Hannah Rose Woods
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Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain @PenguinUKBooks . Pieces @NewStatesman @nytimes @lrb . Nostalgic for Old Twitter
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Some news! I’m so excited to announce my next book — BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, a history of students in modern Britain, coming soon..
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@ProfileBooks
has snapped up a new history of British universities by historian Hannah Rose Woods, the author of Rule, Nostalgia (W H Allen) 👇
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Feel quite strongly that this isn’t a normal sword
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Can I absolutely blow your mind by explaining that these are both photos of now
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Might dress up as a statue so someone takes my safety seriously
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Paddington they’re wearing bearskins
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Wow it’s crazy how diseases can also go viral
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I’ll do you a deal Edwina, if you sell me your house at its 1980s value adjusted for inflation, I will slowly pay you back at 16% interest and not complain about it
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I am begging you to think for a moment about your experience of using doors
The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back
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My career ambition is achieve a level of authority where I can quietly pet my dog in professional settings like Michael D Higgins
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So just to check: sitting in a room with people is not safe until there’s a card reader
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As a child I thought these would play a larger part in my adult life
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Why would anyone do this, you irredeemable cunt
The iconic Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall Path in Northumberland has been felled overnight.
We're waiting more information on this.
Pics - Amanda Marks, Author, Facebook.
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I was there 3000 years ago, when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the strength of men failed
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I’m 31 and sincerely trying to remember a single good economic thing in my entire adult life
🚨NEW 🚨
Bank of England says UK households must brace themselves for the biggest annual fall in their standard of living since comparable records began three decades ago, as it:
- Raises interest rates to 0.5%
- Says inflation will surpass 7%
- Slashes GDP forecast
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You try to make one special Mother’s Day breakfast 28 years ago and she will not let you forget it
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What's the naughtiest thing you've done?
PM: Jog through some wheat?
Eight hours later-
PM: Also I'll probably take away your human rights
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Obsessed with this Truman quote about Robert Oppenheimer
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The Daily Mail thinks Germans use scientific language rather than war metaphors to describe coronavirus because they *lost the Second World War*
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Just off to an abandoned foyer for some normal standing with the boys
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My new hero is Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars as a PhD student but was uncredited when the Nobel Prize was given to her male colleagues. She spent the next 50 years winning every other award in physics and donating the money to fund PhDs for underrepresented groups
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I love the scene in The Sound of Music where Captain Von Trapp rips the Telegraph Politics logo in half
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Hoarse from shouting that the reason I’m Generation Rent and not Generation Buy is that no one will accept I’m capable of monthly mortgage repayments, despite a decade-long history of paying twice that each month in rent, so I’ve had to keep paying twice that each month in rent
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Today I learnt that in 1995 Iggy Pop reviewed Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for peer-reviewed academic journal Classics Ireland
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Six years ago I incorrectly answered a question on University Challenge about which Napoleonic victory inspired a chicken dish — which my mother regularly cooks — and she still rinses me for it
(It’s Marengo)
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My aesthetic is Edwardian feminists intimidating children.
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I am still genuinely trying to get my head around the social structure the Met have pretended to want in which bus drivers are the fourth emergency service providing immediate on-the-ground arbitration between citizen rights and state powers
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It took Hannah Arendt an entire book to explain the banality of evil, but it turns out you can do it with a four-letter adverb
BREAKING: Iranian missile attack only resulted in Iraqi casualties
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Do you remember when the line was that rail workers were paid more than teachers? That was three minutes ago
Teachers going on strike is 'unforgivable' and 'irresponsible' in wake of COVID, says education secretary
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Instinctively this isn’t how I want the Royal Mint to talk to me
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Most people who make fun of the 17th-century mania for tulips
- own zero costly tulips
- have never imported a tulip
- have never participated in an early modern financial bubble
- missed out on pineapple mania and the South Sea and Mississippi companies
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I did not expect the Wikipedia entry for the royal corgis to become this horrifying
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Just goes to show, if you work hard and are careful with your spending, one day you too could have awful grandchildren
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Will you be able to travel quickly by train over long distances? Probably not? But will you be able to access a range of amenities within walking distance in your local area? Also hopefully no. My speech for the Conservative Party Conference
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Sorry about the red tape getting in the way of your inhumanity, but that’s what it’s specifically there for
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I have other, more basic questions about eighteenth-century tanks
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Our landlord came and gifted us with conceptual art.
