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Wouldn't be quite right to hand in 19, 998 words and my final assessment at York without some commemorative photographs, would it? Here's to a great four years! 🎉 #dissertationhandin (at University of York)

#dissertationhandin

Summery vibes on campus earlier - now into my last few weeks here 🍃 (at University of York)

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When there’s a seat left but someone you hate walks in

When there’s a seat left and bae walks in

When there’s seats left and the squad walks in

#hannibal #laugh rule

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Henry VII: “innovator” or “renovator” of the English monarchy?

In commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Henry VII Mark Horowitz considered the ongoing historiographical debates surrounding his reign: “either the last medieval king or the first modern king,” he wrote, “a renovator following previous modes and methods of ruling… or an innovator”. Did Henry VII merely copy his predecessors, or did he craft his own style of kingship?

Keep Reading at PrimarySourceHistory.com

#henry vii #henry tudor #tudors #history #blog

In the present day the term 'commonwealth' may be used to refer to several things: a republican city-state; the period of time in the seventeenth century when England was without a monarch; or simplu the collection of modern-day nations that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state. These days we take its definition for granted, but a quick look back at its various meanings across the seminal period of the late medieval and early modern periods takes us back to a time when it could and frequently did mean a lot more. ‘Commonwealth’ and the connotations that followed the term was variably a reformist slogan, an ideal worldview, or even part of a defense of the monarchical status-quo.

A quick blog post this week (I didn’t do one last week because I was too busy celebrating my birthday and travelling) that has essentially functioned as a personal recap of all of the reading on early modern ‘commonwealth’ I’ve been doing for my dissertation.

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The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…

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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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I know I’ve reblogged this before but it’s so important.

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Girls like girls like boys do, nothing new I’ve been crossing all the lines, all the lines Kissed your girls and made you cry, boys

this song is grammyworthy bye

#love this song

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What Taylor Swift remembers

it all too well

thinking, “are we out of the woods yet?”

tears streaming down your face when she said she’d never let you go

you said, “don’t leave me here alone.”

you taking a polaroid of us

when we broke up, the first time

that fight, 2:30 a.m.

the swing of your step

the look on your face, lit through the darkness at 1:58

the slamming door and all the things that she misread

you driving to her house in the middle of the night

what you said last night

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my favorite part this episode

#laugh rule

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There are but two forms of criminal justice in your town: capital punishment, or a public scolding from the Duke. It is so very difficult to tell who anyone is if it’s even the least bit dark, or if they are the least bit disguised or veiled, even if they are standing right next to you and you have known them all your life. You have at least one friend named Antonio. You know 46 different words for “boner.”

How to tell if you are in a Shakespearean comedy (via fuckyeahgreatplays)

me: *browsing netflix*

me: *sees tons of new, interesting shows*

me:

me: *rewatches LOST*

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[sees a bamboo plant] this is just like lost [sees a beach] this is just like lost [sees a plane] this is just like lost [sees a series of numbers] this is just like lost [sees chalk] this is just like lost [sees a person named jack] this is just li