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Mike Dash
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Mike Dash writes A Blast From The Past, a personal blog at mikedashhistory.com about history. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Twopenny Hangover”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Dash's history blog for posts on the Barbary pirates' capture of English slaves and on the Twopenny Hangover cheap lodging custom in London. Commenters cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Mike Dash
Most-linked posts?
- The Twopenny Hangover3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-28
- An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
What Hacker News says?
There should be more discussion about these forgotten forms of slave trade. People tend to think about just the transatlantic slavery when they hear the word, but reality the transatlantic slavers just scaled up and spread an existing way of doing business. Interestingly enough, Crimea used to be a major center of slave trade all the way into 1700s. Christians were sold to Islamic world and vice versa. https://miked…
Comment linking /2015/01/15/blonde-cargoes-finnish-children-in-the-slave-markets-of-medieval-crimea/
on “Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017)”Submitted An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end (2011) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionUsed to be a few cheap options . . . at the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence. A man, humorously called the valet, cuts the rope at five in the morning. ~ George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Perhaps apocryphal. ( https://mikedashhistory.com/2021/05/19/the-twopenny-hangover... )
Comment linking /2021/05/19/the-twopenny-hangover/
on “Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London (2013)”Submitted The Twopenny Hangover as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted The last secret of the H.L. Hunley as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask Mike as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Twopenny Hangover as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The German financial meltdown of 1621-23 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion