Under Mussolini, Italian motherhood was supposed be streamlined, rationalized, and run along the lines of a factory. The poor and the unmarried, especially, were propagandized and guided towards clinics called Casas della Madre e del Bambino. bit.ly/3qRy8l2

One DAY until the submission deadline 👀

2020 language has so infected my brain I keep referring to my 19th c actors as have "in-person" versus "remote" meetings with each other in this dissertation chapter 🙈

Every Morris (bot?) says happy spring

this comment a British ambassador made about British merchants in China in the 1860s remains one of my fav historical burns: "They are like spoiled children who cry for the moon and scream at their nurses because they don’t get it"

After six years of grad school I have concluded there are only two ways to write an introduction, the Jane Austen way (it is a truth universally acknowledged) and the Monty Python way (our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise, our two weapons, etc, etc)

One of my favorite things I've recently learned is that some British traders got around the EIC monopoly in China by getting appointed ambassador of a random European country and claiming diplomatic immunity