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rosemariecawkwell · 6 months

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Pen & Sword TBR Pile Review: The Nonconformist Revolution, by Amanda J. Thomas

By Amanda J ThomasImprint: Pen & Sword HistoryPages: 280ISBN: 9781473875678Published: 23rd June 2020 Blurb The Nonconformist Revolution explores the evolution of dissenting thought and how Nonconformity shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialised society. The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the late Middle Ages when the early…

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#Amanda J Thomas #Book review #pen & sword history #Religious Dissent Innovation and Rebellion #social history #The Nonconformist Revolution

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bargainsleuthbooks · 10 months

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#ARCReview #CharlesIsPrivateLife #MarkTurnbull #BookReview #NetGalley #PenandSwordHistory #StuartDynasty #BritishHistory

There's a new book coming out about #KingCharles, #CharlesI, that is. You know, the king that was executed? #ARCReview #CharlesIsPrivateLife #MarkTurnbull #BookReview #NetGalley #PenandSwordHistory #StuartDynasty #BritishHistory #August2023Books #newbooks

The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the civil war and his head. But there is more to Charles than the civil war and his death. To fully appreciate the momentous events that marked the twenty-four years of his reign, and what followed, it’s important to understand the man who was at their…

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#ARC #ARC Review #Book Review #British History #Charles I #Charles I&039;s Private Life #Execution #Great Remonstrance #History of Britain #James I #James II #King of England #King of Great Britain #Mark Turnbull #NetGalley #Pen & Sword History #Stuart Dynasty

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olganmwriter · 2 years

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#TuesdayBookBlog LIFE IN MINIATURE: A HISTORY OF DOLLS' HOUSES by Nicola Lisle (@penswordbooks)(@NicolaLisle1) Not just a toy. A wonderful look at a small but fascinating world.

#TuesdayBookBlog LIFE IN MINIATURE: A HISTORY OF DOLLS’ HOUSES by Nicola Lisle (@penswordbooks)(@NicolaLisle1) Not just a toy. A wonderful look at a small but fascinating world.

Hi, all: I have a few non-fiction books pending reviews, but I was reminded of this one because of a Fair of Miniatures and Dolls’ Houses I had to cover for the radio station I collaborate with (Sants 3 Ràdio), and I had to bring you the book and its review as well. I was so busy during the fair, there were so many people to interview and talk to (including a couple of wonderful charities, one…

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#collectibles #dolls&039; houses #miniatures #Nicola Lisle #Pen & Sword #social history

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downthetubes · 3 years

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Robert Kirkman’s “Secret History of Comics” comes to Sky History, but have you checked out “Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World” yet?

Robert Kirkman‘s six-part documentary series Secret History of Comics, first screened in 2017, debuts on comes to Sky History UK from Monday 19th July. Hosted by Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman, this six-part series takes a deeper look into the amazing stories, people and events that have transformed the world of American comic books and inspired such a loyal and dedicated worldwide fan…

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#Adrian Mackinder #Batman #Bill Finger #Bob Kane #Image Comics #Pen & Sword Books #Rik Worth #Robert Kirkman #Secret History of Comics #Sky Arts History #Stan Lee #White Owl #Wonder Woman

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tudorblogger · 3 years

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History Resolutions for 2021

My blogging was quite uneven last year with the COVID-19 lockdown and my mental health being quite fragile. Looking forward to 2021 I really want to blog more, and not just about the Tudors and Wars of the Roses – I also have interests in the English Regency, Jack the Ripper, and the British Monarchy. Read below for my history resolutions for 2021! 1. Blog More on Different Topics Although my…

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the-new-royalty-world-me · 3 years

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Review : William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England

William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of EnglandThe Glorious RevolutionAuteur: Brian BestUitgever : Pen & Sword Books Ltd9781526795229280 pagina’s In 1688, a vast fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Spanish Armada, put to sea from Holland. On board was William of Orange with 40,000 soldiers – their objective, England. The Protestant William had been encouraged by a group of Church…

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#Brian Best #Geschiedenis #History #King #Pen & Sword Books Ltd #Recensie #Review #Royal Book #William III #William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England

