The Dunedin Herald 🫡

Found in a secondhand bookshop today. I used to believe COVID was real, but a book with two subtitles and a review from Claude AI calling it ‘a comprehensive guide to Spiritual Warfare’ can’t be wrong.

"Will Alien Powers Invade the Earth?" We can but hope. Screenprint by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1972. Ref CIRC.538-1972, V & A Museum.

Help I’m trapped in the Metaphor for Colonialism Hotel and roots keep bursting through the floor, obscuring the lists of the dead

William Quartermain's "Aërotransitor” ornithopter of 1887 after attempts to create a motor driven by “gases generated from vegetable products” failed, Quartermain turned to a human-powered flapping mechanism - much to the apparent disdain of his good wife 1/2

'There is Sunshine in the South'. It's currently two degrees in my bit of the South, but then ads don't have to be truthful. Irwin Brown, 1930. Ref E.340-1932, V & A Museum.

Power, the Nerve Centre of London's Underground! Edward Kauffer, 1930 Ref E.3338-1932, V & A Museum.

Evening suit. Aquascutum, London, 1988. Purple and pink wool brocade and shot-silk dinner suit with shot-silk cloak. Ref T.1592:1, V & A Museum.

Hey if anyone in Dunedin knows (or is) Henry Scott, I’ve just found his wallet opposite the Night and Day on Regent Road. Going to take it to the cop shop in Meridian!

PERISTALTICALLY???

Science Teacher Prize goes to the awesome Whaea Nan Walden-Moeung of Wellington East College - she will use money to build an art studio at home! #NZPMSciPrizes

Putting some books into the Little Free Library and I’m pretty sure this thing is about to lunge for my throat

I do want to meet most of them but I do not think they would enjoy the way I would do it

The Atlanta Journal April 15,1918

things went downhill after we invented the wheel. not me though, because the human body doesn't roll as well

(cruelly and knowingly, like a Bond villain with a cat) Your female lead was initially described as a ‘chaos gremlin’ in the outline, was she not?

Is this book actually good or just set in space: the eternal conundrum

Can someone explain what this legislation will mean practically? #kikorangi

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

THE BEST OF THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE 1907

East Oregonian Pendleton Oregon July 01,1925

Hey, anyone have recommendations for a good carpenter’s apron, ideally a full coverage one? I do Not know which are good brands

The Best Of The Outbursts Of Everett True August 07,1922

The Muskogee Times Democrat Muskogee Oklahoma May 27,1916

The Pittsburgh Press April 04,1906

gonna reverse this. an overworked Auckland businesswoman moves to the hamlet of New York City. They are amazed by her "cell phone".

In the romance novel I’m reading, the FMC’s parents can’t contact her because they moved to New Zealand, where we have no cellphone service.

Litter picking and found what I guess is someone's English homework, and enjoy that it's like an angry poem

Battle Creek Enquirer April 11,1919

so uh slazac is exploring generating tumblr style infographics for political propaganda and

step 1 to planning the perfect murder is to ensure that hercule poirot is not currently onboard your vehicle

My Message to the Women of our Nation See Red Women's Workshop, 1979. Ref E.576-2013, V & A Museum.

Crush Anti-Union Laws Poster by Ken Sprague, 1971 Ref E.722-2003, V & A Museum.

*legally can't transition unless you are a straight woman* why are all these transgenders lying to doctors about being straight?? mysterious. jfc how did this get published

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Really telling that of all the political analysis about the defeat of Keir Starmer, none addresses this at all. Yet, for a lot of people it really was one of the turning points of his short-lived premiership, and in a lot of cases it is *the thing* that they remember Starmer for

Illustrations from W. Cade Gall's “Future Dictates of Fashion” (1893) In this book he imagines what the coming century of fashion will look like, and gets really fixated on clowns.

Listening to a pretty dreadful romantasy novel and got taken out by the elves controlling the mystical realm of the Midlands… nah then duck there’s owt to do with thy mystic blade in Nottingham

‘Your Britain – Fight for it Now’ 'Clean, airy and well planned dwellings make a great contribution to the Rehousing movement. This is a fine example of a block of workers' flats built in London in 1936.’ Abram Games for ABCA, 1942 Ref E.881-2004, V & A Museum.

I found something extremely cursed in the V & A archive and it’s your problem now (Michael Leonard, 1980)

hate to hand it to the guardian too much but this is very funny

Coronation of King George VI, London Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1937 Ref PH.618-1978, V & A Museum.

Taking Grandad for a Paddle John Heywood, 1982. Ref B.43-2013, V & A Museum.

In November 1911 a crowd of ~3000 people gathered outside Wellington’s DIC department store to view a woman modelling a harem skirt in the display window. As soon as she appeared there was a surge towards the window ‘until the great panes of plate glass vibrated ominously.’ Ref PS.004134, Te Papa.

I love musk flavoured stuff, they’re air fresheners you’re allowed to eat. With a strawberry or a chocolate thing you know what a real strawberry tastes like and can sense a bad one but musk is a flavour made up by 1930s lolly men so they’re all good actually

Portrait of the racing driver and aviator Jill Thomas, 1938. Photo by Madame Yevonde. Ref RPS.3160-2018, V & A Museum.

"This bloke said, 'Do as you're told or you'll be watched 24 hours a day!" The dole shouldn't have snoopers, it's not a crime to want to live decently. Click Click Group, Britain, 1980s. Ref E.71-2026, V & A Museum.

Mourning card for Hercules Nelson, aged one. I couldn't find the cause of death, but I suspect typhoid- the water supply and milk were often contaminated with Salmonella enterica in the 19th century, and was a leading cause of death for children under five. Ref GH002290/4, Te Papa.

A man's tatua- a belt held around the waist and used to carry short-handled weapons. This modern interpretation by Matthew McIntyre-Wilson is made of copper and silver. Ref ME024012, Te Papa.