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historiumThis community is intended as a central community for all historical fandoms, both fictional and RPF. Welcome!
This is a place for posting and linking to any historical fic, icons, art, links, recs, reviews, meta, news, fanworks of any type, useful resources, discussion, community & event promos. If it's to do with a historical fandom, whether RPF or fictional, then it's welcome here. For fanworks, all ratings are fine.
As 'history' is a very wide fandom, this community is also intended to help people find like-minded souls and gauge interest in setting up more specific communities/friending etc. (but it's always fine to interact here). It's also a place for historical fandoms too small/obscure to have their own spaces.
If you're new to Dreamwidth, you can find a collection of helpful welcome & how-to posts here.
Rules & Guidelines
* Be civil to other members - discussion and debate is great, but no trolling, spamming, re-enacting of old time wars in any posts/comments, and absolutely no racism or hatespeech to be used directly against anyone.
* Please put any large (or multiple) graphics, fic, long posts, spoilers, multiple embeds & anything NSFW etc. under a cut. If you are posting content that refers to any more sensitive or problematic areas of history, you must put this behind a cut or post via a link + appropriate content notes/warnings. (To make a cut, in html use: [cut text="More under here etc."], replacing [] with < and >.)
(The community display default is 'suitable for all ages' but it is fine to post NSFW material - just alter the Age Restriction box when you post to 'discretion' or '18+' if you are posting the content to the comm rather than linking to AO3 or a personal journal etc. If there is nothing adult in the post itself, this isn't necessary.)
* Content posted to this community needs to be relevant to history and fandom in some way. It doesn't have to be long, or fanworks only - links, reviews, discussion, resources, commentfests & challenges, news, community promos, and questions etc. are all welcome. Sensitive and difficult content will at times be inevitable given the nature of history, and we have no banned period/topics currently, but members must use cut/links and warnings (or clearly choose not to warn) when posting such content to allow everyone to navigate the comm safely.
However, any active promotion of or apologism for offensive ideologies etc. is of course not allowed. The mods reserve the right to remove material or ban users if we have reason to believe they are abusing content guidelines, trolling, or harrassing anyone. Please contact us if you feel this is the case. (Anon commenting is on here, or you can PM a mod.) We may also review these guidelines at any time.
* Anon commenting is on, but you can adjust comment settings for each individual post to allow screening or disable comments as you prefer.
* The cut-off point definition of history (for the purposes of this comm only!) is 50 years prior to the date of posting, but we realise this always a grey area.
* History vs mythology is another fine line, so please just use your best judgement; ditto historically-set fantasy but most will be fine as long as they're set in an recognisable historical period.
If you're unsure your content 'counts' in any way, you can ask here or PM a mod, but in general the answer will be yes!
* It's fine to post here even if there's a specific era or fandom community! (If any one fandom with its own comm starts flooding the comm, we may temporarily ask people not to cross-post to both.)
* When posting fanworks, please use some kind of header above the cut or link - the AO3 share feature is great, or you can c+p the below (which includes optional coding for links/cuts), but anything similar will do fine:
* Tagging: this exists to find content on the comm and is currently mod-only for creation of tags, but any member may add existing tags to their post. If you would like to request any particular tags to be made for any reason, please contact a mod.
There is an Historium AO3 Collection that you can use for any works created specifically for community challenges or in any way inspired by any discussion/interaction etc. here.
If you want to promote the comm, thank you! Here is the c+p html text to make a magic linking banner appear in your journal/other communities:
List of known specific-era/fandom historical communities.
Material relating to these eras/fandoms is still welcome here, but part of the purpose of this community is to help people find other more specific communities where they exist.
Some of these communities may be inactive, but all currently exist and have some content of interest/potential for revival. Please comment with any more relevant comms you are aware of, new or old!
General Period/Era etc.
middle_ages (inactive)
tudors (inactive)
18th/19thC/Napoloeonic etc.
age_of_sail
anything_aos
showthecolours (RPG)
despatches (AOS newsletter)
napoleonic_era
revolution_fr (French Revolution)
aos_captions
aninfamousarmy (Wellington's Army)
rheinsberg (Frederick the Great etc.)
