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Posted on:February 7, 2017February 15, 2022Uncategorized

The Enduring Appeal of a Lolcat: Ancient and Medieval Cats as Pets

If you have spent as much as half an hour on the internet, then you cannot have missed the fact that the internet is obsessed with cats. From the website that popularised the idea of the Lolcat, to the millions of Youtube videos of the furry creatures (the top result for “cat” on Youtube is […]

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Posted on:January 30, 2017February 15, 2022Popular History

Is Selfie Culture New? Vanity Through Time

If you’re one of those pesky ‘Millennials’ then you’ve probably heard someone of an older generation (or even of your own) complaining about the vanity of youths today. We post pictures of ourselves on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram. We send silly pictures to our friends, we show anyone who might follow us on social media […]

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Posted on:October 6, 2016February 15, 2022Popular History

Medieval Reacts and Two Monks: History in Social Media

Many people will probably be aware of the rise in popularity of “reacts” social media pages. The idea is that the Facebook or Twitter page takes a popular cultural phenomenon, often a television show, and posts pictures from it with a humorous caption (usually in a bid to get as many likes as possible and […]

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