Joe Dragovich

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History writer, digital archive nerd. Words in @HistoryToday and @SDTimes.

Author of Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption, and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang. https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst

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I'm thinking about applying to be a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Are there any current fellows out there willing to sponsor an independent scholar who's recently published a book (i.e. me)? 🗃️ #c18th

"All those public service cuts will be lost in time, like tears in the rain..."

These aren't the snacks I would choose while reading my book, but if my readers enjoy them, I'm not going to judge...

I've been reading a bunch of short stories researching a project and I know that I'm almost 30 years late for this but... The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is an amazing collection!

I'm writing an article about the 80s and I lost a whole evening trying to solve my daughter's rubik's cube. It's not procrastination, its method #writing!

I love it when a news article references EP Thompson and food riots. Great article in The Economist on #inflation www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Is inflation morally wrong?www.economist.com Workers think so. Economists disagree

I *really* wish that people would stop claiming to have statistically derived universal human experience... www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passeswww.bbc.com Pre-modern states and civilisations became more prone to collapse as time passed – a pattern that holds lessons for today's ageing global powers.

Question for the intellectual historians out there: Do we see anything similar to the idea of authenticity (similar to that expressed by Sartre and Adorno, and practiced by music cultures like punk and hip hop) pre 20th century? 🗃️

The account of the smuggler's murders in the 1740s has been print for centuries. Joanna Davies is selling the latest reprint in her ebay shop! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12560600...

Sell your truck, get gas money! This is a spam message I got on LinkedIn today. Don't think you can pay me enough to do this...

Somehow, this guy's parents knew he was an elite cyclist...

Great Blog post from the National Archives about a little island that appeared and disappeared in the 14th century. Really interesting to see how the British coastline is constantly changing. 🗃️ beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Ravenser Oddbeta.nationalarchives.gov.uk Ravenser Odd was a short-lived island in the mouth of the River Humber. It rose from the sea in the early 13th century and had sunk beneath the waves again by 1360. Documents at The National Archives ...

Any historians out there have any advice for conducting a phone interview with a source? I'm talking to a person about something that happened in the mid 1980s. 🗃️

Me at the start of a #Stellaris game vs. Me at the end of a Stellaris game.

Most of your ideas are bad. So have lots of them, and try to pick the good ones.

Man... the Reagan Library has a hell of a 404 page... 😬

A very good example of why digital archives are great, but you still need to keep the originals. From the Reagan Presidential Library's papers of Michael Deaver. #archives #digitization

Great review of my book, Hawkhurst by Captain James Bollinger. Check it out. Captain James is running a pretty cool local history YouTube channel! #kent #sussex #localhistory youtu.be/3c3EdSjrtNc?...

The Sussex Smuggler Book Review. Hawkhurst by Joseph Dragovich.youtu.be 📚 Dive into the shadows of history with our latest book review! 🕵️‍♂️ Join us as we explore the thrilling world of "The Hawkhurst Gang," a riveting tale th...

replicant? "You're in a desert, you see a walled city in front of you. You keep circling the city and blowing the shofar but the walls aren't tumbling down. Why is that?"

The Death of the Author applies to your pitches. You're not pitching the idea in your head, you're pitching what you wrote in your pitch. What I'm trying to say is that writing pitches is hard... #writing #pitches

Me watching the bowls championship on TV:

Question for the software developers out there: What's your favorite engineering based comedy? Looking for stuff like Programmers Are Also Human. The crunchy stuff that people in the industry share amongst themselves. #developers #software #comedy

For scholarly purposes, I'm including January 2024 in the "Long 2023". I'm absolving myself of any resolutions or diets for a little while longer. 🗃️

Turning a big dial on it that says "Radetzky March" and looking at the audience for approval like it's the Price is Right.

I'm a believer that digital archives are: 1. Important for increasing access to historical records 2. Part of government's duty to preserve and make records available to citizens. Pennsylvania should not be giving ownership of digital records to ancestry.com www.dailyitem.com/news/inside-...

Inside the Pa. court case pitting a genealogist against Ancestry.comwww.dailyitem.com Pennsylvania hired genealogy company Ancestry.com to digitize a sweeping list of historical documents. Now the company claims it owns those digital copies.

I did not expect to find this when I was researching early 20th-century detective agencies. What the hell WOTC? www.dicebreaker.com/categories/t....

Magic: The Gathering publisher hires Pinkerton to seize leaked cards from YouTuber’s housewww.dicebreaker.com Magic: The Gathering's publisher sent Pinkerton investigators to a YouTube creator's house to seize unreleased cards.

I'm a huge proponent of digitizing histori Al records to create wider access, but it is also super important to keep the originals as well.

Pls respond to this consultation: UK Govt proposing to digitise wills fr c.1800s -& then destroy originals, supposedly to save money! Hard copies wd be kept for 25 yrs 'in recognition of their sentimental value to families'. Blind to the importance of hard copies to historians #skystorians 🗃

Easier access to historic wills under new government planswww.gov.uk Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).

Popped in for a visit to Newcastle House, the Duke of Newcastle's 18th-century in London. There's a scene in my book that takes place here and I got the history tingles being there. It's a law firm now and the receptionists were very kind to this random historian gushing about the #c18th 🗃️

A Brilliant, heart-gripping essay on the academic job market through the lens of Jane Austen. Given the current state of the humanities, I've come to view my failure to get PhD funding more as divine providence than a great tragedy.

"Being told that the right job is out there in a field where every year the number of tenure-track positions shrinks dramatically is, I think, a little bit like being a woman character in a Jane Austen novel." #c18th #AcademicSky

Love Under These Conditions - The Ramblingthe-rambling.com Erin A. Spampinato got over searching for Mr. Darcy in her romantic life long ago; so why did she retain the fantasy, against all possible evidence, that a perfect academic job would come along to sol...

Pretty sure this octo alert could have been an email Paani...