Twitter in the 1400s would be like, 'Whan that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote...'

-'thys ys offensyve; I have a Pox from Raine'
-'Womyn shoulde not read Poetrye'
-'cease frome promoting droghte!!! educate Thyself'
-'BOSOMS IN BYO'

The Sock Which Was

Still my favourite desk in the entire history of desks.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

99 years old today! 🍸🎂🥳💚

Nice thread...

Happy 99th birthday to this charming chappie.

I peaked as a researcher when I visited Brooks's Club in London and found this 1783 wager in their archive.

Well done, Matt! That's great news and well deserved. Pleased for you to get national level recognition.

Can we jump into the sea after every event from now on please? 😍 A fabulous Sunday with Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year.

Comics Life v Real Life

It’s a lager, not a tune.

Pls read/RT why historian, Dr Tony Redding, opposes Norwegian Statkraft’s plans to build a gigantic solar farm near #Sandwich 's Richborough Roman Fort: “perhaps the most symbolically important of all the Roman sites in Britain...'
whitstableviews.com/2024/04/05/stu…
East Kent Mercury

Excellent news!

Perfect setting!

Joy Williams, ever relevant: 'And we must write with a pen—in Mark Twain’s phrase—warmed up in hell.'
Read the full TPR interview for free, below.

Have a good one, folks.

This completely, utterly, unapologetically 100% description of the effect fiction should produce

This is why it’s the last thing Citizen Kane says.