#obsolete occupations

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Obsolete Occupations: Getting Knocked Up (a queer English custom)

If you regularly research family history, you’ve probably come across occupations which you don’t recognize.  Technology has steadily replaced, and made obsolete, many common jobs our ancestors performed.  Even things which we find quite common today, weren’t at all common back then (if they even existed at all).  For instance, not everyone in eighteenth century England had a clock or watch. This…

Obsolete Occupations: Getting Knocked Up (a queer English custom)

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Obsolete Occupations from the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

In medieval times, many unique jobs, such as Ale-wife and Groom of the Stool, were essential but have since vanished. Discover these obsolet

Stuff you can do if time travel is invented. Just for funzies!

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Written and Illustrated by Oats Redding

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Written and Illustrated by Oats Redding

[theworldisconcrete]

David A Smith - Sign Artist: 'Glass embosser David Smith is one of Britain’s last remaining glass artists. His reverse glass signs and decorative mirrors are a thing of beauty. In this short documentary, Smith takes us behind the scenes of his creative process and offers a fascinating glimpse of his truly masterful technique, bespeaking a level of patience rare, if not extinct, in the productivity-obsessed, multitasking-manic timescale of today.'

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Temujin Doran- 'Facts About Projection' 

"I switch on the neon lights, which turn on like a fruit machine, and then we let the customers in and try to self them embarrassingly overpriced drinks and snacks that apparently can double their enjoyment of the film.”

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Crossing Sweeper, by John Dempsey, c.1820