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mylittlepony-onverse · 3 years

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Blue Stem

Race: Earth Pony

Gender: Female

Nickname(s): Penny (by anyone; introductory name) Stem, Blue Pen (by her moms and her brother), Sketchy (by Rainbow Dash)

Parents: Applejack x Rainbow Dash (w/ help of unknown donor)

Other Family/Relationships:

(Apple Family Member)

-Cider Blitz (twin brother)

-Crumble (older cousin)

-Burner (boyfriend)

-Nightly Storm (best friend)

-Shiver Snowhoof, Mixer, Amp, Power Chord, Silver Sword, Trident (friends)

-Two Pair, Golden Strokes (foalhood friends)

History

-While Rainbow Dash was away for a Wonderbolt's tour, Applejack stayed on the farm pregnant with their children. About a month into the three-month tour, she and her brother were born. A week before the tour's completion, Applejack decided to visit her wife in Fillydelphia and show off their children. Upon meeting her children, Rainbow Dash immediately dropped from the tour and went home to help take care of them. As they grew up, Cider Blitz and Blue Stem took to calling Applejack "Ma" and calling Rainbow Dash "Mum" to differentiate the two.

-Like many apple family members born on the farm, Blue Stem and Cider Blitz grew up working on the orchard. However, at school, Stem met Golden Strokes and Two Pair. Strokes inspired Stem to take up art, and she got her cutie mark; a blue pen drawing a lightning bolt. It was at the exact same time that Blitz would get his cutie mark for working at Sweet Apple Acres.

-Unlike her brother, Stem stayed at school for the full 13 years. She grew very close to Strokes and Two Pair and they ended up becoming inseparable.

-After graduating, Blue Stem would sit around the farm doodling, contemplating wether she wanted to stay on the farm and work part time as a freelance artist, or go to college and make artistry a career. One day, she got bored and sat outside the barn doodling and watching her family work. While Applejack worked on the trees, Stem decided to draw her mom in the various poses she took when kicking. Upon doing this, Stem realized that she had managed to make an image move by simply drawing it. Excitedly, she tried a walk cycle, and then a pony taking flight. Blue Stem had discovered animation.

#MLP Onverse #Onverse- Blue Stem #Blue Stem #My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #MLP:FIM #mlp next gen #my little pony #my art #Applejack #Rainbow Dash #Applejack x Rainbow Dash next gen #appledash #appledash next gen #Onverse- Nightly Storm #Nightly Storm

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fantroll-purgatory · 6 years

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Ellara Aphros

@ghostlyshoes

Yeah, I know for now she looks a tad like a certain canon character we know. Though she’s a trollsona and somewhat based off me anyway. I’m open to changes in design you might want to put forward though! (Note: the one on the far left was created by a friend for me!)

Hmmm… I might want to play with this idea of her looking like Vriska a little bit, actually. It’s very uncommon for trolls to share signs, which means they’re very closely related if they DO share a common sign. So I think… Usually I don’t jump the gun on talking about themes and ideas like this all the way at the beginning, but I think I want her ancestor to be at least related to Mindfang. Maybe her ancestor was one of Mindfang’s Hypothetical on-planet descendants…

I want to do this connection link if only because of her interest in the zodiac, interest in history, interest in destiny, stuff like that.

Planet: Alternia

Name: Ellara Aphros ‘Ellara’ is close to ‘Helena/Helen’ which means ‘bright shining light’ or Torch. It may have connections to ‘Helios’ the Greek sun God in lexicographical meaning. ‘Aphros’ comes from ‘Aphrodite’ Venus’s Roman counterpart. It also links to both ‘Phosphorous’ (A Chemical element which is highly reactive and glows with a bright white light, ‘phosphorescent’ meaning to glow, particularly in the Dark which could also relate to her god-tier Sylph of Light which means ‘Creator of Light’. And the word ‘Amp’ a unit of electric current.

Eilidh might be a better option than Ellara, because it is the Gaelic version of the name Helen.

