#historical work

[stardog-howls]

Jan Bruegel

[thatbanditqueen]

HELP

I have read some of the deep dives speculating when *the* moment occurs in the 1968 Singer Special (often referred to as the comeback special) but i didn’t reblog or save them, does anyone have the links to these posts?

This is for an important historical research project.....

[the---hermit]

04|06|2021

Okay, so I am writing in on the bus on my way home, and today was insane. First off I hadn't gone to Turin In months, I believe it's more than 6 months, and I had really missed it. I love my moutains but Turin is a city I really enjoy. I got to my first appointment to the national archives, and well that was a lot. I found out that there is way more material than I expected. Like A LOT more material than expected. Also it's all completly manuscript, so reading 1700s italian cursive is going to be my main thing for the next months. It will take much more work and much more time than expected. On one hand the real work is really eciting, but as expected it was quite intimidating. Everyone was super polite there but I felt kinda out of place, I mean I might look like an adult, but that's an outside illusion.

Another good thing for the day is that I finally met with a friend I hadn't seen in about a year and a half, due to covid restrictions. We spent the whole afternoon togherter and I was really good to see her again. We also went to one of my favourite bookshops of the city, but I did not get anything. Which is kinda disappointing, because part of me really wanted to get a little present for myself to celebrate my little win of the day.

🎵 Tompkins Square Park by Mumford & Sons

[menialfishwife]

First post!!!

Alright!! Let’s get started lads! I’m a history major specializing in pre-contact Native Americans. If you have any questions, please, send them my way! I would be glad to talk shop about anything Mississippian or even other historical topics. I’m also gonna talk about all the crazy stuff that happens at the site I work at, be it supernatural or just plain cringe from my coworkers and the public. See you guys soon!

[subiysu-chan]

Reddit keeps removing this...Grrr..

Based on reconstruction I am doing, with some artistic liscence.

The document I am working with does not describe furniture meant for comfort, but it surely was there. Don't know why I accidentally unjoined and Reddit didn't want to publish this.

"Par le salon, on pouvait communiquer à une autre pièce, assez grande mais peu éclairée malgré le fait que ses fenêtres soient les plus grandes.

Elle servait surtout de salle à manger, parfois de salle de réception. Elle comportait une cheminée en marbre avec tablette comme dans la précédente, mais elle était moins luxueuse avec un plancher en terre cuite plutôt qu'en pierre et faïence, et il n'y avait pas de lambris. Près de la cheminée était également une grande armoire. Les croisées donnant sur le jardin étaient à espagnolettes avec volets laissant passé une certaine lumière, même fermés, grâce à leurs fentes. Ceci permettait de protéger les vitres tout en fermant les volets de l'intérieur. Au fond de la partie principale de la pièce était une porte d'entrée à une autre pièce, et près de celle-ci était une autre armoire.

Au centre de la pièce trônait une grande table pour dix persones et dans un recoin de la pièce, plus isolé, était une autre table, pour six, et assez basse pour confortablement accomoder des enfants. Même avec seize places pour s'asseroir, la plupart du temps, la famille en manquait. La pièce comportait également un pupitre, qui servait à la fois de surface pour manger, autant qu'à la vente des billets le droit de regarder une exécution, directement sur l'échafaud, ou encore de lieu où le majordome prenait note des frais de corrections, et exactement l'endroit où Charles-Henry recevaient ces corrections quand il était plus jeune. À sa majorité, il tenta de s'en débarasser, mais vu du manque de place chronique pour s'asseoir lors des repas, il dû renoncer à son projet.

Pour cette raison, et aussi par mesure de sûreté étant donné la personalité sulfureuse des invités de la maison, les filles mangeaient au grenier si possible, et même les serventes se voyaient interdire d'y entrer, le service étant assuré ces jours par des valets bien robustes. Anne-Marthe était la seule femme de la famille à avoir le privilège, ou plutôt le pénible devoir, de rester auprès des invités. "

Here is the Google Translation:

"Through the living room, we could communicate with another room, quite large but poorly lit despite the fact that its windows are the largest.

It was mainly used as a dining room, sometimes as a reception room. It had a marble fireplace with shelf as in the previous one, but it was less luxurious with a terracotta floor rather than stone and earthenware, and there was no paneling. Near the fireplace was also a large wardrobe. The windows opening onto the garden were Spanish shutters with shutters letting in a certain amount of light, even when closed, thanks to their slots. This made it possible to protect the windows while closing the shutters from the inside. At the back of the main part of the room was a door to another room, and near it was another cabinet.

In the center of the room sat a large table for ten people and in a more isolated corner of the room was another table, for six, and low enough to comfortably accommodate children. Even with sixteen places to sit, most of the time the family was short of them. The room also included a lectern, which served both as a dining surface, as well as for the sale of tickets for the right to watch an execution, directly on the scaffold, or as a place where the butler took note of the expenses of corrections, and exactly where Charles-Henry received these corrections when he was younger. When he came of age, he tried to get rid of it, but given the chronic lack of space to sit during meals, he had to abandon his project.

For this reason, and also as a safety measure given the sulphurous personality of the guests of the house, the girls ate in the attic if possible, and even the servants were forbidden to enter there, the service being provided these days by valets very robust. Anne-Marthe was the only woman in the family to have the privilege, or rather the painful duty, of staying with the guests."

What do you think ? Better than in Innocent ? Also, other XVIIIth century texts do mention 18 year old Charles-Henri being familiar with the buyers of execution tickets, and the Mémoires mention Jean-Baptiste's dubious friendships with respectively the Comte de Charolais and Lally-Tollandal, in short, a recreational torturer and a war criminal. People you absolutely want near your wife and daughters, note my sarcasm. Also, in those guests would be the occasional torturer, colleagues (who are likely to be rivals) and more. Like, the only normal one would be probably Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel plus his family, and later Madeleine-Claude-Gabrielle.

[verrader-is-dutch-for-traitor]

I love when writers or film directors create a perfectly historical work and then just for one moment they lose it and they add in there the most obvious allusion to their/modern times, go "bitches this suck so bad" and then move on with their historical work as if nothing happened.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"When I write about Canada, I write about one place with one example, which if it is to be theorized at all probably has to be theorized from within...This theorizing, such as it is, emerges inductively from a considerable steeping in the intricacies of early Canada...The research I admire most, and that is most likely to have a considerable shelf life, is weighted heavily toward steeping, to the time it takes to begin to know a complex place, society, or set of issues, and, out of this protracted engagement, begin to understand them. Such research takes time which, given the pressures of the current academic environment, is in short supply. Yet quick production runs against the grain of good scholarship.”

- Cole Harris, "Historical Geography and Early Canada: A Life and an Interpretation." The Canadian Geographer. Volume 52, Issue 4. Winter / hiver 2008. Pages 409-426