I am having feels about the "this is what a historian looks like" hashtag. Most of you have been here long enough to know I never got a +
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+college degree because I got really fucking tired of fighting for accessibility. So tired. Between the disability services office & profs.
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So since then I've just said fuck it and gone where my historical curiosity took me - some of the results are Soay sheep and a Kerry cow.
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And some of the results are large piles of books and papers on Neolithic and bronze age Britain and Ireland.
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I don't always know what the latest developments are, but as I plod along reading about farming systems in LNEBA B&I and Aurochs genetics +
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+in indigenous B&I cattle breeds I can synthesize with practical knowledge and hazard a good guess at how a mini-Aurochs wound up in my pen.
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I can learn Welsh and realize there were no windows in my study period. I can read the Mabinogion and glean them for fascinating shards.
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You can get away with a lot as an amateur historian that academia would side eye you for, is what I'm saying.
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And I'm deeply indebted to historians like
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always <3
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