Aphros might be good, though the amp thing doesn’t feel particularly related to her name or her theme… And she’s not particularly focused on beauty, so referencing Aphrodite might not be the best option? Maybe Vernal instead. Vernal references the Vernal Equinox, which is the solar position from which the Zodiac was determined.

Eilidh Vernal.

Trolltag: ghostlyCensurer, predeterminedSpectre [GC, PS]

‘ghostlyCensurer’ refers to her being the ‘watcher’ from far afield. Unspotted and unnoticed by most everyone. As well as her silent analysis on the suburb which she lives above of. ‘preterminedSpectre’ is pretty similar. ‘Predetermined’ In her need to know the future and

extrasolarObserver instead, maybe? Extrasolar implies a far distance away but also references her light theme, and Observer links back to the watcher thing but just… sounds better with extrasolar than Censurer does. Oooooh or extrasolarAugur to reference her interest in things like tarot…

Typing Quirk: Replaces ‘E’ with ‘3’ (Reference to her lusus, who is a Cerberus so three heads) Uses the ‘V●ᴥ●V’ Dog Puns wherever possible Punctuation in packs of three (!!!, ???, …) (Especially when excited about a certain topic)

I think the 3 could still work with the Papillon mom because 3 looks like a butterfly’s wing.

Blood Colour: Cerulean

Symbol: True Scorpio (Originally ‘Venus’) (Venus can also mean ‘Morning Star’ (connected to the meaning of Lucifer, which again connects to the light theme (light bearer) and well as her Cerberus lusus))

Lusus: Corgiberus (The Pack-Mind) Slightly air-headed but rather friendly. Can be intimidating due to her massive size and loud barking noises. The closer trolls come to approaching the hive the louder it starts barking. It can reach levels that deafen the odd rust or brown blood.

Alternate (this one might keep with the Cerulean colour more) Butterbark A giant ‘Papillion’ or butterfly dog. It has it’s ears set as it’s wings and three giant compound eyes, two in the standard place at the side and one acting as a ‘third eye’ in the centre. It’s very friendly despite its oddly terrifying features. (Butterflies are thought to be spirits of the dead watching over you in many cultures and circles. This links back to her ‘ghostly’ and ‘spectre’ trolltags)

I like the Papillon idea a lot better! Butterbark… Barkflymom… I like the idea of this cute papillon dog with earwings that is also a little bit armored. Friendly, cute, a pal. Butterflies are also often references to the Impact of the past and also the potentiality of the future, so I think this adds some additional layers to her theme.

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Strife Specibus: Stationarykind (Using several types of stationary, pens, pencils, rulers etc. Although she is generally less skilled at using each one of them, it’s also what she uses in order to note down a lot of her findings and obviously more practical than tossing a book.)

I actually like the idea of her using Tarotkind. She pulls a combination of cards and has to utilize the attack that is produced by that combination. Example: Say she pulls a two of swords, a two of wands, and the magician: she’d have access to a 2x1 sword, both sides of which can function as a magical focus. But if she pulled the hermit, the fool, and a three of cups, she might summon three old banged up juggling cups.

Fetch Modus: Zodiackind Yep all 48 signs. She builds up association between objects and what she uses to read people/the future and they go into 1 of 48 different ‘sections’. Although, she has to work out which section the object has actually gone into herself.

You should have this visually look a bit like a constellation map and each of the items is a “star” in a constellation. She has to map out the entire constellation and then pick out the appropriate star corresponding to the item she wants to retrieve.

Powers: None (As typical for most highbloods)

She gets Blueblood Psychic Resistance, at least.

Title: Sylph of Light

(Explanation for this will be lower down and referenced in her personality/interests)

I actually have to protest that she’s a Seer of Light. A passive observer, someone who utilizes mediums through which to obtain and analyze information. Someone who searches for information, cares deeply about collecting and understanding it… But it would also push her to learn how to engage with other people, because passive classes are all about the good of the group.

Land: Land of Blockades and Gleam (LOBAG)

Land of Meteor and Twinkle. I wanted to give her a LOMAT acronym to reference Vriska as well. It could be a landscape covered in observatories, with the meteors circling the planet also metaphorically referencing her distance from others. AND meteors give off light. Fun.

