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🐟 For over 100 years the Herring Girls were the backbone of the UK’s fishing industry. Now funding has been secured for a joint project to capture their stories. Highland Archives Suffolk Archives Norfolk Record Office Museum & Tasglann  📰: hlh.scot/4fl4lIN

I am tip-toeing onto Substack (of course). I'll be sending a scrapbook to your inbox -- not too much writing, just a little glimpse at interesting things I see as I flip pages (digitally and IRL) during research. Please subscribe! lyndsiebourgon.substack.com

PSA: It might feel like 18 Brumaire but it's 15 Brumaire (turkey).

I decided to watch this vlog and I started sobbing 10 minutes in

hating snow because you “have to drive in it” proves that the car owner mindset destroys your innate connection to nature and shatters any sense of wonder you may have at the phenomenon of existence. owning a car depletes your soul

Reviewing the ancient Brehon laws of Ireland before parliament, Mr. Blennerhassett explained, “for one cause, and one cause only, could a tenant be evicted—namely, in the words of the code, "for a crime against humanity; for shutting his door against the hungry, the wounded or

I would have been a great millennial. I would work at i-D and my friends would work at vice and buzzfeed news and we’d write listicles and twitter was at its prime. Unfortunately, I was too busy being in the sixth grade to participate.

seeing now that only one man is divinely ordained to play luigi but he happens to be 84 years old at this point in time

got told jimmy carter died and my first response was “really?!” and i immediately thought of this scene in derry girls

This is coined, "Theme Park Urbanism", where vacation destinations, like Disney World, provide the average American with a walkable environment they can only associate with vacation, and never with their own neighborhood.

Okay, Concord MA is really just showing off with this “local authors” shelf

I learn so much from novels. Types of knots, types of boats, types of whales, parts of whales, methods for processing whales, what can be made from whale, shape of whale, what the whale did, the whale's likely motivation, color of said whale, metaphysical ramifications of said co

the iliad is about a lot of things—everything, really—but i think emily wilson is right that it’s mainly about this

Outer Hebrides Heritage Services are looking for photographs of emigrants for an exhibition to be held in June. Do you have photos of ancestors who emigrated from Lewis, Harris, Uist, Benbecula or Barra? Details: outerhebridesheritage.org.uk/discover/call-…

I’ve been meaning to acknowledge this for a while but it really is an excellent sign.

guy who’s never heard of the New Deal:

It’s happened so many times now it’s almost funny but the Ferret can’t write a story about industrial peat extraction without using a photo of hand cut domestic peat.

St. Andrew’s University in Scotland has a centuries-old legend about a student who is struggling to write an essay, when the actual devil appears and hands him the essay fully written, if you were wondering how people in the past would have felt about cheating with AI.

What lack of exposure to the humanities does to a motherfucker