At first the people liked their new Queen-to-be, but the Royal Court was another story. A shark tank of grasping ambition, this crowd had promoted several Saxon Princesses for the match and called the Dauphine “The Austrian Woman”. She would come to be called far worse.
October 16, 1793 Let them eat Cake — Today in History
Here is a fascinating post about Marie Antoinette, a historical figure I always felt intensely sorry for.
So there’s going to be a movie about the finding of Richard III, starring Steve Coogan. I’m curious as to how this will go, not least because it was actually a woman called Philippa Langley who lead the project, and her story is fascinating but the biggest name attached to the film is playing… her husband…?
But I thought with that news fresh in everyone’s minds I could share a few photos/details of what it was like to be in Leicester when all that was going on!
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A couple of days after the news that Richard III’s bones had been found in the car park, I went to check it out! There wasn’t much going on though. I guess because the actual bones had been taken away already?
That was in 2012. Flash forward a year and his reconstructed skull (not the real one) was in the Leicester Guildhall along with a bunch of other Richard III stuff.
It’s all been relocated to the Richard III museum now I think.
Then in 2015 there was the actual reburial ceremony…
I still have that pamphlet. At the uni it was absolutely packed, it’s lucky I was able to see anything at all. Oooh look I took a video as well!
So me/the crowds followed the coffin in the car back to the town center….
…and then I had to leave and go to work. But you get the idea!
In the days after that every business in Leicester was using Richard III to advertise their services. It was great for tourism.
Someone also put flowers on Richard’s statue. (This used to be in the park opposite my halls of residence, I think it was moved to its current spot before the reburial.)
And Richard III’s tomb now chills in Leicester Cathedral. You can drop in and see it anytime!
(Well, maybe not now, but still.)
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote, and while that’s certainly something to be celebrated, there’s a part of the suffragette movement that tends to be overlooked. I’m talking about the disenfranchisement of women of color by the movement and some of […]
100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment — By Hook Or By Book
Here is some important history I didn’t know enough about.
Daily Mirror, England, March 20, 1920 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.
Daily Mirror, England, March 20, 1920Image © The British… — Yesterday’s Print
Aaaaah I’m so pleased to find another of these old cartoons! (I reblogged some others a few years back.) I love them. They’re such a good snapshot of a time and an attitude.
I’m not American. But –
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Source and excerpt -Washington Post, Colbert King, July 3, 2020
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yesterdaysprint:The Virginia Enterprise, Minnesota, February 2, 1912
yesterdaysprint:The Virginia Enterprise, Minnesota, February 2,… — Yesterday’s Print
I guess they might wanna… sigh… they might wanna rethink that.
The Calgary Herald, Alberta, December 11, 1946
The Calgary Herald, Alberta, December 11, 1946 — Yesterday’s Print
Presented with no commentary (but much admiration for the rhyme.)
Today is June 5th, the date the June Rebellion started in France. Les Mis fans know today as “Barricade Day.” Which gets me thinking, the only reason we in the modern day know about the June Rebellion as any more than a footnote and a few illustrations is because Victor Hugo was there and he wrote about it. Documenting things is just so damn important.
This is why I absolutely cannot stand the “Look at those vaucous millenials filming everything!” school of thought. Hopefully recent events have demonstrated WHY you should be filming/documenting everything when dealing with the police etc, especially if they’re in the vicinity of black people, and why it’s so damn horrible that it got to that point. How do you think the world found out about the murder of George Floyd, because it sure as heck wasn’t police bodycams.
The people Hugo wrote about didn’t exist, yeah, but they were stand-ins for people who did, so his publishing the book ensured we in the future got to know at least roughly what people in that era were thinking and feeling as what’s now history happened around them.
I’m really grateful we have the sort of technology now that allows us to document important things in real-time. We need to always use it for good. Always.