Denizen: Paris (Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, which is where the route of her name comes from, it makes sense that they would be a challenge for her.)

Here might be where you use the name Aphrodite instead. An image-focused deity who is somewhat motherly… It was Aphrodite’s fault that Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, so it feels more appropriate to use a deity.

Dream Moon: Prospit

Hive Location: A hill overlooking a suburb, her hive being mostly apart from any others. It has a large window which has a view of the town in almost it’s entirety. She’s looking upon the lives of others without interacting with them. It’s fit with a telescope which can be used to look at the stars and planets above. Or sometimes ca be used to look across various sections of the planet (but not too far.) She finds herself analyzing (or over analyzing) these things.

Hive: Generally, a large mess; mostly consisting of various half written essays and complaints, half read books and other materials strewn across floors and desks. Many plush animals also lay around the hive, a lot of them rather pristine (she uses them as kind of a comfort, rather than to demonstrate anything). Doesn’t stop her from losing her a lot of her supplies, she’s really good at loosing things.

Personality/Backstory/Interests: Ellara has spent most of her time observing people and observing the lives of others through her own eyes rather than interfering with them or making them better in any way. She’s a hermit with an interest in people but with no actual friends. She generally considers herself a critic and sometimes finds herself critiquing several types of literature across troll history. She’s fond of finding metaphors within them, even if they make little sense or are just kind of esoteric. She has a hard time completing everything she intends to or sets out to do, however, either due to her fear of failure, lack of commitment or general sense of laziness.

Although her main issue perhaps that she is too pushy and critical and this leads her to come off as unwelcoming, defensive and antagonistic. Since she’s not all that good at getting on with people, mostly due to her isolation and common state of introspection (even if it leads to her frequently doubting herself). She finds it hard to tell when her criticism is welcome or needed and gets herself worked up when she dosen’t really need to. She’s really quick to think of the worst possible outcome to a situation and isn’t afraid to remind people of it. She states she would rather be ‘right or pleasantly surprised’ which gives her an air of arrogance. She’ll rather plan out her steps into the unknown and gather the knowledge she needs before attempting anything, she’s very wrapped up in analysing the possibilities of the future and the past. Whether this be through scientifically trying to analyse trends or through using tarot cards and analysing star placements. Although she has been known to make the occasional impulsive decision, normally leading to bad consequences.

I do like the idea of this character being an outside watcher. I want to push that a little bit by having her fascinated with people. Enjoying researching their histories and who might be related to them and all that. Gathering useful data that she can then interpret through the lens of her zodiac signs or tarot cards. Create a kind of fascination with ancestors in general. Knowing their histories and how people are likely to mirror those lives…

And I think you should have her be just a little interested in pirates. Maybe not interested in sailing or combating herself, but maybe have her be interested in the history of them, the strategies they employed, and the superstitions they believed in.

In fact, having her be superstitious in general may be a good idea?

If you want her to be a prospit player, you can’t have her decisions be Too analytical or rational. I think you should make her have just a sort of bet-on-it feeling with regards to fate and destiny and the future-seeing objects and predictors she uses. She can be ultimately worried about the decisions she’s making, but have her fall back on these interests and habits instead of Thorough Thought.

And now for design!:

Oof my tablet started throwing a fit halfway through this so it’s not my best work, but here we go!

Horns: We never see horns that are different heights and it was a little too obvious that her horn was just Vriska’s horn with a bit erased. So I gave her some horns that look like butterfly wings and antennae.

Hair: Just a few more fun flips for effect.

Glasses/eyes: I edited them so that there was a jeweler’s magnifying glass over her one eye, along with a light attachment. I thought it was a good way to reference her wanting to analyze things closer. I also edited her makeup to be a bit less thick, got rid of the eyebrows, and edited her left pupil to be shaped a bit like a butterfly. I wanted to create 3 pupils to keep with the three concept.

Mouth: I thicked the lips a little and added some fangs.

Scarf: I wanted to create some visual difference between her jacket and Vriska, so the best way to do that for me was… make a scarf. Like the kind fortune tellers wear in movies, with the tassels.

