Harry Smith

PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates + age- and sex-specific net migration rates! Dive into the Victorian & Edwardian era with this Campop interactive atlas. Explore the geography of movement across England, Wales, & Scotland like never before!

📣Out now on #firstview! Laura Newman (@laura_c_newman) David Green (@davidrgreenuk) Harry Smith (@BhamHistory) on 'Vision Impairment and the British Post Office, c.1860 to 1910' #Work #Disability #Employment #PostOffice 📮 👉Read open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📜NEW WORKING PAPER📜 What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox? My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%. 🧵👇 1/6

@Xuesheng_You I would dispute this characterisation of my conference habits.

Nicolas Cage pays tribute to David Lynch in the new issue of Empire. “Wild At Heart is one of the best movies I’ve ever made,” he tells Empire. “I never had more fun working with anybody than I did with David Lynch.” READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/ni…

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princecharle…

Tribute to Lynch from Poland's biggest train and tram manufacturer

@_bezpilotnik @Mr_Considerate I feel the piece should have stuck to reporting these kinds of comments

@BhamHistory @Mr_Considerate tbf this is echt Lynch, not least because when written down in any other context or by anyone else it comes across as absolute bollocks

Mate, the fact that nobody but StudioCanal would finance his films is more significant to his output than the fact he liked smoking. theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/…

@_bezpilotnik @Mr_Considerate What the fuck is this shit? Who turns to this bollocks when asked to write about the death of a truly great artist?

@Mr_Considerate I rather think that if you die at 78 after spending most of your life just enjoying the shit out of every delicious fag you smoked, and making delicious fag-based art, and having a whole thing about how much you love smoking delicious fags, it's not really your "undoing" is it

So, Twin Peaks is in production & Lynch is up in Washington and hears that a particularly annoying ABC executive is coming for a set visit. The executive shows up in the morning and Lynch proclaims "You've got a great face! I'm gonna make you an extra. Get him to hair & makeup!"

Martin Scorsese on David Lynch:

The only synopsis for INLAND EMPIRE that David Lynch approved for Janus.

At least we have this photo of David Lynch and Billy Wilder.

There will never be a David Lynch again. One because he was special, two because the conditions in which be got to become a filmmaker and take risks don’t exist anymore

Rewatching The Return last month I was struck by what an unprecedented line in the sand it offers. A sprawling canvas of weaving liminalities, dissonant aesthetics, and narrative that degrades instead of develops. It’s like a challenge from one century of the medium to the next

I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.

David Lynch - A huge and sad loss. A remarkably unique and very talented filmmaker. It was such a truly great pleasure to work with him. If his name was in the credits, you knew the film was really worth seeing. I will miss him.