An old hook I found when mudlarking on the banks of the River Thames a few years ago.
Here’s to you, A Handful of History - 5 creative things on history I thought were worth sharing. Enjoy!
This video reminds me of my MUDLARKING-days on the banks of the River Thames in London a few years ago. (Oooh, how I miss travelling!) I found the hook you see in the photo above - it must be at least hundreds of years old!
MONSTERS AND RACISM. I’ve just started following the tv-series ‘Lovecraft Country’ (HBO) about a young black man who travels across the segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father. We learn about the racist terrors of white America of the 1950s - which was absolutely awful. But also aliens and monsters turn up - which is highly entertaining (and a bit scary too). The series is inspired by (history and) the American writer of weird and horror fiction, H.P. Lovecraft. I definitely recommend it.
CAVE PAINTINGS. In September 1940 a young man and his dog accidentally found a cave in the southwest of France. Inside were numerous wall paintings - all c. 17.000 years old. This animated 8-minute long video tells the story …and reflects on how we humans, even when separated from each other in time and space, are not all that different from each other.
October 9 this year JOHN LENNON would have turned 80. To mark the event, Sean Ono Lennon interviews his half-brother, Julian Lennon, as well as Paul McCartney and Elton John at BBC Radio 2. And at Sothesby’s you can get the real thing - a pair of John Lennon’s iconic round spectacles which he, back in 1965, gave to his housekeeper’s brother who was going to a fancy-dress party.
‘The Declaration of Independence’, the ‘Boston Tea Party’, the ‘Founding Fathers’, and more. Over at HISTORY HEROES, they are trying to make US history a bit more interesting, as they say, and in my opinion, they fully succeed. Historical events and figures are presented in short entertaining cartoon-videos - and P.S. They also sell merchandise.
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Majken xx
‘No book and very idle’, ‘continuous silly behaviour in class’, ‘denying an offence committed’, ‘late + complete idleness’ - John Lennon’s detention sheet, Quarry Bank high school, 15 March to 18 May, 1954. (Photograph: Sotheby’s.)
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