#18th c.

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[nothwell]

dear historical costuming tumblr,

assuming the person commissioning this suit is the suit-maker’s wealthiest and most powerful customer, how long would it realistically take to make?

and (since the suit pictured is apparently wool) if silk or satin were used instead, would this make it take longer?

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[gmpetersonarts]

Just a quick sketch that I managed to put together today.  You can check out my Patreon for some exclusive content related to my drawings, and other projects of mine.

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[rilke]

Women are the heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man, nor stand by and see another do so.

film: Rob Roy — Michael Caton-Jones [dir], 1995

The graves of outlaw and folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor, his widow Mary and their sons Coll and Robin in Balquhidder kirkyard in the Stirling council area. Rob Roy died in 1734 aged 63 and Mary in 1745 despite what it says on their graves.

Information about and images of Balquhidder Church and Rob Roy's Grave on Undiscovered Scotland.

[histpods]

Many American Indian cultures, like the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, practiced a form of non-hereditary slavery for centuries before contact with Europeans. But after Europeans arrived on Native shores, and they forcibly brought African people into labor in the beginning of the 17th century, the dynamics of native slavery practices changed. Supporting the Confederacy during the Civil War, how did traditional native slavery transform in the Indian Territory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries into something resembling the unchangeable enslavement system of the American South? Guest Nakia Parker joins us to discuss the African American slave-holding practices of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians during the 19th century, tells us how this system evolved, and reveals the claims to tribal citizenship from this enslavement persisting to the present day.

Length: 13:15 Date: 17 Dec 2018

[histpods]

Love Off Limits 🎧

In this episode, Joanne, Brian, and Nathan discuss stories of love that challenged social norms and transcended class, race, and gender. They explore how people subverted laws banning interracial marriage, and why a wave of heiresses running away with their coachmen caused a moral panic in the Gilded Age.

Date: 15 Feb 2019 Length: 49 mins

[histpods]

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a close look at a long forgotten chapter in US history – the story of tens of thousands of African Americans who, in the 70 years before the Civil War and the end of slavery, settled on what was then the western frontier and today we know as the Midwest. They established successful farms and created thriving communities of black families. But intensifying racism in these antebellum years meant that these African Americans also faced efforts by white Americans in states like Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to deprive them of their citizenship, land, and opportunities to get ahead. To dig into this story, I speak with historian Anna-Lisa Cox. She’s the author of a new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality.

Length: 46:60 Date: 12 Dec. 2018