19th C
fabulae_victoriana (RPG)
corsetsandlemons (19th C Lit kinkmeme)
Specific Fictional Fandoms
General Historical Fiction
historyisalie (for all fictional historical fandoms)
mystery_mansion (Crime & Detective fiction, includes plenty of historical detectives)
corsets_and_carriages (for all costume dramas & adaptations)
historicalyafen (YA Fiction)
hidden_passages (all Gothic fandoms)
Agent Carter
ssrconfidential (fic exchange)
agentcarterfandom (inactive)
Joan Aiken
willoughby_chase (inactive)
Assassin's Creed
assassinscreed (inactive)
Aubreyad/Master & Commander
perfect_duet (Jack/Stephen)
mandc_watch
mandc_read
where_away (Quotes)
for_all_love Fanfic
mandc_library (Incative, fic.)
Jane Austen
jaff (Jane Austen fanfic)
slashing_jane (slash fic, inactive)
janeausten (Members only, moderated, inactive)
Band of Brothers
looselipssinkships (Prompt Meme for HBO war series)
ddsherman
heavyartillery
Black Sails
black_sails
blacksails_kink (Kinkmeme)
Call the Midwife
call_the_midwife_fans
K J Charles
kjc_fans
Da Vinci's Demons
davincisdemons
Downton Abbey
downtonabbey
Endeavour
all_endeavour (fic, inactive, LJ import)
Hamilton
whamilton
hamiltunes
Generation Kill
looselipssinkships (Prompt Meme for HBO war series)
heavyartillery
Georgette Heyer
georgette_heyer
Historical Farm
farmfic
Hornblower
hmsloop_hotspur
House of Eliott
house_of_eliott
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
friendsofenglishmagic
jsmn_kinkmeme
Les Mis
lamusain (inactive)
valvert (New)
lesmis (inactive)
lesmiserables (inactive)
les_miserables (inactive)
Magnificent 7 (TV)
mag7daybook
mag7bingo
m7ficfaves (inactive, gen/het archive)
mag7ficfind
mag7wallpapers (inactive)
7men1destiny (inactive, prompt comm)
mag7wrimo (writing festival)
Magnifcent 7 (2016)
mag7_kink_meme
2016mag7
Marco Polo (TV)
marcopolokinkmeme
L. M. Montgomery
lmmontgomery (inactive)
Nirvana in Fire
nirvanainfirekink (kinkmeme)
nirvana_in_fire
The Pacific
kingcompany
heavyartillery
Peaky Blinders
peakyblindersficexchange
Phantom of the Opera
vicomte_de_chagny
phantomoftheopera (inactive)
Pirates of the Caribbean
potc_kink_meme
turningpirate (Will Turner, inactive)
Poldark
poldarks (All versions)
Mary Renault
renaultx
maryrenaultfics2
Robin Hood (BBC)
robinsociety
bbc_robinhood
The Scarlet Pimpernel
scarlet_league (Scarlet Pimpernel, inactive)
Shakespeare/Jacobean Theatre RPF & History Plays
thegreatglobe
ides_of_april (Roman plays exchange, now defunct)
thisengland (Tetralogies, inactive; import)
Sharpe
rambling_soldier (inactive)
sharpe_read (Group reading; inactive)
Sinbad (TV 2012)
sinbadthesailor
Spartacus
all_things_spartacus
bloodandsandfic (Fic, LJ import)
Rosemary Sutcliff
sutcliff_swap
sutcliff_space
The Terror
theterror
terrorkinkmeme
Timeless
timeless_lifeboat
The Tudors (TV)
thetudors (LJ back-up import)
Megan Whalen Turner
queensthief
P G Wodehouse
indeedsir (Jeeves & Wooster)
give_satisfaction (Wodehouse kinkmeme)
General History/Non Fannish
history
genealogy
retrohome (American home life, past and present)
archaeology_weekly (newsletter)
classicalstudies
archaeology
theatre (inactive)
Other:
history_exchange (Historical RPF exchange)
readingthepast (Historical book club)
historicalembroidery (inactive)
monstrous_regiment (Female miltiary history etc.).
yuletide_admin (annual rare fandom fic exchange - usually has plenty of historical fandoms, both RPF and fictional)
historyfest (Prompt fest, inactive, but still includes prompts and fills)
mythology_kink
classiclitclub
We also have a growing Useful Resources Post. (To add links etc., please comment on that post, or post directly to the community.)
