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Europeana gives access to over 50 million digital cultural heritage items from over 4,000 galleries, libraries, archives, and museums from European countries. Their collections include many interesting topics, such as black history, art, photography, sports, colouring books, maps, natural history, myths and legends, and LGBTQ+ history. I thought it was a cool resource to share here!

theseatheseatheopensea

More Than Silence is a queer literature blog that collects books (from about 1870 to 1930), with open access links to them whenever possible. It also has biographies+bibliographies of selected authors (Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Prime-Stevenson, André Raffalovich, among others), a glossary, and a page of resources. I found it very interesting, and thought I'd share it here! :)

cuddyclothes

There’s a new reference post with links for Brit-picking at the what_ho_library

! Make sure to read these when writing or betaing those Brit-fics (unless you’re British, in which case you can read them for a laugh).

Brit-Picking Resources

cuddyclothes

There is a new post at

give_satisfaction about Stephen Fry's schooldays. He writes extensively about sex and sexual identity in his childhood memoir, Moab Is My Washpot. Stephen attended a public school, Uppingham, which was much like Eton. This was in the late 60s before school traditions such as "fagging" were abolished.

Stephen Fry's Schooldays, Part Two: Uppingham

Excerpt: Yes, I might have been tall, yes, I might have been growing almost visibly, yes, my voice might have broken, but what was happening down there? Fuck all, that was what was happening.
If I heard the word "immature" used, even in the most innocent context, I would blush scarlet. Immature meant me having no hair down there. Immature meant me having a salted snail for a cock. Immature meant shame, inadequacy, defeat and misery

cuddyclothes

There are a number of museums in America and England that have a particular focus on day to day life. Also art, of course. Fashion, utensils, animals, furniture and of course art.

Historical Resources: Museum Websites

There is no limit on the time periods you can research.

olivermoss

Historical recipe recreations on youtube!

* Recently, a creation of a historical cake recipe went viral on TikTok. Here is the full recipe for a Chocolate Potato Cake from 1912. And here is a copy of the TikTok uploaded to YT.

* The History Channel is doing a collab with Sohla El-Waylly to do the earliest versions of some recipes, some from a thousand years old or more. Here is a playlist of Ancient Recipes with Sohla. The episodes include garum, earliest known taco and making bread on shields.

* Tasting History is a channel I've heard very good things about, but haven't watched yet.

* Townsends is a channel dedicated to recreating 18th century life and have many cooking videos.

* British Heritage as The Victorian Way featuring Mrs. Crocombe's cooking. I know those videos have been posted here before, but I decided to add it to the list.

foreverdawning

The Louvre put their entire collection online. I read about it in the Smithsonian Mag, but you can skip right to the collection by going here: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/album/1

cuddyclothes

There are three new slang entries at the what ho library, a multifandom site. They cover everything from sex to crime to drinking establishments to money and beyond. One entry had to be revised when a major site closed down. But the links were found elsewhere and there should be no problems. The posts cover 1850 to present.

Don't Let Him Gazoomph You

This is general slang, including crime, flapperspeak, and polari, the secret slang of the gay world.

What's An Edwardian Word For Penis?

Self-explanatory.

Has That Salvation-Juggins Lost His Knob?

These are slang terms for race, sexuality, insanity and many other large concepts. Dating back to 1850. Translation: has that religious person gone insane?

skazka

I've written a bit of meta for Season One of AMC's The Terror that might be helpful for other fandoms dealing with men in Early Victorian England -- namely hygiene, haircare, shaving, and lube on post-Age of Sail polar expeditions. (Post contains general spoilers for canon, but not anything you might not expect from the broad strokes history of the final Franklin expedition.)

'1840s Skincare, "Cold Men On Boats" Edition' here @ DW and over here at AO3. If you have any other reading/links/resources relevant to 1840s Royal Navy washing-up, please hit me up in the comments there!

cuddyclothes

Since posting about the

what_ho_library's new Smut post, it has been updated with two lesbian sex links.