Pants/Shoes: I redid them entirely, mostly because everything looked a bit clunky and proportionally off? I wanted to keep the kind of platform shoes, though, so I did that. I also added some butterfly wings to her shoes in white.

Thanks for sharing her!

-CD

#ghostlyshoes #ellara aphros #eilidh vernal #ceruleanblood #cobaltblood #ellara #aphros #eilidh #vernal #review #redesign #cd review #submission

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pedromodesto69 · 6 years

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Five Things

I was tagged by @scoobydoonightof100frights !

5 things you’ll find in my bag: pink rocks from an airport, money, various pens and highlighters, gum, and a guitar pick

5 things you’ll find in my room: two old radios/cassette players, two guitars and an amp, lamp that looks like it’s a fish tank with dolphins swimming in it, Diablada mask, gorilla mask lol

5 of my favorite things: playing guitar/singing/music in general, talking to my friends, meeting new people, skateboarding, my name lol

5 things i‘m currently into: (I’m gonna assume this means activities and things) 2000′s movies like stepbrothers and grownups (grownups sucks ass but for some reason I like watching it anyway), exercising, eating red baron pizza (red baron RULES), youtube poops

5 things on my to do list: finish my history essay, go skating, get a job, buy and audio interface and mic, practice the drums

I’m tagging @holy-moonlight-sword @skatertots @xboxlivegf @eastgaysian @ll-rd and like if you just wanna do this just say I tagged you

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mongoose232323 · 4 years

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Celebrate Columbus Day?

HELL NO ... I DON’T THINK SO

He Was Nothing More Than A Racist Tyrant

Who Enslaved And Murdered A People Who

Fed And Helped He And His men To Survive

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The Lucayan did not know it was Oct. 12, 1492. They did not know that their island, in what would become the Bahamas, had been spotted by Spanish explorers led by a Genoese man named Christopher Columbus. And they did not know that in less than 30 years, their island would be empty from the coming genocide.

As Columbus and his men approached, the Lucayans greeted them warmly, offering food and water, and “we understood that they had asked us if we had come from heaven,” Columbus wrote in his journal.

Then he added, “With 50 men they can all be subjugated and made to do what is required of them.”

Some of them, he noticed, were wearing gold nose rings.

Columbus and his crew stayed just long enough to kidnap a few inhabitants, before sailing away to explore other islands filled with indigenous people.

This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

In Hispaniola — what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic — Columbus encountered the Lucayans’ cousins, the Taíno. (The Lucayan were a branch of the much larger Taíno, who were part of the Arawak language group.) Historians disagree on how many Taíno lived on Hispaniola at the time, with estimates ranging from 60,000 to 8 million. One contemporaneous account from Bartolomé de las Casas claimed there were 3 million. More about las Casas shortly.

There Columbus built a fort where he left a few dozen of his crew, killed two people, took more hostages and sailed back to Spain. As soon as they hit cooler weather, the Taíno began to die, according to Howard Zinn in “A People’s History of the United States.”

After significantly overselling the prospects for gold to the king and queen of Spain, Columbus returned to Hispaniola with 17 ships and 1,200 men. The men he had left at the fort the year before had all been killed, “after they had roamed the island in gangs looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labor,” Zinn wrote.

Columbus and his crew searched and searched for gold to no avail, so they filled their ships with something else they could sell: people. Of the 500 Taíno they took — selected because they were the strongest and healthiest specimens — 200 died on the voyage to Spain. Many more died once they had been sold into slavery.

So Columbus tried again for gold, but this time he and his men didn’t go looking for it. They ordered all Taíno people 14 and older to deliver a certain amount of gold dust every three months. If they didn’t, their hands would be cut off.

At this point, the Taíno were refusing to grow crops, and those who didn’t bleed to death after their hands were removed began to die of famine and disease. When they fled into the mountains, they were hunted down by dogs. Many killed themselves with cassava poison.

Columbus’s men also continued to sexually abuse Taíno women and girls. In 1500, Columbus wrote to an acquaintance that “there are many dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to 10 are now in demand.”