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I aspire to the vibe of Judith Kerr carrying her enormously fat cat everywhere
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“Mob”
Home Office source: "It is completely unacceptable for a mob to stop the lawful removal of people living in our country illegally. We 100% back the frontline in removing those with no right to be here."
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Once again thinking about how Wells Cathedral used to be painted
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Feel genuinely sad at the terribleness of take
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These are single occupancy toilet stalls, you have lost your minds
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We enter day 3 of not getting any work done because the chief form of entertainment left to us on this island is having a constitutional crisis
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New Enid Blyton just dropped
Five charged with public sex acts after M&S bathroom turns into gay cruising spot
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I prepared, taught and marked an entire 8 week module for £216
Striking lecturers are fattening their wallets at the expense of their own students
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I can’t stop thinking about this line in the Mail
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Finding it very difficult that we’re expected to peaceably coexist with anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to put people on that barge
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*Historians, sobbing* That’s not how history works. That’s not how newspapers work. That’s not how any of this works!
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Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing
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The UK ambassador stayed behind in Kabul to personally process visas for Afghan staff while the government removed information on how Afghans can claim asylum from its website
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I’ve been at my desk since 8am, I’ve barely left the flat all weekend, and I’ve reached the condition of a limp rag. But I’ve just pressed send on a big deadline and I turn 32 tomorrow, please congratulate me on getting there!
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In which our heroine laments that Britain has never come up with an answer to America’s George Orwell
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So you’re saying that at any point we could simply have stopped Johnson by getting him into a room and putting two chairs across the doorway
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Men please don’t take this the wrong way, it’s nice that you’re pleased with your haircuts, but a lot of you looked like attractive and mysterious polar explorers in the before photos
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And as the residents of Kent gazed out upon the sewage-dark sea beyond the razor wire, they felt at last that they were in control
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Ok but Britain introduced the metric system 6 years before EU rules standardised it, and I do feel like I’ve not been hallucinating beer in pints
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Did a wasp write this
Wasps 'could be just as valuable as bees if we give them the chance'
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This is exactly how I imagined Dominic Cummings would sit at a party
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Increasingly troubled by how attractive I find Penny Mordaunt
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It’s not like he’s being even slightly inconsistent, but I can’t bear this “voters are tired of the media focusing on our constant wrongdoing” thing. It’s just very psychologically unpleasant beholding a person this incapable of shame
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Speaking as a woman who hasn’t been hugged in the last eight weeks and is wasting away for lack of human contact, thanks but frankly I would rather die
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My favourite thing about being a historian is the secret Excel table where we keep a running list of whether everything that happens is on the right side or the wrong side
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23,000 civil servants were evacuated to work in hotels in seaside resorts and spa towns Iain
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Do you think we’re ever going to be able to meaningfully fix the damage these people have done, or does the momentum of state collapse just keep rolling at this point
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Can you imagine achieving your wildest dreams while also becoming a millionaire, in a specific way that coincidentally bodies Piers Morgan
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I am experiencing such a powerful wave of visceral revulsion, get these men away from us all
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Absolutely obsessed with this 1960s egg and wine diet
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Every other columnist in the British media walked so Adrian Chiles could run
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Nothing, *nothing* could have prepared me for this Jordan Peterson quote
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Where were you all when I had to pledge service to the monarch each week in a pair of terrible culottes in a portakabin with a woman called Brown Owl
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These days you’ll be arrested and thrown in jail, just for doing coke at the cenotaph and attacking the police
Well, yes, Dougie, that is what happens when they immediately start attacking the police.
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Quietly contemplating the fact that the first Paddington Bear toy was made by his parents as a Christmas present for Jeremy Clarkson
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Wishing an absolutely horrible day to Dr Peter Hilton
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