofa across the room from me right now...
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sleepy agree from the greyhound on the sofa across the room from me right now...
Reposted by Matt Houlbrook
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
Exactly that...
A machine for making melancholy.
A machine for making melancholy.
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Exactly that...
A machine for making melancholy.
A machine for making melancholy.
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There are loads of other lovely books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide 2025 as well
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There are loads of other lovely books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide 2025 as well
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December 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Offer runs until 23 Dec, though you'll need to order by 17 Dec to guarantee delivery by Christmas if you're in the UK.
There are loads of other lovely books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide 2025 as well
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...
There are loads of other lovely books in the @manchesterup.bsky.social Christmas Gift Guide 2025 as well
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...
From Netley Lucas - who was 14 in the winter of 1917-18 he is remembering here:
Sometimes “I had to ‘do a starry’ and sleep out on the Embankment, or under the Adelphi Arches, for want of the price of a bed.”
Sometimes “I had to ‘do a starry’ and sleep out on the Embankment, or under the Adelphi Arches, for want of the price of a bed.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
From Netley Lucas - who was 14 in the winter of 1917-18 he is remembering here:
Sometimes “I had to ‘do a starry’ and sleep out on the Embankment, or under the Adelphi Arches, for want of the price of a bed.”
Sometimes “I had to ‘do a starry’ and sleep out on the Embankment, or under the Adelphi Arches, for want of the price of a bed.”