How did middle age women manage to keep their bed clean while on their period ? April 12, 2025 7 Comments
imagine I’m an aristocratic roman child in AD 463 Ravenna, and I’m being taught the the stories of homer as part of my education by a Greek school teacher. What might he say if I ask him what the “gods” in the stories really were if the church leaders say the Christian God is the only real god? April 12, 2025 5 Comments
Why did Nazi Germany continue to create movies for the masses till the very end? April 12, 2025 1 Comment
Did the Soviets have any plans for how they would conduct the war in the event that the D-Day invasion failed? April 12, 2025 1 Comment
One of my earliest traceable ancestors was a goldsmith on Lombard Street in London – in what is now the very heart of the city – throughout much of the Elizabethan Era. How well might he have lived? Would he have been someone we can consider a rich man, or merely middle class? April 12, 2025 2 Comments
In what ways did a working class citizen of England in the 19th century benefit from the existence of the British empire? April 12, 2025 1 Comment
What’s the origin of the stereotype that Romance cultures are more passionate, fiery, sexually open and “hot-blooded”, and that Germanic cultures are duller and more stolid? April 12, 2025 2 Comments
Were the Sikh generals in the first Anglo-Sikh war actually trying to destroy their own army? April 12, 2025 1 Comment