#Antique

𝕊onja Drimmer

Sonja_Drimmer

Manuscript lesson of the day: anti-theft edition! Here's an inventory of books from St Paul's Cathedral Library, written up in 1458. It is written in the form of a chirograph,

wyatt

Cummymonke

In light of this gay ass incident i will be posting badass toys you can get young boys. THREADhttps://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1335997033749090307 Vintage cap guns that take paper roll caps (not the plastic

iWorkForTheState

JoJorgensenBros

*Thread*Haven't seen many of you talking about H.R.127 - Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.If passed, it's probably one of the most alarming piece of gun legislation I've ever

Χοδαδάδιος Ρεζαχανίδης 🇮🇸🇪🇺

sasanianshah

During my Instagram Live talk this morning, someone asked abt the religious situation in late antique/early Islamic Central Asia & I mentioned this guy’s coins & their mixed religious iconography.

Frank Izaguirre

BirdIzLife

Re: everyone saying there is truly a field guide for everything: you might not know the half of it!In my diss. Intro, I write about how field guides have expanded

🧪AV | 密か 🃏

TheAvtoritet

Know your worth A dying father called his son over to his bedside and presented him with an old watch. He said "Son this is the watch your grandfather gave

David Frum

davidfrum

In the 19th century, genteel Britons began wishing each other "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas" because "merry" was understood to mean "drunk off your face." Worse - per Oxford

Evan Schultheis

EvanSchultheis

Hello everyone and welcome to this part 2 of "what is wrong with this image."For context, here is part 1, which will be important to the rest of this: https://twitter.com/EvanSchultheis/status/1326642087480217601Threadreader

Susan Hennessey

Susan_Hennessey

So a spring must have snapped in the doorknob and I am now fully stuck in my bedroom. It is a weird antique knob. So umm does anyone have ideas?

Ian Janssen 📚🎧🎣

ianfjanssen

Bric-a-brac and memory: I keep this probably well over a century old student's slate in my office. When I was a child in Iowa, we lived across the street from

Ibrahim S. Amin

Ibrahim_S_Amin

Perhaps counterintuitively, the Quran becomes a more interesting book once you accept it's of human rather than divine origin. As a Quranist Muslim, my relationship with the Quran (particularly in

Publicola 🏺

Lucius_Gellius

#Histoire J'ouvre une nouvelle rubrique sur les métiers méconnus de la #Rome #antique: je commence par les "urinatores" ce sont des plongeurs professionnels qui plongeaient en #apnée, et pouvaient descendre

RaigeGames

RaigeGames

Here's a thread comparing the 1908 Sears and Roebuck catalogue to the RDR2 1899 catalogue (physical copy from the collector's box). It's amazing how well the catalogue was replicated! Double

James Harland

DJMHarland

I want to talk a bit about how Dr. Philip A. Shaw of the University of Leicester, primarily a philologist and scholar of onomastics by training, wrote for his PhD

Rushain Abbasi

AbbasiRushain

What would you do if you were allowed to go inside the Kabah? For al-Ḥākim al-Astarābādī, a leading 11th c. Shāfiʿī scholar, this was an opportunity for him to ask

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

This is the excavation site under the #AcropolisMuseum in #Athens. While the museum displays the Classical era - the period most traditionally associated w/ Athens - the excavation below showcases

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