As the population plummeted, they abducted indigenous people from other islands, like the Lucayan, to work the fields and mines of Hispaniola. When the British colonized the Bahamas in the 1600s, the islands had been deserted for more than a century.

Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola in 1502, when he was 18. For decades, he participated in the mistreatment of the Taíno and the introduction of enslaved Africans, before renouncing it all, becoming a Dominican friar and confessing what he had witnessed in “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.”

It is worth quoting him at length. This excerpt is very graphic:

“They [Spanish explorers] forced their way into native settlements, slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could slice a man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual’s head from his body, or disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers’ breasts, dashed them headlong against the rocks. Others, laughing and joking all the while, threw them over their shoulders, shouting, ‘Wriggle, you little perisher.’

When las Casas wrote this in 1542, there were only 200 Taíno left on Hispaniola. Across the Caribbean, he claimed the Spanish were responsible for the deaths of 12 to 15 million indigenous people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/14/here-are-indigenous-people-christopher-columbus-his-men-could-not-annihilate/?outputType=amp

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rosemariecawkwell · 2 years

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Pen & Sword Review: Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome, by LJ Trafford

Imprint: Pen & Sword HistorySeries: Sex and SexualityPages: 224ISBN: 9781526786876Published: 23rd September 2021 Blurb From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is one of sexual excess:…

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#Book review #History #pen & sword history #Roman History #Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year

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Edward VI: Henry VIII's Overshadowed Son by Stephanie Kline #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview

When discussing the history of Tudor England, King Edward VI is often overlooked, but one historian thinks that' a mistake. #EdwardVI #HenryVIIIsovershadowedson by #StephanieKline #NetGalley #ARC #BookReview #TudorEngland #HenryVIII #queenelizabeth

For too long, King Edward VI has been pushed to the very edges of Tudor history – overlooked in favour of some of the more vibrant personalities of his family members, such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Known as the ‘boy king’ of the Tudor dynasty, he is often remembered for little more than the ambitious councillors who governed England during his minority. His reign, however, and the…

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#Edward VI #Henry VIII #King Edward VI #King Henry VIII #Lady Jane Grey #Pen & Sword History #Queen Elizabeth #Tudor #Tudor England

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olganmwriter · 3 years

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#Bookreview HOW TO SURVIVE IN ANCIENT ROME by L. J. Trafford (@traffordlj) (@penswordbooks) An enjoyable way to learn about Ancient Rome #history #AncientRome

Hi all: I bring you a non-fiction book for those of you who’ve always dreamed of travelling back in time and visiting Imperial Rome. How to Survive in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford How to Survive in Ancient Rome by L J Trafford Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where…

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shenoted · 4 years

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Thoughts on Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558–1837, by members of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837

As citizens of a very different world, though one in which work still needs to be done, the members of the Women’s Studies Group can honour both of them, along with many of the women whose lives we have been exploring, for their refusal to leave the world as they found it.

Carolyn D. Williams

Women’s History as a scholarly discipline owes its roots, in part, to historical revisionism – whereby…

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#Book Reviews #history blogger #history blogs #history book review #history books #pen & sword

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tudorblogger · 4 years

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Book Review - 'The Peasants' Revolting Crimes' by Terry Deary

Book Review – 'The Peasants' Revolting Crimes' by Terry Deary

Popular history writer Terry Deary takes us on a light-hearted and often humorous romp through the centuries with Mr & Mrs Peasant, recounting foul and dastardly deeds committed by the underclasses, as well as the punishments meted out by those on the right side’ of the law. Discover tales of arsonists and axe-wielders, grave robbers and garroters, poisoners and prostitutes. Delve into the dark…

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the-new-royalty-world-me · 3 years

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Review : Philip, Prince of Greece

Philip, Prince of GreeceThe Duke of Edinburgh’s Early Life and the Greek SuccessionAuteur: John Carr9781526790828Uitgever : Pen & Sword Books Ltd Many books have been written about the life of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, yet there always seem to be corners of his long life that have remained unexplored. In this long look back into his early years, Constantinos Lagos and John Carr…