9 Tips For First Time Lesbian Sex, and The Lesbian Sex Bible!

You can find them here: Writing Resources: Smut

More to come, pardon the pun.

cuddyclothes

There is a new entry at

what_ho_library "Writing Resources - Smut"

At this time there are three gay/straight links.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut; Gay Sex - You're Doing It Wrong; and Minotaur's Sex Tips For Slash Writers. They are all not only informative but a lot of fun to read!

Other types of sexuality and sexual practices will be added over time.

cuddyclothes

This is to announce the opening of the

what_ho_library
This is to be a clearinghouse of information for P.G. Wodehouse writers as well as others who write fic set in the early 20th century, approximately 1900-1935. There will be sections on slang, sex slang, domestic life, WW1, clothing, transportation, and links to information outside of Dreamwidth. It is still under construction, so folks are urged to check it out on a regular basis!

theseatheseatheopensea

I've made a list of works by D. K. Broster that can be found online. It includes novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction that might be of historical interest. It's here! :)

foreverdawning

I was just linked to some information on 18th century looms in New England. It's a very heady yet quick read, but if you're interested I'm linking it here.

duskpeterson

One last post in this series at my blog:

Historical dialogue #4: Slang.

I hope those of you who read any of the posts in the series will contribute your own ideas. I'm hoping to learn from you. :)

duskpeterson

A new post at my blog:

Historical dialogue #3: Dialect.

duskpeterson

At my retrohome blog, I've posted another entry about my childhood memories:

Growing up during the Space Race: From Apollo 11 to Star Wars.

duskpeterson

I've been posting monthly a series on writing historical dialogue at my blog. Here are the first two posts:

1: Historically tinged language.

2: Writing dialogue for particular periods.

The first post includes quotations from Rosemary Sutcliff and Ursula K. Le Guin on how to handle language in historical fiction and fantasy.

Also, at my

retrohome blog, I posted a reminiscence of what it was like for me being a queer adolescent between 1978 and 1986. It might be helpful to some of you who didn't live through that period, if you're planning to set a story then. (I realize the 1970s and 1980s don't count as history where

historium is concerned, but since the bulk of public activities by queer folk occur post-Stonewall in the United States, I'm hoping I can slip this past.)

duskpeterson

Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World. Works best with Chrome or Safari browsers. Calculate how long, and how expensive, any journey is throughout the Roman Empire. You can change such factors as season and mode of travel.

(*Trying not to squee too loudly.*)

(*But I once spent days trying to calculate some characters' travel time for an ancient world AU. I calculated that journey in fifteen seconds flat with this tool.*)

olivermoss

I’ve done a lot of research on luxury passenger rail travel between 1880 and the start of WW2. I've been asked a few times to share some of my research, so here is my attempt at a basic overview. I hope people find it helpful.

I am cutting this both due to length but also due to references to sex tourism. I do not go into details, but I thought it would be better to acknowledge it than to pretend it isn't part of the history.

( Read more... )

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cuddyclothes - New Post: Brit-Picking At The What Ho Library
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cuddyclothes - What Ho, A Library! Historical Resources For Wodehouse Fans And Beyond
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Collections @ Europeana.

More Than Silence (queer literature blog).

New Post: Brit-Picking At The What Ho Library

Discussion Post: Stephen Fry's Schooldays, Part Two: Uppingham

New Entry At The What Ho Library: Museum Websites

Historical Cooking Reccs

The Entire Collection of the Louvre is Online

Three New Slang Entries At The What Ho Library!

1840s polar skincare/haircare meta

What Ho Library Smut Post Has Been Updated

New Entry In The What Ho Library - Smut!

What Ho, A Library! Historical Resources For Wodehouse Fans And Beyond

D. K. Broster's works online.

18th Century Weaving

Writing historical dialogue

Writing historical dialogue

Resource on young people and the Space Age in the 1960s and 1970s

Writing historical dialogue / Also, being queer in the 1970s and 1980s

Resource for folks writing stories set in the classical world

Luxury Passenger Rail Travel before World War 2

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