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The Crown s3 official trailer

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First thought: What a FANTASTIC cover of The Times They Are A-Changing. I love it. Where can I find it?!?!

Other thoughts: I can’t remember the name of the actor playing young Charles but physically he’s perfect. Interesting there’s no Diana in the trailer (although there is Camilla.)

I think this show may be playing up the rivalry between Queen Liz and her sister a LOT, because nothing I’ve ever read indicated they had that amount of animosity between them.

I sense a few hundred more awards in Olivia Colman’s future.

Funny that this dropped a few days after Meghan’s speech about the insane expectations placed on the royals, and how difficult she finds it having no privacy and being harassed by the likes of the Mail and the Sun. The times they aren’t a-changing.

German soldiers on the way to Poland, in a railway car on which is written the inscription “We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews”, alongside caricatures of Jews. Gemany. September 1939. [587×423]

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One of those pictures which I think should be reblogged despite its horrific nature. Because caricatures such as those still exist today.

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German soldiers on the way to Poland, in a railway car on which is written the inscription “We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews”

The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

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I live down the road from Bradgate Park and what remains of Jane Grey’s childhood home. She absolutely did not deserve to die the way she did, poor girl. There’s a replica of that famous picture hanging up in the museum there and I always stop and look at it.

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Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey, engraving published 1620, possibly based on an earlier painting

There is a great deal of myth, legend and many unknowns surrounding the life of Lady Jane Grey.  She is seen as a protestant martyr due to the Chronicles of Holinshed and the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe.  Then there are the indiscriminate works of Agnes Strickland and Richard Davey.  The most dependable source would be the purported “Chronicle of Queen Jane” by an anonymous eyewitness.  But in the last few years there have been some excellent biographies of Jane that delve deep into her story and give us better understanding and insight into her life and death.

Jane Grey had an illustrious ancestry.  She was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, marquess of Dorset, later 1st Duke of Suffolk and his wife Frances Brandon.  Henry Grey was a great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth Woodville by…

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It’s Anne Frank’s 90th birthday today. Also the 3rd anniversary of the Pulse shooting and almost certainly the anniversary of multiple horrible things I don’t know about but which happened. I guess it’s a good day (as are most days) to remember her famous quote: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

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history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History – going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

looking at Wikipedia’s pages for years, decades, or centuries can also be fun for this reason

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