If you have any other questions, please ask them in the comments here, or PM a mod.
This is a place for posting and linking to any historical fic, icons, art, links, recs, reviews, meta, news, fanworks of any type, useful resources, discussion, community & event promos. If it's to do with a historical fandom, whether RPF or fictional, then it's welcome here. For fanworks, all ratings are fine.
As 'history' is a very wide fandom, this community is also intended to help people find like-minded souls and gauge interest in setting up more specific communities/friending etc. (but it's always fine to interact here). It's also a place for historical fandoms too small/obscure to have their own spaces.
If you're new to Dreamwidth, you can find a collection of helpful welcome & how-to posts here.
Rules & Guidelines
* Be civil to other members - discussion and debate is great, but no trolling, spamming, re-enacting of old time wars in any posts/comments, and absolutely no racism or hatespeech to be used directly against anyone.
* Please put any large (or multiple) graphics, fic, long posts, spoilers, multiple embeds & anything NSFW etc. under a cut. If you are posting content that refers to any more sensitive or problematic areas of history, you must put this behind a cut or post via a link + appropriate content notes/warnings. (To make a cut, in html use: [cut text="More under here etc."], replacing [] with < and >.)
(The community display default is 'suitable for all ages' but it is fine to post NSFW material - just alter the Age Restriction box when you post to 'discretion' or '18+' if you are posting the content to the comm rather than linking to AO3 or a personal journal etc. If there is nothing adult in the post itself, this isn't necessary.)
* Content posted to this community needs to be relevant to history and fandom in some way. It doesn't have to be long, or fanworks only - links, reviews, discussion, resources, commentfests & challenges, news, community promos, and questions etc. are all welcome. Sensitive and difficult content will at times be inevitable given the nature of history, and we have no banned period/topics currently, but members must use cut/links and warnings (or clearly choose not to warn) when posting such content to allow everyone to navigate the comm safely.
However, any active promotion of or apologism for offensive ideologies etc. is of course not allowed. The mods reserve the right to remove material or ban users if we have reason to believe they are abusing content guidelines, trolling, or harrassing anyone. Please contact us if you feel this is the case. (Anon commenting is on here, or you can PM a mod.) We may also review these guidelines at any time.
* Anon commenting is on, but you can adjust comment settings for each individual post to allow screening or disable comments as you prefer.
* The cut-off point definition of history (for the purposes of this comm only!) is 50 years prior to the date of posting, but we realise this always a grey area.
* History vs mythology is another fine line, so please just use your best judgement; ditto historically-set fantasy but most will be fine as long as they're set in an recognisable historical period.
If you're unsure your content 'counts' in any way, you can ask here or PM a mod, but in general the answer will be yes!
* It's fine to post here even if there's a specific era or fandom community! (If any one fandom with its own comm starts flooding the comm, we may temporarily ask people not to cross-post to both.)
* When posting fanworks, please use some kind of header above the cut or link - the AO3 share feature is great, or you can c+p the below (which includes optional coding for links/cuts), but anything similar will do fine:
* Tagging: this exists to find content on the comm and is currently mod-only for creation of tags, but any member may add existing tags to their post. If you would like to request any particular tags to be made for any reason, please contact a mod.
There is an Historium AO3 Collection that you can use for any works created specifically for community challenges or in any way inspired by any discussion/interaction etc. here.
If you want to promote the comm, thank you! Here is the c+p html text to make a magic linking banner appear in your journal/other communities:
List of known specific-era/fandom historical communities.
Material relating to these eras/fandoms is still welcome here, but part of the purpose of this community is to help people find other more specific communities where they exist.
Some of these communities may be inactive, but all currently exist and have some content of interest/potential for revival. Please comment with any more relevant comms you are aware of, new or old!
