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Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction book about the museum's many ghosts. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Represented by Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
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@noahangell.bsky.social
· Apr 1
Paperbacks arrived this morn, and I'm happy to report that they're beauties!!! 👻🏛️🌷🌸
Liner notes remain among the highest forms of literature.
January 26, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Liner notes remain among the highest forms of literature.
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Shrine of a local deity, northern China, c.1905, by Missionary Arthur H Smith
January 25, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Shrine of a local deity, northern China, c.1905, by Missionary Arthur H Smith
🙏 🙏 🙏
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
🙏 🙏 🙏
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As I wait for the oncoming winter storm to hit Atlanta, here's a haunting swing tune by Ken Snakehips Johnson. Snakehips was a Black swing band leader in 1930s London who died on stage at the Cafe de Paris during the Blitz and his ghost is said to haunt the building.
youtu.be/SySgcMRW0XQ?...
youtu.be/SySgcMRW0XQ?...
Blow, blow, thou winter wind - Ken "Snakehips" Johnson and his West Indian Orchestra (1940)
YouTube video by Julian Dyer
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January 23, 2026 at 11:32 PM
As I wait for the oncoming winter storm to hit Atlanta, here's a haunting swing tune by Ken Snakehips Johnson. Snakehips was a Black swing band leader in 1930s London who died on stage at the Cafe de Paris during the Blitz and his ghost is said to haunt the building.
youtu.be/SySgcMRW0XQ?...
youtu.be/SySgcMRW0XQ?...
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"History will not look kindly upon______"
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
January 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"History will not look kindly upon______"
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait
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Please help
Thank you
Thank you
January 19, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Please help
Thank you
Thank you
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Excited to share this event honoring the first Virginia folk performer to get an Encyclopedia Virginia entry, Texas Gladden. We will share lots of music from the archive & have ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle speak to her influence in her work.
Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Excited to share this event honoring the first Virginia folk performer to get an Encyclopedia Virginia entry, Texas Gladden. We will share lots of music from the archive & have ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle speak to her influence in her work.
Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
Texas Gladden & the Art of Appalachian Ballads
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the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands the release of Lakota men detained by ICE
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has demanded the Department of Homeland Security release tribally enrolled citizens held by ICE, according to a statement released by the tribe.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died
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🚨🇵🇸 NEW | SOUTHERN GAZA
Satellite imagery shows Israeli forces building a military site over Al-Hajj Mohammed Cemetery in Ma’an, east of Khan Younis — after bulldozing the graves.
Even the dead are not spared.
War on life. War on memory.
Satellite imagery shows Israeli forces building a military site over Al-Hajj Mohammed Cemetery in Ma’an, east of Khan Younis — after bulldozing the graves.
Even the dead are not spared.
War on life. War on memory.
January 11, 2026 at 9:34 PM
🚨🇵🇸 NEW | SOUTHERN GAZA
Satellite imagery shows Israeli forces building a military site over Al-Hajj Mohammed Cemetery in Ma’an, east of Khan Younis — after bulldozing the graves.
Even the dead are not spared.
War on life. War on memory.
Satellite imagery shows Israeli forces building a military site over Al-Hajj Mohammed Cemetery in Ma’an, east of Khan Younis — after bulldozing the graves.
Even the dead are not spared.
War on life. War on memory.
"Treasure hunter"? They really think we're stupid. A former curator took nearly 2k artefacts 2.5 years ago and they're looking for a "treasure hunter" now?
January 11, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"Treasure hunter"? They really think we're stupid. A former curator took nearly 2k artefacts 2.5 years ago and they're looking for a "treasure hunter" now?
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They’re the same picture.
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
They’re the same picture.
bell hooks and I share a birthday
so nice to see 🙏
so nice to see 🙏
My in-laws gave me a book voucher for Christmas and I'm very happy with the resulting haul. Mostly non-fiction but I couldn't resist the title and premise of Shy Trans Banshee!
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
bell hooks and I share a birthday
so nice to see 🙏
so nice to see 🙏
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My in-laws gave me a book voucher for Christmas and I'm very happy with the resulting haul. Mostly non-fiction but I couldn't resist the title and premise of Shy Trans Banshee!
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
My in-laws gave me a book voucher for Christmas and I'm very happy with the resulting haul. Mostly non-fiction but I couldn't resist the title and premise of Shy Trans Banshee!
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New article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.
January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
New article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.
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"Reclaiming Durham's Narrative: Scholarship, Service, and the Spirit of Dr. Moore," January 22, 2026, 12-1:30 pm. Panel on Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore, physician, educator, civic visionary, and founder of the Durham Colored Library. Open to public.
Reclaiming Durham's Narrative: Scholarship, Service, and the Spirit of Dr. Moore
Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall
114 South Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27708
Program: Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore—physician, educator, civic...
duke.libcal.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:25 PM
"Reclaiming Durham's Narrative: Scholarship, Service, and the Spirit of Dr. Moore," January 22, 2026, 12-1:30 pm. Panel on Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore, physician, educator, civic visionary, and founder of the Durham Colored Library. Open to public.
While it's true that the EU has had ample time to prepare for the US' belligerence, I don't really understand this willful blindness with regard to Europe: Europe helped to destroy intl law in Palestine, and literally yesterday France & the UK bombed Syria.
The problem isn't that Europeans don't understand that Trump's foreign policy is fundamentally kleptocratic, or neo-patrimonial, or neo-Royal, or whatever one wants to call it.
The problem is that they don't have a lot of good options for how to respond.
The problem is that they don't have a lot of good options for how to respond.
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
January 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
While it's true that the EU has had ample time to prepare for the US' belligerence, I don't really understand this willful blindness with regard to Europe: Europe helped to destroy intl law in Palestine, and literally yesterday France & the UK bombed Syria.
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Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...
US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...
US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
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Some great sea stars. For the slime star Pteraster? Also a polycheate at the base of the one all puffed up. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 888 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Some great sea stars. For the slime star Pteraster? Also a polycheate at the base of the one all puffed up. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 888 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
The discourse around the Bayeux tapestry's "return" echoes repatriation discourses, in a way that reminds me of how pro-Brexit ideologues co-opted the language of (anti-British) independence movements.
Is most of the insurance in case the British Museum won’t give it back?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Bayeux tapestry to be insured for £800m for British Museum exhibition
The 70-metre-long cloth about the Norman invasion has not been seen in England since it was created in 11th century
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The discourse around the Bayeux tapestry's "return" echoes repatriation discourses, in a way that reminds me of how pro-Brexit ideologues co-opted the language of (anti-British) independence movements.
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How did the rapper, still omnipresent three decades after his death, come to rest in a Lumberton grave? Journalist Jeff Pearlman went down to Robeson County to find out.
The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
How did the rapper, still omnipresent three decades after his death, come to rest in a Lumberton grave? Writer Jeff Pearlman finds out.
www.theassemblync.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
How did the rapper, still omnipresent three decades after his death, come to rest in a Lumberton grave? Journalist Jeff Pearlman went down to Robeson County to find out.
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"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control."
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
hyperallergic.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control."
British Museum fully delulu good lord
British Museum fully delulu good lord