#ag history

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

#film ideas #plotbunny #murder mystery #detective stories #period dramas #middle ages #history #archaeology

[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

fell for the oldest trick in the book

#4chan #history #conspiracy theory #bronze age collapse

[bidonica]

“Every Italian noble in the medieval commune era” - ENGLISH SUBTITLES

#middle ages #comedy #italy #history #turbopaolo

[yesterdaysprint]

Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920

#1920s #roaring twenties #jazz age #vintage #history #newspapers #comics #historic #1920

[agroecology]

Started the "Black Agricultural Solutions to Food Apartheid" course on Coursera today. It's completely free and I would highly recommend! Particularly if you are interested in urban agriculture and food justice.

I'll probably make a more in depth post on what the course entails + a link to it in the future.

#ag history #agroecology #urban agriculture #food justice #🌾

[typhlonectes]

#rabbit #rabbits #lagomorph #animals #nature #middle ages #art history

[lgbtlunaverse]

There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

#you will make superficial edits that do not gell well with the rest of your work #and won't actually capture what you thought was so good about that story #close the doc. sit down. think about it for a while. inspiration is fine. getting a 'eureka' moment from another story is fine #but if you find yourself comparing your work one to one with someone else's and taking any differences to be flaws on your part then STOP #you will never write good stuff by trying to make it look less like you wrote it #writing #writing advice #guess who just had to go into her google doc history and undo a bunch of panic-induced edits #because she read a fic about the same characters she's writing for? #meeee. they aged badly within just a few hours of hindsight. learn from my mistakes #self-hatred is not a good motivation for creation #fic writing

[basiliskonline]

@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

#fashion #history #fashion history #Iron Age Fashion #lendbreen tunic #mine

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#history #middle ages #medieval #memes #meme #lol #funny #tweets #tweet #twitter

[uniqueartisanconnoisseur]

From a Holt traction engine to a Claas Xerion Tractor!

These last few weeks, I have been able to experience a ride or two that have been eye opening, educational, and just plain fun. My journey began at the Half Century of Progress 2023 in Rantoul, Illinois. This, the largest vintage farm show in the US happens every two years. Then right on the heels of the Half Century is the Farm Progress show, in Decatur, Illinois. While the Half Century…

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#ag history #Avery Power Lift #Caterpillar #Claas Arion Series #Claas combine #Claas of Ameria #Claas Xerion series #Crawler Mike #Eaerthquake #Everglades of the North #Frans Reijmers #Half Centoury of Progress #Holt Traction engine #industrial machinery #Lee Randall #Lowell Indiana #Mike Timmons #Peoria #Peoria 60 #Rantoul Illiois #Tempered Tracks #Tempered Tracks Runsty Rails #tripping a plow #Will Peterson

[illustratus]

#knight #knights #art #illustration #david michael beck #david m beck #1984 #helmet #armour #medieval #middle ages #kiss #lipstick #kisses #plumes #plume #chivalry #helmets #feather #feathers #history #europe #european #cavalier #chevalier #mediaeval

[marzipanandminutiae]

thoughts on "tradwives" as a 19th-century social historian

It's great until it's not.

It's great until he develops an addiction and starts spending all the money on it.

It's great until you realize he's abusive and hid it long enough to get you totally in his power (happened to my great-great-aunt Irene).

It's great until he gets injured and can't work anymore.

It's great until he dies and your options are "learn a marketable skill fast" or "marry the first eligible man you can find."

It's great until he wants child #7 and your body just can't take another pregnancy, but you can't leave or risk desertion because he's your meal ticket.

It's great until he tries to make you run a brothel as a get-rich-quick scheme and deserts you when you refuse, leaving your sisters to desperately fundraise so your house doesn't get foreclosed on (happened to my great-great-aunt Mamie).

It's great until you want to leave but you can't. It's great until you want to do something else with your life but you can't. It's great. Until. It's. Not.

I won't lie to you and say nobody was ever happy that way. Plenty of women have been, and part of feminism is acknowledging that women have the right to choose that sort of life if they want to.

But flinging yourself into it wholeheartedly with no sort of safety net whatsoever, especially in a period where it's EXTREMELY easy for him to leave you- as it should be; no-fault divorce saves lives -is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

Have your own means of support. Keep your own bank account; we fought hard enough to be allowed them. Gods willing, you never need that safety net, but too many women have suffered because they needed it and it wasn't there.

#history #women's history #pregnancy mention #my mother (born 1953) drilled this into me from an early age: have a safety net. have a skill and keep it up to date. have your own money #NEVER join bank accounts. keep a hold on your assets. #well and good to be a stay-at-home wife and mother- I know other lesbians who want that even! #but if your partner is your sole financial support...you're courting danger IMO

[yesterdaysprint]

El Paso Herald, Texas, January 31, 1928

#1920s #roaring 20s #jazz age #vintage #history

[lionofchaeronea]

Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864

#art #art history #Frederic William Burton #historical painting #Middle Ages #medievalism #Irish art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #watercolor #gouache #watercolor on paper #National Gallery of Ireland

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dressing Gown

1878-1879

United States

Peabody Essex Museum (Object Number: 133939)

#dressing gown #fashion history #historical fashion #1870s #gilded age #bustle era #1878 #1879 #19th century #united states #green #wool #silk #embroidery #floral #peabody essex museum #popular

[ltwilliammowett]

Stowaway Jim - Ship's Cat of HMS Prince Regent, early 20th century

Came on board at Halifax N.S. November 1914 and passed for O.C. He has since been promoted, and is now C. in.C. of the P.R. Cats. He is an old wardog and bears his battle honours " Dogger Banks" and "Jutland" unostentatiously. O.C. = Ordinary Cat

#naval history #photo #stowaway jim #ship's cat #hms prince regent #early 20th century #age of steam #ship cat sunday