General Period/Era etc.
middle_ages (inactive)tudors (inactive)18th/19thC/Napoloeonic etc.
age_of_sailanything_aosshowthecolours (RPG)despatches (AOS newsletter)napoleonic_erarevolution_fr (French Revolution)aos_captionsaninfamousarmy (Wellington's Army)rheinsberg (Frederick the Great etc.)19th C
fabulae_victoriana (RPG)corsetsandlemons (19th C Lit kinkmeme)Specific Fictional Fandoms
General Historical Fiction
historyisalie (for all fictional historical fandoms)mystery_mansion (Crime & Detective fiction, includes plenty of historical detectives)corsets_and_carriages (for all costume dramas & adaptations)historicalyafen (YA Fiction)hidden_passages (all Gothic fandoms)Agent Carter
ssrconfidential (fic exchange)agentcarterfandom (inactive)Joan Aiken
willoughby_chase (inactive)Assassin's Creed
assassinscreed (inactive)Aubreyad/Master & Commander
perfect_duet (Jack/Stephen)mandc_watchmandc_readwhere_away (Quotes)for_all_love Fanficmandc_library (Incative, fic.)Jane Austen
jaff (Jane Austen fanfic)slashing_jane (slash fic, inactive)janeausten (Members only, moderated, inactive)Band of Brothers
looselipssinkships (Prompt Meme for HBO war series)ddshermanheavyartilleryBlack Sails
black_sailsblacksails_kink (Kinkmeme)Call the Midwife
call_the_midwife_fansK J Charles
kjc_fansDa Vinci's Demons
davincisdemonsDownton Abbey
downtonabbeyEndeavour
all_endeavour (fic, inactive, LJ import)Hamilton
whamiltonhamiltunesGeneration Kill
looselipssinkships (Prompt Meme for HBO war series)heavyartilleryGeorgette Heyer
georgette_heyerHistorical Farm
farmficHornblower
hmsloop_hotspurHouse of Eliott
house_of_eliottJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
friendsofenglishmagicjsmn_kinkmemeLes Mis
lamusain (inactive)valvert (New)lesmis (inactive)lesmiserables (inactive)les_miserables (inactive)Magnificent 7 (TV)
mag7daybookmag7bingom7ficfaves (inactive, gen/het archive)mag7ficfindmag7wallpapers (inactive)7men1destiny (inactive, prompt comm)mag7wrimo (writing festival)Magnifcent 7 (2016)
mag7_kink_meme2016mag7Marco Polo (TV)
marcopolokinkmemeL. M. Montgomery
lmmontgomery (inactive)Nirvana in Fire
nirvanainfirekink (kinkmeme)nirvana_in_fireThe Pacific
kingcompanyheavyartilleryPeaky Blinders
peakyblindersficexchangePhantom of the Opera
vicomte_de_chagnyphantomoftheopera (inactive)Pirates of the Caribbean
potc_kink_memeturningpirate (Will Turner, inactive)Poldark
poldarks (All versions)Mary Renault
renaultxmaryrenaultfics2Robin Hood (BBC)
robinsocietybbc_robinhoodThe Scarlet Pimpernel
scarlet_league (Scarlet Pimpernel, inactive)Shakespeare/Jacobean Theatre RPF & History Plays
thegreatglobeides_of_april (Roman plays exchange, now defunct)thisengland (Tetralogies, inactive; import)Sharpe
rambling_soldier (inactive)sharpe_read (Group reading; inactive)Sinbad (TV 2012)
sinbadthesailorSpartacus
all_things_spartacusbloodandsandfic (Fic, LJ import)Rosemary Sutcliff
sutcliff_swapsutcliff_spaceThe Terror
theterrorterrorkinkmemeTimeless
timeless_lifeboatThe Tudors (TV)
thetudors (LJ back-up import)Megan Whalen Turner
queensthiefP G Wodehouse
indeedsir (Jeeves & Wooster)give_satisfaction (Wodehouse kinkmeme)General History/Non Fannish
historygenealogyretrohome (American home life, past and present)archaeology_weekly (newsletter)classicalstudiesarchaeologytheatre (inactive)Other:
history_exchange (Historical RPF exchange)readingthepast (Historical book club)historicalembroidery (inactive)monstrous_regiment (Female miltiary history etc.).yuletide_admin (annual rare fandom fic exchange - usually has plenty of historical fandoms, both RPF and fictional)historyfest (Prompt fest, inactive, but still includes prompts and fills)mythology_kinkclassiclitclubWe also have a growing Useful Resources Post. (To add links etc., please comment on that post, or post directly to the community.)
If you have any other questions, please ask them in the comments here, or PM a mod.
