#history help

[reedbstranger]

Anyone uh

Anyone know what fagot tape is???

My parents gave me all the sewing things in my gran’s house as they were cleaning it out and this was included????? I’m so baffled the trim is all a very fine lawn, double fold bias tape that they decided to name fagot tape????

My usual research is failing me, the only things I can find are eyelet/open weave trims, which is not what this is at all T.T someone help

[winter-at-himring]

History help?

Hey, I was wondering if anybody knew about some good books or biographies about Jean-Andoche Junot? I'm very new to the Napoleonic Era, and so I don't know very good resources in general, and I haven't been able to find much on him! Any sort of help would be appreciated; thank you!

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Does anyone know any good sources on the French Revolutionary Wars, specifically the War of the First Coalition and with as much detail as possible (generals, individual units etc)

I need to find where exactly would a soldier conscripted in the 1793 levée en masse in an area near Paris go through so that he ends up in Italy to fight in the Battle of Montenotte in 1796

It's for a character backstory

[rome-roy]

hello friends! I have something to ask of you. Or share it about and see if anyone can help.

Basically, I’m in my third year and instead of a dissertation I’m doing creative writing. I need help with research! So history buffs I hope you can help me. It’s going to be set across different time periods, where people from the future have to live in the past. I’m looking for facts but I want to bring the past to life. Stories, anecdotes, all sorts will help. You can rec me books too but I have limited resources/money so anything I can get free online would be great. (academic resources too as long as my institution has access)

To start of with I need help from my American friends! I want to spend time in early 60s USA. I’m thinking ‘61. I haven’t picked a specific state/town to set it so I might make it fictional. I wanna know what it was like, what things I should be aware of happening. I really would like a very specific 1960s (or 50s) thing that only someone who lived there would know about, like a person or a food item or something that a person would have to lie about knowing to fit in. Something to make them stumble.

Also anything about life for young women. My character would be 26. I’m thinking maybe she’s sharing an apartment with another girl. What was life like for women back then?

Next up I wanna know any information about Scottish people settling in Canada in the 1700s. What was life like, who went over, what were the settlements like, what problems arose with those indigenous, what was the food like etc etc

I know stuff about WWI but any more info would be fab. Also stuff about France/Belgium directly after the war would be good.

Aaand lastly, for now...writers how do you handle a story that deals with lots of character POVs and generally writing on a large scale. I’m not gonna be able to submit the full project but I do want to continue this afterwards so getting a handle on things would be great.

Thank you!

[sofiaottoman]

Help?

I have a couple of fic ideas bouncing around my head. They’re for different fandoms - AftG and MCU if anyone cares. And I’m scared. I’m scared that I’m not going to be able to do justice to what’s in my head. But I’m tentatively trying.

So can anyone give me any advice about where to start looking for information about the lgbt scene in 1930s New York City? I’ve tried google, but the 1930s seems to be a bit early. Any help would be much appreciated. I’m non-American and I just want a bit of background to write a scene or so. I don’t feel comfortable just diving in without at least trying to be fairly accurate.

[lotrewrite]

Call for History Help

Sorry about the delay posting the recap, guys - there was an emergency at work on Sunday which is persisting in ruining all of my free time.

But, in the meantime - we have a call for history research/experts! At minimum, we need people who know about feudal-era Japan (precise era still open) or Opium Wars-era China or are willing to dig in and do some research about it. If someone's an expert and/or willing to spend a few hours researching, just shout out that you're willing to consult or reach out straight to the person writing the relevant episodes - @snaibselzatanna for a brief Japan cameo and @ibecxmebetter and @marywisdom for Chinese pirates.

(also, if you're a writer of different episode and want history help, let me know and I'll edit this post to add in additional calls for help)

[txetbook]

DISCLAIMER: this is as taught by my teacher at my school for my curriculum. If you are not in Australia or even in my part of the country, you may be taught differently, however my teacher is very cut-throat and specific to the Australian Curriculum so if anything can help, his word can.

The Question

When practicing, you should read the question carefully and highlight the significant parts of the essay. Look at:

the question verb: e.g. evaluate, assess, explain, account for, etc.

the time frame it is asking you to answer for: If an essay questions says during the period of study you can choose the exact years you want to focus on but if it says throughout or over the period of study then you must cover the entire course.

the issues/themes/concepts it wants you to talk about: e.g. Weimar Germany, the Oslo Accords, Prohibition etc.

Introduction

Your introduction is the most important part of your essay; if your body paragraphs do not match what you say in the intro, then your essay will immediately lose marks. The introduction is for you to set up your argument, and so it will be the foundation for the rest of your essay.

The intro should go as follows:

context: WARNING! do not take too long on this part. If you talk about the causes of causes, then you are just babbling and wasting time. Talk about the most relevant events leading to the period you are to discuss.

define each part of the question: what is totalitarianism? who was Woodrow Wilson? etc.

your thesis: this is so important. This is your argument, and the points you will discuss in your essay. If you think science, it is basically a hypothesis, and you will support it with your arguments.

Body Paragraphs

DOs and DON'Ts for the first sentences of Body Paragraphs

DO NOT SAY THIS: The Munich Putsch occurred in November 1923. this is a fact that cannot be followed or discussed because it is not a point from the argument. Then it just becomes a list of facts

DO SAY THIS: The failure of the November 1923 Munich Putsch forced Hitler to reorganise his party to be better prepared for an eventual revolution. The rest of the paragraph will be on how he became better prepared. This is something that you can now prove.

Make sure that every body paragraph topic sentence links back to the original thesis and your argument is guaranteed to work: it will never turn into a list of facts and it is much less likely you will ramble.

Then you spend the rest of the paragraph proving the point that you made at the start of that paragraph using evidence, facts, dates, quotes, people and events.

Conclusion

My history teacher has this thing called the tiger story, and he would fist-pump so hard if he knew I was talking about this right now - it’s not even really about tigers...

Tigers have stripes. This helps them to blend into jungle vegetation and plants. Lions have tawny fur. This helps them to blend with the yellow grasses of the Savannah. Cheetahs have spots. This allows them to blend with the leaves in tree tops.

In conclusion, big cats use their fur to camouflage into their surroundings.

Sounds stupid, right? Right. I said so, but there is also a lesson to be learnt. Your conclusion is meant to join the ‘thread’ of all the paragraphs. Your arguments may actually contradict one another, but the key is to make links between them by pointing out the significance of their connection in terms of the question.

DO NOT restate all the points have already made, but instead discuss them in terms of the question verb (explain/discuss/assess/evaluate)

Evaluate

These types of essays are probably the most common in History. Typically, the question is a statement, and then asks you to evaluate to what extent that the statement is true.

e.g. "The problems in Germany up to 1933 can be directly linked to Germany's surrender in World War One". Evaluate the extent to which this statement is true.

To evaluate essentially means to present arguments for more than one perspective. Usually, the question will allow you to present arguments that typically contradict each other/ are critical towards the reliability of the other arguments. In this case, it is easy to say in your thesis that ‘while A and B were a result of X, C was not’. However, the subject matter will not always be so black and white.

The above example question is relatively true, as all the problems up to 1933 in Germany can find their way back to WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles, however some are not as direct as others and can be blamed on political decision making rather than the treaty itself. In this case, you can say something along the lines of: ‘A,B and C all were linked to X, however B and C were worsened by Z’.

There is a helpful video on this here.

that is about all I have, and I will possibly update this in the future. Of course it would do well to remember that I am also a student, but I get relatively good marks in History and these are the guidelines I follow.

I hope this helps someone :)) x