#history side of tumblr

[troythecatfish]

Mao was staunchly pro-Palestine, and the communist movement generally has historically been supportive of Palestine over Israel (with the rare exception of the Soviet Union recognizing Israel in the first few years under Stalin, which they later corrected their position to support Palestine). Maybe this is why Zionists try to smear communism? 🤔 food for thought.

#palestine 🇵🇸 #palestine #gaza #gaza strip #west bank #middle east #important #current events #social justice #human rights #yemen #tel aviv #jerusalem #history #history posting #history tumblr #history side of tumblr #china #free gaza #free palestine #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #save gaza #stand with gaza #gazaunderfire #fuck israel #anti zionisim #israel is a terrorist state #political #political posting

[oldshrewsburyian]

Sometimes, in the footnotes, you can almost hear the academics sobbing.

#adventures in academia #the sarashina diary #heian period #japan #history side of tumblr

[oscarisaacasimov]

History remixed in OFMD

Stede Bonnet, the aristocrat who left his family and fortune behind to become a pirate, really existed. He paid his crew regular wages, unheard of at the time, and was one of the few historical pirates who made people walk the plank.

Blackbeard and Bonnet struck up an unlikely friendship, and decided to cruise together, with Blackbeard taking command while Bonnet kept to his cabin, recovering from his wounds

Despite Blackbeard's ferocious reputation, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Israel Hands had nicknames in his written records including Basilica and Hezekiah.

Israel Hands captained a second ship as part of Blackbeard's fleet.

Teach's Queen Anne's Revenge was run aground on a sandbar, and Hands' Adventure also became stuck when trying to assist.

Teach marooned about 25 men on a small sandy island. Bonnet rescued them two days later.

In June 1718, Bonnet & Teach separately accepted a pardon for their piracy, but by August had returned to piracy.

Israel Hands was shot in the knee by Ed Teach / Blackbeard. Some accounts say the captain was firing at another sailor and hit Hands by mistake, offering as explanation "if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was." Others say Blackbeard was asserting his authority as captain when Hands disagreed with him.

The historical Israel Hands did not lose his leg, though his injury disabled him permanently. While Hands was recovering from his wound, Ed Teach was killed in battle and Stede Bonnet was captured by British authorities off the coast of North Carolina. They were both executed, although Israel Hands testified against corrupt North Carolina officials, in exchange for a pardon.

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Hands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stede_Bonnet

#ofmd #izzy hands #stede bonnet #blackbeard #edward teach #golden age of piracy #history side of tumblr

[chaospixiemagic]

Truly … I am in love with these pirates. All of them. This show is absolutely killing it and it is a MASTERCLASS in storytelling. If you haven’t started watching … fix that. Catch up. This tale is heartbreakingly beautiful 🥹

#ofmd s2 #our flag means death #izzy hands #piracy #pirate history #history side of tumblr #pirate facts #special interest #ofmd

[humnooshop]

It's the Black Death European tour of 1347-1351!

The relaxed fit t-shirt and other products with this design are available on my Redbubble :)

#black death #the plague #medieval england #the black death #medieval #medieval history #medieval europe #plague doctor #plague mask #history #grunge #macabre #plaguecore #medieval core #middle ages #history side of tumblr #bubonic plague #grunge aesthetic #tees #graphic tees

[boudoirmood]

#cunk on earth #cunk on britain #cunk on everything #philomena cunk #girl blogger #girly stuff #history #history shitposting #history side of tumblr

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

hey question for the history side of tumblr: have we always kinda sorta just known that homer probably composed the odyssey or was there like a specific point in time where historians were like "okay so this thing must've been written by this guy!" and before then it was sorta up in the air? like i just wanna be sure (this is for fanfiction purposes)

#homers odyssey #the odyssey #history #history side of tumblr #ancient greece

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The king just cried aloud: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?!!”

