Matt Houlbrook
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
- Almost like the juice of feeding the fruits of other people's labour into the plagiarism machine really wasn't worth the squeeze, right?
- Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- This is a thing of rare beauty and imagination and also some utterly compelling #20s30s history.
- So much #20s30s loveliness in here...
- You should all read @ladyburglar.bsky.social wonderful new book on the Secret Life of the Hotel in modern Britain. Lovely to see their shelf neighbours too.
- Grim week but am finding some pleasure in the new wall above my desk.
- Time for another postcards from 1920s and 1930s Seven Dials I think Before there was the Guinness Open Gate Brewery, there was the Cave of Harmony - cooler clientele, and far better food by the sound of it. #London #SevenDials #CoventGarden #History #20s30s #guinness
