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

Runs @historyclippings.bsky.social

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Lina Goldberg

You're welcome! I think 1200 words a day is a good pace. I'd be happy with that over the long term. I've found I'm more productive when I've got my materials (electronically) to hand with specific notes and citations that I can easily reference. Nothing slows me down like looking something up!

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Lina Goldberg

The best I ever did was 2000 words a day when I was writing my book. But that's during a period when I took off from my day job and had all day and had spent weeks organizing and preparing the sources in my citation manager. Other days, 300-500 words in a few hours.

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 ...

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ChryssF

The closer I get to doing this interview. I think I need some Tums.

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Derryl Murphy

I had the same feeling when I worked at the International Baccalaureate and realized 9/11 was fair game for students to write their history papers about!

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Steve Portigal

More about interviewing someone about their memories of something a long time ago, vs more recently.

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.

Ordered! I'll give it read. Looks like a cool novel.

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?"

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JRR Tokin

Ordered. Thanks!

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:

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Tim Feinstein

Absolutely. I had forgotten about Silicon Valley!

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