Paul Brewer

Mostly links to my reviews of history on film and film as history. Cultural history. Abelardist-Luxemburgist.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@ClarkeMicah I'll suggest that the 1544 Litany did mark a break in practice with the Romanists. (And the following year brought the Primer, but that was for private devotions.) But I'm going to agree with the principle that the CofE at Henry VIII's death still awaited a proper Reformation.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@ScarredForLife2 Thanks for posting that. Once I heard about the 'dropped test tube' on the news, I had wanted to show it to people.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@ClarkeMicah I always find this 1918 map from the New York Times of the boundaries of the Ukrainian People's Republic of more than historical interest.

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@davo_arid Funnily enough, your tweets were right next to this one in my timeline:
https://t.co/GMv1fYHPAS

[Richard Johnson @richardmarcj]

George Edwards, MP for South Norfolk (1920-22, 23-24), started his working life at the age of 6 as a scarecrow. He worked all day long, and never went to school.

His father was sent to prison for stealing turnips from a field to feed his family, and George was sent to a workhouse during that time. He returned to agricultural labour, and Edwards later said 'the turnip-field' was his school.

At 19, he converted to Methodism. Illiterate, he memorised Bible passages from listening to others recite them. He married a fellow Methodist who taught him to read so that he could read the Bible, and he became a Methodist lay preacher.

Edwards was active in the first agricultural unions in Norfolk and eventually founded the National Agricultural Labourers and Rural Workers Union.

In 1920, at the age of 70, he won a by-election to Parliament, becoming the first Labour MP in rural East Anglia.

Edwards won the seat again in the 1923 general election and was one of the Labour backbench MPs during the first Labour government. He was a major advocate for the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1924, which restored agricultural wages committees (that had been abolished after the liberalisation of the economy following WWI).

He continued to argue passionately for the cause of rural workers, and refused to retire from his union responsibilities, even when doctors told him to do so, cycling through the roads of rural Norfolk to support agricultural workers.

He died from a heart attack in 1933 at the age of 83.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

My 550 word, ★★ review of Voodoo Island (Le Borg, 1957) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/vNmsF1occr thinks they ran out of money and had to wind this up fast.

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My 675-word, ★★★ review of More (Schroeder. 1969) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/fBgHaDfkEf describes it as 'mon cauchdemar chez Maud'

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My 775-word, ★★★★ review of Zabriskie Point (Antonioni, 1970) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/cTi5byX61t decides it is a primer to the grammar of cinema

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My 575-word, ★★★ review of The Big Combo (Lewis, 1955) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/nwEgPudDPW likes the look but is less impressed by the script and Wilde.

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My 1075-word, ★★★½ review of Bugonia (2025) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/2sdPjEBaDA says don't believe the haters.

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My 525-word, ★★★½ review of Ms .45 (Ferrara1981) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/autfddDGzv defines it as Exploitation Energy with Post-Modern Style.

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My 625-word, ★★★★ review of The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/If4HrGmroa declares it to be a gloriously absurd satire of Hollywood romances, best consumed with a Post-Modern sensibility.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@labour_history History proved he was right about the Common Market

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@GAltringham BBC television’s Edge of Darkness

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@alancornett We have a couple of aircraft carriers, though. Can’t remember if they’ve got planes yet?

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

More AI nonsense. 2WW era aircraft carrier

[Ai Forward+ @AiForward_]

💥IRANIAN MISSILE SMASHES INTO U.S. NAVY SHIP

Watch how it ignore 3-4 other ships and specifically targets the Maritime Strike Tomahawk support vessel, which replenishes other ships with missiles.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

This is AI nonsense

[Antonio Garci Nieto @Garcimonero]

Un avión iraní VS un barco de Estados Unidos.
Como dijo Napoleón : “Para ganar una guerra se necesitan 3 cosas, dinero , dinero y dinero, aunque no necesariamente en ese orden”
https://t.co/nxcbId5ofv

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@PviGuy2 Wow! Did the Main Line run the count in Philadelphia?

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My 1125-word ★★★½ review of One Battle After Another (Anderson, 2025) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/eXFbUQD3Cw thinks it plays around with grotesques to give hip and cool feels in the present crisis, without thinking about anything.

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@PviGuy2 Some of what I assume are bigger cities — Dallas, Richmond, Savannah, Nashville, Norfolk and Mobile are no longer on the list.

Is it Prohibition or something else? He asks, rhetorically.

[Paul Brewer @AngloAmCulture]

@davo_arid What’s that from?