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I always failed it! Went on to be a D3 All-American in XC and track!

But perhaps it’s Ernst!!!!!

Inside The World Of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ An eerie Mia Goth, outlandish costumes and Jacob Elordi as the monster – here’s what to expect from the lavish reimagining of the Gothic classic, heading to Netflix this autumn.

www.vogue.co.uk/article/jaco...

Check out the latest Wollstoneblog post on some of Wollstonecraft’s homes I visted this summer: sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Mediaeval carving of a hare standing upright with a satchel, at the end of a stone arch moulding, with the archway to the left.

Apparently this c.1330 hare with a satchel, in the gorgeous St Mary’s Church, Beverley, was an inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s white rabbit. Just one of the exceptional mediaeval sculptures and carvings in Beverley’s two great churches.

photo of Joan Benoit as she crosses the line at the Olympics. She's a white woman with dark hair and her arms aloft.

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1984, Joan Benoit won the Olympic marathon, the first year a women's marathon was included at the Games.

#OlympicWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

The Anglican churchyard where the 22 year old Wollstonecraft buried her mother, and where they (and later the young Keats) worshipped.

What should our parks and green spaces look like in 2031?

As spotted on London Fields, Hackney, a short walk from Wollstonecraft’s first flat with her friend Fanny and sister Bess, a poster with a Wollstonecraftian-Shelleyan thought experiment, « What should our parks and green spaces look like in 2031 »?

It just goes to show how “Shelley” became a code for all things (supposed or actually) immoral or, even more than Byron himself, all things Byronic or mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Sometimes it was a positive epithet, sometimes a negative one….used regularly in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Battle of Cable Street anti-fascist mural—for the people of East London—giving major Wollstonecraft and Orwell vibes!

Check out this fascinating paper by my colleagues Erin Rossiter and Jeff Harden. Such a cool design and interesting findings. Plus, Taylor!

Found Wollstonecraft’s home circa 1774

Found Wollstonecraft’s home circa 1774–and Shoreditch is just as cool as it was in the run-up to the American Revolution.

Here’s a direct link: www.jstor.org/stable/1519929

Congratulations! Will cite! Here’s an oldie but goodie from AJPS in 2004 on Wollstonecraft’s 19th c. philosophical reception in America. Free PDF: cooperative-individualism.org/botting-eile...

Probably should have said “socialist” but maybe Edith was in the Fabian tradition and “social” sounded more familiar? Great find!

She really is Lady Macbeth.

Boy am I glad I made the detour to get 3.4 oz TSA compliant sensodyne before going through security at BGR. Just saw a 10 yo girl get her 4 oz pricey hair gel thrown out.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. —Bette Davis

Discovery of 178-Year-Old Baptist Antislavery Document Elates Faith Leaders

Discovery of 178-Year-Old Baptist Antislavery Document Elates Faith Leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

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Amazing new John Locke ms discovery!!! www.the-tls.com/history/to-s...

Kennedy’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s

God bless Peanut M&Ms. Kennedy’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

Opinion | Blake Lively vs. the ‘Misogyny Slop Ecosystem’

Please Believe Women, Don’t Perpetuate Patriarchy. Blake Lively vs. the ‘Misogyny Slop Ecosystem’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

Jurassic World Rebirth is a return to the Spielberg themes of the 80s—all the way down to goony friendship, cute mutants, and poetic justice for greedy corporate types, litterers, and other cruel disrupters of the environment.

You would like ‘After London’—it imagines post-industrial, post-capitalist London as an ancient toxic swamp, then imagines possible new societies rooted in medieval communalism.

Listened to Butler’s ‘Erewhon’ in the car yesterday—it is at once a bizarre harangue against modernity and a futuristic prediction of what evolution and technology will bring in the form of conscious and intelligent machines. The “book of machines” is the most ingenious part.

The book is so weird—but in a good way!

Live Updates: Sean Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges

We live in a corrupt and patriarchal society. Women’s rights are not respected. Live Updates: Sean Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Listening to ‘After London’ as I drive cross country. @maskofanarchy.bsky.social did you know there is a Byronic character named Sir Oliver?? And his brother Sir Felix is suspiciously Shelleyan.

On left, Milton on nature inscribed on gate to Indiana Dunes State Park (now a national park). On right, Nature.

He insisted it was a common first name around here. His grandfather was named Byron.