Register entry for joining a livery company.

And why are you doing it at the criminal court? So many questions about you, Sproston.

In the eighteenth century you could send an application letter/example of your work, written in alternating sizes and scripts, like a sampler. Saw one once in the royal archives. Wished he’d gotten more work in government, tbh.

Yes yes love him or hate him. Yes yes academia is a cult of sublimated seeking of parental approval. Whatever, this comment on a seminar paper meant the goddamn world to me in the moment!

Alt text: images of small rooms crowded to the roof with fragments and plaster casts of classical sculpture.

Just left! NB: you probably already know, but a lot of the prize papers have been pulled by staff so it takes a little longer and a special request to access them right now.

War of Jenkins’s Ear book dad

Two of the best I’ve seen recently are Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s “Never Been Caught” and John Wood Sweet’s “Sewing Girls Tale”

With the possible exception of that time George Allen’s mom described the city as being like “if Paris farted.”

So while I absolutely agree that we need to crack the rich open and get back the unfair share of wealth that they’ve taken from us, we need to factor in that we’re building a new thing. That old system only looks sustainable with smoke and mirrors and selective forgetting.