I think this blog needs to make a come back.

Omg!!! I'm so happy for you. You are well on your way to a good and well-deserved life. I wish you the best on your future endeavors!! Good luck and congrats :)

Thank you for your kind words. Here’s to the future :) I am very excited (and scared) but I will just have to take each day as it comes. I’m excited to start posting on here more again too, so let me know if you have any requests. Again, thank you!

Thank you for your stimulating blogs!

No problem. More to come in the future :)

The Future...

Well..hello....again. I’m useless. Here’s an update on my life and the future of this blog. The future looks bright! I finished my MA in Jewish History and Culture with Distinction so that was good news. My dissertation focused on Yiddish theatre in London and was well received. As a result, I now intend to continue my research at PhD level :D Very exciting. I start in October. I am really hoping I can find some funding as I need to use archives in New York but we will see.

My other news: I now work at the British Museum!! I started just over one month ago and it has been intense but rewarding. The collection includes some amazing objects and being able to work around them is great. I hope to post some pictures of my favourite items over time.

Final point - I’m hoping to start writing more blogs on here as well as posting. I have so much to say about the world of the arts/culture/heritages and academia. I want to share my research progress as well as topics I wish to discuss.

I hope you are all still well. It’s great to be back.

Santa and friends at Panama City Beach, Florida, 1962

Source: State Library and Archives of Florida.

1950s-1980s

You Better Not Cry

All they want for Christmas is a hug — just not from Santa Claus.

Read the article here.

A lovely early 19th century torador matchlock musket.  Originates from India.

1969

Well, this is awkward.

Even the Swingin’ Sixties had gawky teen dances.

by Chris Wild

Read the article here.

Halloween Precautions, c. 1910s

Source: New York Public Library.

A Traditional Irish Halloween Mask from the Early 20th Century

Source: Museum of Country Life, Ireland.

The dead outside National Palace during one of the outbreaks of the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City, c. 1913 Source: Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library.

On This Day in 1862, Henry Mosler wrote about the Battle of Perryville in his diary. He wrote, “In the evening Col Blake Cotton and myself went out to view the Battlefield which was a sight that I have not the power to express we where also at the Hospital where about 200 wounded where lying suffering some crying Oh Mother Oh! Doctor Oh! give me some water, enough to make any one feel the terror of this war.”

This diary is currently on view in our exhibition "A Day in the Life: Artists’ Diaries from the Archives of American Art."

For more on Henry Mosler’s Civil War diary, visit our digital exhibition http://civilwardiary.aaa.si.edu/

Henry Mosler Civil War diary, 1862. Henry Mosler papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The Battle of Perryville, Found October 8, 1862 by Henry Mosler

ON THIS DAY: 10th October 1471 - The Battle of Brunkeberg The Battle of Brunkeberg was fought on 10 October 1471 between the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Elder and forces led by Danish King Christian I.

1885: Bullfight Poster

Source

Front page of London's Intelligencer weekly newspaper during the height of the English Civil War, October 1643

Source: The National Archive UK.

In honor of National Coffee Day, here’s a coffee service given to President Ford by Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik of Denmark on May 10, 1976.

This Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Colonial Coffee-service includes a coffee pot with lid, a creamer, a sugar bowl with lid, four coffee cups, four coffee saucers, and a serving tray. Each item features the silhouette of an American Patriot such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. Additionally, each piece has a tortoise shell glaze and a gold band around the bottom, with a gold grapevine inlay around the top. 

With the exception of the added silhouettes, this coffee set is an exact replica of one designed and produced by the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory in 1782. The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory designed the Colonial Coffee-service in commemoration of the American Bicentennial and the factory’s bicentennial.

The first anthropomorphic diving suit.  Invented by Alphonse and Theodore Carmagnolle of Marsailles, France, circa 1882.