Daily Mirror, England, April 23, 1927

the thing no one warns you about majoring in history is by the time you’ve graduated you’ve barely even scratched the surface of your discipline, and apparently, you’re just supposed to accept that??

thanks youtube, you understand me

it’s good

— opening sentence in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (via andlohespoke)

✧ Edwardian Era Spam [3/25]✧

Street photography in London between 1905 and 1908 by Edward Linley Sambourne.

The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, April 6, 1894

S H Ę !!!

That is a Suebian knot which was the most popular hairstyle for centuries for pastoral (not hunter gatherer) Germanic warriors fighting the Roman Empire.  

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Edinburgh, Scotland (by Graham S Paton)

Daily Mirror - Wednesday 19 October 1938

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The Princess Bride (1987) Pride and Prejudice (2005) Jane Eyre (2011) Outlaw King (2018) Ophelia (2018) Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Obligatory Halloween reblog.

*flirts with you by offering to download academic articles for you using my institutional access*

i'll never forget this girl in undergrad who once told me that she never reads parentheticals because "if they were important the writer wouldn't have put them in parentheses." chilling.

#Oh grug  #We’re really in it now

The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”