#thomas beckett #history #history side of tumblr

[supernulperfection]

well

that's funny

@friendshapedhole

#*saddam to rumsfeld* “how did you learn this son” “i learned this from watching you” #politics #neoconservatism #war cw #history side of tumblr

[caleb-is-existing]

I made a realisation

A passport is called a passport because it let's you pass through the port, and the things the boats go to are called ports and that's why airports are called airports because they are ports for aeroplanes

#shitpost #it's 12:20am what am I on about #history side of tumblr #am I correct?

[troythecatfish]

#black history #black tumblr #history tumblr #history side of tumblr #history posting #history #military #us military #us air force #black lives matter #history tag #social justice

[oldshrewsburyian]

Available as an open-access PDF via the publisher or @jstor, this sourcebook takes in a wide range of genres to look at histories of disability in medieval Europe. You can also get a hard copy for under $30 if you feel like supporting an indie publisher. Any royalties are donated to causes related to disability justice.

#disability history #medieval history #history side of tumblr #disability pride month #queue

[shadowsong26x]

So here's an alternate history thought...

I'm not sure I've ever come across this one before (and to be fair I don't know all the alternate history that's out there But).

This is about Edward II of England.

For those of you who don't know, he was some flavor of queer/MLM ((generally considered to be gay; I'm wary of putting specific labels on historical figures for a number of reasons, but that is I believe the general consensus as to his sexuality.))

He also had pretty awful taste in men.

Like, there were revolts against him over his favorites/boyfriends--not actually so much because they were dudes, but because he kept giving them properties and offices and so on. Also the Despensers in particular (probably only Hugh the Younger was his lover; but Hugh the Elder (his father) also got a lot of stuff) were just. Unpleasant Grasping Assholes.

Edward himself was also kind of an asshole.

Anyway, his first favorite was a man named Piers Gaveston. What records we have do seem to indicate that there was Genuine Affection between the two of them. But...well, the above problems applied; one of the most egregious examples was when Edward II married Isabella of France, it...like Gaveston's arms were everywhere; it basically read, according to contemporary accounts, more like a wedding feast for Edward and Piers than Edward and Isabella. Which, in addition to being a Bad Idea politically when celebrating a Political Treaty Marriage, is also just. Rude????

There's more, but that's the Relevant Background to this. Thing. that came into my brain.

And that is this:

What if Edward II did the Edward VIII thing--i.e., abdicated to be with Piers in a way he Could Not as king?

Edward had two half-brothers; the older was Thomas of Brotherton. What kind of king would Thomas I have been? What would all of this mean for the next two centuries of English (and French) history?

Does this alternate history novel already exist???

#history #history side of tumblr #alternate history #alternate history side of tumblr #edward ii #yes i'm aware i could write it myself #but i have other projects #including a different alternate history #where henry viii dies in that one jousting accident #(which is mostly focused on mary and elizabeth's relationship as elizabeth grows up after mary deposes her) #(vague plan to have it in an epistolary format starting form elizabeth's marriage) #(though also mary returning england to the catholic church is much more feasible at that point) #ANYWAY so yeah i'm curious if this already exists #or if anyone else wants to run with it who's done a little more in-depth reading on the period #(most of my plantagenet knowledge is henry ii and the soap opera of his immediate family) #and okay to be fair thomas's age at the time of their father's death makes this Unlikely #but Still

[sliceocheese]

YALL WHAT THE HELL IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GUY TOGA AND GIRL TOGA HELP

#freddie screams into the void #history side of tumblr #I call for your aid

[injuries-in-dust]

What items do we have now that future archaeologists might interpret are for "ritual purposes"

#random thoughts #history side of tumblr #funny

[boudoirmood]

Victorian ´Oxford lavender’ attar bottle throwaway perfume samples

“These delightful bottles originally held a small amount of perfume and were to be discarded after use, hence they are rather scarce items today.” - source: Harrington Antiques

#antiques #Victorian #victorian aesthetic #victorian period #perfume #perfume bottle #girly blogging #girly blog #history side of tumblr #history #Lana del Rey #girl interrupted #female manipulator