Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

these three ghosts could've been an email

I got one of those cat toy phone clips for Christmas and a couple of glasses of champagne later...

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

We see him when he's sleeping (at cabinet meetings), we know when he's awake (whining about late night comedy).

Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar, Day 24: TWENTY-FOUR DRESSES ENTERED THE RING BUT ONLY ONE IS THE MOST CHRISTMASIEST OF ALL: tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 24: Ice, princess?! November 1947 bride Princess Elizabeth wore a fringe tiara made in 1919 by E. Wolff & Co. for Garrard, using diamonds from Queen Mary's wedding tiara. Her daughter Princess Anne and granddaughter Princess Beatrice wore it for their own weddings. ❄️

So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov): 18% approve, 66% disapprove

Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married! The pair first met in 2024 during Milan Fashion Week-at an event neither was originally supposed to attend-and got engaged on a trip to Tuscany in January of the following year.❤️

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 23: Frozen fractals swirl on this embroidered raw silk gown and 16-foot train made by Brussels couture house G. Valens and worn by Marie-Caroline Lefevre, the daughter of Belgian Prime Minister Theo Lefevre, at her December 1970 wedding to Toni Van De Wiele in Ghent.

The first thing on this list should be a skirt. It's a guaranteed patdown. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/...

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

One thing I didn’t see coming - the political urgency of art historical awareness in Trump 2.0

"Humans have been wearing forms of extensions throughout history and across cultures since the dawn of time. Look at the damn dollar bill—George Washington is giving Marilyn Monroe.” www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/hair/...

ChatGPT could NEVER.

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 22: Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones wed gallerist Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal by candlelight in London in December 2006. Her "something borrowed"? In her hair, the Diamond Flower Brooches her father, Lord Snowdon, gave his first wife, Princess Margaret, as a wedding gift.

During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and exaggerated gestures. ❄️⛷️☃️

So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively

People often ask me how I come up with ideas for books and articles. The answer is always the same: "I stumbled across it while I was busy researching something else entirely."

Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 21: Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen wed in December 1985 at a friend's home in Beverly Hills, CA. Per UPI, the bride wore a silk gown "of her own design, trimmed with white fox fur and laden with pearls and heart-shaped crystals" and an icicle-like headdress.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

Faith in my fellow Americans: restored.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Doing your holiday shopping this weekend? Prices for many of the most popular holiday gifts have risen an average of 26% since last year — nearly 9 times the rate of inflation. Meanwhile, Trump’s personal net worth has soared by at least $3 billion this year. Priorities.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 20: Jane McNeill, a former model for Norman Hartnell, wore a gown of snowy lace woven with silver thread to echo the mayflower pattern of her tiara designed by his rival Hardy Amies when she wed the Earl of Dalkeith in Edinburgh's St. Giles Cathedral in January 1953.

Kerry Kennedy — Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter and RFK Jr.’s sister — says she’s going to grab a pickax as soon as Trump’s term is over and take his name off the Kennedy Center.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

The three Westwood boys in 1807, dutifully remaining in pose although dog has just arrived with a dead bird for their attention. By Joshua Johnson, whose day is today.

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 19: When model June Cooper, a former Miss England, became Mrs. Peter Purkis in London in December 1962, a frosty gale caught her white gown and veil and sent them skyward in a flurry of satin and tulle.

Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory. If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.

Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

BREAKING: Kennedy Niece Maria Shriver: "It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

FFS

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, looking just insanely dashing as painted by Paul van Somer. Today is his day.

#WinterWeddingAdventCalendar Day 18: Edna Hoyt wed Harry B. Rogers in November 1888 at her parents' home in New Canaan, CT. Her silk gown, now in the New Canaan Museum, is exquisitely embroidered with flowers worked in crystalline silver and glass beads that make it sparkle as if rimed with frost.

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Every few years or so we hear about a new female speech pattern (vocal fry, uptalk) to which we are invited to object. It doesn't take very long to determine that what these people are actually objecting to is that women are speaking at all.