Claire C Arnold
@taketothecee
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Historian, 19th c British world. Migration, family life, imperialism, historical gossip. PhD at @NorthwesternU
Chicago, IL
Joined July 2016
From Morris Birkbeck "Notes on a Journey in America," 1818 (3/3).
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though he was served "coffee, rolls, biscuits, dry toast, waffles, pickerall salted (a fish from Lake Huron), veal cutlets, broiled ham, gooseberry pie, stewed currants, preserved cranberries, butter and cheese" so maybe he has a point. (2/3).
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Cross-Atlantic food fights apparently have a long history: an Englishman riding through Ohio in 1817 described American breakfast as "a multifarious collection of discordant dishes" (1/3).
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that, and describing people's health as "as well as can be expected," which, honestly, fair enough.
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If you can count on Victorian letter-writers for one thing, it's a vivid description of their relatives deathbed scenes.
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(obviously since I'm searching from Chicago it gave me the closest options first, but still interesting these all exist).
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well isn't this a fascinating snapshot of where British emigrants may have ended up in the U.S.
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Like if anyone wants to have a seminar where we just talk through different games' versions of the tech tree. .
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Ok this is funny but I'm also kind of seriously interested in how games like Civ and Age of Empires shape people's ideas of historical progress?.
I have over 400 hours of experience playing Civilization V. Vladimir Putin should have known that when his national happiness fell below -20 he would start spawning random insurgents. Here’s what he should do next: 🧵(1/?).
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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.
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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).
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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".
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So nice to know I'm not alone in my struggle with early Colonial Office records: "The practice of registering letters from potential emigrants had ceased by the mid-1830s. For a reason still unexplained some registers for the period 1830-1832 are duplicated.".
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"They do not readily reveal their purpose" is such an elegant way of saying wtf is happening here
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If you're thinking, wouldn't this cause some problems? Yes, yes it does
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One of the strangest facts I've learned while dissertating is that in the 1840s- 60s much of the business done by British merchants in China was actually carried out with Spanish or Mexican currency.
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Every Morris (bot?) says happy spring.
Chronological Order, Pattern 105:. "Spring Thicket", 1894. Wallpaper. J.H. Dearle. Image: Brooklyn Museum
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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 🙈.
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One DAY until the submission deadline 👀.
I'm excited to be organizing a graduate conference with @HistStudiesNU this spring and the submission deadline is in ~two weeks~!! Come talk about commercial networks with me and other talented and thoughtful grad students!
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RT @JSTOR_Daily: Under Mussolini, Italian motherhood was supposed be streamlined, rationalized, and run along the lines of a factory. The p….
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In fascist Italy, childbirth, breastfeeding and motherhood were given a hybrid structure of industrial management and eugenicist biological essentialism.
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