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December 3, 2017 3:15 AM Subscribe
Historian Dr Bob Nicholson complained on twitter about the incorrect use of massive headlines in newspapers in historic dramas such as the recent film The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Dickens writing A Christmas Carol. The tweet went viral and was, ironically featured in a couple of newspaper stories (The Times - firewalled and The Mail) as well as elsewhere. Dr Bob himself recommends this article on Dickens.
Yes, the Victorian pin-ups are really interesting—a good example of how the “ideal” body type changes over time.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 5:23 AM on December 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Pater Aletheias at 5:23 AM on December 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
"Welcome to the smallest hill in willing to die on."
posted by tilde at 5:40 AM on December 3, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by tilde at 5:40 AM on December 3, 2017 [9 favorites]
I saw this and thought that surely American newspapers must have been less staid than the UK ones but no. Here's the New York Times announcing the surrender of Lee and the end of the Civil War.
posted by octothorpe at 6:21 AM on December 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 6:21 AM on December 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
Wow, those classified ad front pages are so weird to my modern eye. Love this twitter thread.
posted by latkes at 7:34 AM on December 3, 2017
posted by latkes at 7:34 AM on December 3, 2017
I also stopped playing Assassin’s Creed Syndicate - a game I had been waiting for for years - when I noticed that there only seemed to be ONE NEWSPAPER for sale in Victorian London.
That's some next-level stickling!
posted by Iridic at 7:50 AM on December 3, 2017 [8 favorites]
Ha, I love that he concludes by saying that the trailer for the P. T. Barnum movie would give him an aneurysm. I saw the trailer last night for the first time and sat in the theater vibrating with quiet fury.
posted by painquale at 10:46 AM on December 3, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by painquale at 10:46 AM on December 3, 2017 [4 favorites]
Someone has to ask; it might as well be me. What's wrong with the trailer to the P.T. Barnum movie?
posted by DanSachs at 11:01 AM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by DanSachs at 11:01 AM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Metafilter: Welcome to the smallest hill I'm willing to die on.
(Not a dig at your post, fearfulsymmetry! I really enjoyed this.)
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:16 AM on December 3, 2017
(Not a dig at your post, fearfulsymmetry! I really enjoyed this.)
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:16 AM on December 3, 2017
My brother can't even watch gladiator movies because of this kind of thing
posted by thelonius at 11:52 AM on December 3, 2017
posted by thelonius at 11:52 AM on December 3, 2017
Are there newspapers in gladiator movies?
posted by octothorpe at 12:26 PM on December 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 12:26 PM on December 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
Charlie Brown's pitcher's mound is the smallest hill I'm willing to die on. And I thank the Los Angeles Times for first introducing me to it, years before the TV shows (and on Page A3).
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:47 PM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:47 PM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Someone has to ask; it might as well be me. What's wrong with the trailer to the P.T. Barnum movie?
Mostly that it's an ahistorical valorization of a fantastically bad man.
For whiplash, listen to this episode of The Dollop before watching the trailer.
posted by painquale at 2:52 PM on December 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Mostly that it's an ahistorical valorization of a fantastically bad man.
For whiplash, listen to this episode of The Dollop before watching the trailer.
posted by painquale at 2:52 PM on December 3, 2017 [2 favorites]
Note: I did pretty much was painquale recommends and...yeah. Um. WHOO-EEEEE. That...is not a movie I'm gonna be going to see!
More on-topic, I pretty much have to follow Historian Scholar twitter for my day job, and I'm genuinely looking forward to all the retweets/discussions of this tomorrow. These small hills to die on delight me.
posted by kalimac at 6:31 PM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
More on-topic, I pretty much have to follow Historian Scholar twitter for my day job, and I'm genuinely looking forward to all the retweets/discussions of this tomorrow. These small hills to die on delight me.
posted by kalimac at 6:31 PM on December 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
I am stunned that it's virtually the same front page of The Times in 1965.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:40 AM on December 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:40 AM on December 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
Are there newspapers in gladiator movies?
You know perfectly well what I mean!
posted by thelonius at 5:46 AM on December 4, 2017
You know perfectly well what I mean!
posted by thelonius at 5:46 AM on December 4, 2017
What's wrong with the trailer to the P.T. Barnum movie?
Well, for starters, Michelle Williams' character looks like she parachuted in from the late 20th c. But apparently that's a style choice the director made.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:50 AM on December 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
Well, for starters, Michelle Williams' character looks like she parachuted in from the late 20th c. But apparently that's a style choice the director made.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:50 AM on December 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
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posted by paduasoy at 3:30 AM on December 3, 2017 [2 favorites]