#history fandom

[id0lpareo]

little doodle i never posted HAHAH

my precious naps and juno

[johnadamsbignaturals]

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

If twitter existed in the Napoleonic Era

[baby-its-freezing-outside]

Not to say that the burning of the Library of Alexandria was in any way less tragic or devastating, but I'm kinda tired about the way it's all presented. Sure it was something horrible that Caesar did, but can we talk about a different thing that doesn't even get mentioned? Can we talk about Nalanda with its 9 million books that burnt for three entire months? Can we talk about the scope of this cruelty that the western world just seems to be ignorant of? It happened in the 1190s when invader Bakhtiar Khilji ordered the whole place be set on fire, enraged that Buddhist monks possessed more knowledge about medicine than his own doctors.

[gwynndomhnall]

Some silly little French Revolution sketches because drawing dead people is more important than paying attention in math class to me

[nostalgia-tblr]

A Selection Of "This Won't End Well" Moments From History Books What I Have Read:

"'Henry the Young King'? Why doesn't he have a number?"

"Hey, if this Prince Arthur doesn't die unexpectedly he'll be King Arthur! I didn't think we'd had a non-fictional one of those!"

"That's a weird coincidence, his wife has the exact same name as his younger brother's wife. His younger brother King Henry."

"Oh, he's putting the one remaining York boy in the Tower?"

"Och, she'll be fine, human queens aren't like bee queens you can very safely have two in the same hive! And she'll be safe enough with her own cousin, surely!"

"Wait, if John of Gaunt's the third son does that not mean there's one that's older than him and still alive? Are we just skipping him then? Is that not a bit irregular? Will this be Important Later On?"

"He'll be safe enough with his own uncle, surely?"

"This is the Empress Matilda's brother, isn't it? Getting onto a boat. In the dark. While drunk."

"He'll be safe enough with his own wife, surely?"

"Why do they call her Juana la Loca?"

"Why have I heard of Mary and Elizabeth before but not Edward?"

"Is this the guy that died in an episode of The Tudors?"

"Yeah, there's plenty of time for Jane Grey to produce some heirs ma- Oh. Well maybe not then."

"That guy also died in an episode of The Tudors, didn't he? And him. And her. And him. And him. Actually I think this queen might have as well?"

*counts on fingers* "'Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, behea-' Aww, fuck, she did die in an episode of The Tudors."

"He'll be safe enough with his own... oh, his brother's already on a horse riding towards the capital as fast as he can."

[frankidacre]

Posting here one of my favorite pieces <3 I always associate Andrews with the sun/sunflowers.

[macaron-n-cheese]

history fandom rn:

Poor little dead people. Sorry for making you roll in your grave.

I'm sorry, James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson, that I said you should kiss and send carrier mockingbird love letters because you are neighbors.

[imagineyourhistoricalfigure]

imagine your favourite historical figure watching biopic about themselves and commenting on every moment from there

[syltaxerror]

I am so terrified of the American and French Revolution fandom,

They are all over my dash as of currently

It is because I am studying them. more specifically- trying to answer the question “why??????????”

Current theory: they are idealists in the same vain as renaissance painters. But the difference is that they are also on the internet

Also I think most of them go to art school

[almaprincess66]

Does anyone else learn something about a historical figure and just start disliking them a bit?

Like I thought I could excuse Y because of X but now that I heard Z, Y does sound something that should not be excused.

Anyway I think I will need a bit of time so I can look upon them and not frown.

This was about John Laurens but also fits on Alexander Hamilton too. And any other historical figute that was "a product of their time"

[id0lpareo]

i think u guys can tell which one i had the most fun with (spoiler alert its murat)

ignore how i forgot my signature blush on murat

bonus under cut (i feel like its too cringe to put alongside the rest GSHGDSHG)

ignore the little gelatin and fries and tb doodle underneath....

[johnadamsbignaturals]

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

"He was the best guy aroundddd😁"

"What about the people he murdered?"

"What murdahhhhh☺️❤️"

[procopiamiscanthus]

👉swipe to right to dress up His Eminence

[chaotic-history]

thought of this bc of the last post but I hate when people say a certain historical figure was ahead of their time just bc they had progressive views or whatnot. And I'm looking at many things written about Roger Williams here just as an example, because yes, his ideas were hugely progressive, but they were also firmly rooted in 17thC nonconformism (and those things don't have to be contradictory!). To act as though he was just.. ahead of his time ignores the reality and nuance of his beliefs.

And, to say his progressive beliefs automatically make him ahead of his time, a product of the distant future rather than his present, is also to say that people in the 1600s weren't progressive; that progressivism simply didn't exist. Which clearly it did, and it always has. Roger's progressive ideas are inescapably a product of his time, just as much as the ideas of the Massachusetts Bay leaders who banished him are a product of the same time. The past is just as capable of producing opposing ideas as the present is.

There have always been people pushing and fighting for progressive ideals, and to act like everybody pre-2000 or pre-1950s or whatever all held totally regressive beliefs is to the deny the history and the existence of the people who were fighting for our rights and for the same things we're still fighting for now, and that's a disservice to them and to us.