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I won't go into detail but if the women in 'The Handmaid's tale' had studied how resistance/partisan/guerilla groups worked in the past, they would have avoided quite a few mistakes.#blessedbethefight

Almost 2000 years ago Claudia Severa, wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of an unidentified fort somewhere in northern England, wrote to Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Flavius Cerialis, commander at Vindolanda.

Imagine how hungry one particular ancestor of ours must have been to be the first human ever to try a turnip, or an egg or mushroom or anything really.Some food

In the early 15th century the Duke of Berry had the famous Limburg brothers (Dutch, of course, yay!) make him a Book of hours and this book is one of

One of my favourite artists ever is Norman Rockwell, very talented, uniquely qualified to portray capture an era, a way of life and somehow also exactly who I am and

I wasn't going to bother but I'm getting so many requests, I'll make a very short thread on it.Beethoven was not black.This idea appears to be based some people thinking

I'm writing a bit about literacy in Medieval Europe and just wanted to share the lovely writings 7 year old Onfim who lived in the 13th century left behind.He wrote