'i am the fiery life of divine substance'

helena | she/her | history student | period costume enthusiast | side blog for pastexistence

[guessillalwaysbethisway]

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894

[fuckblast]

Really obsessed with this one like how old cameras worked making everyone blurry against the statue and just makes you realize how long the statue has been right. There.

[maple-salad]

op says we can repost

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[oh-glasgow]

Any thoughts on Winston Churchill?

War criminal, white supremacist, genocide enjoyer, zionist, enemy of the working classes, sender of tanks into Glasgow. But he liked a drink and had good one-liners so all that is ignored by the British public.

[jeannepompadour]

Front and back views of English dress and gable hood by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528–30

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[henstomper]

"ooouuugh the masculine urge to die poignantly on a medieval battlefield" You Are Getting Cholera On The March And Shitting Yourself To Death

[morganlefag]

fun fact there were at least two people named lancelot recorded in the 1292 paris census so I think we know what the 13th century equivalent of naming your kid sasuke was

[marzipanandminutiae]

other names that sound normal now but are actually From Pop Culture- meaning they were used for fictional characters before they became real-people names -include:

- Mavis (from the book The Sorrows of Satan, 1895)

- Pamela (from the book The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, late 16th century, but popularized by the 1740 novel Pamela)

- Imogen (from Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline, c. 1611. possibly a typesetting error on the earlier name Innogen)

- Enola (from the book Enola, or Her Fatal Mistake, 1886)

- Vanessa (from the poem Cadenus and Vanessa, 1812)

- Cedric (from the book Ivanhoe, 1819. transposition of letters from the earlier Saxon name Cerdic)

- Dorian (from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891. similar masculine names had previously existed, like Dorus, Doros, and Dorios, but Wilde is believed to have coined this specific usage)

- Jessica (from Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, c. 1596-7. Possibly an Anglicization- Italianization? -of the Hebrew name Yiskah, since the character is Jewish)

[princesssarisa]

– Wendy (from Peter Pan, 1904. It was sometimes used beforehand as a nickname for Gwendolyn, but wasn't used as a given name until J. M. Barrie popularized it.)

– Cora (from the book The Last of the Mohicans, 1826.)

– Lorna (from the book Lorna Doone, 1869.)

– Miranda (from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, c. 1610-11.)

– Norma (from Alexandre Soumet's play Norma, ou L'infanticide, 1831, best known as the source for Bellini's opera Norma, which premiered later the same year.)

[entertheaardvark]

George Tiller was murdered 13 years ago today (May 31 2022)

[entertheaardvark]

People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.

[men-being-traitors-deactivated2]

He was shot in the head by Scott Roeder, while he was in the church, in 2009.

Before that, he survived a murder attempt by Shelley Shannon in 1993.

His crime? Helping women no matter what. Which is the worst sin, according to patriarchs and their handmaids.

[vulva-venus-hates-that-penis]

How pro life of them to murder that doctor 😒

[princessterf]

So the way I met Dr. Tiller was I had started working as an abortion provider in California and I had gone to a conference and he was there and he said; "the woman's body is smarter than the doctors." So, you know I had come from a midwifery background so I piped up, "oh that's midwifery!"

And he was a little startled, "what?" I said, "oh that's midwifery." And within 5 minutes he had offered me a job. That's how we met.

I really, really liked him. And I felt really close to him and I did consider him a friend. And I miss him a lot. And there's sometimes I think, "oh God, I'd really like to call him and talk to him." Yeah, I miss him tremendously.

- Dr. Shelly Sella, one of the remaining 3 late term abortion doctors featured in the documentary After Tiller

[banji-effect]

Today (5/31) is the last day of the National Abortion Access Fund-a-Thon and the perfect opportunity to make a donation in Dr. Tiller's honor

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[threesonsofyorks]

JUNIA REES as Lady Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I) Firebrand (2024) | dir. Karim Aïnouz

[threesonsofyorks]

ALICIA VIKANDER as Queen Catherine Parr Firebrand (2023) | dir. Karim Aïnouz

[aelfgyvaa]

history academia is so fun until it makes being online genuinely insufferable 24/7

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Is she a "forgotten woman of history" or is this just the first time you've personally heard about her?

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

This is broadly about the clickbait titling convention of claiming a woman is unknown or forgotten when the person is going to read you a reasonably extensive Wiki page.

And Wiki pages citing several books and articles are notoriously a sure sign that someone isn't the least bit forgotten.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

*gently takes your hand* it is ok to learn new information and to want to present it to people. That's how we all learn.

But, just because the information is new to you does not mean it is not already extensively documented. This is especially true if it's from a different geographic context than your own and you might not have learned in your pre-university history education.

It's ok to say something is just interesting and cool without suggesting that you've found something new that the field or society at large have forgotten. Information does not need to be novel to be fascinating.

[captain-price-returns]

Disinfecting artillery after a German gas attack.

[teh-nos]

my lawyers have asked me to state publically and for the record that i specifically asked if nobody would rid me of this turbulent priest. the subsequent death via my vassal knights of anyone who isn't a priest (and my lawyers agree i have a strong case with my point that an archbishop of canterbury would not usually be referred to as "a priest") can have had nothing at all to do with my unfortunate outburst at dinner that one evening, and people need to stop saying the two events are connected or i will have yet another job for my lawyers.

also if anyone knows how to get un-ex-communicated quickly and easily please let me know. thanks in advance.

(thomas becket stans DNI, especially if you are pushing for his canonisation which if you ask me is very premature and also he was mean to me which i think should automatically exclude him from consideration for sainthood.)