Culture Explorer

You’ve been told Victorian social rules were stiff, outdated, and useless. But some of them could actually fix modern problems. Awkward dates. Clout-chasing. Loneliness. They had a rule for all of it. Should we bring back these 13 old-school customs? 🧵👇

Imagine writing a book so dangerous, it made priests seethe, historians argue, and politicians quote it in Parliament. That’s what Edward Gibbon did in 1776. He didn’t just tell the story of how Rome fell... He explained how all great civilizations rot from within. 🧵👇

If Disney had done research, Schwerin castle would’ve been the blueprint.

Stunning! What made them build this? Church of Gesu in Rome

History forgot them but these women didn’t wait to be remembered. In two stories, we uncover how sculptresses and muses carved each other into memory, and how Sarah Bernhardt took the chisel into her own hands to sculpt her legacy in stone. newsletter.thecultureexplorer.com/p/carved-out-o…

Have you ever felt like you gave everything and still got hunted for it? That’s the story behind one of the most beautiful and brutal artworks of the Middle Ages: A unicorn, wounded and bleeding, hunted down… And yet still alive in the end. 🧵

If you could have an unlimited supply of either Croissant or Cornetto for the rest of your life, which one would you go with?

How do you know that something with a mind did this?

Beneath the world’s most famous church lies this golden shrine guarding what many believe to be the bones of St. Peter.

They had 15 minute standup meetings every morning.

What an amazing place and view…

A fisherman mourns his drowned child. And a woman who knew pain carved it into eternity. Après la Tempête (After the Storm) by Sarah Bernhardt