Hannah Rose Woods
@hannahrosewoods.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
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In "Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality", Ferdinand Mount draws on literature and history to reclaim the power of emotion in an age of irony, writes Hannah Rose Woods.
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In defence of sentimentality | The Observer
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November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In "Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality", Ferdinand Mount draws on literature and history to reclaim the power of emotion in an age of irony, writes Hannah Rose Woods.
https://bit.ly/4qMqhTb
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Using my free will on Monday night dinner for one and a glass of 1990 Rivesaltes for pudding
October 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Using my free will on Monday night dinner for one and a glass of 1990 Rivesaltes for pudding
Would like him to have to personally explain this deranged nostalgia for good old-fashioned British football hooliganism to a group of elderly Conservative voters
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Would like him to have to personally explain this deranged nostalgia for good old-fashioned British football hooliganism to a group of elderly Conservative voters
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I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.
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“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history
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This is dreadful news
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is dreadful news
Oh this looks so good
My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.
September 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Oh this looks so good
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when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The idea of inheriting tremendous wealth
What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The idea of inheriting tremendous wealth
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
Transcend your enslavement to the passions and live according to the dictate of reason alone with this one simple trick
By using reason to understand his emotions, the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. His techniques reveal how to prevent emotional hijack:
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https://theatln.tc/hfT0S2m2
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Transcend your enslavement to the passions and live according to the dictate of reason alone with this one simple trick
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Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle
Last year I got into Wikipedia editing a little bit and it's an insane (compliment) community — people really, really take quality, unbiased editing seriously.
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
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In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
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IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
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September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
Morning coffee
September 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Morning coffee
Watering my parents’ greenhouse while they’re on holiday, and it’s just disproportionately nice that their tomato plant has grown a sleeping cat
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Watering my parents’ greenhouse while they’re on holiday, and it’s just disproportionately nice that their tomato plant has grown a sleeping cat
O to meet a nice man in a jumper eating a teacake in a National Trust cafe
Customer feedback this week;
‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’
Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’
Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
September 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
O to meet a nice man in a jumper eating a teacake in a National Trust cafe
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I hate this so much
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I hate this so much
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I also get why holding ministers to higher standards than the previous government is a good look but it would help if the hair-shirtist approach was matched with an ambitious political project because otherwise it just looks like another version of “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.
September 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I also get why holding ministers to higher standards than the previous government is a good look but it would help if the hair-shirtist approach was matched with an ambitious political project because otherwise it just looks like another version of “the beatings will continue until morale improves”.
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Honey, weve all been there.
September 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Honey, weve all been there.
Ought to have mentally prepared myself that I’d be unlocking the cathedral to this
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Ought to have mentally prepared myself that I’d be unlocking the cathedral to this
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When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”