Apparently a whole swathe of archaeologists got madly misrepresented in a woowoo doco about Atlantis? by being edited so that it seemed they were concurring that Atlantis was even a thing?
I have certainly had the sensation of wishing to hide under the settee when programmes to which I had contributed finally hit the screen, but that was primarily ( Read more... )

Or, confluence of Weird Shit coming up via my Twitter feed today.
Some (apparently) respected, or at least, substantial advance, mainstream-published author has a list of (purportedly) poisonous ingredients put together for a dyeing mixture (I think this is for a poisoned garment - I must say I am not tempted to delve) in a historical novel which ( Read more... )

We are delighted to see that a Real Victorian Historian has been invited to undertake the unsavoury task of reviewing The Victorians by Jacob Rees-Mogg, and that she wields a mighty codfish upon him: In parliament, Rees-Mogg is often referred to as “the honourable member for the 18th century”, a nod to those funny clothes he wears, along with ( Read more... )

Thinking about the recent plagiarism scandal -
Okay, I don't know what a law professor in Brazil earns - and of course, one does not know how much of the surrounding story was true, either - and maybe she was hiring cheapo ghostwriters because her salary would not run to dearer ones (although dearer ones might, we suspect, have cavilled at being ( Read more... )

I returned to A Clutch of Constables, which has a lot of the usual Marsh irksome things - racism is only expressed by the low and the vulgar (in fact is one marker of this) but the only person of colour we see is a dignified middle-class professional, something we have seen before in Dame N's work.

The usual class/gender/sexuality/prejudice against ( Read more... )

- because that word does not have precisely the meaning you want it to.

I am usually irked by those 'Rising Stars' features, because Rising Star = young and photogenic.

But I am particularly aggrieved at the Rising Young Historian featured, who, unlike all the really great young historians I know, is not either struggling to get a job or in a job ( Read more... )

Nadine Dorries MP has opined that ‘if a stronger just say no message was given to children** in school there might be an impact on sex abuse'.

And while one may feel that she is really a lone dingbat, the article linked suggests that she is Not Without Influence, or indeed, that the current government is not quite so distanced from her as the PM's ( Read more... )

Downing Street forces U-turn on Nadine Dorries abortion proposals: No 10 decides to vote against Tory backbench amendment seeking to stop charities offering abortion counselling.

Meanwhile, Abortion law reform plans criticised by women's groups: Charities and health bodies call on equalities minister to intervene and protect rights of women to get ( Read more... )

Because I have been watching the first part of The Sex Researchers on Channel 4, and pretty much all the total bollox it can get in there, it gets in there.

The horror. The horror.

So very much Doin It Rong.

This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/1457202.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
( Read more... )

I have ranted (surely) before about people who think that because they have never come across [particular thing] before they have made a unique and unprecedented discovery. And while what they may have discovered may not entirely be something that eny fule no, the chances are very strong that when they jump up and down and proclaim about their ( Read more... )