Public Domain Image ArchivePortrait of a Man with Lions and Tigers (1870s) by Unknown.
Source: The Getty
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c4b92112-bda6-459e-9caa-2838880a6e52
Henry Edward HardyWe are seeing the #Enclosures of the #Internet #Commons.
Just as the free #airwaves were #regulated, corporatized, and oligopolized in the 1930's, now we see this #centralization and #capitalization of the internet.
See:
#Television: a struggle for #power
by #Waldrop, Frank C; #Borkin, Joseph, joint author
1938
AstroMancer5G (she/her)We don't hate #England enough.
It's basically the #USA of #Europe. A whole country built on some of the worst atrocities in human history.
Literally created the #USA and #Israel, built its #wealth on forced #labor and #land theft, and is turning full #fascist now even under #Labour.
#Enclosures of the #commons, the #Atlantic #SlaveTrade, #financing the US #GildedAge #RobberBarons, the #Bengal famine, the #BalfourDeclaration, #TERFIsland... all England.
Alligator purse above incubator (ca. 1907).
Source: University of Southern California Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c461cea6-2e14-47e9-ba60-a7633b02d464
#reptiles #attractions #animals #bags #enclosures #california #zoos #alligators #furniture #babies #art #publicdomain
Alligator named Big Mug (ca. 1907).
Source: University of Southern California Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3673c327-2bd3-47ae-bc82-b272b6a23316
#reptiles #attractions #animals #enclosures #california #zoos #alligators #art #publicdomain
Peter Riley“ #allotments are the restoration of small plots of land to the #landless … the photographs are tender, accurate, depictions of harmony between ordinary people and the fruits of the earth … together they comprise “positive strategy to reunite people of all races with the commons. “
Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance (Watkins: London 2025)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/05/common-people/
Common People
Yes, the famed English working-class began existence with exactly this wandering, that is as vagabonds. Here they are presented as history both old and new: rural rebels following Captain Swing, the rat catcher, the poacher, the alewife, the itinerant potter, and the campers at the Rainbow Circle in the Forest of Dean living in the tipis of the Great Plains of Turtle Island, not in destitute indigence, but near naked solidarity with the world’s indigenous peoples.
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“ #allotments are the restoration of small plots of land to the #landless … the photographs are tender, accurate, depictions of harmony between ordinary people and the fruits of the earth … together they comprise “positive strategy to reunite people of all races with the commons. “
Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance (Watkins: London 2025)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/05/common-people/
Common People
Yes, the famed English working-class began existence with exactly this wandering, that is as vagabonds. Here they are presented as history both old and new: rural rebels following Captain Swing, the rat catcher, the poacher, the alewife, the itinerant potter, and the campers at the Rainbow Circle in the Forest of Dean living in the tipis of the Great Plains of Turtle Island, not in destitute indigence, but near naked solidarity with the world’s indigenous peoples.
Young alligators (ca. 1907).
Source: University of Southern California Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/399b68a1-5b04-41d2-abf4-381ce0eb3814
#reptiles #attractions #animals #enclosures #california #zoos #alligators #art #publicdomain
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1676, the #TrueLeveller/#Digger ideologue #GerrardWinstanley died. He opposed the growth of #enclosures to cut people off from free land in the #EnglishCivilWar. Diggers broke these open to grow food, and this challenge to #capital power had to be stopped.
Mike StrathdeeGeorge Bergen wanted to be a teacher, but life had other plans. Now he heads a thriving Leamington enclosures firm. https://www.meda.org/the-marketplace/from-factory-floors-to-industry-leader/ #enclosures #Leamington #faithandbusiness
