This defied all expectations.
Studio execs at 20thC Fox had little faith in BRUCE WILLIS, but it raked in over $140m becoming the 10th biggest Movie of the year and set off a franchise that to date has earned over $1.4bn.
DIE HARD (1988)
Studio execs at 20thC Fox had little faith in BRUCE WILLIS, but it raked in over $140m becoming the 10th biggest Movie of the year and set off a franchise that to date has earned over $1.4bn.
DIE HARD (1988)
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This defied all expectations.
Studio execs at 20thC Fox had little faith in BRUCE WILLIS, but it raked in over $140m becoming the 10th biggest Movie of the year and set off a franchise that to date has earned over $1.4bn.
DIE HARD (1988)
Studio execs at 20thC Fox had little faith in BRUCE WILLIS, but it raked in over $140m becoming the 10th biggest Movie of the year and set off a franchise that to date has earned over $1.4bn.
DIE HARD (1988)
Minor repairs for this early 20thc leaded glass window. Dennistoun. #stainedglass #glasgow #scotland
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Minor repairs for this early 20thc leaded glass window. Dennistoun. #stainedglass #glasgow #scotland
Not the passenger pigeon at the dawn of the 20thC, but now, in 2025.
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
New blog post.
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Not the passenger pigeon at the dawn of the 20thC, but now, in 2025.
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
"No books, no popular press, no documentaries, no Tweets, no reels, no local story tellers, no global presence at all. Without a story, this tiny David fell before the modern Goliaths of progress, disconnect and indifference"
🪶🌍 😢
'The Rowers.' (1924) Manuel Losada is one of the key names in the modern Basque painting of the early 20thC - his work was praised by both Gauguin and Degas, and one can argue, there is a certain Degas-like expression of movement in this picture.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'The Rowers.' (1924) Manuel Losada is one of the key names in the modern Basque painting of the early 20thC - his work was praised by both Gauguin and Degas, and one can argue, there is a certain Degas-like expression of movement in this picture.
It's brilliant to have helped put some history on the walls in Medicine, with these panels showcasing a selection of 19thC and 20thC alumni - including the first women, and the first students of Indian and African heritage. Congratulations to @manoncwilliams.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social
I was thrilled to travel to Scotland this week to open an installation I’ve been working on for the School of Medicine @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. The installation showcases diverse alumni from St Andrews’ past to inspire incoming students to the #MBChB. #histmed #medsky #medhums #skystorians
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It's brilliant to have helped put some history on the walls in Medicine, with these panels showcasing a selection of 19thC and 20thC alumni - including the first women, and the first students of Indian and African heritage. Congratulations to @manoncwilliams.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social
ive thought so much about how cool it is that enigmata is born after erudition, personifying the necessary pushback against 19th/20thc scientific positivism (producing eugenics, one example out of far too many) but also i need to play more of this game to complete wherever that line of thought goes
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ive thought so much about how cool it is that enigmata is born after erudition, personifying the necessary pushback against 19th/20thc scientific positivism (producing eugenics, one example out of far too many) but also i need to play more of this game to complete wherever that line of thought goes
Other parts of the world had different histories of academic journal publishing (and of research and universities), and so (in some cases/places) can have a different relationship to for-profit publishers. I wish we knew more about mid/late-20thC journal publishing practices globally.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Other parts of the world had different histories of academic journal publishing (and of research and universities), and so (in some cases/places) can have a different relationship to for-profit publishers. I wish we knew more about mid/late-20thC journal publishing practices globally.
Henry Tonks was a teacher of enormous influence at the Slade School, a significant artist and one of the great defenders against the rapid rise of modernism in the 20thC. This work (c1930) shows his friend, the artist Philip Wilson Steer (seated grey hair) at home in Chelsea.
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Henry Tonks was a teacher of enormous influence at the Slade School, a significant artist and one of the great defenders against the rapid rise of modernism in the 20thC. This work (c1930) shows his friend, the artist Philip Wilson Steer (seated grey hair) at home in Chelsea.
Midwest queer scholars: if you’re at this year’s MMLA at Marquette, I’m giving a paper on my mild obsession Bryher, the 20thc transmasc bajillionaire semi-known for being H.D.’s wife-guy, funding every Modernist ever, & saving people from nazis… www.midwest-mla.org/digital-prog...
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Midwest queer scholars: if you’re at this year’s MMLA at Marquette, I’m giving a paper on my mild obsession Bryher, the 20thc transmasc bajillionaire semi-known for being H.D.’s wife-guy, funding every Modernist ever, & saving people from nazis… www.midwest-mla.org/digital-prog...
I wonder, would the instrumentation of the day even been able to measure continental drift over several years? I know the theory itself is only 20thC
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I wonder, would the instrumentation of the day even been able to measure continental drift over several years? I know the theory itself is only 20thC
Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
In 1971 the U.S. nearly enacted a universal childcare policy, and the lack of affordable childcare has remained a problem ever since. Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout features a social and political history of U.S. childcare 1970-1996 w PhD cand Julia Fournier. Join us www.hagley.org/research/his...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
When I was reading a lot of early 20thC popular Irish weekly papers (as you do) I found at least one short story where going to Gaelic League language classes was how young men made themselves attractive to the cool girls and therefore got a girlfriend. So that pushes it back to c.1908!
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
When I was reading a lot of early 20thC popular Irish weekly papers (as you do) I found at least one short story where going to Gaelic League language classes was how young men made themselves attractive to the cool girls and therefore got a girlfriend. So that pushes it back to c.1908!
Anni Albers, Design for a rug, 1925. One of the best known Bauhsus trained textile artists of the 20thc #womensart
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anni Albers, Design for a rug, 1925. One of the best known Bauhsus trained textile artists of the 20thc #womensart
I finally paid a visit to Tartu Old Observatory today, and saw Struve's Fraunhofer telescope (lovingly conserved but Paolo Brenni)
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I finally paid a visit to Tartu Old Observatory today, and saw Struve's Fraunhofer telescope (lovingly conserved but Paolo Brenni)
As the person who wrote the original takedown of Tartaria some five years ago (www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...), what has always amused me is just how *flexible* the Tartaria conspiracy is, bringing together tendentious readings of Early Modern texts + maps with early 20thC photography.
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As the person who wrote the original takedown of Tartaria some five years ago (www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...), what has always amused me is just how *flexible* the Tartaria conspiracy is, bringing together tendentious readings of Early Modern texts + maps with early 20thC photography.
Close to finishing The Wolf and the Girl, a sapphic Red Riding Hood set in early 20thC Russia, by Aster Glenn Gray. Raisa has been punitively transformed to a wolf, and she and Masha try to avoid a seemingly inevitable showdown with the villain. What are you reading this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Close to finishing The Wolf and the Girl, a sapphic Red Riding Hood set in early 20thC Russia, by Aster Glenn Gray. Raisa has been punitively transformed to a wolf, and she and Masha try to avoid a seemingly inevitable showdown with the villain. What are you reading this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙
See if you can find your county in the big red books which have all been digitised. Prof Helen Cam wrote the chapters on Cambridge the town in the mid-20thC. None of the other Uni chaps volunteered, favouring writing their individual college histories instead!
If you like that, then you might also be interested to revisit our online event celebrating @vch-home.bsky.social, its 'Big Red Books' and much else besides. #Skystorians
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
See if you can find your county in the big red books which have all been digitised. Prof Helen Cam wrote the chapters on Cambridge the town in the mid-20thC. None of the other Uni chaps volunteered, favouring writing their individual college histories instead!
🎯 Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) was the FIRST woman sculptor recorded in Spain serving as Royal Sculptor under two Kings.
🚦Featured in our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
🚦Featured in our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🎯 Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) was the FIRST woman sculptor recorded in Spain serving as Royal Sculptor under two Kings.
🚦Featured in our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
🚦Featured in our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
For today's #Bookvember, I want to say it's the whole ouvre of that late 19thC/early 20thC "Golden Age of Illustration" style of watercolor. Rather than as a child, as an adult I was captivated and electrified.
This particular Dulac lives in my head rent-free. I want a cover in this style sooo bad.
This particular Dulac lives in my head rent-free. I want a cover in this style sooo bad.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
For today's #Bookvember, I want to say it's the whole ouvre of that late 19thC/early 20thC "Golden Age of Illustration" style of watercolor. Rather than as a child, as an adult I was captivated and electrified.
This particular Dulac lives in my head rent-free. I want a cover in this style sooo bad.
This particular Dulac lives in my head rent-free. I want a cover in this style sooo bad.
Furthermore, late 20thC neoliberalism and 'free-trade' ideology thrived on a certain stability (obviously stability for some, not everyone!) guaranteed by a global hegemon enforcing a global order. All we have now is growing instability, which will only grow with global politics and climate change!
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Furthermore, late 20thC neoliberalism and 'free-trade' ideology thrived on a certain stability (obviously stability for some, not everyone!) guaranteed by a global hegemon enforcing a global order. All we have now is growing instability, which will only grow with global politics and climate change!
Is this the most beautiful thing @britishmuseum.bsky.social? Whenever I visit, it takes my breath away - pure magic. Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas, 350-300 BC. Exact provenance unclear (unethical trading and collecting practices in the early 20thC). www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Is this the most beautiful thing @britishmuseum.bsky.social? Whenever I visit, it takes my breath away - pure magic. Gold oak wreath with a bee and two cicadas, 350-300 BC. Exact provenance unclear (unethical trading and collecting practices in the early 20thC). www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
The contemporary grift has skewed more towards substandard product, rather than the evangelical pump-&-dumps popular in the late 20thC. Graphic t-shirts (Nine Line), bedding (MyPillow), phones (Patriot Mobile) etc. Same playbook, though. Black Rifle is sort of an exception that proves the rule:
yeah idk about that shop in particular but black rifle as a company got burned HARD by leaning too far into the right-wing paramilitary grievance stuff: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Black Rifle Coffee Distances Itself from Extremists, Including Some Who Loved Their Brand
The company had to deliberately state what kind of followers wouldn't be tolerated: extremists.
www.military.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The contemporary grift has skewed more towards substandard product, rather than the evangelical pump-&-dumps popular in the late 20thC. Graphic t-shirts (Nine Line), bedding (MyPillow), phones (Patriot Mobile) etc. Same playbook, though. Black Rifle is sort of an exception that proves the rule:
I write Victorian/e.20thC and medieval-based horror because the old is what I've studied. But where I write modern things, it's always the unfathomable old reaching out, reminding us of other forgotten ways of seeing the world, which our ancestors were better placed to survive...
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
So what does it say about us, as the folklore evolves, and we fear new things, in the dark...
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I write Victorian/e.20thC and medieval-based horror because the old is what I've studied. But where I write modern things, it's always the unfathomable old reaching out, reminding us of other forgotten ways of seeing the world, which our ancestors were better placed to survive...
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
Another bit of Halloween reading that I was very happy to pick up for 1€ since I've been on the lookout for a while: Gustav Meyrink's The White Dominican (1921). Lots of esoteric transmigration-of-the-soul stuff cobbled up with vague early-20thC European notions of Buddhism.
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Another bit of Halloween reading that I was very happy to pick up for 1€ since I've been on the lookout for a while: Gustav Meyrink's The White Dominican (1921). Lots of esoteric transmigration-of-the-soul stuff cobbled up with vague early-20thC European notions of Buddhism.
Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!