oh, ENGLAND
Oct. 31st, 2009 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardMy Victorianism prof from last semester, whose specialty is nineteenth-century British politics, is on sabbatical this year (*POUT* I want him for my major advisor...although I'm going to request one of the other British history profs here; my roommate has her for Early Modern England and apparently she is Scottish and adorable and I want to take her for Medieval England next semester) and wrote this piece for the School of Liberal Arts newsletter.
I can just see him dragging his wife into the men's room at the pub in Yorkshire because she just has to see these pictures. (Really, England? In the men's room?)
I feel very England-y right now, having just read Sharpe's Regiment and still in the process of reading Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. And also yesterday having watched the first part of Pillar of Fire in Arab-Israeli Conflict yesterday, in which bagpipes play in Palestine. And some other stuff happens, but I was kind of enthralled by the bagpipes and the kilted Scotsmen.
Am suddenly resisting the urge to try and read one novel for every day of November. I read fast enough that this actually an entirely doable option; I did Sharpe's Regiment in about an hour and a half, two hours, and Stone Butch Blues in about two and a half, three hours. Today.
I can just see him dragging his wife into the men's room at the pub in Yorkshire because she just has to see these pictures. (Really, England? In the men's room?)
I feel very England-y right now, having just read Sharpe's Regiment and still in the process of reading Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. And also yesterday having watched the first part of Pillar of Fire in Arab-Israeli Conflict yesterday, in which bagpipes play in Palestine. And some other stuff happens, but I was kind of enthralled by the bagpipes and the kilted Scotsmen.
Am suddenly resisting the urge to try and read one novel for every day of November. I read fast enough that this actually an entirely doable option; I did Sharpe's Regiment in about an hour and a half, two hours, and Stone Butch Blues in about two and a half, three hours. Today.