Catherine Warr

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Catherine Warr

@HiddenYorkshire

Historian, filmmaker, author, top 30 Historian under 30. Gen Z Fred Dibnah. God's gobbiest warrior. https://t.co/3398GO0tzD

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·6 Mar

🚨NEW VIDEO!🚨 In 1643, the Parliamentarians suffered a stunning loss at Seacroft Moor. But where is Seacroft Moor? It's not on any map. Being from Seacroft myself, I thought it was about time that someone does a proper investigation of the battle. youtu.be/k3lTM3clIgA

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Mr Demos of Pnyx@gem_ste·2d

This is one of the greatest visual gags in history. The way Emu quickly glances to the side to check no one's looking before grabbing Hull's neck and chucking him in the freezer. And the somersault at such a tight angle. A visual gag artist at his absolute peak, sensational.

Prof. Frank McDonough@FXMC1957

17 March 1999. Rod Hull died (aged 63). He always appeared with Emu, a mute and highly aggressive arm-length puppet. Hull died in a tragic accident while trying to adjust the TV aerial on the roof of his bungalow, then slipping and falling to his death.

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CHANEL MURDER@ChanelMurder·14h

I love beating a dead horse idgaf I got something else to say

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Cedar You@our_decay·9h

I want my gravestone to say: "I was being facetious"

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·9h

There's a solid distinction (as explained in the replies) between silent reading as an ability and as a social function - I absolutely agree with the idea that notions of public/private literacy and oral performance has changed. But so often it's presented as though the actual ability to silently read was just invented.

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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛@PrinceVogel·9h

@HiddenYorkshire Most people still sub vocalize when they read - their vocal chords are moving!

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·10h

If silent reading simply didn't, on a purely cognitive level, exist for thousands of years of human writing systems, then was mental arithmetic invented as well? Could humans only do maths if they said it out loud? Of course not. It's ridiculous.

Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire

@nosilverv Low-stakes but I straight up do not believe that silent reading was just "invented". Do we really have such little theory of mind for people in the past that the most basic literacy function was beyond them? How do we know this passage isn't a commentary on lectio divina?

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·9h

@JPUATX @Rongwrong_ @nosilverv That is fair. It's one of the historical factoids which isn't really presented properly - there's a big difference between silent reading as a social practice and the actual, cognitive ability of humans to read silently. The distinction isn't made a lot of the time.

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Scamp Walker@JPUATX·9h

It’s don’t think it’s that it wasn’t possible, I think what they’re trying to say is that reading out loud to other people was the point of reading, as an extension of oral history and storytelling and not as a separate solitary act. I’m sure people read sentences in their heads all the time, but no one thought that was the primary goal of reading

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Guy BOOK IS LIVE! || CHECK BIO@nosilverv·16h

Reminder that EVERYTHING is an achievement: St. Augustine was shocked to find St. Ambrose reading *silently* (reading was then social and aloud) and private silent reading only really took off 700 years after in the 12 century.

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·10h

@Rongwrong_ @nosilverv If I can get a hold of that book without academic access I'll check it out. I remain skeptical bc the corollary is the idea that mental arithmetic wasn't possible. If we're talking about cognitive functions, mental maths is the same as reading. Was maths only possible out loud?

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Aaron@Rongwrong_·10h

@HiddenYorkshire @nosilverv There’s a whole book on it, “Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading” <sup.org/books/literary…> Ambrose was presumably reading Latin. Other languages had word spacing long before Latin. Also, pace the OP, reading wasn’t just social, it was individual as well.

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·10h

Is there any actual COGNITIVE evidence that the ABILITY to read silently did not exist and had to be invented?

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Not Today Eric@NotTodayEric·1d

Who remembers this song: “Enformer yaknogddkbvxdhgoblame a licky boom boom down”

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Metal Doom Evil COMMS OPEN@doom_captain·15h

Due to a clerical error, the mousy mild-mannered xenobiologist woman has been sent to The Planet of Bodacious and Implausibly Promiscuous Babes, while Chet has been sent to The Planet Entirely Populated By Rutting Megafauna Where The Atmosphere Bimbofies You.

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·11h

When I was about 7 I started going round school saying I wanted to be dead. Mum had to get called in to have a chat and it turns out I was in my big ancient Egypt phase and I wanted to be a mummy 👍

Today's Tom Servo@DicconHyatt

My daughter just told me a bunch of Egypt facts and then said "many secrets still lie beneath the sands of Egypt" lol

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·11h

Not sure about what to do with my hair. Might grow it out at the back and keep it short at the front. I'll have to mullet over

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·12h

They used to say "give up your dreams and get a day job". Trouble is, these days you can't even get a day job. All you have left is your dreams.

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·14h

Sunday Sport could never

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·17h

buying a load of booze does anyone want olt

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·17h

At duty free...by grabthar's hammer. What a savings

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Nick Allmaier@NickAllmaier·1d

I would’ve stayed on calypso’s island if I was odysseus. She sounds quite fetching

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·18h

@xenokatabasis Thanks for your input

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Nestor@xenokatabasis·18h

@HiddenYorkshire It's a bad joke.

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Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire·18h

Silver hairs at 27...it's OVER. Entering my hag era

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